This paper is concerned with the question of the truth conditions of nomological statements. My fundamental thesis is that it is possible to set out an acceptable, non Circular account of the truth conditions of laws and nomological statements if and only if relations among universals — that is, among properties and relations, construed realistically…
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Philosophical Ethics and Theory.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Philosophy and Theoretical Science Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics Philosophical Ethics and Theory Political Philosophy and Ethics Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies |
| ISSN | 0045-5091 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.42 |
| h-index | 80 |
| i10-index | 764 |
| Total citations | 33,629 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Toronto |
| Journal website | www.canadianjournalofphilosophy.com |
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Virtually any appraisal of a person’s welfare, integrity, or moral status, as well as the moral and political theories built on such appraisals, will rely crucially on the presumption that her preferences and values are in some important sense her own. In particular, the nature and value of political freedom is intimately connected with the…
Some philosophers, notably Professors Quine and Geach, have stressed the analogies they see between pronouns of the vernacular and the bound variables of quantification theory. Geach, indeed, once maintained that ‘for a philosophical theory of reference, then, it is all one whether we consider bound variables or pronouns of the vernacular'. This slightly overstates Geach's…
Some theories of justice hold that individuals placed in fortunate circumstances through no merit or choice of their own are morally obligated to aid individuals placed in unfortunate circumstances through no fault or choice of their own. In these theories what are usually regarded as obligations of benevolence are reinterpreted as strict obligations of justice.…
John Rawls's famous difference principle is capable of at least four distinct statements, each of which occurs in A Theory of Justice. According to what I shall term the Crude Principle it is a necessary and sufficient condition for the justice of an institutional scheme which expands social and economic inequality that, subject to the…