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1. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 119 > Issue: 2
David James Barnett Graded Ratifiability
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An action is unratifiable when, on the assumption that one performs it, another option has higher expected utility. Unratifiable actions are often claimed to be somehow rationally defective. But in some cases where multiple options are unratifiable, one unratifiable option can still seem preferable to another. We should respond, I argue, by invoking a graded notion of ratifiability.
2. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 119 > Issue: 2
Marija Jankovic, Kirk Ludwig Conventions and Status Functions
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We argue that there is a variety of convention, effective coordinating agreement, that has not been adequately identified in the literature. Its distinctive feature is that it is a structure of conditional we-intentions of parties, unlike more familiar varieties of convention, which are structures of expectations and preferences or obligations. We argue that status functions (i.e., social functions like being a pawn, a president, or a dollar bill) constitutively involve this variety of convention, and that what is special about it explains, and gives precise content to, the central feature of status functions, namely, that objects with status functions can perform their functions only insofar as they have been collectively accepted as having them.
3. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 119 > Issue: 2
Call for Submissions: The Isaac Levi Prize
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