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Schrödinger's Cat and Digital Empathy: How Primary School Children Understand and Respond to Others' Feelings in Online Spaces (2025)
Journal Article
O'reilly, M., Levine, D., Adams, S., Batchelor, R., & Sinclair, N. (2025). Schrödinger's Cat and Digital Empathy: How Primary School Children Understand and Respond to Others' Feelings in Online Spaces. Children & Society, https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12992

Children's digital and physical worlds are increasingly entwined as they build and manage meaningful connections online. Central to this is digital empathy and responsible online conduct, that is, a digital ethics of care. We focus on 10–11-year-old... Read More about Schrödinger's Cat and Digital Empathy: How Primary School Children Understand and Respond to Others' Feelings in Online Spaces.

A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2025). A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures. Analytic Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12386

Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism (2001: 126ff.) has long been seen as one of the most powerful, or perhaps the most powerful, in the perdurantist’s arsenal. In its absence the case against endurantism is significantly weakened. Despite its... Read More about A flaw in Sider’s vagueness argument for perdurantism: endurantism endures.

Philosophy with Refugees and Sanctuary Seekers (2025)
Journal Article
Fisher, A., McIntyre, J., & Muhangi, S. (2025). Philosophy with Refugees and Sanctuary Seekers. Teaching Philosophy, 48(2), 231-250. https://doi.org/10.5840/teachphil2025623224

This paper outlines a teaching initiative designed to introduce philosophy to sanctuary seekers and refugees. Despite facing challenges such as scheduling conflicts and inconsistent attendance, the program demonstrated success. Participants displayed... Read More about Philosophy with Refugees and Sanctuary Seekers.

Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference (2025)
Journal Article
HANNON, M. (2025). Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference. Philosophical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02364-2

This paper examines the claim that marginalized individuals possess unique epistemic advantages regarding oppression. Drawing on recent work in the epistemology of understanding, it challenges strong interpretations of the epistemic advantage thesis,... Read More about Social Identity, Understanding, and Deference.

It's not that Simple: An Objectivist Account of Spinoza on God's Essence (2025)
Journal Article
Borge, A. S. (in press). It's not that Simple: An Objectivist Account of Spinoza on God's Essence. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie,

A central objection to objectivist interpretations of Spinoza's theory of attributes is their alleged inconsistency with his commitment to the simplicity of God's essence. This paper offers a novel response to this objection. I begin by outlining two... Read More about It's not that Simple: An Objectivist Account of Spinoza on God's Essence.

Irrational trust and its consequences (2025)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2025). Irrational trust and its consequences. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2506130

With the specific target being three-placed accounts of trust that are prominent within the philosophical literature. Towards the end of the paper, I pursue a particular challenge to the claim that we have irrational trust. I demonstrate that what th... Read More about Irrational trust and its consequences.

Metz on the Common Good and the Relational Theory (2025)
Journal Article
Woodard, C. (2025). Metz on the Common Good and the Relational Theory. Social Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract2025512238

This paper discusses Thaddeus Metz's claims about two of the moral theories he discusses in his book A Relational Moral Theory: the morality of common good developed by Kwame Gyekye, and the relational theory Metz himself defends. The paper begins by... Read More about Metz on the Common Good and the Relational Theory.

The personite problem remains: reply to Montmini and Russo (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2025). The personite problem remains: reply to Montmini and Russo. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2495645

Personites are shorter-lived person-like things temporarily coincident with persons. According to the four-dimensional view, they exist. Mark Johnston argues that acknowledging their existence renders activities which we ought to regard as wholly unp... Read More about The personite problem remains: reply to Montmini and Russo.

Reason-giving and Persuasion: Stevenson on Method in Ethics (2025)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, N. Reason-giving and Persuasion: Stevenson on Method in Ethics. In R. Handley (Ed.), C.L. Stevenson. Springer

In this chapter I summarise Stevenson’s views concerning method in ethics, first tracing their origins in his views about emotive meaning (§2) and the nature of ethical disagreement (§§3-5). Subsequently I outline his views on the nature of reason-gi... Read More about Reason-giving and Persuasion: Stevenson on Method in Ethics.

On the Myth of Psychotherapy (2025)
Journal Article
French, C. (2025). On the Myth of Psychotherapy. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 32(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2025.a954585

Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz’ claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been... Read More about On the Myth of Psychotherapy.

On The Myth of Psychotherapy (2025)
Journal Article
French, C. (2025). On The Myth of Psychotherapy . Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 32(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2025.a954585

Thomas Szasz famously argued that mental illness is a myth. Less famously, Szasz argued that since mental illness is a myth, so too is psychotherapy. Szasz' claim that mental illness is a myth has been much discussed, but much less attention has been... Read More about On The Myth of Psychotherapy .

Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes (2025)
Journal Article
Salgado Borge, A. (2025). Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2025.2472616

In this paper, I argue for a novel defence of the view that attributes are numerically distinct for Spinoza, which, contrary to paradigmatic objectivist readings, does not contradict his substance monism nor commit him to the view that the only subst... Read More about Towards an objectivist reading of Spinoza’s theory of attributes.

The Tawḥīds of Ibn Taymiyya (2025)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2025). The Tawḥīds of Ibn Taymiyya. In W. Amin, S. Rizvi, & A. Hughes (Eds.), Islamic Perspectives on God and (Other) Monotheism(s). AMI Press

Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering (2025)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Jackson, A. (in press). Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering. The Heythrop Journal, 66(2), 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14399

We argue here that bringing insights from evolution and bioengineering to bear on traditional accounts of divine providence helps to illustrate just how complex providence is and how difficult it is to achieve. While other non‐human animals might exh... Read More about Purpose and Providence in Evolutionary Perspective: Considerations for Theological Anthropology in Light of Biocultural Evolution and Genetic Engineering.

God or Natura naturata? Spinoza on the Identity Between God and Nature (2025)
Book Chapter
Salgado Borge, A. (2025). God or Natura naturata? Spinoza on the Identity Between God and Nature. In D. Taylor, & M. Wuth (Eds.), New Perspectives on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: Politics, Power and the Imagination (61-79). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399539296

God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Traditionalist Spatialism (2025)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. God as an Empirical Entity: The Expanded Scope of Sense Perception in Traditionalist Spatialism. In R. Harvey, & S. Chowdhury (Eds.), Analytic Islamic Epistemology: Critical Debates. Edinburgh University Press

No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer (2025)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2025). No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer. Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2465355

Pummer argues against the thesis: Desert. When people culpably do very wrong or bad acts, they deserve punishment in the following sense: at least other things being equal, they ought to be made worse off, simply in virtue of the fact that they culpa... Read More about No reason to doubt desert: reply to Pummer.

A Change of Perspective: Naive Realism and Normal Variation (2025)
Book Chapter
FRENCH, C., & PHILLIPS, I. (2025). A Change of Perspective: Naive Realism and Normal Variation. In O. Beck, & F. Masrour (Eds.), The Relational View of Perception: New Philosophical Essays (154-182). Routledge

Untrustworthiness (2025)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2025). Untrustworthiness. Ratio, 38(1), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12435

Discussions of trustworthiness are not ubiquitous in the philosophical literature (compare remarks by Jones 2012, 61). Nonetheless, there are some attempted analyses and there is excellent work ongoing. The goal of this paper is to focus on trustwort... Read More about Untrustworthiness.

Absolute (metaphysical) (2024)
Book Chapter
Borge, A. (2024). Absolute (metaphysical). In K. Hübner, & J. Steinberg (Eds.), The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon (3-5). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992459.001

Spinoza does not talk about “the Absolute” in the nominative sense that the German Idealists will use later, but he consistently uses the adjective (absoluta/e) and adverb throughout his works. For Spinoza, something is “absolute” in a metaphysical s... Read More about Absolute (metaphysical).