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Is Uptake Essential to Perlocution? A Defence of Illocutionary Silencing 理解对说话至关重要吗?为言外沉默辩护
Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340205
R. Sharma
Abstract Hornsby and Langton (H&L), put forward the idea of silencing as an "illocutionary disablement". Appealing to Austin's speech act theory, they situate silencing as opposite to speech act and argue that when there is silencing, people's illocutionary act fails and their right to free speech is violated. This paper presents a defence of H&L's account of silencing, against objections raised by Ishani Maitra (2009). Maitra questions the model of illocutionary silencing by arguing that Austin's illocutionary model is inaccurate and vague hence, not useful for the discussions of silencing. In response, I argue that Maitra's understanding of the perlocutionary act is misguided and requires a critical examination. Maitra discusses the notion of the perlocutionary act as the goals that the speaker achieves by securing the uptake. I oppose such a view by arguing that securing the uptake does not ensure the performance of a perlocutionary act
Hornsby和Langton (H&L)提出沉默是一种“言外失能”。他们援引奥斯汀的言语行为理论,将沉默置于言语行为的对立面,认为当存在沉默时,人们的言外行为失败,言论自由权受到侵犯。本文针对Ishani Maitra(2009)提出的反对意见,为H&L关于沉默的说法辩护。Maitra质疑言外沉默的模式,他认为Austin的言外沉默模型是不准确和模糊的,因此对讨论沉默没有用处。作为回应,我认为Maitra对言后行为的理解是错误的,需要进行批判性的审查。Maitra讨论了言后行为的概念,即说话人通过确保吸收而实现的目标。我反对这种观点,我认为,确保理解并不能确保言后行为的履行
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引用次数: 1
All Else Being Equal? Über Extension und Intension von Ceteris-Paribus- Gesetzen nach Lipton 全部等价的方法?等等,天才
Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340206
C. Hoffmann
Abstract Naturgesetze spielen eine zentrale Rolle in der Wissenschaftstheorie. Traditionell fokussierten Wissenschaftstheoretiker auf (Fundamental-)Gesetze der Physik, die man als zumindest wahre, universell gültige und kontrafaktische Konditionale stützende Aussagen ansah. Wiewohl diese Behauptung üuber Gesetze für den Bereich der Physik wohl zutre_en mag, scheinen doch die Gesetze in den Spezialwissenschaften andere Charakteristika aufzuweisen. Von ihnen wird behauptet, sie hätten Ausnahmen, seien also Ceteris-Paribus-Gesetze. Den Ausführungen von Peter Lipton in seinem Artikel "All Else Being Equal" folgend wird eine zweiteilige Forschungsfrage er örtert: Existieren genuine Ceteris-Paribus-Gesetze und, wenn ja, was ist darunter genau zu verstehen? Der Beitrag dieser Arbeit liegt insofern in einer kritischen Würdigung von Liptons Vorschlag als auch in seiner anschließenden Einordnung begrüundet
抽象的自然规律在科学理论中起着至关重要的作用。传统科学理论家专注于(最基本的)物理学定律,这一定律至少被认为是正确的、普世的、矛盾的。虽然这句话可能是对物理学领域的法律的谴责,但是专门研究中的法律显然其他人都喜欢你宣称你也有例外例如国际千刀节法律彼得•李普顿在他的文章中,被分为“世界所有世界人口中”,然后提出了一个由两个重要的研究问题:是否存在公平国际法,如果是这样的话,具体的概念是什么呢?这篇文章一方面深深地赞扬了李普的提议,另一方面也促使这个信仰在进行更深远的论述
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Steadfast Views of Disagreement are Incoherent 坚定的意见分歧是不连贯的
Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340203
T. Tokhadze
Abstract In this paper, I argue that Steadfast Views of peer disagreement - a family of views according to which standing firm in the face of peer disagreement can be rationally permissible are incoherent. First, I articulate two constraints that any Steadfast Views of disagreement should endorse: (i) Steadfastness's Core (ii) The Deference Principle. I show that (i) and (ii) are inconsistent: they cannot both be true. My argument, briefly put, is that one cannot rationally treat one's peer's opinion as unconditionally relevant to a hypothesis, H, but conditional on the supposition of a disagreement, irrelevant to H. Because Steadfast Views endorse a set of mutually inconsistent propositions, I conclude that Steadfast Views are incoherent
在本文中,我论证了坚定的同行分歧观点是不连贯的,根据这种观点,在面对同行分歧时坚持立场是可以被理性允许的。首先,我阐明了任何持不同意见的坚定观点都应该认可的两个约束:(I)坚定的核心(ii)尊重原则。我证明(I)和(ii)是不一致的:它们不可能都为真。简单地说,我的论点是,一个人不能理性地把他的同伴的意见视为无条件地与假设H相关,但以与H无关的分歧假设为条件。因为坚定的观点赞同一系列相互矛盾的命题,我得出结论,坚定的观点是不连贯的
