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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Against the "Sufficiency Principle" of Agential Promotion
Eden Lin recently got me thinking about (agential) promotion. By way of background: many views hold that we have reason to act a certain way iff so acting serves topromote a certain kind of outcome (e.g. valuable state of affairs, or the satisfaction of the agent's desires, or whatever). Prom
Forthcoming in Logos & Episteme
An interesting point about its origin: I was originally playing with what I thought might be a type of counterexample to the truth-tracking account involving weird self-referential propositions. After investigating for a stretch I concluded that the approach was no good, at which point the counterexamples in the present paper (which have nothing to do with self-reference) came into my head. Something about the disappointment at the weird self-referential approach failing, together with the fact that I had during the investigation started to get used to the idea that I was able to refute the truth-tracking theory, caused me to think of the actual counterexamples.
For another recent counterexample to the truth-tracking theory (which also works against some other theories) see Neil Sinhababu and John Williams's paper 'The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking and Safety' and Sinhababu's blog post about it.
Saturday, 15 August 2015
The Principle of Compositionality and Semantic Granularity
This is another post in my series on semantic granularity. The others so far, in chronological order, are:
If meanings properly get carved up at different granularities, as I maintain, what are the implications for the 'the principle of compositionality'? I believe that granularity otion of this kind might be thought to consist in probability-raising, for example, but there are disputes about the details, such as what the relevant "baseline" probability is for comparison purposes. Eden's paper, 'Simple Probabilistic Promotion', (mentioned here with pe
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Volume 15 (2015)
Constraint and Freedom in the Common Law
John Horty
SEPTEMBER 2015, VOL. 15, NO. 25, PP. 1-27
This paper contributes to our formal understanding of the common law — especially the nature of the reasoning involved, but also its point, or justification, in terms of social coordination. I present two apparently distinct models of constraint by precedent in the common law, establish their equivalence, and argue for a perspective according to which courts are best thought of, not as creating and modifying rules, but as generating a social priority ordering on reasons through a procedure that is piecemeal, distributed, and responsive to particular circumstances.
