According to alethic pluralism, there are different ways of being true, that is, there is a plurality of truth properties, each of which pertains to a specific domain of discourse. This paper shows ho...

Many believe that we have duties to rescue. Many believe, further, that these duties to rescue are in principle enforceable. Some defend a third claim: we are sometimes under a duty not to rescue in s...

You can be a little gay or a lot gay. You can be mostly heterosexual. You can be somewhat lesbian. What I am saying is: sexual orientation comes in degrees. This point is well established in sexuality...

A range of current truth-value realist philosophies of mathematics allow one to reduce the access problem for mathematics to a problem concerning mathematicians’ ability to recognize which conceptions...

Suppose that p is true. What is the relationship between this fact—p’s being true—and the fact p itself? There is an answer to this question that goes back at least to Aristotle, and that is a mainsta...

Credences are beliefs about evidential probabilities. We give the view an assessment-sensitive formulation, show how it evades the standard objections, and give several arguments in support.

PAUL CONLAN, GIOVANNI MERLO, CRISPIN WRIGHT, Review: EYES DIRECTED OUTWARD, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 117, No. 6, JUNE 2020

Bradford (2023) calls attention to the fact that the strength of our reasons to preserve distinctively valuable objects increases as the number of such objects decreases. Bradford develops an account ...

Allan Gibbard, Reasons Thin and Thick, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 100, No. 6, Jun., 2003

Sarah Buss, Needs (Someone Else's), Projects (My Own), and Reasons, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 103, No. 8, Aug., 2006

In this paper I defend the ancient thesis that agents always act under the guise of the good. I do so by arguing that the role that goodness plays in action is isomorphic to the role that truth plays ...

STEPHEN MAITZEN, SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE: CONTINUOUS, CONSISTENT, OBJECTIVE, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 114, No. 10, OCTOBER 2017

Benardete paradoxes involve infinite collections of Grim Reapers, assassins, demons, deafening peals, or even sentences. These paradoxes have recently been used in arguments for finitist metaphysical ...

Is it possible for someone, right now, to become accountable for a wrong committed by someone else hundreds of years ago? Barring backward causation, it seems moral facts about the past are as indelib...

Cantor’s Continuum Hypothesis (CH) asks what the cardinality of the real line is. It is a mathematically precise problem. Yet, because it cannot be solved using the standard axiomatic framework for ma...

In an anonymous referee report written in 1945, Church suggested a sweeping argument against verificationism, the thesis that every truth is knowable. The argument, which was published with due acknow...

Anna Mahtani describes a puzzle meant to show that the Ex Ante Pareto Principle is incomplete as it stands and, since it cannot be completed in a satisfactory manner, decades of debate in welfare econ...

Explicating the concept of coherence and establishing a measure for assessing the coherence of an information set are two of the most important tasks of coherentist epistemology. To this end, several ...

Neo-logicists have claimed that Hume's Principle (HP) may be taken as a stipulative definition of cardinal number. However, this claim is threatened by the fact that HP is not conservative over pure s...

The consequence argument aims to show that if determinism is true, such that all our actions are the necessary consequences of the remote past and the laws of nature, then no one could have done anyth...