Outputs (342)

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

Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering (2025)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Jackson, A. (in press). Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering. The Heythrop Journal, 66(2), 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14399

We argue here that bringing insights from evolution and bioengineering to bear on traditional accounts of divine providence helps to illustrate just how complex providence is and how difficult it is to achieve. While other non‐human animals might exh... Read More about Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering.

No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2025). No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2465355

Pummer argues against the thesis: Desert. When people culpably do very wrong or bad acts, they deserve punishment in the following sense: at least other things being equal, they ought to be made worse off, simply in virtue of the fact that they culpa... Read More about No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer.

God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Traditionalist Spatialism (2025)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Traditionalist Spatialism. In R. Harvey, & S. Chowdhury (Eds.), Analytic Islamic Epistemology: Critical Debates. Edinburgh University Press

A Change of Perspective: Naive Realism and Normal Variation (2025)
Book Chapter
FRENCH, C., & PHILLIPS, I. (2025). A Change of Perspective: Naive Realism and Normal Variation. In O. Beck, & F. Masrour (Eds.), The Relational View of Perception: New Philosophical Essays (154-182). Routledge