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Truth in constructive empiricism
Reasons to keep our promises
Clear and distinct perceptions of extension in Descartes's "Meditations"
Essence as a social property
What was I thinking? An essay on the nature of propositional attitudes
Nietzsches Staat: Reading "Ueber die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten" as a reading of Plato's "Republic"
On transparency: A response to Nishi Shah's "How Truth Governs Belief"
Bersani avec Kubrick
On the relationship between macrostates and microstates
Pleasant and unpleasant feeling
"Enough and as good"? What liberals owe the world's destitute
Between a rock and a hard place: Herbert Marcuse, the Frankfurt School and the West German student movement
Ordinary experience as evidence in Joseph Butler's moral theory
Fairness and the distribution of primary goods
Nietzsche's historiography: History and culture in the second Untimely Meditation
Uncompromising mercy
Excluding inclusive public reason
Descartes' philosophical grounds for algebra and geometry
Locke's ideational account of causation
Finite lives and infinite ends: An account of imperfect obligations to future generations
When can we judge?
Obedience, justice & progress: a Kantian account of revolution
Because I felt like it: An explanation of arrational actions
Bias crime statutes: A qualified liberal defense
The problem of women in Hobbes's "Leviathan"
The nature of visual attention
Transparency in doxastic deliberation
Civic care: The value of disagreement as care in Plato's "Gorgias"
In the time of bergson: The influence of the philosophical thoughts of Henri Bergson on the writings and music of Dane Rudhyar
Reasons for action
Everyone's Got Something They Just Can't Give Up: A Challenge to Feinberg's Adherence to the Volenti Maxim
Building as Fundamental Ontological Structure
Kant's Moral Philosophy and the Role of the Highest Good
The sublational finale: Thematic recall and formal process in instrumental music by Schubert and Schumann
On Cosmos and Concepts
Between modern and postmodern worlds: Theodor W. Adorno's struggle with the concept of musical kitsch
Moral moods
Deux poles de l'image litteraire au XXe siecle: La poesie plastique de Pierre Reverdy et le mythe dans les romans de Michel Tournier
The racialized self: Empowerment, self-respect, and personal autonomy
Normativity without artifice: A new foundation for teleological realism
Invoking the tooth fairy twice, or how to identify cases of ad hoc hypothesis acceptance
Normative progeny: A model of moral justification
Political Platonism in the English Renaissance
The new light of Europe: Giordano Bruno and the modern age
Justice, health, and status: Moral theory and the new epidemiology of health disparities
Distributing cognition: A defense of collective mentality
Focusing respect on creatures
Force, matter, and metaphysics in Newton's natural philosophy
The synthesis of concepts: Inferentialism and semantic theory in Hume, Kant, and Hegel
Where concepts come from: A theory of concept acquisition
An account of valuing
"Was ist gott?" The representation of the divine in Friedrich Holderlin
Metasemantics: On the limits of semantic theory
Composition as identity
The architecture of belief: An essay on the unbearable automaticity of believing
Ontology, priority, and teleology: A defense of Classical Platonism
Figuration of the folk: The nature and use of a universal linguistic category
Grounding the standing to prosecute atrocities
'Drawing the curtain of words': A strict interpretation of Berkeley's philosophy of language and its consequences
Mercy and criminal justice
Truthmaking, Truth, and Realism: New Work for a Theory of Truthmakers
Reconstructing memory
On the nature, grounds and limits of social moral rules
The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant and Mill
Projection, Detection, and the Relevant Reasons Account of Realism
Deporting democracy: The politics of immigration and sovereignty