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Consequentialism and Reasons for Action (2020)
Book Chapter
Woodard, C. (2020). Consequentialism and Reasons for Action. In D. W. Portmore (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (178-196). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190905323.013.31

Consequentialist theories often neglect reasons for action. They offer theories of the rightness or the goodness of actions, or of virtue, but they typically do not include theories of reasons. However, consequentialists can give plausible accounts o... Read More about Consequentialism and Reasons for Action.

Naive realism, representationalism, and the rationalizing role of visual perception (2020)
Journal Article
French, C. (2020). Naive realism, representationalism, and the rationalizing role of visual perception. Philosophical Issues, 30(1), 102-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12174

Relative Change (2020)
Book
Duncombe, M. (2020). Relative Change. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108581660

A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but ca... Read More about Relative Change.

Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II (2020)
Book
Goodchild, P. (2020). Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II. London: Rowman & Littlefield

A theological account of the dynamics of contemporary finance-based capitalism.

The Great Western Railway (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2020). The Great Western Railway. Philosophia, 49(2), 741-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00260-z

In On The Plurality of Worlds Lewis presents the case of the Great Western Railway as a candidate counter-example, along with the usual suspects, to the thesis that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time. Typically, pluralists or man... Read More about The Great Western Railway.

Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning (2020)
Journal Article
Jenkins, K., & Webster, A. K. (2021). Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99(4), 730-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2020.1799048

One challenge in providing an adequate definition of physical disability is that of unifying the heterogeneous bodily conditions that count as disabilities. We examine recent proposals by Elizabeth Barnes [2016], and Dana Howard and Sean Aas [2018],... Read More about Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning.

Global Expressivism (2020)
Book Chapter
Barker, S. (2020). Global Expressivism. In The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (270-283). UK: Routlege

In this chapter I consider the prospects of globalizing expressivism. Expressivism is a position in the philosophy of language that questions the central role of representation in a theory of meaning or linguistic function. An expressivist about a do... Read More about Global Expressivism.

Ontic Injustice (2020)
Journal Article
Jenkins, K. (2020). Ontic Injustice. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(2), 188-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.27

In this paper, I identify a distinctive form of injustice – ‘ontic injustice – in which an individual is wronged by the very fact of being socially constructed as a member of a certain social kind. To be a member of a certain social kind is, at least... Read More about Ontic Injustice.

Austerity and Illusion (2020)
Journal Article
French, C., & Phillips, I. (2020). Austerity and Illusion. Philosophers' Imprint, 20(15), 1-19

Many contemporary theorists charge that naïve realists are incapable of accounting for illusions. Various sophisticated proposals have been ventured to meet this charge. Here, we take a different approach and dispute whether the naïve realist owes an... Read More about Austerity and Illusion.

Justice and the tendency towards good: the role of custom in Hume's theory of moral motivation (2020)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, J. (2020). Justice and the tendency towards good: the role of custom in Hume's theory of moral motivation. Hume Studies, 43(1), 117-137

Given the importance of sympathetic pleasures within Hume's account of approval and moral motivation, why does Hume think we feel obliged to act justly on those occasions when we know that doing so will benefit nobody? I argue that Hume uses the case... Read More about Justice and the tendency towards good: the role of custom in Hume's theory of moral motivation.