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Agent-Democratic Markets Agent-Democratic市场
Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.5167/UZH-191829
C. Mildenberger
Abstract This essay examines a new way to exercise democratic control over the market. Instead of a democratic government interfering with a market's outcomes (e.g. via taxes or minimum wages), we may also "democratize" the market by requiring that all relevant group agents who participate in that market (notably: firms) be democratically governed. This is what I call an agent-democratic market. The purpose of this essay is to argue for the claim that agent-democratic markets are a normatively viable way to democratize the market - and potentially constitute a genuine alternative to the standard approach of subjecting market outcomes to democratic control
摘要本文探讨了一种对市场实行民主控制的新方法。除了民主政府干预市场结果(例如通过税收或最低工资),我们还可以通过要求所有参与该市场的相关群体代理人(特别是:公司)受到民主管理来“民主化”市场。这就是我所说的代理人民主市场。本文的目的是论证代理人民主市场是使市场民主化的一种规范可行的方式,并有可能构成将市场结果置于民主控制之下的标准方法的真正替代方案
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Intuitions and Values: Re-assessing the classical arguments against quantitative hedonism 直觉与价值:重新评估反对数量享乐主义的经典论点
Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340204
David Lanius
Abstract Few philosophers today embrace quantitative hedonism, which states that a person's well-being depends only on the amount of her experienced happiness and suffering. Despite recent attempts to rehabilitate it, most philosophers still consider it untenable. The most influential arguments levelled against it by Mill, Moore, Nozick and Kagan purport to demonstrate that well-being must depend on more than only the amount of experienced happiness and suffering. I argue in this paper that quantitative hedonism can rebut these arguments by pointing out a shared systematic aw in their argumentative structure. In particular, I argue that they are based on thought experiments that invoke either structurally unreliable intuitions or intuitions that are not in tension to the tenets of quantitative hedonism. While this does not rehabilitate the theory by itself, it shows that the classical arguments against quantitative hedonism provide less evidence against it than commonly thought and certainly do not conclusively prove it wrong
今天,很少有哲学家接受定量享乐主义,它认为一个人的幸福只取决于她所经历的幸福和痛苦的数量。尽管最近试图恢复它,大多数哲学家仍然认为它是站不住脚的。密尔、摩尔、诺齐克和卡根提出的最具影响力的反对论点旨在证明,幸福必须不仅仅取决于经历幸福和痛苦的程度。在本文中,我认为定量享乐主义可以通过指出它们的论证结构中共同的系统规律来反驳这些论点。特别是,我认为它们是基于思维实验,这些实验要么唤起结构上不可靠的直觉,要么唤起与定量享乐主义原则不冲突的直觉。虽然这本身并不能恢复理论,但它表明,反对数量享乐主义的经典论点提供的证据比通常认为的要少,当然也不能最终证明它是错误的
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Why Moral Heuristics can Lead to Mistaken Moral Judgments 为什么道德启发式会导致错误的道德判断
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340106
V. Nadurak
Abstract Given the lack of generally accepted moral standards, one of the controversial questions for those who investigate moral heuristics is whether we can argue that moral heuristics can lead to mistaken moral judgments. This paper suggests that, even if we agree that moral standards are different and chosen subjectively, deviations from them are possible and we can prove such deviations in a logically correct way. However, in this case, it must be admitted that not every deviation is a mistake. Deviation becomes a mistake only when a person departs from the standard which she or he considers as right. There are cases where it is impossible to establish the fact of a mistake: when a person chooses a moral standard post hoc, in the light of which the decision would be right (only when there is a deviation from all moral standards which a person considers as right, it is possible to recognize the decision as mistaken). Accepting the idea of the subjectivity of a moral standard, it is also necessary to accept the idea of relativity of moral heuristics: the normative standard chosen by a person also determines which method of moral decision making will be considered as a heuristic.
