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What is priority monism? Reply to Kovacs 什么是优先一元论?回复科瓦奇
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2280615
Damiano Costa
Priority monism is the view that the cosmos is the basic concrete entity on which each of its parts depends. Kovacs has recently argued that none of the classical notions of dependence could be used to spell out priority monism. I argue that four notions of dependence – namely rigid existential dependence, generic existential dependence, explanatory dependence, and generalised explanatory dependence – can indeed be used to spell out priority monism and specify the conditions under which this is possible.
优先一元论认为,宇宙是一个基本的具体实体,它的每个部分都依赖于它。科瓦奇最近提出,没有一个经典的依赖概念可以用来阐明优先一元论。我认为,依赖的四个概念——即严格的存在依赖、一般的存在依赖、解释依赖和广义的解释依赖——确实可以用来阐明优先一元论,并具体说明在哪些条件下这是可能的。
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Ordinal type theory 序数型理论
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2278031
Jan Plate
ABSTRACTHigher-order logic, with its type-theoretic apparatus known as the simple theory of types (STT), has increasingly come to be employed in theorising about properties, relations, and states of affairs – or ‘intensional entities’ for short. This paper argues against this employment of STT and offers an alternative: ordinal type theory (OTT). Very roughly, STT and OTT can be regarded as complementary simplifications of the ‘ramified theory of types’ outlined in the Introduction to Principia Mathematica (on a realist reading). While STT, understood as a theory of intensional entities, retains the Fregean division of properties and relations into a multiplicity of categories according to their adicities and ‘input types’ and discards the division of intensional entities into different ‘orders’, OTT takes the opposite approach: it retains the hierarchy of orders (though with some modifications) and discards the categorisation of properties and relations according to their adicities and input types. In contrast to STT, this latter approach avoids intensional counterparts of the Epimenides and related paradoxes. Fundamental intensional entities lie at the base of the proposed hierarchy and are also given a prominent part to play in the individuation of non-fundamental intensional entities.KEYWORDS: Propertiesrelationsstates of affairstype theoryhigher-order metaphysicsfundamentality AcknowledgementsFor valuable discussion of (or related to) material presented in this paper, I am grateful to Andrew Bacon, Kit Fine, Peter Fritz, Jeremy Goodman, Daniel Nolan, Robert Trueman, and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri. Special thanks to Francesco Orilia for detailed comments on an earlier draft. For financial support, I am grateful to the Swiss National Science Foundation (grants 100012_173040 and 100012_192200).Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 I mainly have in mind Williamson (Citation2013), Dorr (Citation2016), Fritz and Goodman (Citation2016), Goodman (Citation2017), Bacon (Citation2019; Citation2020), Dorr, Hawthorne, and Yli-Vakkuri (Citation2021), and Bacon and Dorr (Citationforthcoming). Major influences on this literature include Prior (Citation1971) and Williamson (Citation2003). Skiba (Citation2021) offers a survey. Critical voices include Orilia and Landini (Citation2019), Hofweber (Citation2022), Whittle (Citation2023, 1642–1645), Menzel (Citationforthcoming), and Sider (CitationMS). Also cf. Florio (Citationforthcoming).2 In the literature of higher-order metaphysics, the term ‘state of affairs’ is usually avoided in favour of ‘proposition’. Nonetheless, I shall here speak of states of affairs (or simply ‘states’), as this term goes more naturally together with ‘property’ and ‘relation’, whereas ‘proposition’ connotes something more fine-grained and sentence-like. (Cf., e.g., Dorr [Citation2016, 54n.].)3 A more detailed overview of LFO can be found in Shapiro and Kouri Kissel (Citation2018).4 This not
高阶逻辑,以其被称为简单类型理论(STT)的类型理论工具,越来越多地被用于对性质、关系和事件状态(或简称“内涵实体”)的理论化。本文提出了一种替代方法:序数型理论(OTT)。非常粗略地说,STT和OTT可以被视为《数学原理导论》(关于现实主义阅读)中概述的“分支类型理论”的互补简化。虽然STT被理解为一种内涵实体理论,保留了Fregean根据其复杂度和“输入类型”将属性和关系划分为多种类别,并放弃了将内涵实体划分为不同的“顺序”,但OTT采取了相反的方法:它保留了顺序的层次结构(尽管有一些修改),并根据其复杂度和输入类型放弃了属性和关系的分类。与STT相反,后一种方法避免了埃庇米尼德斯和相关悖论的内涵对应。基本内涵实体位于所提出的层次结构的基础上,并且在非基本内涵实体的个性化中也发挥着突出作用。对于本文中提出的(或相关的)材料的有价值的讨论,我要感谢Andrew Bacon、Kit Fine、Peter Fritz、Jeremy Goodman、Daniel Nolan、Robert Trueman和Juhani Yli-Vakkuri。特别感谢Francesco Orilia对早期草案的详细评论。在资金支持方面,我感谢瑞士国家科学基金会(资助100012_173040和100012_192200)。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1我主要记得威廉森(Citation2013)、多尔(Citation2016)、弗里茨和古德曼(Citation2016)、古德曼(Citation2017)、培根(Citation2019;Citation2020), Dorr, Hawthorne, and Yli-Vakkuri (Citation2021),以及Bacon and Dorr (citation即将出版)。主要影响这一文献的有Prior (Citation1971)和Williamson (Citation2003)。Skiba (Citation2021)提供了一项调查。批评声音包括Orilia和Landini (Citation2019), Hofweber (Citation2022), Whittle (Citation2023, 1642-1645), Menzel (citation即将出版)和Sider (CitationMS)。也参见弗洛里奥(即将引用)在高级形而上学的文献中,通常避免使用“事态”这个词,而使用“命题”。尽管如此,我在这里还是要说事件的状态(或简单地说“状态”),因为这个词与“属性”和“关系”更自然地结合在一起,而“命题”则意味着更细粒度和更像句子的东西。(参见,例如,Dorr [Citation2016, 54n.])3关于LFO的更详细概述可以在Shapiro和Kouri Kissel (Citation2018)中找到这个符号遵循Williamson (Citation2013, 221f.),他的符号是Gallin (Citation1975, 68)引入的符号的变体Thiel (Citation2002)简要概述了Behmann与Gödel和Dubislav的通信,并对他的建议进行了有益的讨论。也参见费曼(Citation1984)。在给Behmann的一封信中,Ramsey写道,“函数和参数的层次结构是(类型理论)的一部分,我觉得它几乎无法被质疑”(Mancosu Citation2020, 24)。他没有详细说明他为什么那样想参见Tarski (Citation1935,§4),他提出了一种基于对自然语言表达的“语义范畴”的考虑的STT形式。然而,在他的后记中,他放弃了他先前的观点,并相当严肃地认为,为了表达能力的利益,STT可能需要被放弃最近,巴顿和楚曼(Citation2022)对STT的辩护明确引用了弗雷格的观点,这反过来又引用了楚曼(Citation2021)对“弗雷格现实主义”的辩护。Trueman的中心论点是“假设一个属性可能是一个对象是无稽之谈”(2n.)。在这里,对象被理解为"可以用一个单项来指称的任何事物",而性质则被理解为"可以用一个谓词来指称的任何事物"。在书的后面,当楚门区分“术语-指称”和“谓词-指称”时,相关的指称概念发生了分歧。在关键时刻,Trueman的论证诉诸于这样一个要求:“适用于谓词的指称概念必须允许我们反驳谓词”(第52页)。但是为什么这个要求应该被接受还不是很清楚参见Jones (Citation2018,§4.2)。这一段的其余部分基本上与同一篇论文的3.3节一致。 这与Behmann (Citation1931)的建议也没有太大的关系,在上面的2.2节中已经简要地提到过,即除非谓词可以用原始词汇重写,否则给定对象的谓词是不可预测的。Behmann在他的(Citation1959)中提出了一个更复杂的版本。然而,无论是这个版本还是最初的版本都没有提供一个逃避埃庇米尼德悖论的方法人们很容易设想一种与模糊谓词(如“is bald”或“is a table”)的语义大致相似的方法。这个想法是,即使没有tablehood和秃顶的属性(也就是说,没有与“是一张桌子”和“是秃顶”精确对应的属性),也有一些属性可以说是通过这些谓词的可能的精确来选择的,这足以使它们在语义上不存在缺陷——或者至少足以使它们在语义上不像“是燃素”或“轨道火神”那样有缺陷设R为上述(假设)关系,即λx,y,z∃w((w=y)∧(x=w(z)))。为什么我们在这里考虑这个相对复杂的关系,而不是简单的λx, y, z (x = y (z))在于,后者的关系,如果存在,有一个实体实例化的x, y,和z,在这个秩序,只有在实际上存在一个实例化的y z。它将不是一个“普遍适用”关系,而R,如果存在,会有一个实例化的x, y,和z,在这个订单,回到悖论,设Q为λx∃y(R(y,x,x)∧(y≠∞))的性质,并考虑状态Q(Q)是否成立。我们可以首先注意到Q(Q)是状态∃y(R(y,Q,Q)∧(y≠∞)),如果R=λx,y,z∃w((w=y)∧(x=w(z))),并且给定(S6),它与(*)∃y,w((w=Q)∧(y=w(Q))∧(y≠∞)。(*)由此很容易看出,如果Q(Q)成立,那么它与∞是不同的。然而,R用不包含非逻辑常数或自由变量的项表示∅,∅;Q和Q(Q)也是如此。因此,如果Q(Q)得到,那么它和(S6)是互为必要的,即由(S6)表示它们是同一状态。由于一个状态不能既不同于又相同于,我们可以得出Q(Q)不成立的结论。所以它一定不同于,因为,很容易得到。但由此可以推知(∗),即Q(Q)本身,确实得到了矛盾反对者可能会争辩说我本末倒置了:与其依靠我关于实例化的讨论在语义上没有缺陷的假设来证明层次结构的合理性,我应该在沉迷于实例化的讨论之前建立层次结构。然而,有争议的是,如果有独立的理由认为实例化的讨论是无缺陷的,那么人们可以合法地朝相反的方向前进。实例化概念在构建内涵实体理论时的理论有用性给出了这样一个理由。(同样参见下文第6.1节)44诚然,R的存在性并不是由上述本体论推导出来的。但是为了举例,让我们忽略这一点设x为任意实体,设t为任意表示
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Responses to critics 对批评的回应
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2278036
Endre Begby
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A new concept of replication 复制的新概念
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-05 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2278032
Vera Matarese
