Tomis Kapitan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomis Kapitan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomis |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapitan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPITAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ubiquity of Self-Awareness
Egological Ubiquity: Response to Stefan Lang
Tough choices still
Some argue that an omniprescient being cannot choose between mutually exclusive actions none of which is known to be uniquely reasonable. The view assumes that faced with such a choice one must believe each alternative to be epistemically possible, thereby precluding foreknowledge of what one will do. E. J. Coffman (2011) has challenged this assumption, but I argue that not only does he fail to undermine it, there are independent reasons why choi…
Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This volume addresses a number of philosophical problems that arise in consideration of the century-old conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Consisting of essays by fifteen contributors (including both Israeli and Palestinian philosophers) and a lengthy introduction by the editor, it deals with rights to land, sovereignity, self-determination, the existence and legitimacy of states, cultural prejudice, national identity, intercomm…
A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument
This article provides a reply to the Consequence Argument. It notes that the argument's soundness depends upon how one interprets modal notions such as power or ability (to bring something about) and avoidability (the power to do otherwise). It explores these “practical modalities,” and shows how different interpretations of them yield different versions of the Consequence Argument. It examines some familiar compatibilist responses to the argumen…
Agency and First-Person Reference
In Part I of Self-Knowing Agents, Lucy O’Brien develops a theory of first-person reference. In what follows, I describe this account and then raise doubts about its success. Since I am not confident that I have understood her properly, I may be setting up and targeting a strawwoman, but I can only hope that what I said about the first-person will be of interest in its own right
Violence and Self‐Determination in the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
This article addresses the normative role of self‐determination in the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. Contrary to a popular view, it is argued that there are no competing rights of self‐determination held by Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs respectively. When properly interpreted, self‐determination is a right possessed by the legitimate residents of a region, not by “peoples” defined in ethnic or cultural terms. The persistent violation of this…
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Philosophical Essays on Self-Determination, Terrorism and the One-State Solution
This book addresses the ongoing conflict among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs from a philosophical perspective. The authors argue that ignoring justice and failing to address violations of rights
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation
Book Review| July 01 2002 Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation François Recanati, Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 360. Tomis Kapitan Tomis Kapitan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 459–462. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-459 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation
Acting and the Open Future: A Brief Rejoinder to David Hunt
I have argued that since (i) intentional agency requires intention-acquisition, (ii) intention-acquisition implies a sense of an open future, and (iii) a sense of an open future is incompatible with complete foreknowledge, then (iv) no agent can be omniscient. Alternatively, an omniscient being is omni-impotent. David Hunt continues to oppose this reasoning, most recently, in Religious Studies 32 (March 1996). It is increasingly clear that the de…
Direct Reference
Action, Intention, and Reason
The Incompatibility of Omniscience and Intentional Action: A Reply to David P. Hunt
In ‘Omniprescient Agency’ ( Religious Studies 28, 1992) David P. Hunt challenges an argument against the possibility of an omniscient agent. The argument – my own in ‘Agency and Omniscience’ ( Religious Studies 27, 1991) – assumes that an agent is a being capable of intentional action, where, minimally, an action is intentional only if it is caused, in part, by the agent's intending. The latter, I claimed, is governed by a psychological principle…
Exports and Imports: Anaphora in Attitudinal Ascriptions
Propositional attitudes are at the interface of several philosophical concerns with thinking, language, and reality. Some philosophers approach the attitudes with an interest in semantics, others with a concern about contents and the proper objects of cognitive states. For yet others, the attitudes are critical elements of a correct account of agency inasmuch as agents
Agency and Omniscience
It is said that faith in a divine agent is partly an attitude of trust; believers typically find assurance in the conception of a divine being's will, and cherish confidence in its capacity to implement its intentions and plans. Yet, there would be little point in trusting in the will of any being without assuming its ability to both act and know , and perhaps it is only by assuming divine omniscience that one can retain the confidence in the eff…
Responsibility and Free Choice
Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives
Journal Article Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives Get access Tomis Kapitan Tomis Kapitan Birzeit University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 143, April 1986, Pages 230–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219771 Published: 01 April 1986
Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives
