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Aristotle on the Virtues of Slaves and Women
Authors: Deslauriers Marguerite 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Aristotle maintains that both women and slaves have virtue, but also that their virtue differs from the virtue of free men (Pol. 1. 13, 12599-1260a7). These claims about virtue are connected to the claim that women, children, and slaves are all natural subjects, subject to the authority of free adult men (Pol. 1.3, 1253b4-8; 1.5, 1254b13-20; 1. 12, 1259a37-b4). The naturalness of the subjection is in every case a question of the capacity for practical reason and deliberation. Aristotle claims that this capacity is undeveloped in children, absent in natural slaves, and ‘without authority’ in women (Pol. 1. 13, 1260a7-14). These differences in capacity are the foundation of the differences in the virtue of different kinds of people. At the same time, these differences account for the different relations of rule that obtain between fathers and children, male householders and slaves, and men and women.
A uniqueness theorem for ‘no collapse’ interpretations of quantum mechanics
Authors: Clifton Rob 
Published: November 2023

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On the orthodox (Dirac­von Neumann) interpretation1 of quantum mechanics, an observable has a determinate (definite, sharp) value for a system in a given quantum state if and only if the state is an eigenstate of the observable. So, the orthodox interpretation selects a particular set of observables that have determinate values in a given quantum state; equivalently, a particular set of idempotent observables or propositions, represented by projection operators, Thanks to Guido Bacciagaluppi and Michael Dickson for helpful critical comments on a draft version of the paper. R. C. would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for research support.
Are Rindler quanta real? Inequivalent particle concepts in quantum field theory
Authors: Clifton Rob 
Published: November 2023

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Sagredo: Do we not see here another example of that all­pervading principle of complementarity which excludes the simultaneous applicability of concepts to the real objects of our world? Is it not so that, rather than being frustrated by this limitation of our conceptual grasp of the reality, we see in this unification of opposites the deepest and most satisfactory result of the dialectical process in our struggle for understanding? ­ Josef Jauch, Are Quanta Real? A Galilean Dialogue (1973) We are extremely grateful to John Earman and Laura Ruetsche for many stimulating discussions which provided the impetus for writing this paper, and to Aristidis Arageorgis for writing a provocative and inspiring dissertation. We would also like to thank Klaas Landsman and Rainer Verch for help with the proof of Proposition 6.
Argumentation And Heraclitus’ Book
Authors: Grager Herbert 
Published: November 2023

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Antiquity credits Heraclitus of Ephesus with a single book (D.l.9. 5-6), but the nature, even the very existence, of this ‘book’ has been a topic of much dispute in modern times. Diels, who despaired of discerning any intrinsic order among the fragments of Heraclitus, concluded that his book was a collection of aphorisms, and, as a consequence, he printed Heraclitus’ fragments largely in an alphabetical arrangement based on the names of the authors who preserved them. 1
On The Use And Abuse Of Non-Contradiction: Aristotle’S Critique Of Protagoras And Heraclitus In Metaphysics Gamma 5
Authors: Wedin Michael V 
Published: November 2023

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Book gamma of Aristotle’s 1v1.etaphysics contains a vigorous defence of the principle of non-contradiction (PNC). A chief part of Aristotle’s strategy is to attack those who deny the principle, both those who deny it merely for the sake of argument and those who deny it because of genuine theoretical perplexity. Chapter s concentrates on the latter and gives special attention to Protagoras and Heraclitus. Both, Aristotle avers, deny PNC. Students of the historical record will be quick to point out that nowhere does either predecessor explicitly deny the principle, at least not obviously. Aristotle need not quarrel with this, for his claim is that the central thesis of each thinker entails, even if unwittingly, denial of PNC. Stil1, the claim is surprising. More surprising yet is Aristotle’s proclamation that they are committed not just to denying PNC but also to asserting the principle’s contrary.
Counting the Holes
Authors: Casati Roberto , Varzi Achille C 
Published: November 2023

