{"title":"Mechanistic indicators of understanding in large language models","authors":"Pierre Beckmann, Matthieu Queloz","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02513-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02513-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708618","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}
{"title":"Relevance and the aim of fundamental metaphysics","authors":"Martin Glazier","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02522-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02522-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147708616","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}
{"title":"The reason to be angry proportionally","authors":"Michael Bruckner","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02495-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02495-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147617454","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}
{"title":"How to defend realism about impossible fiction without the principle of poetic license","authors":"Eugene Ho","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02519-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02519-9","url":null,"abstract":"One strategy sometimes employed in defense of realism about impossible fiction is the endorsement of the principle of poetic license. While the principle of poetic license has become the focus of much discussion on impossible fiction, I argue that the principle of poetic license is neither necessary nor sufficient for realism about impossible fiction. The principle can be strengthened so as to entail realism about impossible fiction, but I argue that the strengthened principle is empirically inadequate given the data provided by fictionality puzzles. I then provide a different argument from existential generalization for realism about impossible fiction which does not rely on either variant of the principle of poetic license. I suggest that this position, which leaves open the possibility that certain sets of propositions could not be jointly true-in-fiction, accommodates the data provided by fictionality puzzles and is more theoretically attractive than an account that endorses either variant of the principle of poetic license. Following which, I defend realism about impossible fiction from error theories about impossible fiction.","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"329 1","pages":"1861-1880"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285865","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}
{"title":"Consciousness as a cross-temporal tapestry","authors":"Matt Duncan","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02521-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02521-1","url":null,"abstract":"There are good reasons to think that all experiences are temporally extended. For example, the physical correlates of experiences are all temporally extended, and the phenomenology of duration and change suggests temporal extendedness. However, David Builes and Michele Odissea Impagnatiello (forthcoming) argue that if all experiences are temporally extended, and some other very plausible premises hold, then each of us has been conscious forever, infinitely into the past. Thus, we have a dilemma: Give up the well-motivated claim that all experiences are temporally extended, or accept the absurd conclusion that we’ve all been conscious forever. In this paper, I chart a course through the horns of this dilemma by introducing and defending a view of consciousness—the “Tapestry View”—that allows us to maintain that all experiences are temporally extended without implying that we’ve been conscious infinitely into the past. It’s important to have a theory that doesn’t imply that we’ve been conscious forever, but defanging Builes and Impagnatiello’s argument isn’t my ultimate ambition. It’s to introduce, develop, and defend a novel view about the temporal nature of consciousness.","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"27 1","pages":"1881-1903"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285884","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}
{"title":"Hypocrisy, hypercrisy, and standing to blame","authors":"Tania Aiyar","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02518-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02518-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147617460","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}
{"title":"Bounded human knowledge: what this means and what it explains","authors":"Ernest Sosa","doi":"10.1007/s11098-025-02439-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02439-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586564","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}
{"title":"Vagueness and common ground: the problem of sharp contours","authors":"Ricardo Mena","doi":"10.1007/s11098-026-02499-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02499-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48305,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147535913","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}