Bird against the Humeans
(2010)
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Noonan, H. (2010). Bird against the Humeans. Ratio, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2009.00451.x
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The thinking animal problem and personal pronoun revisionism (2010)
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Noonan, H. (2010). The thinking animal problem and personal pronoun revisionism. Analysis, 70(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anp137
Perdurance, location and classical mereology (2009)
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Noonan, H. (2009). Perdurance, location and classical mereology. Analysis, 69(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anp073
Free thinking for expressivists (2008)
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Sinclair, N. (2008). Free thinking for expressivists. Philosophical Papers, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/05568640809485222This paper replies to Zangwill’s argument that quasi-realists cannot accommodate the conceptual status of claims of moral mind-independence embedded in ordinary moral thought. I argue that this conceptual status is compatible with an ‘internal readin... Read More about Free thinking for expressivists.
Propositional clothing and belief (2007)
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Sinclair, N. (2007). Propositional clothing and belief. Philosophical Quarterly, 57(228), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.488.xMoral discourse is propositionally clothed, that is, it exhibits those features – such as the ability of its sentences to intelligibly embed in conditionals and other unasserted contexts – that have been taken by some philosophers to be constitutive... Read More about Propositional clothing and belief.
A mereological challenge to endurantism (2007)
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Effingham, N., & Robson, J. (2007). A mereological challenge to endurantism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 85(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/00048400701728541
Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions (2007)
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Sinclair, N. (2007). Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions. Journal of Value Inquiry, 41(2-4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-007-9080-xMany expressivists have employed a claim about the practicality of morality in support of their view that moral convictions are not purely descriptive mental states. In this paper I argue that all extant arguments of this form fail. I distinguish six... Read More about Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions.
The moral belief problem (2006)
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Sinclair, N. (2006). The moral belief problem. Ratio, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2006.00323.xThe moral belief problem is that of reconciling expressivism in ethics with both minimalism in the philosophy of language and the syntactic discipline of moral sentences. It is argued that the problem can be solved by distinguishing minimal and robus... Read More about The moral belief problem.
Two kinds of naturalism in ethics (2006)
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Sinclair, N. (2006). Two kinds of naturalism in ethics. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-006-9017-7What are the conditions on a successful naturalistic account of moral properties? In this paper I discuss one such condition: the possibility of moral concepts playing a role in good empirical theories on a par with those of the natural and social sc... Read More about Two kinds of naturalism in ethics.
In defence of influence? (2001)
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Noordhof, P. (2001). In defence of influence?. Analysis, 61(4),
In pain (2001)
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Noordhof, P. (2001). In pain. Analysis, 61(2),
Moral Requirements are still not Rational Requirements (1999)
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Noordhof, P. (1999). Moral Requirements are still not Rational Requirements. Analysis, 59(3),None
The adequacy of genuine modal realism
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Noonan, H. The adequacy of genuine modal realism. Mind,
Personal pronoun revisonism - asking the right question
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Noonan, H. Personal pronoun revisonism - asking the right question. Analysis, 72(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/ans037
Particularism in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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Leibowitz, U. D. Particularism in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Journal of Moral Philosophy,In this essay I offer a new particularist reading of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. I argue that the interpretation I present not only helps us to resolve some puzzles about Aristotle’s goals and methods, but it also gives rise to a novel account... Read More about Particularism in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
Moderate monism, persistence and sortal concepts
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Noonan, H. Moderate monism, persistence and sortal conceptsCoincidence (e.g., of a statue and the piece of bronze which constitutes it) comes in two varieties – permanent and temporary. Moderate monism (about coincidence) is the position that permanent coincidence, but not temporary coincidence, entails ide... Read More about Moderate monism, persistence and sortal concepts.
Belief and bounded rationality
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Jago, M. (2006). Belief and bounded rationality
Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
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Jago, M. (2006). Imagine the possibilities: information without overloadInformation is often modelled as a set of relevant possibilities, treated as logically possible worlds. However, this has the unintuitive consequence that the logical consequences of an agent's information cannot be informative for that agent. There... Read More about Imagine the possibilities: information without overload.
McGinn on delusion and imagination
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Currie, G., & Jones, N. (2006). McGinn on delusion and imagination
Revisions, and Quiddities
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Armstrong, D. Revisions, and QuidditiesI used to think of the connection between a particular and a universal that it instantiates as a contingent one. Now I think that this is not quite right. This revision, as I now see it, is not a very large one. I still think that the states of affai... Read More about Revisions, and Quiddities.