ABSTRACTThe replication crisis has spawned discussions on the meaning of replication. In fact, in order to determine whether an experiment fails to replicate, it is necessary to establish what replication is. This is, however, a difficult task, as it is possible to attribute different meanings to it. This paper offers a solution to this problem of ambiguity by engineering a concept of replication that, if compared to other proposals, stands out for being not only broadly applicable but also sufficiently specific. It features a minimal level of operationalism, which would otherwise limit its applicability, while it heavily relies on replication’s specific epistemic functions, which are inter-disciplinary. Another merit is its context sensitivity, which enables it to differentiate instances of replication from non-instances of replication in every scientific discipline according to the discipline’s own standards.KEYWORDS: Replicationambiguityconceptual engineeringresampling account of replicationcontextuality AcknowledgmentsI would like to express my sincere gratitude to Claus Beisbart and Matthias Rolffs from the University of Bern, and to two anonymous reviewers of this journal for reading my paper. Their valuable insights and constructive feedback significantly contributed to the refinement of this paper. I am also indebted to the audience at the reading group in Philosophy of Science at Caltech (California Institute of Technology). Their thoughtful questions and engaging discussions helped me enhance the quality of this work. Furthermore, I extend my heartfelt appreciation to the team of the Group of Materials Research with Neutron and Ion Beams (MRNIB) led by Dr. Jiří Vacík at the Czech Academy of Sciences for their feedback on my project on replicability. Their input, particularly the suggestion of the case of replication for thermal neutron-induced reactions in nuclear physics, significantly enriched the content of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 ‘Experiment’ should be understood here as a general term encompassing measurements, studies, and observations. The same is true for the use of ‘experiment’ in the definition of Replication2.2 That replication is an ambiguous term is discussed also in Schmidt (Citation2009): ‘The word replication is used as […] to describe various meanings’ (p. 90); ‘the notion of replication has several meanings and is a very ambiguous term.’ (p. 98). See Leonelli (Citation2018) for a more exhaustive list of meanings of replication.3 See for instance in the abstract, where Machery (Citation2020) states: ‘This article develops a new, general account of replication (“the Resampling Account of replication”)’ (p. 545).4 A factor of an experiment is a controlled independent variable. Levels should be understood as the states, values, or magnitudes that a factor could take. For the case of treatment, for instance, a medication could be given in differen
摘要复制危机引发了对复制意义的讨论。事实上,为了确定一个实验是否不能复制,有必要确定什么是复制。然而,这是一项艰巨的任务,因为它可以赋予不同的含义。本文通过设计一个复制的概念来解决这个模棱两可的问题,如果与其他建议相比,这个概念不仅广泛适用,而且足够具体。它具有最低水平的操作主义,否则将限制其适用性,而它严重依赖于复制的特定认知功能,这是跨学科的。另一个优点是它的上下文敏感性,这使它能够根据学科自己的标准区分每个科学学科中的复制实例和非复制实例。致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢致谢他们宝贵的见解和建设性的反馈对本文的改进做出了重要贡献。我还要感谢加州理工学院科学哲学读书会的听众。他们深思熟虑的问题和积极的讨论帮助我提高了工作的质量。此外,我衷心感谢捷克科学院Jiří Vacík博士领导的中子和离子束材料研究小组(MRNIB)团队对我的可复制性项目的反馈。他们的意见,特别是关于核物理中热中子诱导反应的复制情况的建议,大大丰富了本文的内容。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1此处的“实验”应理解为包含测量、研究和观察的总称。在定义Replication2.2时使用“实验”也是如此。Schmidt (Citation2009)也讨论了复制是一个模棱两可的术语:“复制这个词被用作[…]来描述各种含义”(第90页);复制的概念有几个含义,是一个非常模糊的术语。(第98页)。参见Leonelli (Citation2018)获得复制的更详尽的含义列表例如,在摘要中,Machery (Citation2020)指出:“这篇文章发展了一种新的,一般的复制解释(“复制的重新采样解释”)”(第545页)实验的一个因素是一个受控的自变量。级别应该被理解为一个因素可能采取的状态、值或大小。例如,就治疗而言,一种药物可以以不同剂量(例如,10、20、50毫克)给予。这三个剂量构成治疗的三个级别例如,从不同人群中重新取样某些实验成分的实验应该算作“扩展”,而不是“复制”。[j] .机械工程学报,2016,(5)事实上,Schmidt暗示通过重新抽样来控制抽样误差的功能仅仅针对参与者的选择(Schmidt Citation2009, 93)在本文中,我对比了运算定义和函数定义。操作定义是那些包含特定特征的定义,说明哪一组过程构成了所定义的概念。功能定义是那些包含特定特征的定义,其中一组认知功能由被定义的概念实现。从这个意义上说,我与Nosek和Errington (Citation2020)中使用的“operational”一致除此之外,物理学家还使用工具和数据生成器,但这两个类别与刚才提到的重叠它更严格,因为Replication1允许重复完全相同的实验,而不需要重新采样,而Replication (RAR)需要重新采样Nosek和Errington (Citation2020)实际上提供了一个关于复制是否成功的中立定义。出于这个原因,他们声称,任何复制的结果都应该增加或减少我们对先前研究声明的信心。在这里,我提供了它们对于成功复制的定义,因为这是前面讨论的其他概念所做的。如果复制是成功的,那么它的结果应该增加(而不是减少)我们声称我们已经复制的信心关于我们如何在定性研究中概念化信度和效度的争论仍然是开放的。人们提出了不同的建议。 参见Altheide and Johnson (Citation1994);古巴和林肯(Citation1981);Kuzel and Like (Citation1991)。关于最近的解释,请参见Franklin和Ballan (Citation2001)。亚里士多德提出的语义歧义测试是试图构建一个包含所有不同含义的概念。如果这是可能的,那么表面上的歧义就会消失。参见斯坦福哲学百科全书(Sennet Citation2016)中的“歧义”条目。
