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"Actions, Reasons, and Causes"
Donald Davidson
Volume 60, Issue 23, November 1963
Pages 685-700
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"Primary Reasons as Normative Reasons"
Nathan Howard
Volume 118, Issue 2, February 2021
Pages 97-111
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Abstract of J. J. Cunningham's paper "Factivism Defended: A Reply to Howard": In a recent article, Nathan Howard argues that normative reasons for action are to be identified not with facts, but with fact/goal pairs. For example, on Howard’s view, the reason in favor of me cooking the meal is not the fact that I promised—rather, it is that fact PLUS the goal to honor my promises. Howard supplies three arguments for his preferred view. In this reply I aim to do two things. The first is to undermine Howard’s three arguments. The second is to establish a dilemma for Howard’s preferred view. The upshot is a defense and development of the view that normative reasons for action are facts.

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Factivism Defended: A Reply to Howard - Volume 122, Issue 8, August 2025 In a recent article, Nathan Howard argues that normative reasons for action are to be identified not with facts, but with fact/goal pairs. For example, on Howard’s view, the reason in favor of me cook...

"Factivism Defended: A Reply to Howard"
J. J. Cunningham
Volume 122, Issue 8, August 2025
Pages 433-448

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"Elgin on Lewis’s Putnam’s Paradox"
Bas C. van Fraassen
Volume 94, Issue 2, February 1997
Pages 85-93
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"Unnatural Science"
Catherine Z. Elgin
Volume 92, Issue 6, June 1995
Pages 289-302
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Abstract for Rohan Sud's paper titled "Reference Magnetism Beyond the Predicate: Two Putnam-Style Results": Many accept David Lewis's (1983) claim that, among the candidate meanings for our predicates, some are more natural than others—they do better or worse at “carving nature at its joints.” Call this claim predicate naturalism. Disagreement remains over whether the notion of naturalness extends “beyond the predicate'” (à la Sider, 2011). Are the candidate meanings of logical vocabulary also more or less natural? Call this claim logical naturalism. One motivation for predicate naturalism comes from its supposed ability to help rebut various radical indeterminacy arguments associated with Hilary Putnam (1977, 1980, 1981). It does so in combination with a popular meta-semantic theory called reference magnetism. I argue that the same threats of Putnam-style radical indeterminacy rearise for proponents of predicate naturalism—threats that logical naturalism helps rebut. So, if we accept predicate naturalism because it helps fend off threats of indeterminacy, we should also accept logical naturalism.

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Reference Magnetism Beyond the Predicate: Two Putnam-Style Results - Volume 122, Issue 8, August 2025 Many accept David Lewis's (1983) claim that, among the candidate meanings for our predicates, some are more natural than others—they do better or worse at “carving nature at its joints.” Call this cla...

"Reference Magnetism Beyond the Predicate: Two Putnam-Style Results"
Rohan Sud
Volume 122, Issue 8, August 2025
Pages 405-432

doi.org/10.5840/jphi...

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"Does Perception Have a Nonconceptual Content?"
Christopher Peacocke
Volume 98, Issue 5, May 2001
Pages 239-264
doi.org/10.2307/2678...

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Murat Aydede, "Is Feeling Pain the Perception of Something?" Volume 106, Issue 10, October 2009
Pages 531-567
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Abstract for Hilla Jacobson's paper titled "On the Very Idea of Valenced Perception": Tradition contrasts “cold” (sense) perception with “hot” emotion and affect. Against this backdrop, it has recently been argued that perceptual experiences have another fundamental phenomenal aspect, beyond their sensory aspects—perception in all sense-modalities is (at least often) intrinsically valenced. Roughly, its phenomenal character is inherently pleasant or unpleasant, feeling good or bad to some degree. Yet, the revolutionary notion of Intrinsically Valenced Perception (IVP) requires elucidation and is fraught with theoretical difficulties. This paper aims to explicate and address some foundational questions regarding the very notion of IVP: What is required for perception to be intrinsically valenced? Specifically, if perception itself is valenced, what should be the relations between its valenced aspects and sensory aspects? The paper uncovers various constraints and desiderata that IVP must meet. It further offers a Determination-Dimension Model of the relations between sensory and valenced aspects that aims to resolve the previously identified theoretical difficulties.

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On the Very Idea of Valenced Perception - Volume 122, Issue 8, August 2025 Tradition contrasts “cold” (sense) perception with “hot” emotion and affect. Against this backdrop, it has recently been argued that perceptual experiences have another fundamental phenomenal aspect, ...

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"On the Very Idea of Valenced Perception" by Hilla Jacobson

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Abstract for Ethan Nowak's paper titled "Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts" In this paper, I argue that the ‘social meanings’ associated with sociolinguistic variation put pressure on the standard philosophical conception of language, according to which the foremost thing we do with words is exchange information. Drawing on parallels with the explanatory challenge posed by slurs and pejoratives, I argue that the best way to understand social meanings is to think of them in speech act theoretic terms, and I develop a distinctive form of pluralism about the kinds of performances realized by means of sociolinguistic variants.

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Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts - Volume 122, Issue 7, July 2025 In this paper, I argue that the ‘social meanings’ associated with sociolinguistic variation put pressure on the standard philosophical conception of language, according to which the foremost thing we ...

"Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts" by Ethan Nowak @ethannowak.bsky.social

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