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Russell-names: an introduction to Millian descriptivism (2015)
Journal Article
Predelli, S. (2016). Russell-names: an introduction to Millian descriptivism. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 45(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-015-9390-6

This essay studies the semantic properties of what I call Russell-names. Russell-names bear intimate semantic relations with descriptive conditions, in consonance with the main tenets of descriptivism. Yet, they are endowed with the semantic properti... Read More about Russell-names: an introduction to Millian descriptivism.

Explanatory asymmetries: laws of nature rehabilitated (2015)
Journal Article
Jansson, L. (2015). Explanatory asymmetries: laws of nature rehabilitated. Journal of Philosophy, 112(11), https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil20151121138

The problem of explanatory non-symmetries provides the strongest reason to abandon the view that laws can figure in explanations without causal underpinnings. I argue that this problem can be overcome. The solution that I propose starts from noticing... Read More about Explanatory asymmetries: laws of nature rehabilitated.

Hybrid theories (2015)
Book Chapter
Woodard, C. (2015). Hybrid theories. In G. Fletcher (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of well-being. Routledge

Who’s afraid of the predicate theory of names? (2015)
Journal Article
Predelli, S. (2015). Who’s afraid of the predicate theory of names?. Linguistics and Philosophy, 38(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-015-9177-9

This essay is devoted to an analysis of the semantic significance of a fashionable view of proper names, the Predicate Theory of names (PT), typically developed in the direction of the Metalinguistic Theory of names (MT). According to MT, ‘syntactic... Read More about Who’s afraid of the predicate theory of names?.

Two boxing is not the rational option (2015)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (in press). Two boxing is not the rational option. Ratio, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12093

In the standard Newcomb scenario two-boxing is not the rational act and, in general, in Newcomb-style cases the ‘two-boxing’ choice is not the rational act. Hence any decision theory which recommends two-boxing is unacceptable.

Nefarious presentism (2015)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Ingram, D. (2015). Nefarious presentism. Philosophical Quarterly, 65(260), https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqu095

Presentists, who believe that only present objects exist, face a problem concerning truths about the past. Presentists should (but cannot) locate truth-makers for truths about the past. What can presentists say in response? We identify two rival fact... Read More about Nefarious presentism.

Ontological dependence in a spacetime-world (2015)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2015). Ontological dependence in a spacetime-world. Philosophical Studies, 172(11), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-015-0459-4

Priority Monism (hereafter, ‘Monism’), as defined by Jonathan Schaffer (Philos Rev 119:131–176, 2010), has a number of components. It is the view that: the cosmos exists; the cosmos is a maximal actual concrete object, of which all actual concrete ob... Read More about Ontological dependence in a spacetime-world.

Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind (2015)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2015). Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind. Social Philosophy Today, 31, https://doi.org/10.5840/socphiltoday201551815

Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind is a thoughtful, accessible, philosophically rich look at civic education in U.S. schools. The book’s central claims are, on the whole, quite persuasive. In the interests of fostering further discussion, this e... Read More about Education, civic empowerment, and race: commentary on Meira Levinson’s No Citizen Left Behind.