Outputs (332)

Reasons for Rule Consequentialists (2022)
Journal Article
Woodard, C. (2022). Reasons for Rule Consequentialists. Ratio, 35(4), 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12352

This paper explores what a Rule Consequentialist of Brad Hooker's sort can and should say about normative reasons for action. I claim that they can provide a theory of reasons, but that doing so requires distinguishing different roles of rules in the... Read More about Reasons for Rule Consequentialists.

All Designators are Rigid (2022)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2023). All Designators are Rigid. Metaphysica, 24(1), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0040

In Naming and Necessity Kripke introduces the concept of a rigid designator and argues that proper names are rigid designators. He argues that in this way they are different from typical definite descriptions (though he allows that some definite desc... Read More about All Designators are Rigid.

COVID-19, Care Ethics, and Vulnerability (2022)
Book Chapter
Baron, T. (2022). COVID-19, Care Ethics, and Vulnerability. In G. Schweiger (Ed.), The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection (157-176). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97982-9_10

The economic crash of 2008 demonstrated the fragility of financial systems throughout the world; COVID-19, as the first pandemic in over a century to wreak global havoc, has demonstrated the fragility of healthcare systems. At the time of writing, th... Read More about COVID-19, Care Ethics, and Vulnerability.

Personal Identity and Morality (2022)
Book Chapter
Noonan, H. (2022). Personal Identity and Morality. In K. Tobia (Ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self (87-97). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350246928.0011

Does the true account of personal identity undermine everyday moral thinking? Do every day moral practices presuppose a false account of our nature and persistence conditions? I shall consider the three main accounts of personal identity in the conte... Read More about Personal Identity and Morality.

The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply (2022)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2022). The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply. Organon F, 29(2), 275-282. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29206

Personites are shorter-lived, person-like things that extend across part of a person’s life. Their existence follows from the standard perdurance view of persons. Johnston argues that it has bizarre moral consequences. For example, it renders morally... Read More about The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply.

Sven Nyholm, Humans and Robots; Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism (2022)
Journal Article
Farina, L. (2022). Sven Nyholm, Humans and Robots; Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 19(2), 221-224. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-19020007

How should human beings and robots interact with one another? Nyholm’s answer to this question is given below in the form of a conditional:

If a robot looks or behaves like an animal or a human being then we should treat them with a degree of mora... Read More about Sven Nyholm, Humans and Robots; Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism.

Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments (2022)
Journal Article
Chauhan, V., Crowley, T., Fisher, A., McCabe, H., & Williams, H. (2022). Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments. Metaphilosophy, 53(1), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12538

Should philosophy of race be taught as part of a philosophy degree? This paper argues that it should. After surveying 1,166 modules on offer in 2019–2020, across forty-seven philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, however, the authors identifie... Read More about Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments.

Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics (2021)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2021). Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics. Logique et Analyse, 256, 403-423

Susan Stebbing's reflections on method in metaphysics are deserving of sustained attention by historians of analytic philosophy, not least because her work was for some time unduly sidelined. In this paper I build on recent reassessments of Stebbing'... Read More about Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics.

Global Expressivism and the Puzzle of Truth-Apt Sentences (2021)
Book Chapter
Barker, S. (2021). Global Expressivism and the Puzzle of Truth-Apt Sentences. In G. M. Mras, & M. Schmitz (Eds.), Force, Content, and the Unity of the Proposition. Routledge

Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality (2021)
Journal Article
Kidd, I. J. (2021). Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2017883

This paper describes a neglected aspect of the critique of academic ‘cultures of speed’ offered by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeler in The Slow Professor. I argue internalisation of the values and imperatives of cultures of speed can encourage the eros... Read More about Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality.