American Philosophical Quarterly articles from July 1998

American Philosophical Quarterly archives from July 1998

Schindler's compulsion: an essay on practical necessity.
July 1, 1998... From 1939-1945 the German industrialist Oskar Schindler, despite enormous obstacles and at great cost and risk to himself, preserved the well-being and saved the lives of roughly 1300 of his Jewish workers who were threatened by Nazi genocide....

Moral responsibility and personal identity.
July 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION When we hold a person morally responsible for his actions, omissions, or the consequences of his actions and omissions, we assume that the individual we hold responsible at a later time is numerically identical with the...

A defense of 'strong voluntarism.'
July 1, 1998... Communitarians often argue that liberals construe the self as radically isolated from experience. Sandel, for example, tells us that the liberal self is "an antecedently individuated subject, standing always at a certain distance from the...

Many-many mappings and world structure. (relations between the physical and the theoretical)
July 1, 1998... In discussions of inter-theoretic relations, some philosophers allude to the existence of "many-many" correlations between properties from higher and lower-level theories.(1) David Hull was the first to mention the phenomenon in any...

Protecting incompatibilist freedom.
July 1, 1998... Philosophers often take Frankfurt-type examples to show that incompatibilist accounts of freedom are incorrect and irrelevant--irrelevant, at least, to moral responsibility, since the kind of freedom those accounts depict is not the sort that...

Seemings. (philosophy of perception)
July 1, 1998... Philosophers have worried much about whether, when, and why we are justified in believing that things are as they seem. Less attention has been paid to the general question of what it is for things to seem to be a certain way. Most work on the...