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Deeply Contingent A Priori Knowledge
- J. Hawthorne
- Sociology
- 1 September 2002
0.1 In 'Reference and Contingency," Gareth Evans distinguished between 'superficially contingent' and 'deeply contingent' truths. A true sentence is superficially contingent just in case the function… Expand
Bayesianism, Infinite Decisions, and Binding
- Frank Arntzenius, A. Elga, J. Hawthorne
- Economics
- 1 April 2004
We pose and resolve several vexing decision theoretic puzzles. Some are variants of existing puzzles, such as ‘Trumped’ (Arntzenius and McCarthy 1997), ‘Rouble trouble’ (Arntzenius and Barrett 1999),… Expand
The Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts for Your Epistemic Enemies
- T. Gendler, J. Hawthorne
- Philosophy
- 1 June 2005
Perhaps the concept of knowledge, prior to its being fashioned and molded by certain philosophical traditions, never offered any stable negative verdict in the original fake barn case.
Semantic Plasticity and Speech Reports
- Cian Dorr, J. Hawthorne
- Philosophy
- 1 July 2014
Most meanings we express belong to large families of variant meanings, among which it would be implausible to suppose that some are much more apt for being expressed than others. This abundance of… Expand
Conceivability and Possibility
- T. Gendler, J. Hawthorne
- Philosophy
- 2002
1. Introduction 2. Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance 3. Berkeley's Puzzle 4. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility? 5. Desire in Imagination 6. Essentialism versus Essentialism 7.… Expand
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Belief is weak
- J. Hawthorne, Daniel P Rothschild, Levi Spectre
- Philosophy
- 1 May 2016
It is tempting to posit an intimate relationship between belief and assertion. The speech act of assertion seems like a way of transferring the speaker’s belief to his or her audience. If this is… Expand
Chance and Counterfactuals1
- J. Hawthorne
- Philosophy
- 1 March 2005
Suppose the world is chancy. The worry arises that most ordinary counterfactuals are false. This paper examines David Lewis' strategy for rescuing such counterfactuals, and argues that it is highly… Expand
Assertion, Context, and Epistemic Accessibility
- J. Hawthorne, Ofra Magidor
- Computer Science
- 1 April 2009
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