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Precis of Amie L. Thomasson, norms and necessity 艾米·l·托马森的精确性,规范与必要性
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2272355
Amie L. Thomasson
Claims about what is necessary or possible play a central role in debates in metaphysics and elsewhere in philosophy. But how can we understand such claims, and how can we come to know which are true? Modal discourse has long presented formidable ontological, epistemological, and methodological problems - problems that arise or are exacerbated by assuming that modal talk aims to describe or track special features of this world, or other possible worlds. Norms and Necessity aims to revive a non-descriptivist approach to modality, holding that the function of modal discourse is not to describe or track anything, but rather to convey norms or rules (and what follows from them) in the useful form of indicatives. The book develops this ‘modal normativist’ approach, showing how it avoids the most serious objections that have kept similar approaches off the table for the past several decades (including the Frege-Geach problem, and problems of accounting for de re and a posteriori necessities). It also shows how a careful development of the normativist approach can help avoid or resolve the classic ontological, epistemological, and methodological problems of modality, as part of an overall deflationary approach to metaphysics.
关于什么是必要的或可能的主张在形而上学和其他哲学领域的辩论中起着核心作用。但我们如何理解这些说法,又如何知道哪些是真的呢?长期以来,模态话语呈现出令人生畏的本体论、认识论和方法论问题——这些问题由于假设模态话语旨在描述或追踪这个世界或其他可能世界的特殊特征而产生或加剧。《规范与必然性》旨在复兴一种非描述主义的情态方法,认为情态话语的功能不是描述或追踪任何东西,而是以指示符的有用形式传达规范或规则(以及由此产生的内容)。这本书发展了这种“模态规范主义”的方法,展示了它是如何避免最严重的反对意见的,这些反对意见在过去的几十年里使类似的方法被排除在讨论之外(包括弗雷格-格赫问题,以及对事实和事后必然性的解释问题)。它还展示了规范主义方法的谨慎发展如何有助于避免或解决经典的本体论、认识论和模态的方法论问题,作为形而上学整体紧缩方法的一部分。
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Norms and necessity: replies to critics 规范与必要性:对批评者的回应
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2271616
Amie L. Thomasson
ABSTRACTThe critics in this volume raise several important challenges to the modal normativist position developed in Norms and Necessity, including whether the relation I claim holds between semantic rules and necessity claims generates spurious claims of metaphysical necessity, whether the view is circular (implicitly relying on a more 'robust' form of modal realism), and whether it conflicts with truth-conditional semantics. They also raise probing questions about how it compares to other views of modality, including a Lewisian view and an essentialist view. In these replies, I respond to these challenges in ways that precisify the relevant understanding of ‘semantic rules' and the forms they can take, that make clearer the direction of explanation in modal normativism in ways that show the view doesn't rely on a more ‘robust’ form of modal realism, and that give reason for thinking that there is actually no conflict between modal normativism and truth-conditional semantics. I also aim to give a fuller assessment of how it compares to other approaches to modality, including an essentialist approach.KEYWORDS: Modal normativism; essentialism; possible worlds; truth-conditional semantics; modal realism AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Kristie Miller, Rohan Sud, Jamie Dreier, Boris Kment, and David Plunkett for their helpful comments on prior versions of these replies.