Outputs (53)

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 Great Western Railway (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2020). The Great Western Railway. Philosophia, 49(2), 741-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00260-z

In On The Plurality of Worlds Lewis presents the case of the Great Western Railway as a candidate counter-example, along with the usual suspects, to the thesis that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time. Typically, pluralists or man... Read More about The Great Western Railway.

Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2020). Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited. Metaphysica, 21(1), 151–165. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2020-0004

Blackburn argues against naturalistic moral realism. He argues that there is no conceptual entailment from satisfying a naturalistic predicate to satisfying a moral predicate. But the moral is conceptually supervenient on the natural. However, this c... Read More about Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited.

Presentism, Endurance and Object-Dependence (2019)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2020). Presentism, Endurance and Object-Dependence. Inquiry, 63(9-10), 1115-1122. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1698458

According to the presentist the present time is the only one that there is. Nevertheless, things persist. Most presentists think that things persist by enduring. Employing Jonathan Lowe’s notion of identity-dependence, Tallant argues that presentism... Read More about Presentism, Endurance and Object-Dependence.

The Possibility of Unity (2019)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2019). The Possibility of Unity. Philosophical Quarterly, 70(279), 407-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz038

In One Priest argues for the contradictoriness of Unity. The argument is that the unity of complex things is contradictory. It is contradictory that there are complex wholes composed of many parts. But there are. Thus, the explanation of unity has to... Read More about The Possibility of Unity.

The Challenge to Nihilism (2019)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2019). The Challenge to Nihilism. Analytic Philosophy, 60(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12142

Personal Identity (2019)
Book
Noonan, H. (2019). Personal Identity. (3rd). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107240

Who am I? What is a person? What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another? What is the relation between the mind and the body? These are just some of the questions that constitute the problem of personal identity, one of the olde... Read More about Personal Identity.

Criteria of identity, personal identity and the simple view (2018)
Book Chapter
Noonan, H. (2018). Criteria of identity, personal identity and the simple view. In T. Tambassi (Ed.), Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe (159-178). Editiones Scholasticae

Presentism and actualism (2018)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2019). Presentism and actualism. Philosophia, 47(2), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-018-9993-6

Presentism, some say, is either the analytic triviality that the only things that exist now are ones that exist now or the obviously false claim that the only things that have ever existed or will are ones that exist now. I argue that the correct und... Read More about Presentism and actualism.