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Daniel Halliday (Melbourne): "The Place of Mutual Advantage"
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The concept of mutual advantage is associated with the idea, crudely put, that everyone governed by principles of justice can be said to have gained from the implementation of these principles. Much effort has been spent on trying to locate this sort of requirement within a theory in ways that…
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2011
Kelly Trogdon (Lingnan): Grounding Content
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The responsiveness of a mental representation R to what it misrepresents depends on R’s responsiveness to what it actually represents but not vice versa. From this plausible idea Fodor fashions his influential theory of content – the asymmetric dependence theory (ADT) – understanding the relevant…