Does Property-Perception Entail the Content View?

The Pickup of Nonspecifying Variables Does Not Entail Indirect Perception

Does Perceiving Entail Knowing?

This paper accomplishes two closely connected things. First, it refutes an influential view about the relationship between perception and knowledge. In particular, it demonstrates that perceiving does not entail knowing. Second, it leverages that refutation to demonstrate that knowledge is not the most general factive propositional attitude.

Does Compositionality Entail Complexity ?

The view that propositions are mereologically complex structured entities is the regnant paradigm in the philosophy of language and linguistics. As Steven Schiffer says, “Virtually every propositionalist accepts [compositionality] and rejects unstructured propositions”, and even the “new” theories of propositions defended by Peter Hanks, Jeffrey King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks take proposit...

Does collective rationality entail efficiency?

Collective rationality in its ordinary sense is rationality’s extension to groups. It does not entail efficiency by definition. Showing that it entails efficiency requires a normative argument. Game theorists treating cooperative games generally assume that collective rationality entails efficiency, but formulating the reasoning that leads individuals to efficiency, and verifying the rationalit...

Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? 1

There is a long tradition in philosophy of using a priori methods to draw conclusions about what is possible and what is necessary, and often in turn to draw conclusions about matters of substantive metaphysics. Arguments like this typically have three steps: first an epistemic claim (about what can be known or conceived), from there to a modal claim (about what is possible or necessary), and f...