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Locative grounding harmony (2024)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., Baron, S., & Miller, K. (2024). Locative grounding harmony. Philosophical Studies, 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.

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.

Trusting What Ought to Happen (2022)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2024). Trusting What Ought to Happen. Erkenntnis, 89(5), 1887-1902. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00608-9

This paper introduces a new account of trust and distrust. The core aim of the paper is to introduce an account of trust that places treats trust and what ‘ought’ to happen as close conceptual companions. Over the course of the paper, I develop the a... Read More about Trusting What Ought to Happen.

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)
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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?.

Grounding at a distance (2019)
Journal Article
Baron, S., Miller, K., & Tallant, J. (2019). Grounding at a distance. Philosophical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01374-1

What distinguishes causation from grounding? One suggestion is that causation, but not grounding, occurs over time. Recently, however, counterexamples to this simple temporal criterion have been offered. In this paper, we situate the temporal criteri... Read More about Grounding at a distance.

Trust in education (2019)
Journal Article
Fisher, A., & Tallant, J. (2019). Trust in education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(7), 780-790. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1692304

The philosophy of trust is a relatively small subfield. Nonetheless, it contains within it many important insights. Our contention in this paper is that careful study of this subfield can bring with it many insights that can and should be used to rec... Read More about Trust in education.

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.

Presentism and the spans of time (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Ingram, D. (2020). Presentism and the spans of time. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101(1), 200-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12590

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.