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Professor JONATHAN TALLANT's Outputs (35)

Untrustworthiness (2025)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2025). Untrustworthiness. Ratio, 38(1), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12435

Discussions of trustworthiness are not ubiquitous in the philosophical literature (compare remarks by Jones 2012, 61). Nonetheless, there are some attempted analyses and there is excellent work ongoing. The goal of this paper is to focus on trustwort... Read More about Untrustworthiness.

The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place‐Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings (2024)
Journal Article
Bianchi, L., Kelemen, M., Shivji, A. K., Tallant, J., & Timmons, S. (2025). The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place‐Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(1), Article e13870. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13870

This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resu... Read More about The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place‐Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings.

Locative grounding harmony (2024)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., Baron, S., & Miller, K. (2024). Locative grounding harmony. Philosophical Studies, 181, 1971-2001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02171-1

In this paper, we explore locative grounding harmony, according to which the location of the grounds mirrors the location of the grounded. We proceed in three stages. First, we clarify the notion of locative harmony and describe different locative ha... Read More about Locative grounding harmony.

Teaching and knowledge: uneasy bedfellows (2023)
Journal Article
Fisher, A., & Tallant, J. (2023). Teaching and knowledge: uneasy bedfellows. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 58(1), 24-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhad086

In this paper we explore the connection between the act of teaching and the imparting of knowledge. Our overarching aim is to demonstrate that the connection between them is less tight than one might suppose. Our stepping off point is a recent paper... Read More about Teaching and knowledge: uneasy bedfellows.

Presentism: past and future (2023)
Book Chapter
Tallant, J., & Ingram, D. (2023). Presentism: past and future. In R. Lestienne, & P. A. Harris (Eds.), Time and Science. Volume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its Evolution (191-209). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800613737_0007

Let us begin with a quick primer of views in the philosophy of time. Consider an event that is past, such as Constantine being acclaimed Emperor at Eboracum, an event that is present, such as your reading of this paper, and an event that is future, s... Read More about Presentism: past and future.

Presentism and representation: saying it without words (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, S., Miller, K., & Tallant, J. (2023). Presentism and representation: saying it without words. Synthese, 201(2), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03987-2

The Triviality Argument against presentism maintains that we should reject presentism because there is no way to define the view that is not either trivially true or obviously false. We suggest that this style of argument over-emphasises purely lingu... Read More about Presentism and representation: saying it without words.

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.

Might Teaching Be Judgement Dependent? (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Fisher, A. (2020). Might Teaching Be Judgement Dependent?. Philosophia, 48, 777–787. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00130-3

Our thesis in this paper is that consideration of Wright’s account of what it is to be judgement-dependent leads us to the conclusion that teaching is judgement dependent. We begin with a consideration of Wright’s account of what it is to be judgemen... Read More about Might Teaching Be Judgement Dependent?.

Temporal Fictionalism for a Timeless World (2019)
Journal Article
Baron, S., Miller, K., & Tallant, J. (2021). Temporal Fictionalism for a Timeless World. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 102(2), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12637

Current debate in the metaphysics of time ordinarily assumes that we should be realists about time. Recently, however, a number of physicists and philosophers of physics have proposed that time will play no role in a completed theory of quantum gravi... Read More about Temporal Fictionalism for a Timeless World.

Trust: from the Philosophical to the Commercial (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Donati, D. (2020). Trust: from the Philosophical to the Commercial. Philosophy of Management, 19(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-019-00107-y

© 2019, The Author(s). This is a paper about trust, with a specific focus on the ways in which trust is investigated in the business literature and the commercial sector. The lens through which the topic is approached is distinctively philosophical.... Read More about Trust: from the Philosophical to the Commercial.

You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2019). You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t. Theoria, 85(2), 102-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12177

My claim in this paper is that, contra what I take to be the orthodoxy in the wider literature, we do trust inanimate objects—per the example in the title, there are cases where people really do trust a ladder (to hold their weight, for instance), an... Read More about You can trust the ladder, but you shouldn’t.

It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them (2018)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Baron, S. (2021). It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them. Synthese, 198(1), 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01983-z

In this paper we offer a response to one argument in favour of Priority Monism, what Jonathan Schaffer calls the nomic argument for monism. We proceed in three stages. We begin by introducing Jonathan Schaffer’s Priority Monism and the nomic argument... Read More about It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them.

An error in temporal error theory (2018)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2018). An error in temporal error theory. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(1), 14-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.5

Within the philosophy of time there has been a growing interest in positions that deny the reality of time. Those positions, whether motivated by arguments from physics or metaphysics, have a shared conclusion: time is not real. What has not been mad... Read More about An error in temporal error theory.