American Philosophical Quarterly articles from July 1997

American Philosophical Quarterly archives from July 1997

Reparations reconstructed. (compensation for injustice of past generations)
July 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION The concept of reparations, where a guilty party makes up for an injustice by paying or otherwise benefiting a victim, has been adapted in recent political discussion to historical relations among ethnic groups. From...

Strength of motivation and being in control: learning from Libet. (Benjamin Libet)
July 1, 1997... It is widely believed that motivational states figure causally in the production of intentional actions. Undoubtedly, our environment has an enormous influence on our intentional conduct; but proponents of a motivational approach to...

Natural-kind terms and the status of folk psychology.
July 1, 1997... Our everyday discourse involves frequent reference to mental states. We attribute mental states in an effort to explain and predict behavior; we often justify actions by reference to the way we believe or desire the world to be; we attribute...

Why it is better never to come into existence.
July 1, 1997... I There is a common assumption in the literature about future possible people that, all things being equal, one does no wrong by bringing into existence people whose lives will be good on balance. This assumption rests on another,...

Misdirection in the free will problem.
July 1, 1997... The belief that only free will supports assignments of moral responsibility -- deserved praise and blame, punishment and reward, and the expression of reactive attitudes and moral censure -- has fueled most of the historical concern over the...

Supervenience and co-location.
July 1, 1997... There was a time, not so long ago, when philosophers might truthfully claim that "it is a truism frequently called in evidence and confidently relied upon in philosophy that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time."(1) David...