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Perception, Mind-Independence, and Berkeley (2019)
Journal Article
Mackie, P. (2020). Perception, Mind-Independence, and Berkeley. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98(3), 449-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2019.1648532

I discuss a thesis that I call 'The Appearance of Mind-Independence', to the effect that, to the subject of an ordinary perceptual experience, it seems that the experience involves the awareness of a mind-independent world. Although this thesis appea... Read More about Perception, Mind-Independence, and Berkeley.

An Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity (2019)
Journal Article
Morizzi, C. (2019). An Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity. British Journal of Aesthetics, 59(4), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayz020

In this paper I defend a contextualist interpretation of authenticity in musical performance: we judge a performance as authentic not in respect to a stable set of requirements but according to contextually determined factors. This solution is the na... Read More about An Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity.

The Possibility of Unity (2019)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2019). The Possibility of Unity. Philosophical Quarterly, 70(279), 407-409. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz038

In One Priest argues for the contradictoriness of Unity. The argument is that the unity of complex things is contradictory. It is contradictory that there are complex wholes composed of many parts. But there are. Thus, the explanation of unity has to... Read More about The Possibility of Unity.

Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy (2019)
Journal Article
Hannon, M. (2020). Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101(3), 591-611. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12624

Epistemic democracy is standardly characterized in terms of “aiming at truth”. This presupposes a veritistic conception of epistemic value, according to which truth is the fundamental epistemic goal. I will raise an objection to the standard (veritis... Read More about Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy.

“… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences (2019)
Journal Article
Creswick, H., Dowthwaite, L., Koene, A., Vallejos, E. P., Portillo, V., Cano, M., & Woodard, C. (2019). “… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 17(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-11-2018-0090

© 2019, Helen Creswick, Liz Dowthwaite, Ansgar Koene, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Virginia Portillo, Monica Cano and Christopher Woodard. Purpose: The voices of children and young people have been largely neglected in discussions of the extent to which th... Read More about “… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences.

Review of Mark Dsouza’s Rationale-Based Defences in Criminal Law (2019)
Journal Article
Hoskins, Z. (2019). Review of Mark Dsouza’s Rationale-Based Defences in Criminal Law. Criminal Law and Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-019-09500-0

Hybrid Theories of Well-Being (2019)
Book Chapter
Woodard, C. (2019). Hybrid Theories of Well-Being. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee894

Hybrid theories of well-being combine elements of two or more kinds of theory. The most familiar kinds of hybrid combine a subjective requirement (e.g. that a constituent of well-being is enjoyed or desired) with an objective requirement (e.g. that i... Read More about Hybrid Theories of Well-Being.

Subjective Theories of Well-Being (2019)
Book Chapter
Woodard, C. (2019). Subjective Theories of Well-Being. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (1-8). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee927

Subjective theories of well-being seek to explain what makes something good for a subject in terms of that subject's psychological states. Two ways of distinguishing subjective and non-subjective theories are explained. The main issue dividing subjec... Read More about Subjective Theories of Well-Being.

The Basis of Debasing Scepticism (2019)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J. J. (2021). The Basis of Debasing Scepticism. Erkenntnis, 86, 813-833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00133-2

This paper purports to provide a fresh cashing out of Debasing Scepticism: the type of Scepticism put on the map in a recent article by Jonathan Schaffer, with a view to demonstrating that the Debasing Sceptic's argument is not so easily dismissed as... Read More about The Basis of Debasing Scepticism.

Impossible Worlds (2019)
Book
Berto, F., & Jago, M. (2019). Impossible Worlds. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812791.001.0001

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge... Read More about Impossible Worlds.

Four Dthats (2019)
Journal Article
Predelli, S. (2021). Four Dthats. Synthese, 198, 2959-2972. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02257-y

The distinction between a merely ‘rigidifying’ dthat and a directly-referential take on dthat-terms is well known, and is explicitly highlighted by Kaplan in Afterthoughts, his 1989 commentary on Demonstratives. What is not equally widely recognized... Read More about Four Dthats.

Against Incapacitative Punishment (2019)
Book Chapter
Hoskins, Z. (2019). Against Incapacitative Punishment. In J. W. de Keijser, J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Predictive Sentencing: Normative and Empirical PerspectivesBloomsbury Publishing

The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence, by Susanna Schellenberg (2019)
Journal Article
French, C. (2020). The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence, by Susanna Schellenberg. Mind, 129(513), 339-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzz026

Epistemological disjunctivism and its representational commitments (2019)
Book Chapter
French, C. (2019). Epistemological disjunctivism and its representational commitments. In C. Doyle, J. Milburn, & D. Pritchard (Eds.), New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism. Routledge

Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction (2019)
Book
Hoskins, Z. (2019). Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199389230.001.0001

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods. Some may be deported, may be subjected to contin... Read More about Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction.

Presentism and the spans of time (2019)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Ingram, D. (2020). Presentism and the spans of time. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101(1), 200-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12590

Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Knowledge in Euthydemus 293b7–d1 (2019)
Journal Article
Duncombe, M. (2019). Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Knowledge in Euthydemus 293b7–d1. Australasian Philosophical Review, 3(2), 198-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2020.1716666

McCabe [2021: 137–40] identifies a crucial ambiguity in the terms ‘learns’ and ‘knows’. Such terms can be read as either ‘perfective’ or ‘imperfective’. This is an aspect difference. The former indicates a settled state, the latter a directed process... Read More about Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Knowledge in Euthydemus 293b7–d1.

Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles (2019)
Journal Article
Kisolo-Ssonko, J. (2019). Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles. Monist, 102(2), 172-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onz004

© The Author(s), 2019. Charles Mills claims that there are specific "civic and political duties" which individuals have a responsibility to fulfil because of the racial social roles they occupy. However, even those generally sympathetic to Role Ethic... Read More about Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles.

The Challenge to Nihilism (2019)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2019). The Challenge to Nihilism. Analytic Philosophy, 60(1), 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12142

Personal Identity (2019)
Book
Noonan, H. (2019). Personal Identity. (3rd). New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107240

Who am I? What is a person? What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another? What is the relation between the mind and the body? These are just some of the questions that constitute the problem of personal identity, one of the olde... Read More about Personal Identity.