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Toward an account of gender identity (2018)
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Jenkins, K. (2018). Toward an account of gender identity. ERGO, 5(27), 713-744. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.027

Although the concept of gender identity plays a prominent role in campaigns for trans rights, it is not well understood, and common definitions suffer from a problematic circularity. This paper undertakes an ameliorative inquiry into the concept of g... Read More about Toward an account of gender identity.

Knowing how things might have been (2018)
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Jago, M. (2021). Knowing how things might have been. Synthese, 198(S8), 1981–1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1869-6

I know that I could have been where you are right now and that you could have been where I am right now, but that neither of us could have been turnips or natural numbers. This knowledge of metaphysical modality stands in need of explanation. I will... Read More about Knowing how things might have been.

Compatibilism, indeterminism, and chance (2018)
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Mackie, P. (2018). Compatibilism, indeterminism, and chance. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 82, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246118000140

Many contemporary compatibilists about free will and determinism are agnostic about whether determinism is true, yet do not doubt that we have free will. They are thus committed to the thesis that free will is compatible with both determinism and ind... Read More about Compatibilism, indeterminism, and chance.

Presentism and actualism (2018)
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Noonan, H. (2019). Presentism and actualism. Philosophia, 47(2), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-018-9993-6

Presentism, some say, is either the analytic triviality that the only things that exist now are ones that exist now or the obviously false claim that the only things that have ever existed or will are ones that exist now. I argue that the correct und... Read More about Presentism and actualism.

Naïve realism and diaphaneity (2018)
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French, C. (2018). Naïve realism and diaphaneity. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 118(2), 149-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoy006

Naïve Realists think that the ordinary mind-independent objects that we perceive are constitutive of the character of experience. Some understand this in terms of the idea that experience is diaphanous: that the conscious character of a perceptual ex... Read More about Naïve realism and diaphaneity.

Essential bundle theory and modality (2018)
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Jago, M. (2021). Essential bundle theory and modality. Synthese, 198(4), 1439–1454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1819-3

Bundle theories identify material objects with bundles of properties. On the traditional approach, these are the properties possessed by that material object. That view faces a deep problem: it seems to say that all of an object’s properties are esse... Read More about Essential bundle theory and modality.

Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception (2018)
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French, C. (in press). Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception. Mind and Language, https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12187

Ordinary cases of object seeing involve the visual perception of space and spatial location. But does seeing an object require such spatial perception? An empirical challenge to the idea that it does comes from reflection upon Bálint's syndrome, for... Read More about Bálint's syndrome, object seeing, and spatial perception.

Persistence and modality (2018)
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Mackie, P. (2018). Persistence and modality. Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1776-x

It seems plausible to say that what changes an entity can or cannot survive depends on its persistence conditions, and that these depend, in turn, on its sortal kind. It might seem to follow that an entity cannot belong to two sortal kinds with poten... Read More about Persistence and modality.

Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement? (2018)
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Robson, J. (2018). Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement?. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(4), 657-668. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1389964

It is commonplace amongst philosophers of art to make claims which postulate important links between aesthetics and perception. In this paper, I focus on one such claim: that perception is the canonical route to aesthetic judgement. I consider a rang... Read More about Is perception the canonical route to aesthetic judgement?.

Privacy Rights and Public Information (2018)
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Rumbold, B., & Wilson, J. (2019). Privacy Rights and Public Information. Journal of Political Philosophy, 27(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12158

Causation in a timeless world? (2018)
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Tallant, J. (2018). Causation in a timeless world?. Inquiry, 62(3), 300-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2018.1446051

This paper is an attempt to answer the question, 'could there be causation in a timeless world?' My conclusion: tentatively, yes. The paper and argument have three parts. Part one introduces salient issues and spells out the importance of this (initi... Read More about Causation in a timeless world?.

Omni-beauty as a divine attribute (2018)
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Robson, J. (2019). Omni-beauty as a divine attribute. Religious Studies, 55(1), 55-75. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412518000112

Abstract: the claim that God is perfectly beautiful has played a key role within the history of a number of religious traditions. However, this view has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers of religion in recent decades. In this p... Read More about Omni-beauty as a divine attribute.

The Criminal Is Political: Policing Politics in Real Existing Liberalism (2017)
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Duff, K. (2017). The Criminal Is Political: Policing Politics in Real Existing Liberalism. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 3(4), 485-502. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2017.39

The familiar irony of ‘real existing socialism’ is that it never was. Socialist ideals were used to legitimize regimes that fell far short of realizing those ideals—indeed, that violently repressed anyone who tried to realize them. This paper suggest... Read More about The Criminal Is Political: Policing Politics in Real Existing Liberalism.

Fischer and the fixity of the past (2017)
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Mackie, P. (in press). Fischer and the fixity of the past. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.2028

Determination and uniformity: the problem with speech-act theories of fiction (2017)
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Predelli, S. (2019). Determination and uniformity: the problem with speech-act theories of fiction. Erkenntnis, 84(2), 309–324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9959-2

Taking inspiration from Searle’s ‘The Logic of Fictional Discourse’, this essay presents an argument against different versions of the so-called ‘speech act theory of fiction’. In particular, it argues that a Uniformity Argument may be constructed, w... Read More about Determination and uniformity: the problem with speech-act theories of fiction.

Presentism remains (2017)
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Tallant, J. (2019). Presentism remains. Erkenntnis, 84(2), 409–435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9965-4

Here I examine some recent attempts to provide a new way of thinking about the philosophy of time that question the central role of ‘presentness’ within the definition of presentism. The central concern raised by these critics turns on the intelligib... Read More about Presentism remains.

The new Aristotelian essentialists (2017)
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Noonan, H. (2018). The new Aristotelian essentialists. Metaphysica, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2018-0004

In recent years largely due to the seminal work of Kit Fine and that of Jonathan Lowe there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of essence and the project of explaining de re necessity in terms of it. Of course, Quine rejected what he ca... Read More about The new Aristotelian essentialists.

What good is meaning in life? (2017)
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Woodard, C. (2017). What good is meaning in life?. De Ethica, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.17467

Most philosophers writing on meaning in life agree that it is a distinct kind of final value. This consensus view has two components: the ‘final value claim’ that meaning in life is a kind of final value, and the ‘distinctness claim’ that it is disti... Read More about What good is meaning in life?.

Is believing for a normative reason a composite condition? (2017)
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Cunningham, J. J. (2019). Is believing for a normative reason a composite condition?. Synthese, 196(9), 3889-3910. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1630-6

Here is a surprisingly neglected question in contemporary epistemology: what is it for an agent to believe that p in response to a normative reason for them to believe that p? On one style of answer, believing for the normative reason that q factors... Read More about Is believing for a normative reason a composite condition?.

Explanatory abstractions (2017)
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Jansson, L., & Saatsi, J. (2019). Explanatory abstractions. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 70(3), 817–844. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx016

A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mathematical, explanations explain in a way that is radically different from the way causal explanation explain. Namely, while causal explanations explai... Read More about Explanatory abstractions.