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This builds on work I undertake more thoroughly in my more recent work on modal discourse (2023), which is intended as a further development of the work of Norms and Necessity, making use of work in systemic functional linguistics. Readers interested in developments after my (2020) may find that paper relevant.2 I come closest to discussing these issues in sections 5.2 and 5.3 of Norms and Necessity, though there is nothing exactly like Miller’s objection considered there.3 The easy ontological approach combines with modal normativism to give us simple realism about modal facts, properties, and possible worlds (see my 2020a, Chapter 6).4 See my (Citation2015, 156–157) for the fuller argument that such attempted ‘explanations’ would only be dormitive virtue explanations. Of course, from the normativist point of view, failure to provide explanatory truthmakers is no shortcoming – for it is a central part of the normativist approach that basic modal claims, as non-descriptive, don’t need truthmakers to ‘explain’ what ‘makes’ them true.5 See, e.g. Norms and Necessity, Chapter 8.6 Note that Miller seems open to the idea that such rules are incomplete and renegotiable, but this seems in tension with the requirement that we consider all possible scenarios in order to get the ‘correct’ statement of the rules.7 Though one may need additional introduction constraints to ensure that the worlds are complete and maximal etc. See Steinberg (Citation2013) and my discussion in my (2020a, 132–137).8 See Hal
(我现在将修改这些规则,更清楚地区分有条件内容的规则和条件化规则。)31正如我在其他一些作品(2003)中讨论的那样,即使是儿童“假装”游戏的规则也可以有de re或de dicto的形式:它可以是莉莉是女王的规则;或者它可以是一条规则,谁拥有金手帕谁就是“它”感谢Boris Kment在这里进行进一步的讨论我能想象的一种情况是,我们最好的理论都包含了对本质,可能性,可能世界等讨论的许可。然而,如果是这样的话,我会敦促我们考虑这样一种观点,即其原因是(正如语言学的工作所确定的那样,例如Halliday Citation2009, 116-138)引入这种说话模式,作为语法隐喻,增加了表达能力、概括能力和其他功能,这些功能在制定概括的科学理论(见我2023的讨论)中非常有用我将在我的(正在进行的)中进一步解决这些问题。
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The social life of prejudice 社会生活的偏见
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2269197
Renée Jorgensen
ABSTRACTThis article considers a particular explanation (offered in Chapter 7 of Begby 2021) for the persistence of prejudicial stereotypes: that pluralistic ignorance can motivate individuals to act according to the roles they prescribe – even if no individual in a community either believes or endorses the stereotype – and moreover this can make it rational for subsequent generations to acquire prejudiced beliefs. I begin by surveying a few different ways that ‘vestigial social practices’ can persist despite being privately disavowed by most or all members of a community. Noting that many of them are transparently compatible with not believing that the persistent practice is appropriate, I argue that rational consideration of relevant alternative explanations precludes treating others’ behaviour as a kind of testimonial evidence for such prejudicial beliefs. But while it is doubtful that social dynamics provide grounds for rationally acquiring prejudice, it is likely that they explain actual acquisition of prejudice. So when evaluating whether a society is prejudiced, Begby is right that we must look beyond the private thoughts of its individual members. We should attend to the stabilising forces of social expectations, as well as how past prejudice shaped our material environment to reproduce stereotype-conforming social outcomes.KEYWORDS: Stereotypessocial normsrationality of prejudice Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Haslanger (Citation2019, 11–13), drawing on McGeer (Citation2007) and others, suggests that the social aspects of agency in fact go much deeper, providing the foundational scaffolding for human cognition and learning. Rather than considering individual agency as prior