Outputs (346)

Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference (2025)
Journal Article
HANNON, M. (in press). Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference. Philosophical Studies,

This paper examines the claim that marginalized individuals possess unique epistemic advantages regarding oppression. Drawing on recent work in the epistemology of understanding, it challenges strong interpretations of the epistemic advantage thesis,... Read More about Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference.

A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (in press). A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures. Analytic Philosophy,

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.

Irrational trust and its consequences (2025)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2025). Irrational trust and its consequences. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2506130

With the specific target being three-placed accounts of trust that are prominent within the philosophical literature. Towards the end of the paper, I pursue a particular challenge to the claim that we have irrational trust. I demonstrate that what th... Read More about Irrational trust and its consequences.

Metz on the Common Good and the Relational Theory (2025)
Journal Article
Woodard, C. (2025). Metz on the Common Good and the Relational Theory. Social Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2025512238

This paper discusses Thaddeus Metz's claims about two of the moral theories he discusses in his book A Relational Moral Theory: the morality of common good developed by Kwame Gyekye, and the relational theory Metz himself defends. The paper begins by... Read More about Metz on the Common Good and the Relational Theory.

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.

Reason-giving and Persuasion: Stevenson on Method in Ethics (2025)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, N. Reason-giving and Persuasion: Stevenson on Method in Ethics. In R. Handley (Ed.), C.L. Stevenson. Springer

In this chapter I summarise Stevenson’s views concerning method in ethics, first tracing their origins in his views about emotive meaning (§2) and the nature of ethical disagreement (§§3-5). Subsequently I outline his views on the nature of reason-gi... Read More about Reason-giving and Persuasion: Stevenson on Method in Ethics.

On the Myth of Psychotherapy (2025)
Journal Article
French, C. (2025). On the Myth of Psychotherapy. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 32(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2025.a954585

Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz’ claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been... Read More about On the Myth of Psychotherapy.

On The Myth of Psychotherapy (2025)
Journal Article
French, C. (2025). On The Myth of Psychotherapy . Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 32(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2025.a954585

Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz' claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been... Read More about On The Myth of Psychotherapy .

Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes (2025)
Journal Article
Salgado Borge, A. (2025). Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2025.2472616

In this paper, I argue for a novel defence of the view that attributes are numerically distinct for Spinoza, which, contrary to paradigmatic objectivist readings, does not contradict his substance monism nor commit him to the view that the only subst... Read More about Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes.

The Tawḥīds of Ibn Taymiyya (2025)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2025). The Tawḥīds of Ibn Taymiyya. In W. Amin, S. Rizvi, & A. Hughes (Eds.), Islamic Perspectives on God and (Other) Monotheism(s). AMI Press