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Glad to be alive: how we can compare a person's existence and her non-existence in terms of what
View article: Response to Schwenkler
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First, we can all agree that not all intentional actions are the product of reasoning. I can act for a reason without going through a process that is worth thinking of as reasoning. A process that is worth thinking of as reasoning must hav…
View article: Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning
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Jonathan Dancy aims to establish the possibility of reasoning to action, by showing how similar it is to reasoning to belief. He offers a general theory of reasoning, which smoothly admits the differences there may be between the two types…
View article: Essentially Comparative Concepts
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This paper examines Larry Temkin’s notion of an ‘essentially comparative’ concept and the uses to which he puts it. It is suggested that this notion is a conflation of two distinct notions which need not go together. This leads to a critic…