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The Space of Reasons: May 2012

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Thursday, 17 May 2012. Outline of Chisholm’s “The Problem of Criterion”. Roderick Chisholm argues that we can successful arrive at a general criterion for distinguishing between cases in which we have knowledge and cases in which we do not if we begin with specific instances in which we clearly have knowledge, and then generalise from those cases to arrive at the principles of “good” belief. The dogmatist claims that we can...

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The Space of Reasons: October 2014

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Friday, 17 October 2014. Hanks' Univocality Objection to Theories of Interrogative Content. Smith is tall) and “knows whether” (e.g., Jones knows whether. Smith is tall). I will not examine the three accounts of interrogatives that Hanks impugns here. Jones knows that Smith is tall and Wilson. In short, it is ambiguity of “knows” in its acquaintance and propositional senses that explains the infelicity of (1). The second st...

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The Space of Reasons: Heuer's Argument Against the Humean Theory

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Sunday, 7 September 2014. Heuer's Argument Against the Humean Theory. Anything can be the object of a desire. Actions can be justified (at least in some rudimentary sense) by showing that they are suited to lead to the satisfaction of a desire. (p. 52). I will put aside the question of whether the Humean is necessarily committed to (H1) and (H2) for the time being. Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that she is. In or...

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The Space of Reasons: March 2012

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Tuesday, 27 March 2012. Outline of Gettier’s “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? Gettier argues that the tripartite conception of knowledge—according to which an agent, S, counts as knowing that p just in case (i) P is true, (ii) S believes that p and (iii) S is justified in believing that p—provides us with an insufficient basis for knowledge. A) S knows that P. I) P is true,. Ii) S believes that P, and. B) S knows that P.

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The Space of Reasons: August 2014

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Tuesday, 5 August 2014. Heathwood's Disagreement Argument Against Hedonic Tone Theory. In his paper, “Desire-Based Theories of Reasons, Pleasure, and Welfare”, Chris Heathwood impugns the hedonic tone theory of pleasure in favour of an attitude-based approach. According to the former, what makes an experience count as pleasurable is the fact that it exhibits a certain distinctive felt quality. Some sensation, S, may be foun...

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The Space of Reasons: Heathwood's Disagreement Argument Against Hedonic Tone Theory

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Tuesday, 5 August 2014. Heathwood's Disagreement Argument Against Hedonic Tone Theory. In his paper, “Desire-Based Theories of Reasons, Pleasure, and Welfare”, Chris Heathwood impugns the hedonic tone theory of pleasure in favour of an attitude-based approach. According to the former, what makes an experience count as pleasurable is the fact that it exhibits a certain distinctive felt quality. Some sensation, S, may be foun...

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The Space of Reasons: April 2012

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Friday, 27 April 2012. Outline of Feldman's and Conee's "Internalism Defended". Feldman and Conee begin by distinguishing between two types of J-internalism: accessibilism and mentalism (pp. 1-2*). There are at least two broad kinds of J-internalism: accessibilism and mentalism. Feldman and Conee characterise mentalism in terms of a supervenience and a mental duplicate claim (p. 2). Mentalism may be characterised in terms o...

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The Space of Reasons: October 2013

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Tuesday, 15 October 2013. Nietzsche on Good and Evil/Bad. Since today is Nietzsche's birthday, I thought it would be a good idea to compose a blog post in his honour. He takes as his point of departure the genealogical accounts of the “English psychologists” who he criticises as lacking the “historical spirit.”. By Nietzsche’s lights, the psychologists’ account is unhistorical in at least two respects:. Nietzsche, by contra...

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The Space of Reasons: November 2012

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The Space of Reasons. Philosophical Reflections on Reasons for Belief and Action. Thursday, 29 November 2012. Outline of Velleman's "The Guise of the Good". GG Theory in terms of an attempt to reconcile two seemingly incompatible stories of the origin of human action; namely, the story of motivation. And the story of rational guidance. According to the story of motivation,. Those who prefer cogntivism over noncognitivism are motivated by an attempt to preserve the common sense story. According to simple ...