The Past as Prologue: Accountability for Exacerbating Prior Wrongs - published on July 22, 2026

Is it possible for someone, right now, to become accountable for a wrong committed by someone else hundreds of years ago? Barring backward causation, it seems moral facts about the past are as indelib...

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What Is It to Be a Solution to Cantor's Continuum Problem? - Volume 123, Issue 2, February 2026

Cantor’s Continuum Hypothesis (CH) asks what the cardinality of the real line is. It is a mathematically precise problem. Yet, because it cannot be solved using the standard axiomatic framework for ma...

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Unknowable Truths - Volume 123, Issue 2, February 2026

In an anonymous referee report written in 1945, Church suggested a sweeping argument against verificationism, the thesis that every truth is knowable. The argument, which was published with due acknow...

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Ex Ante Pareto and the Opaque-Identity Puzzle - Volume 123, Issue 1, January 2026

Anna Mahtani describes a puzzle meant to show that the Ex Ante Pareto Principle is incomplete as it stands and, since it cannot be completed in a satisfactory manner, decades of debate in welfare econ...

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Why Coherence Matters - Volume 123, Issue 1, January 2026

Explicating the concept of coherence and establishing a measure for assessing the coherence of an information set are two of the most important tasks of coherentist epistemology. To this end, several ...

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Neo-logicism and Conservativeness - Volume 123, Issue 1, January 2026

Neo-logicists have claimed that Hume's Principle (HP) may be taken as a stipulative definition of cardinal number. However, this claim is threatened by the fact that HP is not conservative over pure s...

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Index to Volume CXXII - Volume 122, Issue 12, December 2025

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The Consequence Argument Across Levels - Volume 122, Issue 12, December 2025

The consequence argument aims to show that if determinism is true, such that all our actions are the necessary consequences of the remote past and the laws of nature, then no one could have done anyth...

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The Argument from Locality for Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics - Volume 122, Issue 12, December 2025

One motivation for preferring the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics over realist rivals, such as collapse and hidden variables theories, is that the interpretation is able to preserve lo...

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Meaningless Communication: Toward an Understanding-First Approach - Volume 122, Issue 11, November 2025

In this paper I explore how we can conceive of communication without recourse to the notion of meaning. The first step is to decouple linguistic understanding from its usual characterization as knowle...

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Keeping Vague Score - Volume 122, Issue 11, November 2025

This paper introduces a novel theory of vagueness. Its main aim is to show how naïve judgments about tolerance and indeterminacy can be preserved while departing from classical logic only in ways whic...

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The Argument from Locality for Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics - published on June 1, 2026

One motivation for preferring the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics over realist rivals, such as collapse and hidden variables theories, is that the interpretation is able to preserve lo...

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On the Origins of Phenomenology and Fodorian Cognitive Science: A Propaedeutic to a Unified Explanatory Theory - Volume 122, Issue 10, October 2025

The paper demonstrates that the phenomenology of logical experience, or Husserlian phenomenology, and the computational theory of mind, in the form of a Fodorian language of thought, necessarily const...

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What Chance Doesn't Know - Volume 122, Issue 10, October 2025

Humean accounts of chance have a problem with undermining futures: they have to accept that some series of events are physically possible and have a nonzero chance but are inconsistent with the chance...

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Co-Editor of Debates in Aesthetics | Call for Applications - The British Society of Aesthetics

Debates in Aesthetics is looking for a new co-editor. Debates in Aesthetics (DiA) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for original articles, interviews, and book reviews in philosophical…

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Review of Robert Kane, The Complex Tapestry of Free Will: A Philosophical Odyssey - Volume 122, Issue 9, September 2025

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The Zetetic Turn and the Procedural Turn - Volume 122, Issue 9, September 2025

Epistemology has taken a zetetic turn from the study of belief toward the study of inquiry. Several decades ago, theories of bounded rationality took a procedural turn from attitudes toward the proces...

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On the Value of Reformulating - Volume 122, Issue 9, September 2025

Throughout science and mathematics, expert inquirers often reformulate existing problem-solving procedures and theories. But what value is there to reformulating, particularly when one already knows h...

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Unknowable Truths - published on May 1, 2026

In an anonymous referee report written in 1945, Church suggested a sweeping argument against verificationism, the thesis that every truth is knowable. The argument, which was published with due acknow...

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Why Coherence Matters - published on April 28, 2026

Explicating the concept of coherence and establishing a measure for assessing the coherence of an information set are two of the most important tasks of coherentist epistemology. To this end, several ...

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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...

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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...

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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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Schmidt Sciences Research Scholars in AI & the Humanities, 2026-2027 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art | NYFA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks eligible candidates for two twelve-month Postdoctoral Research Scholar positions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Humanities. This pilot program aims to adv...

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