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Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics (2021)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2021). Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics. Logique et Analyse, 256, 403-423

Susan Stebbing's reflections on method in metaphysics are deserving of sustained attention by historians of analytic philosophy, not least because her work was for some time unduly sidelined. In this paper I build on recent reassessments of Stebbing'... Read More about Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics.

Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality (2021)
Journal Article
Kidd, I. J. (2021). Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2017883

This paper describes a neglected aspect of the critique of academic ‘cultures of speed’ offered by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeler in The Slow Professor. I argue internalisation of the values and imperatives of cultures of speed can encourage the eros... Read More about Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality.

Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks (2021)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2022). Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(1), 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab058

Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games-... Read More about Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks.

Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past (2021)
Journal Article
Mackie, P. (2022). Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past. Philosophical Studies, 179, 1873-1892. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01736-8

In several writings, John Martin Fischer has argued that those who deny a principle about abilities that he calls ‘the Fixity of the Past’ are committed to absurd conclusions concerning practical reasoning. I argue that Fischer’s ‘practical rationali... Read More about Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past.

The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence (2021)
Book Chapter
Curtis, B., & Noonan, H. (2021). The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence. In J. Noller (Ed.), The unity of a person : philosophical perspectives. Routledge

In this paper we argue that persons should be defined as being things that are sometimes capable of first-person thought. We then defend an account (the Hybrid Account) of their persistence conditions. According to it psychological continuity and bio... Read More about The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence.

Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals (2021)
Journal Article
Predelli, S. (2021). Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals. Synthese, 199(5-6), 13569-13582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03389-w

This essay presents an analysis of the conversational role of disambiguation, with special attention to disambiguating parentheticals such as 'bats, the furry animals, are not easy to find'. The essay proposes an enriched representation of conversati... Read More about Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals.

The matter of motivating reasons (2021)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J. J. (2022). The matter of motivating reasons. Philosophical Studies, 179, 1563-1589. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01719-9

It is now standard in the literature on reasons and rationality to distinguish normative reasons from motivating reasons. Two issues have dominated philosophical theorising concerning the latter: (i) whether we should think of them as certain (nonfac... Read More about The matter of motivating reasons.

Moral realism, quasi‐realism and moral steadfastness (2021)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, J. (2022). Moral realism, quasi‐realism and moral steadfastness. Ratio, 35(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12322

Some moral propositions are so obviously true that we refuse to doubt them, even where we believe that many people disagree. Following Fritz and McPherson, I call our behaviour in such cases ‘moral steadfastness’. In this paper, I argue for two metae... Read More about Moral realism, quasi‐realism and moral steadfastness.

Moral Worth and Knowing How to Respond to Reasons (2021)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J. J. (2022). Moral Worth and Knowing How to Respond to Reasons. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 105(2), 385-405. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12825

It's one thing to do the right thing. It's another to be creditable for doing the right thing. Being creditable for doing the right thing requires that one does the right thing out of a morally laudable motive and that there is a non-accidental fit b... Read More about Moral Worth and Knowing How to Respond to Reasons.