Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (220)

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.

Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections (2014)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2015). Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections. Theoria, 81(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12062

Ross Cameron puts forward a novel solution to the truthmaker problem facing presentism. I claim that, by Cameron's own lights, the view is not in fact a presentist view at all, but rather requires us to endorse a form of Priority Presentism, whereby... Read More about Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections.

Mumford and Anjum on incompatibilism, powers and determinism (2014)
Journal Article
Mackie, P. (2014). Mumford and Anjum on incompatibilism, powers and determinism. Analysis, 74(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anu088

Mumford and Anjum (2014) present a new argument for the incompatibility of free will and causal determinism. Although their argument depends on the assumption that free will is, or is the exercise of, a causal power, it does not appeal to any special... Read More about Mumford and Anjum on incompatibilism, powers and determinism.

Causal theories of explanation and the challenge of explanatory disagreement (2014)
Journal Article
Jansson, L. (2014). Causal theories of explanation and the challenge of explanatory disagreement. Philosophy of Science, 81(3), https://doi.org/10.1086/676687

When evaluating the success of causal theories of explanation the focus has typically been on the legitimacy of causal relations and on putative examples of explanations that we cannot capture in causal terms. Here I motivate the existence of a third... Read More about Causal theories of explanation and the challenge of explanatory disagreement.

Kaplan's three monsters (2014)
Journal Article
Predelli, S. (2014). Kaplan's three monsters. Analysis, 74(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anu059

This paper analytically distinguishes three concepts of a semantic 'monster', that is, of an operator on character, which are commonly confused in the literature

The formulation of epistemological disjunctivism (2014)
Journal Article
French, C. (2016). The formulation of epistemological disjunctivism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 92(1), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12105

I argue that we should question the orthodox way of thinking about epistemological disjunctivism. I suggest that we can formulate epistemological disjunctivism in terms of states of seeing things as opposed to states of seeing that p. Not only does t... Read More about The formulation of epistemological disjunctivism.

Impossible Worlds (2013)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2015). Impossible Worlds. Noûs, 49(4), 713-728. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12051

© 2013 The Author(s). NOÛS published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Impossible worlds are representations of impossible things and impossible happenings. They earn their keep in a semantic or metaphysical theory if they do the right theoretical work for... Read More about Impossible Worlds.