由于缺乏普遍接受的道德标准,道德启发式研究的一个有争议的问题是,我们是否可以认为道德启发式会导致错误的道德判断。这篇论文表明,即使我们同意道德标准是不同的,是主观选择的,偏离道德标准是可能的,我们可以用逻辑正确的方式证明这种偏离。然而,在这种情况下,必须承认并非所有的偏差都是错误的。只有当一个人偏离了他或她认为正确的标准时,偏差才成为错误。有些情况下,不可能确定错误的事实:当一个人事后选择一个道德标准时,根据这个标准,这个决定是正确的(只有当一个人认为正确的道德标准偏离了所有道德标准时,才有可能认识到这个决定是错误的)。在接受道德标准的主观性观点的同时,也必须接受道德启发式的相对性观点:一个人选择的规范性标准也决定了哪种道德决策方法将被视为启发式。
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引用次数: 2
Normativity as a Kind of Conformity: Towards a naturalistic account of epistemic normativity 规范性作为一种一致性:对认知规范性的自然主义解释
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5167/UZH-187479
Basil Müller
Abstract There seem to be things we ought not to believe and others we are permitted to believe. Belief is treated as a normative phenomenon both in everyday and academic discourse. At the same time, normativity can be seen as a threat to a naturalistic understanding of the world. Whilst naturalistic claims are of descriptive nature, norms are prescriptive. It is usually held that they cannot be reduced to statements of fact. This problem is also pertinent to the normativity of belief. How is such a phenomenon to be understood within a naturalist framework? Sullivan-Bissett provides a naturalistic account of epistemic normativity in which she explains epistemic normativity in terms of biological functions of belief-producing mechanisms. Importantly, her account is error-theoretic: She argues that we mistake doxastic strategies, which are at best normative in a hypothetical sense, to be categorical epistemic norms. In continuation of Sullivan-Bissett's account, I draw attention to one of the belief-producing mechanisms which is responsible for bringing about these mistaken beliefs. I claim that normative conformity { a social-learning mechanisms { brings about our beliefs in the existence and categorical validity of epistemic norms. Keeping with the evolutionary perspective employed by Sullivan- Bissett, I answer questions about the function and phylogeny of our mistaken beliefs in epistemic normativity by means of normative conformity and in line with Sullivan-Bissett's account.
似乎有些事情是我们不应该相信的,而有些事情是可以相信的。信仰在日常生活和学术话语中都被视为一种规范现象。与此同时,规范性可以被视为对世界自然主义理解的威胁。自然主义的主张是描述性的,而规范是规定性的。人们通常认为它们不能简化为事实陈述。这个问题也与信仰的规范性有关。如何在自然主义的框架内理解这种现象?Sullivan-Bissett提供了一个关于认知规范性的自然主义解释,她从信念产生机制的生物学功能的角度解释了认知规范性。重要的是,她的解释是错误理论的:她认为,我们错误地将最多在假设意义上规范的对立策略误认为是绝对的认知规范。为了继续沙利文-比塞特的描述,我提请注意导致这些错误信念产生的一种信念产生机制。我认为规范性从众(一种社会学习机制)使我们相信认知规范的存在和绝对有效性。与Sullivan-Bissett所采用的进化观点保持一致,我通过规范一致性并与Sullivan-Bissett的描述保持一致,回答了有关我们在认知规范性中错误信念的功能和系统发育的问题。
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Categorizing Imaginary Objects 假想对象分类
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340102
G. Arroyo
Abstract Philosophers often invite their readers to categorize imaginary objects. These objects are not only hypothetical: many of them cannot exist because of physical or technological reasons. They are unprecedented or unheard-of objects. By categorizing imaginary objects, philosophers expect to gain knowledge about our concepts. In this paper, I challenge this general assumption: not every conceivable object can be described in terms of our existing categories. Although prominent philosophers held similar views in the past, they made no effort to provide a satisfactory explanation for such impossibility. The argument that I will develop in the following pages rests mainly on three philosophical assumptions: a) that concepts whose content philosophers attempt to describe denote "monothetic classes"; b) that concept formation depends largely on "ecological salience" (a notion developed in the field of ethnobiology); c) that in any monothetic class, we can draw a proper distinction between definitional and correlated properties.
哲学家经常邀请读者对想象中的事物进行分类。这些物体不仅是假设的:由于物理或技术原因,它们中的许多都不可能存在。它们是前所未有或闻所未闻的东西。通过对想象对象进行分类,哲学家期望获得关于我们概念的知识。在本文中,我对这个普遍的假设提出了挑战:不是每一个可以想象的对象都可以用我们现有的范畴来描述。虽然著名的哲学家过去也持有类似的观点,但他们并没有努力为这种不可能性提供一个令人满意的解释。我将在以下几页展开的论证主要基于三个哲学假设:a)哲学家试图描述其内容的概念表示“一神类”;B)概念的形成很大程度上取决于“生态显著性”(一个在民族生物学领域发展起来的概念);C)在任何一元类中,我们可以在定义性质和相关性质之间做出适当的区分。
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The Epistemology of Understanding. A contextualist approach 知性的认识论。语境主义的方法
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2020-340105
Marcus Bachmann
Abstract This paper aims to provide a unifying approach to the analysis of understanding coherencies (interrogative understanding, e.g. understanding why something is the case) and understanding subject matters (objectual understanding) by highlighting the contextualist nature of understanding. Inspired by the relevant alternatives contextualism about knowledge, I will argue that understanding (in the above mentioned sense) inherently has context-sensitive features and that a theory of understanding that highlights those features can incorporate our intuitions towards understanding as well as consolidate the different accounts of how to analyse understanding. In developing a contextualist account of understanding, I will argue that an account of the features commonly taken to be central to understanding greatly benefits from a contextualist framework. Central to my analysis will be the claim that a person has to fulfill the function of a competent problem solver in order to qualify for the ascription of understanding. In addition to the theoretical elucidation of my contextualist approach to understanding, a demanding hypothetical scenario will be developed to function as a test case.
摘要本文旨在通过强调理解的语境主义本质,提供一种统一的方法来分析理解一致性(疑问句理解,例如理解为什么是这样)和理解主题(客观理解)。受有关知识的相关替代情境主义的启发,我将论证理解(在上述意义上)固有地具有上下文敏感特征,并且强调这些特征的理解理论可以将我们的理解直觉结合起来,并巩固如何分析理解的不同说法。在发展关于理解的语境主义解释的过程中,我将论证,通常被认为是理解的核心特征的描述将极大地受益于语境主义框架。我的分析的核心是,一个人必须完成一个有能力的问题解决者的功能,才能有资格获得理解的资格。除了从理论上阐明我的情境主义理解方法外,还将开发一个要求很高的假设场景作为测试案例。
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Relative to What? - Interpretation with higher-place predicates 相对于什么?-使用高级谓词进行解释
Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2019-330307
Michael Samhammer
Abstract Ordinary language contains groups of related predicates with different arities. Interpreting utterances that appear to contain an n-place predicate by using an n+m-place predicate to dissolve merely apparent disagreements and other misunderstandings is an established practice in everyday discourse. This paper aims to present hermeneutical maxims to guide and evaluate these interpretations through arity raising. In interpreting utterances by using a higher-place predicate, we should use only expressions that their authors themselves reasonably could have used and which would have been suitable to achieve their supposed purposes. The goal is to achieve a charitable, accurate reading that also maximizes the text's transparency to improve our understanding of it.
普通语言包含一组具有不同属性的相关谓词。通过使用n+m位谓词来解释似乎包含n位谓词的话语,以消除仅仅是明显的分歧和其他误解,这是日常话语中的既定做法。本文旨在提出解释学的原则,以指导和评价这些解释。在使用高级谓词来解释话语时,我们应该只使用作者自己合理地使用过的表达,并且这些表达适合于达到他们假定的目的。我们的目标是实现一个慈善的、准确的阅读,同时最大限度地提高文本的透明度,以提高我们对它的理解。
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