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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Daniel Munro (2025) “Internet Trolling: Social Exploration and the Epistemic Norms of Assertion”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 22. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Internet Trolling: Social Exploration and the Epistemic Norms of Assertion

Internet trolling involves making assertions with the aim of provoking emotionally heated responses, all while pretending to be a sincere interlocutor. In this paper, I give an account of some of the ...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Rafael De Clercq (2025) “How Beauty Moves”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 21. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

How Beauty Moves

For centuries, it has been recognized that beauty can move. My aim in this paper is to understand how beauty moves. One suggestion is that beauty moves in a causal way, for example, by causing us to h...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Catherine Saint-Croix (2025) “Epistemic Virtue Signaling and the Double Bind of Testimonial Injustice”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 20. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Epistemic Virtue Signaling and the Double Bind of Testimonial Injustice

Virtue signaling—using public moral discourse to enhance one’s moral reputation—is a familiar concept. But, what about profile pictures framed by “Vaccines work!”? Or memes posted to an anti-vaccine g...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Gideon Yaffe (2025) “Forcible Crime”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 19. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Forcible Crime

Frequently, those who commit a crime forcibly are subject to greater punishment than those who commit the same crime without using force. But uncertainty surrounds the conditions that must be met for...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Zoe Jenkin (2025) “Encapsulated Failures”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 18. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Encapsulated Failures

This paper considers how cognitive architecture impacts and constrains the rational requirement to respond to reasons. Informational encapsulation and its close relative belief fragmentation can rende...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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James Chamberlain (2025) “Hume’s “General Rules””, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 17. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Hume’s “General Rules”

In this paper, I examine Hume’s account of an important class of causal belief, which he calls “general rules”. I argue that he understands general rules, like all causal beliefs, as lively ideas that...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Theodore Sider (2025) “Accept no substitutes: Against best-system theories without naturalness”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 16. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Accept no substitutes: Against best-system theories without naturalness

According to the best-system theory, a law of nature is nothing more than a certain kind of pattern in what actually happens. Out of all the possible "systems'' (sets of sentences), there is one that...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Wolfgang Schwarz (2025) “Dynamic Rationality and Disproportionate Belief”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 15. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Dynamic Rationality and Disproportionate Belief

I argue that rationality does not always require proportioning one’s beliefs to one’s evidence. I consider cases in which an agent’s evidence deteriorates over time, revealing less about the agent’s p...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Boris Babic, Anil Gaba, Ilia Tsetlin & Robert L. Winkler (2025) “Resolute and Correlated Bayesians”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 14. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Resolute and Correlated Bayesians

This paper suggests a new normative approach for combining beliefs. We call it the evidence-first method. Instead of aggregating credences alone, as the prevailing approaches, we focus instead on elic...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Chris Dorst (2025) “Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 13. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes

One of the most intuitive views about the metaphysics of laws of nature is Tim Maudlin's idea of a Fundamental Law of Temporal Evolution. So-called FLOTEs are primitive elements of the universe that p...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Finnur Dellsén (2025) “An Epistemic Advantage of Accommodation over Prediction”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 12. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

An Epistemic Advantage of Accommodation over Prediction

Many philosophers have argued that a hypothesis is better confirmed by some data if the hypothesis was not specifically designed to fit the data. ‘Prediction’, they argue, is superior to ‘accommodatio...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Michael Caie & Dilip Ninan (2025) “First-Person Propositions”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 11. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

First-Person Propositions

A central dispute in discussions of self-locating attitudes is whether attitude relations like believing and knowing are relations between agents and properties (things that vary in truth value across...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Bart Streumer (2025) “Quasi-Realism for Realists”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 10. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Quasi-Realism for Realists

Reductive realists about normative properties are often charged with being relativists: it is often argued that their view implies that when two people make conflicting normative judgements, these jud...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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James Ravi Kirkpatrick (2025) “Generic Excluded Middle”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 9. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Generic Excluded Middle

