Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent
(2023)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2023). Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent. In J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (51-69). Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509957460.ch-004
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Fission, Self-Interest and Commonsense Ethics (2023)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2023). Fission, Self-Interest and Commonsense Ethics. Philosophia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00611-6Jacob Ross argues that the fission cases discussed in the personal identity literature cannot be accommodated without rejecting basic intuitions of everyday ethical thinking. He notes that many philosophers have responded to the challenge of fission... Read More about Fission, Self-Interest and Commonsense Ethics.
Naïve Realism, the Slightest Philosophy, and the Slightest Science (2023)
Book Chapter
French, C., & Phillips, I. (2023). Naïve Realism, the Slightest Philosophy, and the Slightest Science. In B. P. McLaughlin, & J. Cohen (Eds.), Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Mind (363-383). (2nd). Wiley-Blackwell
Presentism and representation: saying it without words (2023)
Journal Article
Baron, S., Miller, K., & Tallant, J. (2023). Presentism and representation: saying it without words. Synthese, 201(2), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03987-2The Triviality Argument against presentism maintains that we should reject presentism because there is no way to define the view that is not either trivially true or obviously false. We suggest that this style of argument over-emphasises purely lingu... Read More about Presentism and representation: saying it without words.
Infinite Regress Arguments as per impossibile Arguments in Aristotle: De Caelo 300a30–b1, Posterior Analytics 72b5–10, Physics V.2 225b33–226a10 (2023)
Journal Article
Duncombe, M. (2023). Infinite Regress Arguments as per impossibile Arguments in Aristotle: De Caelo 300a30–b1, Posterior Analytics 72b5–10, Physics V.2 225b33–226a10. Rhizomata, 10(2), 262-282. https://doi.org/10.1515/rhiz-2022-0015Infinite regress arguments are a powerful tool in Aristotle, but this style of argument has received relatively little attention. Improving our understanding of infinite regress arguments has become pressing since recent scholars have pointed out tha... Read More about Infinite Regress Arguments as per impossibile Arguments in Aristotle: De Caelo 300a30–b1, Posterior Analytics 72b5–10, Physics V.2 225b33–226a10.
Punishment's Burdens on the Innocent (2022)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2022). Punishment's Burdens on the Innocent. Journal of Applied Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12642Critics of state punishment have frequently pointed out that its imposition sometimes involves the infliction of burdens on innocent people: namely, those falsely convicted of crimes and punished. Punishment also creates significant burdens for innoc... Read More about Punishment's Burdens on the Innocent.
The Value and Significance of Ill-Being (2022)
Journal Article
Woodard, C. (2022). The Value and Significance of Ill-Being. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 46, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5840/msp202212130Since Shelly Kagan pointed out the relative neglect of ill-being in philosophical discussions, several philosophers have contributed to an emerging literature on its constituents. In doing so, they have explored possible asymmetries between the const... Read More about The Value and Significance of Ill-Being.
Aesthetic Testimony: an Optimistic Approach (2022)
Book
Robson, J. (2022). Aesthetic Testimony: an Optimistic Approach. Oxford University Press (OUP)
Review: Who needs a world view? (2022)
Journal Article
Duff, K., & Evans, J. (2024). Review: Who needs a world view?. Contemporary Political Theory, 23, 336-339. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-022-00593-2Co-authored with James Evans (james.evanst@petcheyacademy.org.uk). Review of: Who needs a world view? Raymond Geuss Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2020, 208pp., ISBN 9780674245938
Artificial Intelligence Systems, Responsibility and Agential Self-Awareness (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Farina, L. (2022). Artificial Intelligence Systems, Responsibility and Agential Self-Awareness. In V. C. Müller (Ed.), Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2021 (15-25). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09153-7_2This paper investigates the claim that artificial Intelligence Systems cannot be held morally responsible because they do not have an ability for agential self-awareness e.g. they cannot be aware that they are the agents of an action. The main sugges... Read More about Artificial Intelligence Systems, Responsibility and Agential Self-Awareness.
Truthmaker Accounts of Propositions (2022)
Book Chapter
Jago, M. (2022). Truthmaker Accounts of Propositions. In C. Tillman, & A. R. Murray (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Propositions. Routledge
Concepts May Still Be Objects (2022)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2022). Concepts May Still Be Objects. Organon F, 29(3), 376-388. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29304
Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism (2022)
Journal Article
Robson, J., & Sinclair, N. (2023). Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism. British Journal of Aesthetics, 63(2), 181-197. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayac036In this paper we sketch a new version of aesthetic expressivism. We argue that one advantage of this view is that it explains various putative norms on the formation and revision of aesthetic judgement. We begin by setting out our proposed explananda... Read More about Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism.
The Evolutionary Debunking Of Quasi-realism (2022)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, N., & Chamberlain, J. (2023). The Evolutionary Debunking Of Quasi-realism. In D. E. Machuca (Ed.), Evolutionary Debunking Arguments: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology (33-55). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)In “The Evolutionary Debunking of Quasi-Realism,” Neil Sinclair and James Chamberlain present a novel answer that quasi-realists can pro-vide to a version of the reliability challenge in ethics—which asks for an explanation of why our moral... Read More about The Evolutionary Debunking Of Quasi-realism.
Trusting What Ought to Happen (2022)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2024). Trusting What Ought to Happen. Erkenntnis, 89(5), 1887-1902. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00608-9This paper introduces a new account of trust and distrust. The core aim of the paper is to introduce an account of trust that places treats trust and what ‘ought’ to happen as close conceptual companions. Over the course of the paper, I develop the a... Read More about Trusting What Ought to Happen.
The First Person and ‘The First Person’ (2022)
Book Chapter
Noonan, H. (2022). The First Person and ‘The First Person’. In R. Teichmann (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe (397-412). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190887353.013.25In ‘The First Person’ Anscombe argues that ‘I’ is not a referring expression: ‘I’ is neither a name nor another kind of expression whose logical role is to make a reference, at all. Her no-reference thesis has met with general incredulity. This chapt... Read More about The First Person and ‘The First Person’.
Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment (2022)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2022). Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment. Criminal Justice Ethics, 41(2), 121-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2022.2102838Chad Flanders has argued that retributivism is inconsistent with John Rawls’s core notion of public reason, which sets out those considerations on which legitimate exercises of state power can be based. Flanders asserts that retributivism is grounded... Read More about Public Reason and the Justification of Punishment.
Reasons for Rule Consequentialists (2022)
Journal Article
Woodard, C. (2022). Reasons for Rule Consequentialists. Ratio, 35(4), 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12352This paper explores what a Rule Consequentialist of Brad Hooker's sort can and should say about normative reasons for action. I claim that they can provide a theory of reasons, but that doing so requires distinguishing different roles of rules in the... Read More about Reasons for Rule Consequentialists.
All Designators are Rigid (2022)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2023). All Designators are Rigid. Metaphysica, 24(1), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0040In Naming and Necessity Kripke introduces the concept of a rigid designator and argues that proper names are rigid designators. He argues that in this way they are different from typical definite descriptions (though he allows that some definite desc... Read More about All Designators are Rigid.
Personal Identity and Morality (2022)
Book Chapter
Noonan, H. (2022). Personal Identity and Morality. In K. Tobia (Ed.), Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self (87-97). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350246928.0011Does the true account of personal identity undermine everyday moral thinking? Do every day moral practices presuppose a false account of our nature and persistence conditions? I shall consider the three main accounts of personal identity in the conte... Read More about Personal Identity and Morality.