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Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Subject Areas: Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press - Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 1911-0820
SJR: 30

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Reductive Views of Knowledge and the Small Difference Principle

Wimmer, Simon

2022 Canadian Journal of Philosophy

doi:10.1017/can.2023.16

Abstract I develop a challenge to reductive views of knowing that $ \phi $ that appeal to what I call a gradable property. Such appeal allows for properties that are intrinsically very similar to the property of knowing that $ \phi $ , but differ significantly in their normative significance....
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The Taming of the Grounds

Saenz, Noël Blas

2022 Canadian Journal of Philosophy

doi:10.1017/can.2023.17

Abstract As it is presently employed, grounding permits grounding many things from one ground. In this paper, I show why this is a mistake by pushing for a uniqueness principle on grounding. After arguing in favor of this principle, I say something about it and kinds of grounding, discuss a...
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A Rawlsian Solution to the New Demarcation Problem

Cabrera, Frank

2022 Canadian Journal of Philosophy

doi:10.1017/can.2023.19

Abstract In the last two decades, a robust consensus has emerged among philosophers of science, whereby political, ethical, or social values must play some role in scientific inquiry, and that the ‘value-free ideal’ is thus a misguided conception of science. However, the question of how to...
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The Contents of Imagination

Fernández, Jordi

2022 Canadian Journal of Philosophy

doi:10.1017/can.2023.22

Abstract Our imaginings seem to be similar to our perceiving and remembering episodes in that they all represent something. They all seem to have content. But what exactly is the structure and the source of the content of our imaginings? In this paper, I put forward an account of imaginative...
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Reductive Evidentialism and the Normativity of Logic

Shoaibi, Nader

2022 Canadian Journal of Philosophy

doi:10.1017/can.2023.23

Abstract ‘Reductive Evidentialism’ seeks to explain away all ‘structural’ requirements of rationality—including norms of logical coherence—in terms of ‘substantive’ norms of rationality, i.e., responsiveness to evidence. While this view constitutes a novel take on the source of the normativity...

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