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Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine (2023)
Journal Article
Egerton, K., & Capitelli-McMahon, H. (2023). Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine. Synthese, 202(3), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04258-4

This paper explores how transformative experience generates decision-making problems of particular seriousness in medical settings. Potentially transformative experiences are especially likely to be encountered in medicine, and the associated decisio... Read More about Transformative experience and the principle of informed consent in medicine.

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.

Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks (2021)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2022). Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(1), 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab058

Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games-... Read More about Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks.

Quine’s Metametaphysics (2020)
Book Chapter
Egerton, K. (2020). Quine’s Metametaphysics. In R. Bliss, & J. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (49-60). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112596-4

W. V. Quine stands out as one of the foremost figures of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. This chapter argues that a significant part of his works’ enduring value lies in its contribution to metametaphysics, including how some more contentious... Read More about Quine’s Metametaphysics.

It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions (2019)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2021). It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions. Erkenntnis, 86(2), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00107-4

Several recent discussions of metaphysics disavow existence-questions, claiming that they are metaphysically uninteresting because trivially settled in the affirmative by Moorean facts. This is often given as a reason to focus metaphysical debate ins... Read More about It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions.

Found Guilty by Association: In Defence of the Quinean Criterion (2016)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2018). Found Guilty by Association: In Defence of the Quinean Criterion. Ratio, 31(1), 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12150

Much recent work in metaontology challenges the so-called ‘Quinean tradition’ in metaphysics. Especially prominently, Amie Thomasson argues for a highly permissive ontology over ontologies which eliminate many entities. I am concerned with disputing... Read More about Found Guilty by Association: In Defence of the Quinean Criterion.

Getting off the Inwagen: A Critique of Quinean Metaontology (2016)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2016). Getting off the Inwagen: A Critique of Quinean Metaontology. Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 4(6), 23. https://doi.org/10.15173/jhap.v4i6.2962

Much contemporary ontological inquiry takes place within the so-called ‘Quinean tradition’ but, given that some aspects of Quine’s project have been widely abandoned even by those who consider themselves Quineans, it is unclear what this amounts to.... Read More about Getting off the Inwagen: A Critique of Quinean Metaontology.