The Personal and the Fitting

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Olson
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Fitting Attitudes ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Personal Value ◽  
Good For ◽  
Critical Notice ◽  
Oxford University Press

This paper is a critical notice of a recent significant contribution to the debate about fitting attitudes and value, namely Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen’s Personal Value (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). In this book, Rønnow-Rasmussen seeks to analyse the notion of personal value—an instance of the notion of good for a person—in terms of fitting attitudes. The paper has three main themes: (i) Rønnow-Rasmussen’s discussion of general problems for fitting attitude analyses; (ii) his formulation of the fitting attitude analysis of personal value and the notion of ‘for someone’s sake (fss) attitudes’; and (iii) his critique of the dichotomy between agent-neutral and agent-relative reasons.

Critical Notice: Peter Ludlow’s Living Words: Meaning Underdetermination and he Dynamic Lexicon, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-128
Author(s):  
Adam Sennet ◽  
Tyrus Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Word Meanings ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Critical Notice ◽  
Oxford University Press

A provocative view has it that word meanings are underdetermined and dynamic, frustrating traditional approaches to theorizing about meaning. Peter Ludlow’s Living Words provides some of the philosophical reasons and motivations for accepting one such view, develops some of its details, and explores some of its ramifications. We critically examine some of the arguments in Living Words, paying particular attention to some of Ludlow’s views about the meanings of predicates, preservation of bivalence and the T-schema, and methods of modulating meaning.

Critical Notice: Thomas Sattig’s The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the ordinary world, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Simon J. Evnine
Keyword(s):  
Oxford University ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Critical Notice ◽  
Oxford University Press

AbstractThis critical notice describes some of Thomas Sattig’s book The Double Lives of Objects: An Essay in the Metaphysics of the Ordinary World and raises several critical issues about it.

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