Outputs (26)

Worldview : A Multidisciplinary Report (2020)
Report
Benoit, C., Hutchings, T., & Shillitoe, R. (2020). Worldview : A Multidisciplinary Report. Religious Education Council for England and Wales

In response to the Commission on Religious Education report (CoRE, 2018), in February 2020 the Religious Education Council for England and Wales (which established the Commission on RE) commissioned an independent team of researchers to undertake a l... Read More about Worldview : A Multidisciplinary Report.

Can Pragmatism about Quantum Theory Handle Objectivity about Explanations? (2020)
Book Chapter
Jansson, L. (2020). Can Pragmatism about Quantum Theory Handle Objectivity about Explanations?. In S. French, & J. Saatsi (Eds.), Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford University Press

The problem of reference change (2020)
Book Chapter
Noonan, H. (2020). The problem of reference change. In S. Biggs, & H. Geirsson (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of linguistic reference (600). Routledge

From Essence to Metaphysical Modality? (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2022). From Essence to Metaphysical Modality?. Axiomathes, 32(2), 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09527-2

How can we acquire knowledge of metaphysical modality? How can someone come to know that he could have been elsewhere right now, or an accountant rather than a philosophy teacher, but could not have been a turnip? Jago proposes an account of a route... Read More about From Essence to Metaphysical Modality?.

Are personites a problem for endurantists? (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2020). Are personites a problem for endurantists?. Philosophical Forum, 51(4), 399-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/phil.12270

The Disrespectfulness of Weighted Survival Lotteries (2020)
Journal Article
Adams, J. (2020). The Disrespectfulness of Weighted Survival Lotteries. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 120(3), 395-404. 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.

Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology (2020)
Journal Article
Rumbold, B. (2021). Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 103(2), 281-312. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2017-0099

Before presenting his own account of value in the Ethics, Spinoza spends much of EIAppendix and EIVPreface attempting to refute a series of axiological ‘prejudices’ that he takes to have taken root in the minds of his readership. In doing so, Spinoza... Read More about Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology.

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 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.