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Argle claimed that holes supervene on their material hosts, and that every truth about holes boils down to a truth about perforated things. This may well be right, assuming holes are perforations. But we still need an explicit theory of holes to do justice to the ordinary way of counting holes-or so says Cargle. Concerning holes. Argle claimed that holes supervene on their material hosts, and that every truth about holes boils down to a truth about perforated things. This may well be right, assuming holes are perforations. (I suppose a similar theory can be worked out to account for our discourse about cuts, indentations, fissures, inner cavities, nooks, and the like.) But we still need an explicit theory of holes to do justice to the ordinary way of counting holes. Now there is one hole. But this is not to say that you have created an immaterial entity that should now be added to the inventory of the world. We can truly say that there is one hole in the card insofar as it is true that the card has been perforated, and everything we say about that hole can be paraphrased in terms of statements about this singly perforated card. If that is what Argle said, he was right. And don’t tell me now that paraphrases can be hard to find, misleading, unnatural, or what have you-that is an empty can of worms. Nobody ever claimed that linguistic revision is easy.
Don’t Forget About the Correspondence Theory of Truth
Authors: David Marian 
Published: November 2023

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Contra Lewis, it is argued that the correspondence theory is a genuine rival theory of truth: it goes beyond the redundancy theory; it competes with other theories of truth; it is aptly summarized by the slogan ‘truth is correspondence to fact’;and it really is a theory of truth. In one of his very last publications, David Lewis asks us to forget about the correspondence theory of truth [2001: 275-80]. The correspondence theory, according to Lewis, is not one of the rival theories of truth. There are only four theories of truth that are genuine rivals: the redundancy theory, the coherence theory, the pragmatic theory, and the epistemic theory. The four really are rivals, Lewis says, because they are ‘incompatible’ [275]. Take, for instance, the redundancy theory and the pragmatic theory. The redundancy biconditional, (1), and the pragmatic biconditional, (2), are both ‘meant to be a priori’ [275]: is ‘manifestly not a priori’ [275], the two theories conflict. The same strategy, mutatis mutandis, is supposed to show that any two of the four are genuine rivals.Lewis is using ‘is not a priori’ as short for something like ‘its truth value cannot be determined by a priori means’. He is saying that (3)’s truth value, whatever it may be, is manifestly not determinable by a priori means. Note the special sense of incompatibility: two theories, meant to be a priori, are incompatible, if the result of putting them together in a certain way is manifestly not a priori. Theories that are incompatible in this special sense might still be compatible in the ordinary sense. Nevertheless, Lewis holds that two theories conflict when they are incompatible in his sense: they are rivals-though theories that are not incompatible in his sense might still be rivals for other reasons.
Distributional Properties
Authors: Parsons Josh 
Published: November 2023

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This paper discusses a distinctive kind of property that I call ‘distributional’ properties, which include, for example, the property of being polka-dotted (a colour-distributional property) and the property of being hot at one end and cold at the other (a heat-distributional property). I argue that distributional properties exist in whatever sense other properties exist, that they do not simply reduce to the non-distributional properties of points, and that they are implicated in the correct analysis of change. Distributional properties are perfectly simple and straightforward. Let me give some examples. Being polka-dottedis an example of a colour-distributional property-the property a surface has when it has the right kind of colour distribution. Being hot at one end and cold at the otheris an example of a heat-distributional property. Having a density o/ 1 kg/m &gt; throughoutis an example of a density-distributional property. It’s hard for me to say more about what a distributional property is without begging the question against some of the arguments I’m about to discuss. Intuitively, though, a distributional property is like a way of painting, or filling in, a spatially extended object with some property such as colour, or heat, or density. Properties that can be filled in (like colours, temperatures, or densities themselves) I call ‘qualities’ (one might alternatively call them ‘distributable properties’). The qualities and the distributional properties are prima facie distinct: it’s one thing to have a redness distribution (to be red in some places, one might say), another to just plain be red.
Introduction
Authors: Judson Lindsay , Karasmanis Vassilis 
Published: November 2023

