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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/ayac036

In 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.

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/9780190887353.013.25

In ‘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.2022.2102838

Chad 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.

COVID-19, Care Ethics, and Vulnerability (2022)
Book Chapter
Baron, T. (2022). COVID-19, Care Ethics, and Vulnerability. In G. Schweiger (Ed.), The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection (157-176). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97982-9_10

The economic crash of 2008 demonstrated the fragility of financial systems throughout the world; COVID-19, as the first pandemic in over a century to wreak global havoc, has demonstrated the fragility of healthcare systems. At the time of writing, th... Read More about COVID-19, Care Ethics, and Vulnerability.

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/10.5040/9781350246928.0011

Does 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.

The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply (2022)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2022). The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply. Organon F, 29(2), 275-282. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29206

Personites are shorter-lived, person-like things that extend across part of a person’s life. Their existence follows from the standard perdurance view of persons. Johnston argues that it has bizarre moral consequences. For example, it renders morally... Read More about The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply.

Sven Nyholm, Humans and Robots; Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism (2022)
Journal Article
Farina, L. (2022). Sven Nyholm, Humans and Robots; Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 19(2), 221-224. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-19020007

How should human beings and robots interact with one another? Nyholm’s answer to this question is given below in the form of a conditional:

If a robot looks or behaves like an animal or a human being then we should treat them with a degree of mora... Read More about Sven Nyholm, Humans and Robots; Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism.

Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments (2022)
Journal Article
Chauhan, V., Crowley, T., Fisher, A., McCabe, H., & Williams, H. (2022). Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments. Metaphilosophy, 53(1), 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12538

Should philosophy of race be taught as part of a philosophy degree? This paper argues that it should. After surveying 1,166 modules on offer in 2019–2020, across forty-seven philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, however, the authors identifie... Read More about Losing the race? Philosophy of race in U.K. philosophy departments.

Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics (2021)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2021). Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics. Logique et Analyse, 256, 403-423

Susan Stebbing's reflections on method in metaphysics are deserving of sustained attention by historians of analytic philosophy, not least because her work was for some time unduly sidelined. In this paper I build on recent reassessments of Stebbing'... Read More about Susan Stebbing and the Truthmaker Approach to Metaphysics.

Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality (2021)
Journal Article
Kidd, I. J. (2021). Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality. Educational Philosophy and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2017883

This paper describes a neglected aspect of the critique of academic ‘cultures of speed’ offered by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeler in The Slow Professor. I argue internalisation of the values and imperatives of cultures of speed can encourage the eros... Read More about Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality.

Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks (2021)
Journal Article
Egerton, K. (2022). Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(1), 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab058

Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games-... Read More about Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks.

Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past (2021)
Journal Article
Mackie, P. (2022). Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past. Philosophical Studies, 179, 1873-1892. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01736-8

In several writings, John Martin Fischer has argued that those who deny a principle about abilities that he calls ‘the Fixity of the Past’ are committed to absurd conclusions concerning practical reasoning. I argue that Fischer’s ‘practical rationali... Read More about Ability, Relevant Possibilities, and the Fixity of the Past.

The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence (2021)
Book Chapter
Curtis, B., & Noonan, H. (2021). The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence. In J. Noller (Ed.), The unity of a person : philosophical perspectives. Routledge

In this paper we argue that persons should be defined as being things that are sometimes capable of first-person thought. We then defend an account (the Hybrid Account) of their persistence conditions. According to it psychological continuity and bio... Read More about The Hybrid Account of Personal Persistence.

Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals (2021)
Journal Article
Predelli, S. (2021). Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals. Synthese, 199(5-6), 13569-13582. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03389-w

This essay presents an analysis of the conversational role of disambiguation, with special attention to disambiguating parentheticals such as 'bats, the furry animals, are not easy to find'. The essay proposes an enriched representation of conversati... Read More about Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals.