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1. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 121 > Issue: 5
Peter Hawke Relevant Alternatives and Missed Clues: Redux
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I construe Relevant Alternatives Theory (RAT) as an abstract combination of anti-skepticism and epistemic modesty, then re-evaluate the challenge posed to it by the missed clue counterexamples of Schaffer. The import of this challenge has been underestimated, as Schaffer’s specific argument invites distracting objections. I offer a novel formalization of RAT, accommodating a suitably wide class of concrete theories of knowledge. Then, I introduce ‘abstract missed clue cases’ and prove that every RA theory, as formalized, admits such a case. This yields an argument—in Schaffer’s spirit—that resists easy dismissal.
2. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 121 > Issue: 5
Kenneth Walden The Poets of Our Lives
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This article proposes a role for aesthetic judgment in our practical thought. The role is related to those moments when practical reason seems to give out, when it fails to yield a judgment about what to do in the face of a choice we cannot avoid. I argue that these impasses require agents to create, but that not any creativity will do. For we cannot regard a response to one of these problems as arbitrary or capricious if we want to act on it. We must instead regard that response as justified by the problem itself. I suggest that this combination of creativity and normativity is characteristic of aesthetic judgment and this makes it a promising candidate for making these very difficult choices.
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3. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 121 > Issue: 5
Paul Audi Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra: Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles
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4. The Journal of Philosophy: Volume > 121 > Issue: 5
In Memoriam: Barbara Gimbel
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