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Volume 10 • 2023

Article


The Affirmative Mind: Spinoza on Striving under the Attribute of Thought

Justin Steinberg

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Prefaces, Knowledge, and Questions

Frank Hong

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Organized Sound, Sounds Heard, and Silence

Douglas C. Wadle

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Creativity Without Agency: Evolutionary Flair & Aesthetic Engagement

Adrian Currie and Derek Turner

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility

Gabriel De Marco and Thomas Douglas

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Breaking Up and the Value of Commitment

Richard Healey

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Interpreting the Probabilistic Language in IPCC Reports

Corey Dethier

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Collective Communicative Intentions in Context

Andrew Peet

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Locating Temporal Passage in a Block World

Brigitte Everett, Andrew J. Latham and Kristie Miller

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Individuating Powers: On the Regress/Circularity Individuation Arguments against Bird’s Dispositional Monism

Lorenzo Azzano

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Emojis as Pictures

Emar Maier

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties

Joe Saunders and Robert Stern

2023-11-29 Volume 10 • 2023

To Have a Need

Russ Colton

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Tightlacing and Abusive Normative Address

Alexander Edlich and Alfred Archer

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Moral Bookkeeping

Igor Douven, Frank Hindriks and Sylvia Wenmackers

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Communicating Testimonial Commitment

Alejandro Vesga

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Defending Elective Forgiveness

Craig K. Agule

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Including Transgender Identities in Natural Law

Kurt Blankschaen

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Subjective Facts about Consciousness

Martin A. Lipman

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Defining Definiteness

Aleksander Domoslawski

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Towards Ideal Understanding

Mario Hubert and Federica Isabella Malfatti

2023-11-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Rehabilitating Transcendental Arguments: A Dialectical Dilemma for Stroud’s Meta-Epistemological Skepticism

Simon Schüz

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Reconceiving Murdochian Realism

Cathy Mason

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Convergence and Shared Reflective Equilibrium

Bert Baumgaertner and Charles Lassiter

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Controlling (Mental) Images and the Aesthetic Perception of Racialized Bodies

Adriana Clavel-Vázquez

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

The Motivation Problem of Epistemic Expressivists

Alexandre Duval and Charles Côté-Bouchard

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

How to Not Go All-In on Public Justification

Paul Garofalo

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Medium Independence and the Failure of the Mechanistic Account of Computation

Corey J. Maley

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

No Platforming and Academic Freedom

Gideon Elford

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Dimensional Reliabilism

S. Orestis Palermos

2023-12-08 Volume 10 • 2023

Generalized Immodesty Principles in Epistemic Utility Theory

Alejandro Pérez Carballo

2023-12-14 Volume 10 • 2023

An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity

Nir Ben-Moshe

2023-11-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Measurement Scepticism, Construct Validation, and Methodology of Well-Being Theorising

Victor Lange and Thor Grünbaum

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Janus-Faced Grounding

Christopher Frugé

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Moral and Moorean Incoherencies

Andrés Soria-Ruiz and Nils Franzén

2023-11-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Epistemic Luck, Knowledge-How, and Intentional Action

Carlotta Pavese, Paul Henne and Bob Beddor

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Purity and Practical Reason: On Pragmatic Genealogy

Nicholas Smyth

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Fictionalism about Chatbots

Fintan Mallory

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

The Nature of Timbre

Vivian Mizrahi

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

The Rationality of Love: Benevolence and Complacence in Kant and Hutcheson

Michael Walschots

2023-11-18 Volume 10 • 2023

Let's See You Do Better: An Essay on the Standing to Criticize

Patrick Todd

2024-02-27 Volume 10 • 2023

Busting the Ghost of Neutral Counterparts

Jen Foster

2024-02-27 Volume 10 • 2023

Internalism and Externalism in Early Modern Epistemology

Nathan Rockwood

2024-02-27 Volume 10 • 2023

Islands of Perspectival Thought: A Case Study

Daniel Morgan

2024-02-27 Volume 10 • 2023

What’s So Special About Reasoning? Rationality, Belief Updating, and Internalism

Wade Munroe

2024-02-27 Volume 10 • 2023

Shepherd’s Case for the Demonstrability of Causal Principles

Maité Cruz

2024-02-27 Volume 10 • 2023

Satisficers Still Get Away with Murder!

Joe Slater

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Susan Stebbing on Logical Positivism and Communication

Paul L. Franco

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

On Not Being “Worth It”

Andrew McKay Flynn

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Transduction, Calibration, and the Penetrability of Pain

Colin Klein

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Veil of Light: The Role of Light in Cavendish’s Visual Perception

Brooke Willow Sharp

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Is the Mind a Magic Trick? Illusionism about Consciousness in the “Consciousness-Only” Theory of Vasubandhu and Sthiramati

Amit Chaturvedi

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Moral Responsibility While Dreaming

Robert Cowan

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Scripts and Social Cognition

Gen Eickers

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Neutrality, Cultural Literacy, and Arts Funding

Jack Alexander Hume

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

The Multiverse Theodicy Meets Population Ethics

Han Li and Bradford Saad

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023

Structural Equations and Analysis of Dispositions

Toby Friend

2024-02-29 Volume 10 • 2023