Philosophers' Imprint
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An open access philosophy journal published out of the University of Michigan.
New article: Saba Bazargan-Forward, "Compensation and Necessity in War", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 3. doi:
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New article: Dominic McIver Lopes, "Rasa, Self, and Love in Bhoja", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 1. doi:
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New article: Anna-Bella Sicilia, "Love, Fairness, and Sharing a Life", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 2. doi:
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New article: Alex Gregory, "Take In Your Hen: Fittingness and Hedonic Adaptation", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 4. doi:
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New article: Mikayla Kelley, "The Normative Function of Intentional Action", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 5. doi:
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New article: David Owens, "Authority and Agreement: The Case of Employment", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 6. doi:
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New article: Megan Henricks Stotts, "A Behavioral Theory of Social Institutions", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 7. doi:
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New article: Danielle M. Wenner and Derrick F. Gray, "Structural Injustice, Exploitation, and Static Non-Ideal Theory", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 8. doi:
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New article: Heather Demarest and Isaac Wilhelm, "Three Ontological Options for the Laws of the Best System", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 9. doi:
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New article: Alexander Roberts, "Speaking for Haecceitists", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 10. doi:
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New article: Rose Ryan Flinn, "The Unity of Pictorial Experience", Philosophers' Imprint 26: 11. doi:
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New article: Nicolai Knudsen, “Groups and Second-Person Competence”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 51. doi:
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New article: Shawn Tinghao Wang, “What Is Counterproductive About Angry Blame?”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 50. doi:
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New article: Samuel Reis-Dennis, “Blame's Topography: Standing on Uneven Ground”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 49. doi:
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New article: Jonathan Brink Morgan, “Non-Inferential Knowledge of Perception”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 48. doi:
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New article: Christopher Register “The Depth of the Body”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 47. doi:
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New post: Richard Healey, & Angie Pepper, “Pets, Power, and Legitimacy”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 46. doi:
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New article: John D. Proios, “Identity and Difference in Kind: The Metaphysics of Pleasure at the Beginning of Plato’s Philebus”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 45. doi:
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New article: Devin Lane, “Expert Disagreement and the Duty to Vote”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 44. doi:
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New article: S. Baron, H. Beebee, D. Braddon-Mitchell, A. Eagle, & K. Miller, (2025) “How much did each of the authors of this paper causally contribute to its writing?”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 43. doi:
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New article: Ezra Rubenstein, “Conjunction as Identity”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 42. doi:
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New article: Raimund Pils, “Navigating the Meta-Epistemology of the Scientific Realism Debate: In Defense of Truth”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 41. doi:
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New article: Katharina Stevens, “Standing Norms in Argumentation”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 40. doi:
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New article: Chloé de Canson, “Bayesianism and the Inferential Solution to Hume's Problem”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 39. doi:
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New article: Angela Sun, “Can Consent Be Irrevocable?”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 38. doi:
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New article: Robbie Kubala,“Aesthetic Reactive Attitudes and Artistic Responsibility”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 37. doi:
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Just published: Ian Shane Peebles, (2025) “To race or not to race: A normative debate in the philosophy of race.”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 36. doi:
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To race or not to race: A normative debate in the philosophy of race.
One of the many debates in the philosophy of race is whether we should eliminate or conserve discourse, thought, and practices reliant on racial terms and categories (i.e., race-talk). In this paper, ...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4295
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Just published: Andrew Y. Lee,, (2025) “Consciousness Makes Things Matter”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 35. doi:
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Consciousness Makes Things Matter
This paper argues that phenomenal consciousness is what makes an entity a welfare subject, or the kind of thing that can be better or worse off and that can have a life worth living. I develop a varie...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.1956
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Just published: Robert H. Smithson, (2025) “Phenomenal Construction”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 34. doi:
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Phenomenal Construction
This paper uses deflationary metaontology to defend the existence of phenomenal constructions: concrete, sensible entities whose reality consists in a certain sort of experiential coherence. There are...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4776
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Anthony Reeves, (2025) “Agents of Our Interests: The Moral Claim to Legal Process”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 33. doi:
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Agents of Our Interests: The Moral Claim to Legal Process
The paper examines important, but underappreciated, aspects of being a rights claimant to vindicate a fundamental moral claim to due process. Much current thinking on the justification of procedural r...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4154
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Justin Steinberg, (2025) “Spinoza's Motivational Pluralism”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 32. doi:
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Spinoza's Motivational Pluralism
While psychological egoism is held in philosophical disrepute these days, most Anglophone scholars confidently ascribe this position to Spinoza. Perhaps the most prominent alternative ascribes to Spin...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4745
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Just published: Jamin Asay & Frank Saunders, (2025) “A Minimalist Approach to Truth and Chinese Philosophy”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 31. doi:
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A Minimalist Approach to Truth and Chinese Philosophy
A longstanding debate within comparative philosophy concerns what role (if any) the notion of truth plays in ancient Chinese philosophy. In this paper we advance a new methodology for exploring how tr...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.5005
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Just published: Giovanni Merlo, (2025) “Introspection as a (limiting) case of perception”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 30. doi:
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Introspection as a (limiting) case of perception
The question whether introspection can be conceived of as a species of perception is one of the most divisive in the current philosophical debate on self-knowledge. Here, I argue for a qualified posit...