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Socrates died in Athens in 399 bc by drinking hemlock, condemned to death by his fellow citizens. In 2001 the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, with the support of the Greek Ministry of Culture, organized a number of activities and events to commemorate the 2,400th anniversary of Socrates’ death. One of these was an international conference on Socrates, held in Athens and Delphi: in this volume, with the permission of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, we publish some of the papers presented at this conference. For the selection of the papers the editors were assisted by David Charles and Michael Frede.
Pyrrho’S Undecidable Nature
Authors: Svavarsson Svavar Hrafn 
Published: November 2023

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Towards the end of book 5 of Plato’s Republic,Socrates states that ‘what is completely is completely knowable’ (477 A). At the beginning of the Physics,Aristotle says that first principles are knowable by nature and altogether (184a10–21). Inboth cases, what is primarily and fundamentally real is knowable. It follows that what is not knowable is not primarily and fundamentally real. Not only do these philosophers’ ideas about knowledge depend on their views about reality, these views are in turn guided by their ideas about what can be known. The reasons behind their conception are not the subject of this paper, but the conception is, for it plays a role in an important Pyrrhonist argument.
Idealism Vindicated
Authors: Adams Robert M 
Published: November 2023

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What I want to present in this paper is a case, or rationale, for a sort of idealism. Modern metaphysical idealism enjoyed a distinguished history, and a flourishing and sometimes dominant position, in European philosophy from the early part of the eighteenth century to the early part of the twentieth century. Since then it has fallen on hard times. Not that it has been refuted. Its appeal in modern thought has rested, as I will try to explain, on certain deep problems about supposed soulless substances; and those problems have neither gone away nor been solved in a non-idealist way, so far as I can see. But other intellectual motives have led philosophical interest away in other directions.
The Form of the Hippiatrica
Authors: Mccabe Anne 
Published: November 2023

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The Hippiatrica belongs to a form of composite text whose origins lie in the scholarly activity of Late Antiquity, and whose purpose is to gather an array of authorities and present them, juxtaposed, for practical purposes of reference or comparison. The form is characterized by a distinctive method of compilation, which consists in the gathering of extracts from different treatises into a single book. Other defining features are the use of sources firitten by different authors, and the organization of the excerpts according to a consistent principle, for example, by subject, or in chronological or alphabetical order.
Anatolius
Authors: Mccabe Anne 
Published: November 2023

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Anatolius of Berytus was a compiler; the text that goes under his name is drawn from diverse sources, most of which were compilations as well. Broader in scope than the other sources of the Hippiatrica, Anatolius’ text was a sort of farmer’s almanac containing information on many diVerent aspects of agriculture and rural life, including the care, breeding, and medical treatment of animals. The precise date of the text is unknown: a terminus post quem is provided by Anatolius’ use of the Kestoi of Julius Africanus (Wrst half of the third century ad); a terminus ante quem by the use of Anatolius in Palladius’ agricultural manual (probably around the middle of the Wfth century ad).
Pelagonius
Authors: Mccabe Anne 
Published: November 2023

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Pelagonius’ treatise, composed in Latin, nevertheless belongs to the same tradition as the Greek sources of the Hippiatrica. It has been observed that Pelagonius’ work is ‘the First Latin treatise on horse medicine’, that is, the First specialized treatise devoted to the subject outside of the context of a more general work on agriculture. To refer to him as the First, however, implies a certain amount of originality, a quality which one is hard-pressed to recognize in the text. Pelagonius is dependent upon other firiters not only for the content of his treatise, which is a patchwork of quotations, but even for its epistolary form, which is imitated from Apsyrtus.
Hippocrates
Authors: Mccabe Anne 
Published: November 2023

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The identity of the veterinary author Hippocrates, masked by the famous name, remains obscure,1 and his text has received attention only as a spurious annexe to the Corpus Hippocraticum. Yet Hippocrates speaks very directly to the reader, in an almost colloquial style. His treatise, in contrast to the artifice of Apsyrtus ‘ firiting, the precision of Theomnestus, and the eloquence of Hierocles, provides evidence of veterinary language at the lower end of the literary scale.
Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda
Authors: Dixon R M W 
Published: November 2023

