Conor McHugh
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View article: Logic and Norms of Reasoning
Logic and Norms of Reasoning Open
This paper defends the view that logic gives norms for reasoning. This view is often thought to be problematic given that logic is not itself a theory of reasoning and that valid inferences can lead to silly or pointless beliefs. To defend…
View article: Norms of Reasoning
Norms of Reasoning Open
When we reason, we can be assessed against diverse norms. Unfortunately different types of such norms are often conflated. This article distinguishes some different types of norms to which we are subject when we reason, and shows how this …
View article: Incoherence, inquiry, and suspension
Incoherence, inquiry, and suspension Open
I consider two possible evidentialist responses to Schmidt. According to the first, all of the reason-giving work in the relevant cases is being done by evidence. According to the second, even if the ‘incoherence fact’ sometimes provides a…
View article: Attitudes and the Normativity of Fittingness
Attitudes and the Normativity of Fittingness Open
What is the structure of normative reality? According to X First, normativity has a monistic foundationalist structure: there is a unique normatively basic property in terms of which all the other normative properties are analysed. The mai…
View article: All Reasons are Fundamentally for Attitudes
All Reasons are Fundamentally for Attitudes Open
As rational agents, we are governed by reasons. The fact that there’s beer at the pub might be a reason to go there and a reason to believe you’ll enjoy it. As this example illustrates, there are reasons for both action and for belief. The…
View article: Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation and motor responses in individuals with spinal cord injury: A methodological review
Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation and motor responses in individuals with spinal cord injury: A methodological review Open
Background Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) is a non-invasive modality in which electrodes can stimulate spinal circuitries and facilitate a motor response. This review aimed to evaluate the methodology of studies using tSCS t…
View article: Objectivism and Perspectivism about the Epistemic Ought
Objectivism and Perspectivism about the Epistemic Ought Open
What ought you believe? According to a traditional view, it depends on your evidence: you ought to believe (only) what your evidence supports. Recently, however, some have claimed that what you ought to believe depends not on your evidence…
View article: Against the Taking Condition
Against the Taking Condition Open
Suppose you are wondering where you put your keys. You think to yourself: They're either in my bag or my jacket; They're not in my jacket; So, they're in my bag. Here you infer the conclusion that your keys are in your bag from the two pre…
View article: What is Good Reasoning?
What is Good Reasoning? Open
What makes the difference between good and bad reasoning? In this paper we defend a novel account of good reasoning—both theoretical and practical—according to which it preserves fittingness or correctness : good reasoning is reasoning whi…