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Aristotle's Categories 7 adopts Plato's view of relativity (2018)
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Criteria of identity, personal identity and the simple view (2018)
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Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology (2018)
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I argue that evolutionary debunking arguments are dialectically ineffective against a range of plausible positions regarding moral truth. I first (§1) distinguish debunking arguments which target the truth of moral judgements from those which target... Read More about Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology.

Are Perceptual Reasons the Objects of Perception? (2018)
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This paper begins with a Davidsonian puzzle in the epistemology of perception and introduces two solutions to that puzzle: the Truth-Maker View (TMV) and the Content Model. The paper goes on to elaborate (TMV), elements of which can be found in the w... Read More about Are Perceptual Reasons the Objects of Perception?.

When Are Structural Equation Models Apt? Causation versus Grounding (2018)
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While much about the notion of ground in contemporary metaphysics is contested, there is large agreement that ground is closely connected to a certain kind of explanation. Recently, Jonathan Schaffer and Alastair Wilson have argued that ground is a r... Read More about When Are Structural Equation Models Apt? Causation versus Grounding.

Object Seeing and Spatial Perception (2018)
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This chapter considers the Spatiality Claim: if one sees an object then one sees some of that object’s spatial properties. The author considers an argument for this given by Cassam (2007), and challenges Cassam’s argument. His argument involves the i... Read More about Object Seeing and Spatial Perception.

From nature to grounding (2018)
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Grounding is a powerful metaphysical concept; yet there is widespread scepticism about the intelligibility of the notion. In this paper, I propose an account of an entity’s nature or essence, which I then use to provide grounding conditions for that... Read More about From nature to grounding.

The Simple and Complex Views of Personal Identity Distinguished (2017)
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Multiple-Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid Accounts of Punishment (2017)
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© Oxford University Press 2018. This chapter examines one intuitively appealing legal practice for which retributivist accounts struggle to find justification: multiple-offense sentencing discounts. It also considers several proposed strategies for j... Read More about Multiple-Offense Sentencing Discounts: Score One for Hybrid Accounts of Punishment.

Credit and Investment: A Matter of Faith (2017)
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Weil's Boat: on being and becoming (2017)
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What women are for: pornography and social ontology (2017)
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This chapter uses John Searle’s account of institutional reality to offer an interpretation of two of Catharine MacKinnon’s claims about pornography. The first is that it subordinates women; the second is that it wrongly constructs women’s natures. T... Read More about What women are for: pornography and social ontology.

Collateral Restrictions (2016)
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Hybrid theories (2015)
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Identity over time, constitution and the problem of personal identity (2015)
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Castles Built on Clouds: Vague Identity and Vague Objects (2014)
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Can identity itself be vague? Can there be vague objects? Does a positive answer to either question entail a positive answer to the other? In this chapter, we answer these questions as follows: no, no, and yes. First, we discuss Evans’s famous 1978 a... Read More about Castles Built on Clouds: Vague Identity and Vague Objects.

Combinatorialism revisited (2004)
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The object of this paper is to argue once again for the combinatorial account of possibility defended in earlier work (Armstrong, 1989, 1997). But there I failed fully to realise the dialectical advantages that accrue once one begins by assuming the... Read More about Combinatorialism revisited.

Art and the anthropologists
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