Journal Article Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives Get access Tomis Kapitan Tomis Kapitan Birzeit University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 143, April 1986, Pages 230–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219771 Published: 01 April 1986
Responsibility and Free Choice
Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives
Journal Article Deliberation and the Presumption of Open Alternatives Get access Tomis Kapitan Tomis Kapitan Birzeit University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 143, April 1986, Pages 230–251, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219771 Published: 01 April 1986
Agency and Omniscience
It is said that faith in a divine agent is partly an attitude of trust; believers typically find assurance in the conception of a divine being's will, and cherish confidence in its capacity to implement its intentions and plans. Yet, there would be little point in trusting in the will of any being without assuming its ability to both act and know , and perhaps it is only by assuming divine omniscience that one can retain the confidence in the eff…
The Incompatibility of Omniscience and Intentional Action: A Reply to David P. Hunt
In ‘Omniprescient Agency’ ( Religious Studies 28, 1992) David P. Hunt challenges an argument against the possibility of an omniscient agent. The argument – my own in ‘Agency and Omniscience’ ( Religious Studies 27, 1991) – assumes that an agent is a being capable of intentional action, where, minimally, an action is intentional only if it is caused, in part, by the agent's intending. The latter, I claimed, is governed by a psychological principle…
Exports and Imports: Anaphora in Attitudinal Ascriptions
Propositional attitudes are at the interface of several philosophical concerns with thinking, language, and reality. Some philosophers approach the attitudes with an interest in semantics, others with a concern about contents and the proper objects of cognitive states. For yet others, the attitudes are critical elements of a correct account of agency inasmuch as agents
Action, Intention, and Reason
Direct Reference
Acting and the Open Future: A Brief Rejoinder to David Hunt
I have argued that since (i) intentional agency requires intention-acquisition, (ii) intention-acquisition implies a sense of an open future, and (iii) a sense of an open future is incompatible with complete foreknowledge, then (iv) no agent can be omniscient. Alternatively, an omniscient being is omni-impotent. David Hunt continues to oppose this reasoning, most recently, in Religious Studies 32 (March 1996). It is increasingly clear that the de…
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation
Book Review| July 01 2002 Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation François Recanati, Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xviii, 360. Tomis Kapitan Tomis Kapitan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 459–462. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-459 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Philosophical Essays on Self-Determination, Terrorism and the One-State Solution
This book addresses the ongoing conflict among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs from a philosophical perspective. The authors argue that ignoring justice and failing to address violations of rights
Violence and Self‐Determination in the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict
This article addresses the normative role of self‐determination in the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. Contrary to a popular view, it is argued that there are no competing rights of self‐determination held by Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs respectively. When properly interpreted, self‐determination is a right possessed by the legitimate residents of a region, not by “peoples” defined in ethnic or cultural terms. The persistent violation of this…
A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument
This article provides a reply to the Consequence Argument. It notes that the argument's soundness depends upon how one interprets modal notions such as power or ability (to bring something about) and avoidability (the power to do otherwise). It explores these “practical modalities,” and shows how different interpretations of them yield different versions of the Consequence Argument. It examines some familiar compatibilist responses to the argumen…
Agency and First-Person Reference
In Part I of Self-Knowing Agents, Lucy O’Brien develops a theory of first-person reference. In what follows, I describe this account and then raise doubts about its success. Since I am not confident that I have understood her properly, I may be setting up and targeting a strawwoman, but I can only hope that what I said about the first-person will be of interest in its own right
Tough choices still
Some argue that an omniprescient being cannot choose between mutually exclusive actions none of which is known to be uniquely reasonable. The view assumes that faced with such a choice one must believe each alternative to be epistemically possible, thereby precluding foreknowledge of what one will do. E. J. Coffman (2011) has challenged this assumption, but I argue that not only does he fail to undermine it, there are independent reasons why choi…
Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This volume addresses a number of philosophical problems that arise in consideration of the century-old conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Consisting of essays by fifteen contributors (including both Israeli and Palestinian philosophers) and a lengthy introduction by the editor, it deals with rights to land, sovereignity, self-determination, the existence and legitimacy of states, cultural prejudice, national identity, intercomm…
The Ubiquity of Self-Awareness
Egological Ubiquity: Response to Stefan Lang
Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Agency (philosophy) (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works)