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In this final chapter I shall first attempt to summarize some of the main properties, and some of the main parameters of variation, of serial verb constructions (SVCs) as exemplified by the detailed accounts in the preceding chapters. A final section looks at what have been called verb-plus-adverbal constructions in the Australian language Dyirbal, and enquires whether these should be regarded as a type of SVC.
Ramsey’s Principle Resituated
Authors: Rôme Dokic &Pascal Engel J É 
Published: November 2023

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Let us consider what may be called ‘Ramsey’s Principle’. It is the principle that ‘truth is the property of a belief that suffices for your getting what you want when you act on it’ (Whyte 1990: 149). When an action results in getting what one wants, i.e. when it leads to the satisfaction of one’s desires, the action is said to be successful. So, according to this principle, there is an internal relation between truth and success: ( RP) True beliefs are those that lead to successful actions whatever the underlying motivating desires.
Ramsey’s Transcendental Argument
Authors: Potter Michael 
Published: November 2023

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One of the papers of Ramsey’s Nachlass which his widow, Lettice, sold to the Hillman library at Pittsburgh is a set of notes entitled ‘ The Infinite’. Embedded in these notes is the following curious argument for the Axiom of Infinity:We can say that the idea of infinity proves its existence. ( Wittgenstein’s extra prop). But the sign 00 proves nothing. We can prove it this way. It is clear that there may be an 00 of atoms and whether there are or not is an empirical fact, and this possibility implies an 00 of objects, as it were to be the possible atoms.
Pragmatism and Deﬂationism
Authors: Misak Cheryl 
Published: November 2023

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C. S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that a belief is true if it would be ‘indefeasible’, or would not be improved upon, or would never lead to disappointment, no matter how far we were to pursue our inquiries. Although he occasionally articulated this view of truth in terms of a belief’s being fated to be believed at the end of inquiry, on the whole he tried to stay away from unhelpful ideas such as the ﬁnal end of inquiry, perfect evidence, and the like.
Pragmatism and Ethical Particularism
Authors: Bakhurst David 
Published: November 2023

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Ethical particularism is the view that sound moral judgement issues from the exercise of a sensibility that transcends codification into rules or principles. Accordingly, rationality and consistency in ethical practice cannot be explained— or fully explained— in terms of adherence to principles, and the acquisition of a moral point of view cannot be seen — or cannot primarily be seen — as a matter of grasping a set of moral rules. Moral judgement demands sensitivity to the salient moral dimensions of particular cases, and this cannot be properly anticipated by moral principles.
Truth as a Pretense
Authors: Woodbridge James A 
Published: November 2023

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Truth is a pretense. This bald statement might inspire “incredulous stares”, but my aim here is to deflect this initial incredulity. To begin, then, my claim that truth is a pretense is really part of an analysis of truth-talk-the fragment of our talk (and thought) that employs the notion of truth. Just this clarification probably deflects little skepticism, since it merely marks my view as some sort of fictionalism with respect to truth-talk. On a common understanding of fictionalist analyses, certain statements from a “way of talking” understood fictionally may be “true in the fiction’’, but really all statements from this fragment of discourse are false. Some of the abiding skepticism toward my initial claim likely comes from the recognition that this error-theoretic conception of fictionalism undermines itself when applied to truth-talk. The problem here is by now familiar: an account of truth-talk based on the thesis that all truth-talk is false (or, more broadly, never true) seems to presuppose a non-error-theoretic notion of truth-conditions, and so of truth.4 And even if it did not, the claim that all instances of truth-talk are false is itself an instance of truth-talk, and so it would turn out to be false on this view. In fact, matters are even worse; this position would be paradoxical since it would say of itself that it was false.5 Understood this way, a fictionalist interpretation of truth-talk is a non-starter.
Introduction
Authors: Green Mitchell , Williams John N 
Published: November 2023

