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Relative Change (2020)
Book
Duncombe, M. (2020). Relative Change. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108581660

A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but ca... Read More about Relative Change.

Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II (2020)
Book
Goodchild, P. (2020). Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II. London: Rowman & Littlefield

A theological account of the dynamics of contemporary finance-based capitalism.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics (2020)
Book
Predelli, S. (2020). Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.001.0001

This book defends a Radical Fictionalist Semantics for fictional discourse. Focusing on proper names as prototypical devices of reference, it argues that fictional names are only fictionally proper names, and that, as a result, fictional sentences do... Read More about Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics.

Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics (2020)
Book
Duncombe, M. (2020). Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846185.001.0001

In Ancient Relativity Matthew Duncombe explores how ancient philosophers, particularly Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, understood the phenomenon and how their theories of relativity affected, and were affected by, their broader ph... Read More about Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics.