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European Journal of Philosophy
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June 1, 2026
In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality, Thomas Hofweber argues for what he calls a reformed neo-Kantian approach to metaphysics. On this approach, we can make substantive conclusions about reality on the basis of reflections about language alon ...
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association
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January 1, 2026
Human languages are powerful representational tools, but can they represent every possible kind of entity? This seems unlikely. We can easily imagine languages - God's language, or that of advanced extraterrestrials - that represent features of reality tha ...
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Topoi
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January 1, 2026
Logical inferentialism is the view that the meaning of a logical expression consists in its inferential role. It is often contrasted with logical realism, the view that there exists mind-independent, metaphysically privileged logical structure. While logic ...
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Philosophy and Social Criticism
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January 1, 2026
Factionalism broadly describes the occurrence of conflicts between varying groups (or factions) within a social movement. Factionalism is often thought to be a negative feature of social movements. The goal of this paper is to (a) motivate the significance ...
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Erkenntnis
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January 1, 2025
Indeterminacy is metaphysical (or worldly) if it has its source in the way the world is (rather than how it is represented or known). There are two questions we could ask about indeterminacy. First: does it exist? Second: is indeterminacy derivative? I foc ...
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Social Theory and Practice
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2025
In cases of institutional racism, the racist actor is not an individual who is racist or possesses racist motives; rather, it is an institution that embodies a racist ideology or otherwise has a racist impact. While the concept of institutional rac ...
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Journal of Social Philosophy
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January 1, 2025
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Global Philosophy
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December 1, 2024
Conceptual ethics concerns the question: what concepts ought we use? The goal of this paper is to answer a related foundational question: what determines what concepts we ought to use? According to one view, it is our values — our goals, interests, purpose ...
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Journal of Applied Philosophy
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November 1, 2024
The goal of this article is to motivate the idea of a social reason and demonstrate its usefulness in social theorizing. For example, in a society that values getting married young, the fact that one is young is a reason to get married. In racist and sexis ...
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Analytic Philosophy
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March 1, 2024
An increasing number of philosophers argue that indeterminacy is metaphysical (or worldly) in the sense that indeterminacy has its source in the world itself (rather than how the world is represented or known). The standard arguments for metaphysical indet ...
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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July 1, 2023
According to Sider, a question is metaphysically substantive just in case it has a single most natural answer. Recently, Barnes and Mikkola have argued that, given this notion of substantivity, many of the central questions in the metaphysics of gender are ...
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Synthese
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June 1, 2023
Critical social ontology is any study of social ontology that is done in order to critique ideology or end social injustice. The goal of this paper is to outline what I call the fundamentality approach to critical social ontology. On the fundamentality app ...
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy
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May 28, 2022
It is natural to think that social groups are concrete material particulars, but this view faces an important objection. Suppose the chess club and nature club have the same members. Intuitively, these are different clubs even though they have a common mat ...
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Inquiry United Kingdom
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January 1, 2021
Grounding is necessary just in case: if P grounds Q, then necessarily: if P, then Q. Many accept this principle. Others propose counterexamples. Instead of straightforwardly arguing for, or against, necessity, I explain the sense in which grounding is nece ...
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Erkenntnis
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December 1, 2020
Grounding pluralism is the view that there are multiple kinds of grounding. In this essay, I motivate and defend an explanation-theoretic view of grounding pluralism. Specifically, I argue that there are two kinds of grounding: why-grounding—which tells us ...
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