to social interaction and predicting how others will act, McGeer argues that when we attribute beliefs or predict behaviour we are partly ‘giving ourselves over to the task of producing comprehensible patterns of well-behaved agency in ourselves and others’ (Citation2007, 149). On this picture, social coordination has a regulative and shaping role on individual agency.2 In some cases, participants are perfectly aware that few people privately endorse the norm, but still rationally expect to face second-order enforcement – penalties for either violating the norm or failing to penalize others’ violations – and so the behavioural pattern remains stable until they can be credibly assured safety from penalization. Very likely Begby is right that many vestigial norms actually persist in part through pluralistic ignorance, precisely because we are actually still invested in many of the norms we publicly disavow – including many gender norms. For excellent discussion of how the interconnectedness of a wide array of social scripts can make it very difficult to in fact cognitively move on from socially embedded role-based expectations, see Bicchieri and McNally (Citation2016).3 For Bicchieri, this is the feature that d
摘要本文考虑了偏见刻板印象持续存在的一种特殊解释(Begby 2021第7章提供):多元无知可以激励个人按照他们规定的角色行事——即使一个社区中没有个人相信或赞同这种刻板印象——而且这可以使后代获得偏见的信念变得合理。我首先调查了一些不同的方式,“残余的社会实践”可以持续存在,尽管被一个社区的大多数或所有成员私下否认。注意到他们中的许多人显然与不相信持续的做法是适当的相容,我认为对相关替代解释的理性考虑排除了将他人的行为视为这种偏见信仰的一种证明证据。但是,虽然社会动力是否为理性地获得偏见提供了依据值得怀疑,但它们很可能解释了偏见的实际获得。因此,在评价一个社会是否存在偏见时,贝格比认为我们必须超越社会成员个人的想法,这是正确的。我们应该关注社会期望的稳定力量,以及过去的偏见如何塑造我们的物质环境,以再现与刻板印象一致的社会结果。关键词:刻板印象社会规范偏见合理性披露声明作者未发现潜在的利益冲突注1 Haslanger (Citation2019, 11-13)借鉴了McGeer (Citation2007)等人的观点,认为代理的社会层面实际上要深入得多,为人类的认知和学习提供了基础框架。McGeer认为,当我们将信念归因或预测行为时,我们在一定程度上“把自己交给了一项任务,即在自己和他人身上产生可理解的行为良好的代理模式”,而不是将个人代理视为先于社会互动和预测他人行为的行为。在这个图景中,社会协调对个体代理具有调节和塑造作用在某些情况下,参与者完全意识到很少有人私下支持规范,但仍然理性地期望面临二级强制执行——违反规范或未能惩罚他人违规行为的惩罚——因此,行为模式保持稳定,直到他们能够可靠地确保不会受到惩罚。贝格比很可能是对的,许多残存的规范实际上在某种程度上是通过多元无知而持续存在的,正是因为我们实际上仍然投资于许多我们公开否认的规范——包括许多性别规范。关于各种各样的社会脚本的相互联系如何使人们很难在认知上从社会嵌入的基于角色的期望中走出来的精彩讨论,请参见Bicchieri和McNally (Citation2016)对Bicchieri来说,这是区分社会规范和惯例的特征:规范是由一个经验期望支持的,即其他人将以某种方式行事,以及一个规范性期望,即他们相信我们应该以这种方式行事,并将批准偏离。相比之下,惯例仅由经验期望支持(Bicchieri Citation2006)正如她所解释的那样,左侧驾驶一直是常态,直到1972年官方颁布法令和长达数月的宣传活动才有所改变(Ullmann-Margalit citation1977,88 - 89)在对这种形式的早期研究中,Katz和Allport (Citation1931, 152-157)在大学生兄弟会中发现了这种模式。在对1968年一项调查的回应进行分析时,O ' gorman (Citation1975)发现,既不强烈支持废除种族隔离也不强烈支持种族隔离的白人会支持他们认为大多数白人支持的政策,并且“在1968年,大多数美国白人严重夸大了其他白人支持种族隔离的程度”。6 Medendian, Gambhir和Gailes (Citation2021)发现,2019年,在人口超过20万的美国大都市地区,81%的种族隔离现象比1990年更加严重。在美国,自1960年以来,房价中位数增长速度是家庭收入增长速度的四倍,租金增长速度是家庭收入增长速度的两倍有关讨论,请参阅罗斯坦(Citation2017, Chpt 11)和安德森(Citation2010)。
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Heard but not received 听到但未收到
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2267089
Grace Paterson
In speech act theory, we say there has been successful uptake of a speech act when a hearer has understood what the speaker was trying to say to them. I argue that it is possible to be understood without having what you say taken seriously. For a speech act to be without defect, then, hearers must not only take up the speech act, but also be open to responding to it in appropriate ways. I call this kind of openness receptivity and argue that it should be analysed as a kind of responsiveness to reasons. A receptive hearer takes the speaker's speech act as appropriately reason giving, while an unreceptive hearer does not. This analysis reveals subtle forms of communicative breakdown that bear similarities to phenomena such as illocutionary silencing and distortion but are both posterior to, and compatible with, uptake. The analysis also helps us understand how illocutionary acts give rise to specific perlocutionary effects by way of the hearer's practical reasoning.
在言语行为理论中,我们说,当听者理解了说话者试图对他们说的话时,就已经成功地吸收了言语行为。我认为,即使你说的话不被认真对待,也有可能被理解。因此,为了使言语行为没有缺陷,听者不仅要采取言语行为,而且要以适当的方式对其作出反应。我把这种开放称为接受性,并认为它应该被分析为一种对原因的反应。接受型听者认为说话者的言语行为是恰当的给出理由,而不接受型听者则不然。这一分析揭示了沟通障碍的微妙形式,它们与言外沉默和扭曲等现象相似,但都是在理解之后,又与理解相容的。这一分析也有助于我们理解言外行为是如何通过听者的实践推理产生具体的言外效应的。
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The revenge of Moral Twin Earth 道德孪生地球的复仇
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2253275
Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier
ABSTRACTIn this paper I revisit an important response to the Moral Twin Earth (MTE) challenge: The Common Functional Role strategy (CFR). I argue that CFR is open to a revenge problem. MTE-cases allegedly show that two linguistic communities can be in genuine disagreement even when they are regulated by distinct families of properties. CFR provides a way to reconcile the intuition that the two communities are in genuine disagreement with the claim that the use of moral terms by both communities is causally regulated by different families of properties. This is done by identifying a functional role that those families of properties both fulfill. Still, even if CFR is successful, its proponents need to face a serious revenge problem. Roughly, it could be that the families of properties that regulate each community are equally perfect realizers of the relevant higher-order functional state. I suggest that the proponent of CFR faces a dilemma: either CFR has controversial implications about first-order moral theory, or CFR needs to be coupled with substantive and parochial empirical/metaphysical assumptions to avoid those implications.KEYWORDS: Moral Twin Earthcommon functional rolemoral functionalismmoral disagreementmoral realism AcknowledgementsFor written comments on previous drafts I thank Pekka Väyrynen and several anonymous reviewers from Inquiry and other journals (especially Analytic Philosophy, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy). I also want to thank audiences from the PG Seminar at the University of Leeds, and the Philosophy and Political Theory Seminar at Panteion University. A distant precursor of this paper was written during my time as an undergraduate at the University of Athens at Stelios Virvidakis's Metaethics seminar (whom I thank for comments and encouragement).Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Causal metasemantics are typically used by naturalists (for a recent account of moral naturalism see Stamatiadis-Bréhier Citation2022). This explains why, historically, MTE cases have naturalist versions of moral realism as their target. But such metasemantics can also be used by anti-naturalist moral realists. For example, Adams’s (Citation1999) supernaturalist moral realism has a structurally identical metasemantics to Boyd’s.2 Someone might be hesitant in combining deontology with Boyd’s moral realism (although see sec. 4). Still, note that we can construct an equally powerful MTE case involving different moral theories (e.g. Freiman [Citation2014] appeals to virtue ethics).3 For the rest of this paper, I will use the phrase “Earthlings are regulated by some properties” as a shorthand for saying that the use of their terms is regulated by these properties.4 For dialectical reasons, I will grant this controversial assumption (cf. Plunkett and Sundell Citation2013). At any rate, the same argument could be presented (by adding further epicycles)
