Outputs (3)

A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2025). A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures. Analytic Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12386

Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism (2001: 126ff.) has long been seen as one of the most powerful, or perhaps the most powerful, in the perdurantist’s arsenal. In its absence the case against endurantism is significantly weakened. Despite its... Read More about A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures.

The personite problem remains: reply to Montmini and Russo (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2025). The personite problem remains: reply to Montmini and Russo. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2495645

Personites are shorter-lived person-like things temporarily coincident with persons. According to the four-dimensional view, they exist. Mark Johnston argues that acknowledging their existence renders activities which we ought to regard as wholly unp... Read More about The personite problem remains: reply to Montmini and Russo.

No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2025). No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2465355

Pummer argues against the thesis: Desert. When people culpably do very wrong or bad acts, they deserve punishment in the following sense: at least other things being equal, they ought to be made worse off, simply in virtue of the fact that they culpa... Read More about No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer.