A professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 40 years, Robert Brandom has written extensively and insightfully on a wide range of topics, including language, mind, logic, norms, freedom, philosophical...
This paper proposes that, in many cases, conversational norms permit gaslighting when socially subordinate speakers report systemic injustice. Section 1 introduces gaslighting and the kinds of cases on which I focus—namely,...
Jeff Engelhardt is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., Published as:Engelhardt, Jeff. Token Causal Powers. Philosophical Papers 45, no. 1-2 (2016): 159-180....
In his widely influential Making It Explicit, Robert Brandom makes a passing but provocative remark about a parallel between seeing and acting. He says that seeming is to seeing as trying is to acting: seeming to see and trying...
A great deal has been written over the past decade defending 'higher-level' causes by arguing that overdetermination is more complex than many philosophers initially thought. Although two shooters overdetermine the death of a...
According to Roderick Chisholm, one distinctive characteristic of mental phenomena is that they relate to their objects under an aspect': Lois Lane admires the one object that is both Superman and Clark Kent as Superman but...
Jeff Engelhardt is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., The philosophical literature contains at least three formulations of the problem of causal exclusion. Although each of the three most common formulations...
Jeff Engelhardt is a professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College., Some content externalists claim that if C is a theoretical concept and “C” expresses C, then the content of C in a community at a time is determined by how...