There is Still a Problem of Consistent Incompatibility: a Response to Coren

Abstract

This article responds to Daniel Coren’s very insightful critical discussion of Baumann (Acta Analytica 32, 489–490, 2017). It clarifies and defends the view that there is a problem of mutually consistent but necessarily incompatible desires. Distinguishing explicitly between semantic and syntactic consistency, one can show that the problem remains under each interpretation of “consistent.”