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Just published: Samuel Boardman & Tom Schoonen, (2025) “Core Imagination”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 29. doi:
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Core Imagination
This paper argues that imagination constrained by core cognition yields modal knowledge of the sort of quotidian possibilities at issue in everyday life. But are core constraints of the right strength...
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Just published: Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi:
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On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds
Philosophers of mind (from eliminative materialists to psychofunctionalists to interpretivists) generally assume that a normative ideal delimits which mental phenomena exist (though they disagree abou...
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Just published: Neil W. Williams, (2025) “The No Interest Argument and the Rights of Nature”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 27. doi:
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The No Interest Argument and the Rights of Nature
Awarding rights to rivers, forests, and other environmental entities (EEs) is a new and increasingly popular approach to environmental protection. The distinctive feature of such rights of nature (RoN...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4583
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Just published: Friedemann Bieber & Charlotte Franziska Unruh, (2025) “Collegial Relationships and the Non-Monetary Goods of Work”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 26. doi:
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Collegial Relationships and the Non-Monetary Goods of Work
This article offers a novel account of collegial relationships and shows how it is of value to the normative assessment of work arrangements. We first argue that the literature on collegial relationsh...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4828
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Just published: Matt Dougherty, (2025) “Murdoch on Heidegger”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 25. doi:
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Murdoch on Heidegger
This paper presents an account of Iris Murdoch's engagement with the work of Martin Heidegger. It covers her early discussions and evaluations of him in The Sovereignty of Good, through to her late He...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4803
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Just published: Claire Benn, (2025) “Deepfakes, Pornography and Consent”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 24. doi:
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Deepfakes, Pornography and Consent
Political deepfakes have prompted out cry about the diminishing trustworthiness of visual depictions, and the epistemic and political threat this poses. Yet, in reality, this new technique is being us...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.2653
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Just published: Tristram McPherson & David Plunkett, (2025) “After Metaethics”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 23. doi:
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After Metaethics
In recent work, several philosophers have begun to explicitly explore the conceptual ethics of normativity. Put roughly, this is a kind of normative and evaluative inquiry that aims to assess the norm...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4357
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Just published: Daniel Munro (2025) “Internet Trolling: Social Exploration and the Epistemic Norms of Assertion”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 22. doi:
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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 ...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.5367
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Just published: Rafael De Clercq (2025) “How Beauty Moves”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 21. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4258
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Just published: Catherine Saint-Croix (2025) “Epistemic Virtue Signaling and the Double Bind of Testimonial Injustice”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 20. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4049
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Just published: Gideon Yaffe (2025) “Forcible Crime”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 19. doi:
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Forcible Crime
Frequently, those who commit a crime forcibly are subject to greater punishment than those who commit the same crime without using force. Â But uncertainty surrounds the conditions that must be met for...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.4693
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Just published: Zoe Jenkin (2025) “Encapsulated Failures”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 18. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.3809
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Just published: James Chamberlain (2025) “Hume’s “General Rules””, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 17. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.5439
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Just published: Theodore Sider (2025) “Accept no substitutes: Against best-system theories without naturalness”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 16. doi:
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Accept no substitutes: Â 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. Â Out of all the possible "systems'' (sets of sentences), there is one that...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.7010
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Just published: Wolfgang Schwarz (2025) “Dynamic Rationality and Disproportionate Belief”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 15. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.5853
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Just published: Boris Babic, Anil Gaba, Ilia Tsetlin & Robert L. Winkler (2025) “Resolute and Correlated Bayesians”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 14. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.3416
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Just published: Chris Dorst (2025) “Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 13. doi:
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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...
https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.3923
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