为了进行比较,考虑一下,根据一个简单的因果指称理论,如果唯一的限制是我们提及使用这些术语的现象的指称意图,那么“燃素”和“氧”这两个术语是如何具有相同的指称的(参见Psillos Citation1999, ch. 12)。同样,Kraemer (Citation1991, 469)认为,功能角色可以被定义为定义道德的最低必要条件,这也导致了同样有问题的结果请注意,我是根据两个群体之间的一阶分歧和二阶、功能性的趋同来构建《复仇》的,而不是根据他们假定的分歧。为了了解原因,考虑一个场景,一个地球人和一个t地球人,在意识到复仇是这样的情况后,决定更新他们的信念,以反映需求是通过CP和DP的分离来实现的(比较一下:如果水是一个功能类型,那么大概地球人和t地球人可以把水看作H2O和XYZ之间的分离)。即使我们假设他们的一阶分歧在这一点上得到了解决,正如我将在下一节中论证的那样,复仇的威胁仍然没有改变(见第5节)。感谢来自分析哲学的评论者的讨论这种相对主义应该与自然主义道德现实主义者通常接受的那种“无辜的”相对主义区别开来。的确,例如,Boyd根据各种“非道德事实”因素(例如人类的生理和心理特征)来描述需求的相关概念(Boyd citation1988,347),而Copp根据每个社会的环境来相对化社会稳定(cf. Copp citation2007,244,注25)。但这不是那种通常被贴上“道德相对主义”标签的观点(在这个意义上,“关系主义”应该与“相对主义”区分开来)。在我即将发表的讲话中,显而易见的是,这里的利害关系关系到完美实现者的数量更准确地说,在这种情况下,道德现实主义在外延上是等同的,但与道德相对主义有着高度的区别:道德现实主义下的道德善的基础不同于道德相对主义下的道德善的基础。在前一种情况下,道德善良的基础是独立于立场的自然事实,而在后一种情况下,它的基础是各种社会的偶然价值和承诺。因此,即使道德现实主义和道德相对主义都接受同样的道德真理(在这种情况下),他们仍然支持这些真理的不同基础我所概述的多元主义解释类似于哈曼(Citation1978)所说的元伦理相对主义。粗略地说,这个版本的道德相对主义允许在特定情况下相互矛盾的判断都是正确的。事实上,我想说的是,通过诉诸需求之类的东西,可以说元伦理相对主义得到了加强。最初,两个相互冲突的道德判断可能都是正确的这一主张似乎导致了某种不一致(Harman Citation1978,第7节)。但是,如果我们将这些判断的相关监管者视为(例如)需求的截然完美的实现者,则不存在不一致。从这个意义上说,这两个团体的判断都是正确的,因为他们找到了实现同一高阶函数的两种不同方式迪士尼原则是独立可信的。具体来说,它是特殊科学规律监督更基本的自然规律的观点的直接结果(见stamatiadi - brsamhier Citation2023:第5节)。现在请注意,CM的典型支持者将实现事实“CP功能性地实现需求”作为一种特殊科学规律(例如Sturgeon Citation1985)。从这个意义上说,“{CP或DP或…}功能实现需求”这种形式的多重实现命题应该受到来自更基本规律的经济学约束。一个明显的例子如下:一个假定的完美的需求实现者违反了能量守恒定律,这在法理学上是不可能的人们可能会试图应用自然性约束,以挑选出一个特定的完美实现者。据推测,其中一个假定的需求实现者将比其竞争对手更自然(在Lewis [Citation1983]的意义上)。但无论一个人以何种方式兑现相关的自然性概念,游戏中的完美实现者将获得相同程度的自然性。在经典的解释中,当一种属性被定义为其他自然属性时,它就是自然的,并且它的定义相对较短。但是,当这种解释应用于距离基本水平相当远的现象时,它是出了名的有问题(参见Dunaway和McPherson Citation2016,第3.4节)。 另一方面,从自然的语境相关角度来看,相关的完美实现者都同样自然(参见Taylor Citation2016)。这是因为手头的上下文肯定与适当功能的实现有关。但它规定,完美的实现者履行这一角色在最充分的意义上。关于自然背景下关系的问题,见Mokriski (Citation2020, 22)。另见stamatiadis - bracimhier (Citation2023:第4.2节),了解类似的情况值得强调的是,复仇的严重性涉及多重完美实现(比如说)需求的可能性。并不是所有的多重实现理论都能激发《复仇》。这一点尤其重要,因为一些多重实现命题是琐碎的,辩证地不重要的(例如,通过相同神经类型的两个相似标记实现精神状态)(参见Polger和Shapiro Citation2016)该策略最极端的情况是完全拒绝将多重实现作为一种普遍现象(关于最近的攻击,请参阅Bickle Citation2020, secs)。2、3.2).33我没有断言这种困境的两个方面是否同样具有威胁性。就我的目的而言,只要说它们都值得注意就足够了为了进行比较,考虑最初的MTE问题,其中孪生地球的概念可能性是初步问题不过,请参见布洛克和米勒(Citation2019)。无论如何,当前关于需求概念的讨论主要集中在它们的规范性意义上,而不是它们的形而上学上。一个值得注意的例外是Copp (Citation1995,第10章)。本研究由Azrieli基金会通过国际博士后奖学金资助。
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Prejudice, generics, and resistance to evidence 偏见、仿制药和对证据的抗拒
2区 哲学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2023.2269261
M. Giulia Napolitano
In his book, Prejudice, Endre Begby offers a novel and engaging account of the epistemology of prejudice which challenges some of the standard assumptions that have so far guided the recent discussion on the topic. One of Begby's central arguments against the standard view of prejudice, according to which a prejudiced person necessarily displays an epistemically culpable resistance to counterevidence, is that, qua stereotype judgments, prejudices can be flexible and rationally maintained upon encountering many disconfirming instances. By expanding on Begby's analysis, I argue that, given the variety of truth conditions for true generic statements, the generic form of stereotype judgements can sometimes make prejudice extremely resistant to encounters with statistical facts about the distribution of the property among members of a certain group. At the same time, I argue that a more careful consideration of the generic form of stereotypes also allows us to recognize that evidence about how many members of the kind instantiate a property is not the only type of evidence which could disconfirm a prejudice. Evidence of no explanatory relation between a kind and a property should also have a direct effect on a prejudicial belief. For this reason, things may not look as dim for the standard view of prejudice in assessing paradigmatic instances of prejudicial beliefs as irrationally resistant to evidence.
在他的书《偏见》中,恩德雷·贝格比对偏见的认识论提出了一个新颖而引人入胜的描述,它挑战了迄今为止指导最近关于这一主题讨论的一些标准假设。Begby反对偏见的标准观点的一个核心论点是,偏见的人必然会对反证表现出一种认识论上应受谴责的抵抗,即刻板印象判断,偏见可以灵活地在遇到许多不确认的实例时理性地维持。通过扩展贝格比的分析,我认为,考虑到真一般陈述的真条件的多样性,刻板印象判断的一般形式有时会使偏见极端抵制与特定群体成员之间财产分配的统计事实的接触。与此同时,我认为,对刻板印象的一般形式进行更仔细的考虑,也使我们认识到,关于同类中有多少成员实例化了一个属性的证据并不是唯一可以否定偏见的证据。种类和财产之间没有解释关系的证据也应该对偏见信念产生直接影响。出于这个原因,在评估偏见信仰的典型实例时,事情可能不会像对证据的非理性抵制那样,在偏见的标准观点看来是暗淡的。
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