Papers by Sebastiano Moruzzi
Filosofia con i bambini. Introduzione
SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Preface to Special Issue Logical Pluralism and Normativity
Inquiry
Interworld Disagreement
Erkenntnis
For whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? Surveying the conditions for free will across cultures
Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally res... more Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, people are arguably not the ultimate source of their actions nor could they have done otherwise if initial conditions and the laws of nature are held fixed. To reveal how non-philosophers ordinarily reason about the conditions for free will, we conducted a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic survey (N = 5,268) spanning twenty countries and sixteen languages. Overall, participants tended to ascribe moral responsibility whether the perpetrator lacked sourcehood or alternate possibilities. However, for American, European, and Middle Eastern participants, being the ultimate source of one’s actions promoted perceptions of free will and control as well as ascriptions of blame and punishment. By contrast, being the source of one’s actions was not particularly salient to Asian participants. Finally, across cultures, participants exhib...
De Pulchritudine non est Disputandum ? A cross‐cultural investigation of the alleged intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgment
Mind & Language
Ecumenical alethic pluralism
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Ecumenical Alethic Pluralism (EAP) is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that... more Ecumenical Alethic Pluralism (EAP) is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that it widens the scope of alethic pluralism by allowing for a normatively deflated truth property alongside a variety of normatively robust truth properties. We establish EAP by showing how Wright’s Inflationary Arguments fail in the domain of taste, once a relativist treatment of the metaphysics and epistemology of that domain is endorsed. EAP is highly significant to current debates on the nature of truth insofar as it involves a reconfiguration of the dialectic between deflationists and pluralists.
Nothing at Stake in Knowledge*
Noûs
Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief: A Study in Ethno-Mentalizing
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
The Gettier Intuition from South America to Asia
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research
(2010) ‘Scope Confusions and Unsatisfiable Disjuncts: Two Problems for Supervaluation- ism’, in eds., Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, Its Nature, and Its Logic
Relativismo sulla verit�. Il caso dell'auto�confutazione
Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature, and its Logic
Degrees of Truth, Degrees of Belief and Subjective Probabilities∗
To appear in a collection of papers presented at Arche, 2007
Ecumenical alethic pluralism
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Ecumenical Alethic Pluralism (EAP) is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that... more Ecumenical Alethic Pluralism (EAP) is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that it widens the scope of alethic pluralism by allowing for a normatively deflated truth property alongside a variety of normatively robust truth properties. We establish EAP by showing how Wright’s Inflationary Arguments fail in the domain of taste, once a relativist treatment of the metaphysics and epistemology of that domain is endorsed. EAP is highly significant to current debates on the nature of truth insofar as it involves a reconfiguration of the dialectic between deflationists and pluralists.
Adam Rieger and Gareth Young (eds.) Dialetheism, Springer, forthcoming
This paper starts from the Equal Validity Paradox, a paradoxical argument connected to the so-cal... more This paper starts from the Equal Validity Paradox, a paradoxical argument connected to the so-called phenomenon of faultless disagreement. It is argued that there are at least six strategies for solving the paradox. After presenting the first five strategies and their main problems, the paper focuses on the sixth strategy which rejects the assumption that every proposition cannot be both true a false. Dialetheism is the natural candidate for developing strategy six. After presenting strategy six in detail, we formulate a normative problem for the dialetheist and offer a tentative solution to it. We then elaborate further considerations connecting strategy six to pluralism about truth and logic. Even if strategy six is a hard path to take, its scrutiny highlights some important points on truth, logic and the norms for acceptance and rejection.
This paper looks at the margin for error
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