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10. Cause by Omission and Norm: Not Watering Plants.

Author

Henne, Paul, Pinillos, Ángel, and De Brigard, Felipe

Subjects
CAUSATION (Philosophy), NORM (Philosophy), DEPENDENCY (Psychology), CRIMINAL omission, LEGAL judgments
Abstract

People generally accept that there is causation by omission—that the omission of some events cause some related events. But this acceptance elicits the selection problem, or the difficulty of explaining the selection of a particular omissive cause or class of causes from the causal conditions. Some theorists contend that dependence theories of causation cannot resolve this problem. In this paper, we argue that the appeal to norms adequately resolves the selection problem for dependence theories, and we provide novel experimental evidence for it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2017
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11. Chapter 7: Attitudes, Supervaluations, and Vagueness in the World.

Author

Pinillos, Ángel

Subjects
VAGUENESS (Philosophy), ONTOLOGY, IDENTITY (Philosophical concept)
Abstract

I consider two possible sources of vagueness. The first is indeterminacy about which intension is expressed by a word. The second is indeterminacy about which referent (extension) is determined by an intension. Focusing on a Fregean account of intensions, I argue that whichever account is right will matter to whether vagueness turns out to be a representational phenomenon (as opposed to being "in the world″). In addition, it will also matter to whether supervaluationism is a viable semantic framework. Based on these considerations, I end by developing an argument against supervaluational semantics that depends, instead, on anti-Fregean (Millian) assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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