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G. E. Moore observed that to say,’I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don’t believe that I did’ would be ‘absurd’ (1942: 543). Over half a century later, such sayings continue to perplex philosophers and other students of language, logic, and cognition. On the one hand, such sayings seem distinct from semantically odd Liar-type sayings such as ‘What I’m now saying is not true’. Unlike Liar-type sentences, what Moore said might be true: One can readily imagine a situation in which Moore went to the pictures last Tuesday but does not believe that he did so.
Speaking Through Silence: Conceptual Art and Conversational Implicature
Authors: Hopkins Robert 
Published: November 2023

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Does conceptual art raise a distinctive problem for philosophical aesthetics? Many have thought so. There is thought to be a tension, if not down-right contradiction, between the notion of art that seemed viable before the turn to the conceptual, and the works to which that development gave birth. My first task is to attempt to focus this tension. I will not be directly concerned with the question of what defines conceptual art. No doubt the question of what is distinctively problematic about that art cannot be separated entirely from the question of its nature. However, to the extent that the two can be kept apart, it is the former that will concern me.
Artistic Character, Creativity, and the Appraisal of Conceptual Art
Authors: Kieran Matthew 
Published: November 2023

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How should we appreciate conceptual art? Indeed, can conceptual art really be valuable as art? These are taken to be hard questions within contemporary philosophical aesthetics. If there’s no artfully constructed or styled material object to appreciate, if there’s no beauty or other aesthetic qualities to savour, if there’s no insight to be gained in an experience with a work, how can it be artistically valuable? Indeed the worries about conceptual art articulated by philosophers tend to be shared by many ordinary art lovers. Yet if we look at contemporary artistic practice there hardly seems to be an issue here at all. Artists are happy enough to produce canvases with text only printed onto them, put together slogans lit up in neon, or enter as an exhibit for the Turner Prize an empty room with the light turning on and off.
Sortals and the Binding Problem
Authors: Campbell John 
Published: November 2023

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Philosophers have sometimes maintained very strong theses of sortal dependence; theses to the effect that singular reference depends on knowledge of the sort of the object to which one is referring. They have held that the ability to single out in experience a tree, or a mountain, or a lion depends on grasp of such sortal concepts as ‘tree’, ‘mountain’, or ‘lion’. Their basic point is that there can be different things of different kinds in the same place at the same time. Suppose we consider a bend in the river. What object is there, at that point? There is, of course, the river, which continues on downstream. There is also a stage of a river: that is, the river as it is at this particular moment, for example. A ‘river-stage’ so defined cannot last longer than a moment, unlike the river. There is also a collection of water molecules at that point. This collectionwill have been diffused in the sea by tomorrow, unlike the river itself.
Sleeping Beauty Reconsidered: Conditioning and Reflection in Asynchronous Systems
Authors: Halpern Joseph 
Published: November 2023

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The standard approach to updating beliefs in the probability literature is by conditioning. But it turns out that conditioning is somewhat prob- lematic if agents have imperfect recall. In the economics community this issue was brought to the fore by the work of Piccione and Rubinstein (1997), to which was dedicated a special issue of the journal Games and Economic Behavior. There has also been a recent surge of interest in the topic in the philosophy community, inspired by a re-examination by Elga (2000) of one of the problems considered by Piccione and Rubinstein, the so-calledSleeping Beauty problem.
Nietzsche: Perfectionist
Authors: Hurka Thomas 
Published: November 2023

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Nietzsche is often regarded as a paradigmatically anti-theoretical philosopher. Bernard Williams has said that Nietzsche is so far from being a theorist that his text ‘is booby- trapped not only against recovering theory from it, but, in many cases, against any systematic exegesis that assimilates it to theory.’ Many would apply this view especially to Nietzsche’s moral philosophy. They would say that even when he is making positive normative claims, as against just criticizing existing morality, his claims have neither the content nor the organization characteristic of moral theory.