There is a standard quantificational view of generic sentences according to which they have a tripartite logical form involving a phonologically null generic operator called 'Gen'. Recently, a number ...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Richard Pettigrew & Jonathan Weisberg (2025) “Jeffrey Pooling”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 8. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Jeffrey Pooling

How should your opinion change in response to the opinion of an epistemic peer? We show that the pooling rule known as "upco" is the unique answer satisfying some natural desiderata. If your revised o...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Hannah H. Kim, (2025) “Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton””, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 7. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Metaphysics as a Means in “Burnt Norton”

Philosophy-and-literature as a subfield theorizes about the relationship between the two. Though few would explicitly say that philosophy is the point and literature the means, it’s common to see disc...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Johan Olsthoorn (2025) “The Problem of Penal Slavery in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Abolitionism”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 6. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

The Problem of Penal Slavery in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Abolitionism

The Black antislavery theorist Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (c.1757–c.1791) is increasingly recognized as a noteworthy figure in the history of philosophy. Born in present-day Ghana, Cugoano was enslaved at...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Hannah Tierney (2025) “Don't Burst My Blame Bubble”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 5. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Don't Burst My Blame Bubble

Blame abounds in our everyday lives, perhaps no more so than on social media. With the rise of social networking platforms, we have access to more information about others’ blameworthy behaviour and l...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Manuel Fasko (2025) “Mary Shepherd’s dispositional notion of God, matter, and finite minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 4. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Mary Shepherd’s dispositional notion of God, matter, and finite minds

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, I argue that Mary Shepherd has a dispositional understanding of God, matter, and finite minds. That is, she understands all of them as dispositions or powers (...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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David Turon (2025) “Doing Harm While Allowing It: Towards a New Framework for the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 3. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Doing Harm While Allowing It: Towards a New Framework for the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing

Doing harm and allowing harm are not mutually exclusive. In fact, in most instances in which one does harm, one also thereby allows harm. I argue that, on its own, doing harm (without allowing it) car...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Jessica Moss (2025) “Knowledge-that is knowledge-of”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 2. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Knowledge-that is knowledge-of

If there is any consensus about knowledge in contemporary epistemology it is that there is one primary kind: knowledge-that. I put forth a view, one I find in the works of Aristotle, on which instead...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Z Quanbeck & Alex Worsnip (2025) “A Permissivist Alternative to Encroachment”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 1. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

A Permissivist Alternative to Encroachment

As a slew of recent work in epistemology has brought out, there are a range of cases where there's a strong temptation to say that prudential and (especially) moral considerations affect what we ought...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Dec 27

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David Boylan (2024) “Knowing How is Knowing How You Are (or Could Have Been) Able”, Philosophers' Imprint 24: 23, 1-19. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Knowing How is Knowing How You Are (or Could Have Been) Able

Know how and ability have a seemingly fraught relationship. I deepen the tension here, by arguing for two new pieces of data concerning know how and ability. First, know how ascriptions have two disti...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Dec 27

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Nathaniel Stein (2024) “Taking the heterogeneity (and unity) of imagination seriously”, Philosophers' Imprint 24: 22, 1-16. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Taking the heterogeneity (and unity) of imagination seriously

It is a commonplace that imagination is heterogeneous: we need to draw a series of cross-cutting distinctions even to begin any serious general discussion of the range of activities we take to be typi...

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Philosophers' Imprint @philimprint.bsky.social · Dec 27

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Jeffrey Brower (2024) “Aquinas on Change Without Matter or Form— The Problem of Local Motion”, Philosophers' Imprint 24: 21, 1-24. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

Aquinas on Change Without Matter or Form— The Problem of Local Motion

Aquinas is standardly thought to endorse a hylomorphic account of change—that is, one on which all change can be analyzed in terms of the reception of distinct forms by matter. But Aquinas’s views abo...

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