Papers Published

1. SANFORD, DH, Difficulties for the Reconciling and Estranging Projects: Some Symmetries, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 70 no. 1 (January, 2005), pp. 240-244, WILEY [Gateway.cgi], [doi].
   (last updated on 2023/02/07)

   Abstract:
   Suppose that Susan did not go to the movies. The reconciling project attempts to show that this plus Determinism does not imply that Susan could not have gone to the movies. The estranging project attempts to show the opposite. A counter- entailment argument if of the form A is consistent with C, and C entails not-B. Therefore A does not entail B. An instance of the counter-entailment arguments undermines a central argument for the reconciling project. Another instance undermines a central argument for the estranging project. This is one symmetry. In each case, the natural response to the counter-entailment argument begs the question. This is another symmetry.