Outputs (287)

The Disrespectfulness of Weighted Survival Lotteries (2020)
Journal Article
Adams, J. (2020). The Disrespectfulness of Weighted Survival Lotteries. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa004

If we can save the lives of only one of multiple groups of people, we might be inclined simply to save whichever group is largest. We may worry, though, that automatically saving the largest group fails to take each saveable individual sufficiently i... Read More about The Disrespectfulness of Weighted Survival Lotteries.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics (2020)
Book
Predelli, S. (2020). Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.001.0001

This book defends a Radical Fictionalist Semantics for fictional discourse. Focusing on proper names as prototypical devices of reference, it argues that fictional names are only fictionally proper names, and that, as a result, fictional sentences do... Read More about Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics.

Network explanations and explanatory directionality (2020)
Journal Article
Jansson, L. (2020). Network explanations and explanatory directionality. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 375(1796), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0318

Network explanations raise foundational questions about the nature of scientific explanation. The challenge discussed in this article comes from the fact that network explanations are often thought to be non-causal, i.e. they do not describe the dyna... Read More about Network explanations and explanatory directionality.

Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2020). Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited. Metaphysica, 21(1), 151–165. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2020-0004

Blackburn argues against naturalistic moral realism. He argues that there is no conceptual entailment from satisfying a naturalistic predicate to satisfying a moral predicate. But the moral is conceptually supervenient on the natural. However, this c... Read More about Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited.

Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics (2020)
Book
Duncombe, M. (2020). Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846185.001.0001

In Ancient Relativity Matthew Duncombe explores how ancient philosophers, particularly Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, understood the phenomenon and how their theories of relativity affected, and were affected by, their broader ph... Read More about Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics.

A Defence of Lucretian Presentism (2020)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Ingram, D. (2020). A Defence of Lucretian Presentism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98(4), 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2019.1697709

© 2019 Australasian Journal of Philosophy. In this paper, we defend Lucretian Presentism (‘Lucretianism’). Although the view faces many objections and has proven unpopular with presentists, we rehabilitate Lucretianism and argue that none of the obje... Read More about A Defence of Lucretian Presentism.

Moral Testimony As Higher-order Evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
Lee, M., Robson, J., & Sinclair, N. (2020). Moral Testimony As Higher-order Evidence. In M. Klenk (Ed.), Higher-Order Evidence and Moral EpistemologyTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic (2020)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2020). Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49, 681-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09533-9

I develop and defend a truthmaker semantics for the relevant logic R. The approach begins with a simple philosophical idea and develops it in various directions, so as to build a technically adequate relevant semantics. The central philosophical idea... Read More about Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic.

Resisting Liberal Self-Deception (2019)
Journal Article
Duff, K. (2019). Resisting Liberal Self-Deception. European Journal of Philosophy, 27(4), 1075-1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12503

Review of Political Self-Deception by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti & A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil by Candice Delmas.

Presentism, Endurance and Object-Dependence (2019)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2020). Presentism, Endurance and Object-Dependence. Inquiry, 63(9-10), 1115-1122. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1698458

According to the presentist the present time is the only one that there is. Nevertheless, things persist. Most presentists think that things persist by enduring. Employing Jonathan Lowe’s notion of identity-dependence, Tallant argues that presentism... Read More about Presentism, Endurance and Object-Dependence.