MINDPub Date : 2026-10-09DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzag023
Paul Égré,Lorenzo Rossi,Jan Sprenger
{"title":"Probability for Trivalent Conditionals","authors":"Paul Égré,Lorenzo Rossi,Jan Sprenger","doi":"10.1093/mind/fzag023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzag023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents a unified theory of the truth conditions and probability of indicative conditionals and their compounds in a trivalent framework. The semantics validates a Reduction Theorem: any compound of conditionals is semantically equivalent to a simple conditional. We obtain Stalnaker’s Thesis in full generality and generalize Adams’s p-validity into a criterion for valid uncertain inference. Finally, we show that Bayesian updating on an indicative conditional is tantamount to updating on the corresponding material conditional.","PeriodicalId":48124,"journal":{"name":"MIND","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINDPub Date : 2026-09-28DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzag018
Alex Silk
{"title":"Vagueness and the Comparative Form","authors":"Alex Silk","doi":"10.1093/mind/fzag018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzag018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper provides new examples of vagueness phenomena with comparatives. I show that comparatives of the form ‘x is ADJ-er than y’ can be vague due to a fuzziness in how much of some property makes for a difference in ADJ-ness. The sorites examples I provide cannot be assimilated to cases of indiscriminability or fuzziness in relevant dimensions, standards, or measurement procedures. A revised degree-based semantics with semiorders, a well-studied threshold structure, is developed. The treatment of equatives captures the truth of the claim that adjacent items in the sorites series are not relevantly distinguishable in ADJ-ness; and it avoids validating transitivities that would yield paradoxical conclusions.","PeriodicalId":48124,"journal":{"name":"MIND","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINDPub Date : 2026-09-24DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzag041
Clare Mac Cumhaill
{"title":"Anscombe and the ‘Reach’ of the Mind","authors":"Clare Mac Cumhaill","doi":"10.1093/mind/fzag041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzag041","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Anscombe’s 1947 report to the Mary Somerville Fellowship Committee shows that she had engaged with some (then) contemporary empirical work on psychokinesis—parapsychological research that Wittgenstein was also aware of. I first show that this critical engagement shaped her treatment of action in Intention. Human intentional action is essentially ‘at a distance’ or at scale. I then advance a fresh take on Anscombean practical knowledge by analogy with prophecy.","PeriodicalId":48124,"journal":{"name":"MIND","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINDPub Date : 2026-09-23DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzag047
Daniel Muñoz,Daniel Wodak
{"title":"Three Paradoxes of Duties to Oneself","authors":"Daniel Muñoz,Daniel Wodak","doi":"10.1093/mind/fzag047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzag047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Duties to self have long been dismissed on the grounds that they are not ‘binding’, since one could waive them at will—the classic ‘Paradox of Self-Release’. A standard response is that duties to self can bind because they are unwaivable. We argue that this response does not go far enough, because even if one has an unwaivable duty not to self-harm, the act of harming oneself forfeits that duty before it can be violated; thus even unwaivable duties to self fail to bind. This ‘Paradox of Self-Forfeiture’, we argue, has no easy solution. From there, we introduce an Escheresque ‘Paradox of Inconsistent Forfeiture’—again, with no easy way out—and extend both new paradoxes to the realm of self-respect. Along the way we draw several morals about forfeiture and the nature of duties to self.","PeriodicalId":48124,"journal":{"name":"MIND","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MINDPub Date : 2026-09-23DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzag045
Laura Gow
{"title":"The View from Everywhere: Realist Idealism without God\u0000 , by Helen Yetter-Chappell","authors":"Laura Gow","doi":"10.1093/mind/fzag045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzag045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48124,"journal":{"name":"MIND","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}