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The Journal of Philosophy @jrnlofphil.bsky.social · Nov 4
Please note! To work through a backlog of accepted papers and reduce time to publication, JPhil will suspend new submissions starting Friday, January 16, 2026. We expect to reopen submissions on Monday, August 17, 2026. New submissions will not be processed or considered during this time.
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Review of Christopher Moore, _The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece_ by Thomas Tuozzo @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

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Review of Christopher Moore: The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece - Volume 122, Issue 7, July 2025
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January 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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"Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts" by Ethan Nowak @ethannowak.bsky.social

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Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts - Volume 122, Issue 7, July 2025
In this paper, I argue that the ‘social meanings’ associated with sociolinguistic variation put pressure on the standard philosophical conception of language, according to which the foremost thing we ...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Final reminder! New submissions close this Friday at 12pm Eastern. Please review our Memo to Authors prior to submitting, and remember to include at least two keywords.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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jrnlofphil.bsky.social The Journal of Philosophy @jrnlofphil.bsky.social · Nov 4
Please note! To work through a backlog of accepted papers and reduce time to publication, JPhil will suspend new submissions starting Friday, January 16, 2026. We expect to reopen submissions on Monday, August 17, 2026. New submissions will not be processed or considered during this time.
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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At the close of 2025, we offer our gratitude to the global philosophical community for supporting The Journal of Philosophy in many crucial capacities: as authors, reviewers, editors, subscribers, and readers. Thank you.
December 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"Probabilities of Counterfactuals Are Counterfactual Probabilities" by Paolo Santorio
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Probabilities of Counterfactuals Are Counterfactual Probabilities - Volume 122, Issue 6, June 2025
Suppose that, yesterday at noon, Maria considered flipping a fair coin but didn’t. What probability do you assign to “If Maria had flipped the coin, the coin would have landed heads
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November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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"Desert and Economic Interdependence" by Evan Behrle
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Desert and Economic Interdependence - Volume 122, Issue 6, June 2025
Outside of philosophy, the idea that workers deserve to be paid according to their productive contributions is very popular. But political philosophers have given it relatively little attention. In th...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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"The Necessity of Accidents" by Christopher Dorst and Marc Lange
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The Necessity of Accidents - published on November 12, 2025
We argue that if there are laws of nature, then there must also be accidents. If the “laws” in a world suffice to determine the world’s entire history, then these “laws” cannot play various central ro...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Please note! To work through a backlog of accepted papers and reduce time to publication, JPhil will suspend new submissions starting Friday, January 16, 2026. We expect to reopen submissions on Monday, August 17, 2026. New submissions will not be processed or considered during this time.
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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"Easy Practical Knowledge" by Timothy R. Kearl and J. Adam Carter
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Easy Practical Knowledge - published on October 16, 2025
We explore new connections between the epistemologies of mental rehearsal and suppositional reasoning to offer a novel perspective on skilled behavior and its relationship to practical knowledge. We a...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"Wandering Inquiry" by Susanna Siegel #newarticle
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Wandering Inquiry - published on October 9, 2025
Inquiry is guided, in the minimal sense that it is not haphazard. It is also often thought to have as a natural stopping point ceasing to inquire, once inquiry into a question yields knowledge of an a...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"Saving Conceptual Role Expressivism from Defect" by Sebastian Köhler #newarticle #philosophy #philsky

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Saving Conceptual Role Expressivism from Defect - Volume 122, Issue 5, May 2025
Recently, it has been suggested that expressivism’s commitments about normative judgments should be cashed out in terms of conceptual role semantics. However, conceptual role expressivism has a centra...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"Chance as a Guide to Life: The Other Principal Principle" by Richard Bradley #newarticle #philosophy #philsky

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Chance as a Guide to Life: The Other Principal Principle - Volume 122, Issue 5, May 2025
When choosing between actions having the same two possible outcomes, we should choose the act for which the conditional chance of the preferred outcome, given its performance, is higher. This simple p...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Congratulations to Caspar Jacobs on the selection of his JP paper, "Comparativist Theories or Conspiracy Theories?," for the 2024 Philosopher's Annual!

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Abstract of the paper "Comparativist Theories or Conspiracy Theories?" by Caspar Jacobs: Comparativist Theories or Conspiracy Theories? Although physical theories routinely posit absolute quantities, such as absolute position or intrinsic mass, it seems that only comparative quantities such as distance and mass ratio are observable. But even if there are in fact only distances and mass ratios, the success of absolutist theories means that the world looks just as if there are absolute positions and intrinsic masses. If comparativism is nevertheless true, there is a sense in which this is a cosmic conspiracy: the comparative quantities satisfy certain relations that only absolutism can explain. I show that such cosmic conspiracies are a pervasive feature of comparativist theories. The argument is structurally similar to the well-known No Miracles Argument for scientific realism. Just as anti-realism cannot explain the empirical adequacy of our theories in general, so comparativism cannot explain the empirical adequacy of absolutist theories in particular.
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#newarticle "Alethic Pluralism and Kripkean Truth" by Andrea Iacona, Stefano Romeo, and Lorenzo Rossi

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Article Title: "Alethic Pluralism and Kripkean Truth"; Abstract: According to alethic pluralism, there are different ways of being true, that is, there is a plurality of truth properties, each of which pertains to a specific domain of discourse. This paper shows how such a plurality can be represented in a coherent formal framework by means of a Kripke-style construction that yields intuitively correct extensions for distinct truth predicates. The theory of truth we develop can handle at least three crucial problems that have been raised in connection with alethic pluralism: mixed compounds, mixed inferences, and semantic paradoxes.
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#newarticle "No Easy Road to PSR" by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour

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Abstract: Rehabilitating an argument originally proposed by Leibniz, Michael Della Rocca has offered a new argument for the Principle of Sufficient Reason. A crucial element of this argument is that, for every x, the fact that x does not brutely fail to exist is an untrivial requisite of x’s existence. Criticising this claim, I show that the new argument for PSR fails.
July 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#newarticle "What Does It Take to Make a Difference? A Reply to Andreas and Günther" by Sander Beckers

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Abstract: Andreas and Günther have recently proposed a difference-making definition of actual causation. In this paper I show that there exist conclusive counterexamples to their definition, by which I mean examples that are unacceptable to everyone, including Andreas and Günther. Concretely, I show that their definition allows c to cause e even when c is not a causal ancestor of e. I then proceed to identify their non-standard definition of causal models as the source of the problem, and argue that there is no viable strategy open to them to fixing it. I conclude that their definition of causation is damaged beyond repair.
July 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#newarticle "Idle Questions" by Jens Kipper, Alexander W. Kocurek, and Zeynep Soysal

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Abstract: In light of the problem of logical omniscience, some scholars have argued that belief is question-sensitive: agents don’t simply believe propositions but rather believe answers to questions. Hoek (2022) has recently developed a version of this approach on which a belief state is a “web” of questions and answers. Here, we present several challenges to Hoek’s question-sensitive account of belief. First, Hoek’s account is prone to very similar logical omniscience problems as those he claims to address. Second, the link between belief and action he proposes is too rigid. We close by sketching a generalization of the account that can meet these challenges.
July 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#newarticle "Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers" by Carolina Flores @floresophize.bsky.social

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Abstract: Beliefs can be resistant to evidence. Nonetheless, the orthodox view in epistemology analyzes beliefs as evidence-responsive attitudes. I address this tension by deploying analytical tools on capacities and masking to show that the cognitive science of evidence-resistance supports rather than undermines the orthodox view. In doing so, I argue for the claim that belief requires the capacity for evidence-responsiveness. More precisely, if a subject believes that p, then they have the capacity to rationally respond to evidence bearing on p. Because capacities for evidence-responsiveness are fallible and may be masked, beliefs can be held in the face of counter-evidence. Indeed, I will argue that our best science of belief supports the claim that evidence-resistant beliefs result from masks on evidence-responsiveness capacities. This account of belief not only allows for resistance to evidence, but provides us with a framework for describing and explaining actual cases of evidence-resistance.
July 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"Ethics and the Limits of Armchair Sociology" by Brendan de Kenessey

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Ethics and the Limits of Armchair Sociology - Volume 122, Issue 3, March 2025
Contractualism and rule consequentialism both hold that whether a moral principle is true depends on what would happen if it were generally adopted as a basis for conduct. This paper argues that theor...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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"Deference Principles for Imprecise Credences" by Giacomo Molinari

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Isaac Levi Prize 2024: Deference Principles for Imprecise Credences - Volume 122, Issue 3, March 2025
This essay gives an account of epistemic deference for agents with imprecise credences. I look at the two main imprecise deference principles in the literature, known as Identity Reflection and Pointw...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM