Culture and Machine: Reframing Theology and Economics
(2019)
Journal Article
Goodchild, P. (2019). Culture and Machine: Reframing Theology and Economics. Modern Theology, https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12567
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The Formulation of Disjunctivism About φ-ing for a Reason (2018)
Journal Article
Cunningham, J. J. (2019). The Formulation of Disjunctivism About φ-ing for a Reason. Philosophical Quarterly, 69(275), 235-257. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy019We can contrast rationalising explanations of the form S φs because p with those of the form S φs because S believes that p. According the Common Kind View, the two sorts of explanation are the same. The Disjunctive View denies this. This paper sets... Read More about The Formulation of Disjunctivism About φ-ing for a Reason.
Why purists should be infallibilists (2018)
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Hannon, M. (2018). Why purists should be infallibilists. Philosophical Studies, 177, 689-704. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1200-x© 2018, Springer Nature B.V. Two of the most orthodox ideas in epistemology are fallibilism and purism. According to the fallibilist, one can know that a particular claim is true even though one’s justification for that claim is less than fully concl... Read More about Why purists should be infallibilists.
The Naturalistic Fallacy (2018)
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Sinclair, N. (2018). N. Sinclair (Ed.). The Naturalistic Fallacy. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316717578
It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them (2018)
Journal Article
Tallant, J., & Baron, S. (2021). It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them. Synthese, 198(1), 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01983-zIn this paper we offer a response to one argument in favour of Priority Monism, what Jonathan Schaffer calls the nomic argument for monism. We proceed in three stages. We begin by introducing Jonathan Schaffer’s Priority Monism and the nomic argument... Read More about It's one thing to rule them all and another thing to bind them.
How naive realism can explain both the particularity and the generality of experience (2018)
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French, C., & Gomes, A. (2019). How naive realism can explain both the particularity and the generality of experience. Philosophical Quarterly, 69(274), 41–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy047Visual experiences seem to exhibit phenomenological particularity: when you look at some object, it–that particular object –looks some way to you. But experiences exhibit generality too: when you look at a distinct but qualitatively identical object,... Read More about How naive realism can explain both the particularity and the generality of experience.
The invalidity of the argument from illusion (2018)
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French, C., & Walters, L. (2018). The invalidity of the argument from illusion. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(4), 357-364The argument from illusion attempts to establish the bold claim that we are never perceptually aware of ordinary material objects. The argument has rightly received a great deal critical of scrutiny. But here we develop a criticism that, to our knowl... Read More about The invalidity of the argument from illusion.
Aristotle's Categories 7 adopts Plato's view of relativity (2018)
Book Chapter
Duncombe, M. (2018). Aristotle's Categories 7 adopts Plato's view of relativity. In J. Bryan, R. Wardy, & J. Warren (Eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge University Press
An error in temporal error theory (2018)
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Tallant, J. (2018). An error in temporal error theory. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(1), 14-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.5Within the philosophy of time there has been a growing interest in positions that deny the reality of time. Those positions, whether motivated by arguments from physics or metaphysics, have a shared conclusion: time is not real. What has not been mad... Read More about An error in temporal error theory.
Criteria of identity, personal identity and the simple view (2018)
Book Chapter
NOONAN, H. (2018). Criteria of identity, personal identity and the simple view. In T. Tambassi (Ed.), Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe (159-178). Editiones Scholasticae
Every performance is a stage: musical stage theory as a novel account for the ontology of musical works (2018)
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Moruzzi, C. (2018). Every performance is a stage: musical stage theory as a novel account for the ontology of musical works. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12579This paper defends Musical Stage Theory as a novel account of the ontology of musical works. Its main claim is that a musical work is a performance. The significance of this argument is twofold. First, it demonstrates the availability of an alternati... Read More about Every performance is a stage: musical stage theory as a novel account for the ontology of musical works.
Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology (2018)
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Sinclair, N. (2018). Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology. In R. Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford studies in metaethics. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823841.001.0001I argue that evolutionary debunking arguments are dialectically ineffective against a range of plausible positions regarding moral truth. I first (§1) distinguish debunking arguments which target the truth of moral judgements from those which target... Read More about Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology.
Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism (2018)
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Duff, K. (2018). Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism. Historical Materialism, 26(2), 123-148. https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-00001649Its critics call it ‘feminism-as-crime-control’, or ‘Governance Feminism’, diagnosing it as a pernicious form of identity politics. Its advocates call it taking sexual violence seriously – by which they mean wielding the power of the state to ‘punish... Read More about Feminism Against Crime Control: On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism.
Knowledgeably Responding to Reasons (2018)
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Cunningham, J. (2020). Knowledgeably Responding to Reasons. Erkenntnis, 85(3), 673-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0043-3Jennifer Hornsby has defended the Reasons-Knowledge Thesis (RKT): the claim that Φ -ing because p requires knowing that p, where the ‘because’ at issue is a rationalising ‘because’. She defends (RKT) by appeal to the thought that it provides the best... Read More about Knowledgeably Responding to Reasons.
Toward an account of gender identity (2018)
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Jenkins, K. (2018). Toward an account of gender identity. ERGO, 5(27), 713-744. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.027Although the concept of gender identity plays a prominent role in campaigns for trans rights, it is not well understood, and common definitions suffer from a problematic circularity. This paper undertakes an ameliorative inquiry into the concept of g... Read More about Toward an account of gender identity.
Knowing how things might have been (2018)
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Jago, M. (2021). Knowing how things might have been. Synthese, 198(S8), 1981–1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1869-6I know that I could have been where you are right now and that you could have been where I am right now, but that neither of us could have been turnips or natural numbers. This knowledge of metaphysical modality stands in need of explanation. I will... Read More about Knowing how things might have been.
Compatibilism, indeterminism, and chance (2018)
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Mackie, P. (2018). Compatibilism, indeterminism, and chance. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 82, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246118000140Many contemporary compatibilists about free will and determinism are agnostic about whether determinism is true, yet do not doubt that we have free will. They are thus committed to the thesis that free will is compatible with both determinism and ind... Read More about Compatibilism, indeterminism, and chance.
Are Perceptual Reasons the Objects of Perception? (2018)
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Cunningham, J. J. (2018). Are Perceptual Reasons the Objects of Perception?. In J. Gersel, R. Thybo Jensen, M. S. Thaning, & S. Overgaard (Eds.), In the light of experience: New essays on perception and reasons (256-280). Oxford University Press (OUP)This paper begins with a Davidsonian puzzle in the epistemology of perception and introduces two solutions to that puzzle: the Truth-Maker View (TMV) and the Content Model. The paper goes on to elaborate (TMV), elements of which can be found in the w... Read More about Are Perceptual Reasons the Objects of Perception?.
When Are Structural Equation Models Apt? Causation versus Grounding (2018)
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Jansson, L. (2018). When Are Structural Equation Models Apt? Causation versus Grounding. Explanation Beyond Causation: Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations (250-266). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777946.003.0013While much about the notion of ground in contemporary metaphysics is contested, there is large agreement that ground is closely connected to a certain kind of explanation. Recently, Jonathan Schaffer and Alastair Wilson have argued that ground is a r... Read More about When Are Structural Equation Models Apt? Causation versus Grounding.
Presentism and actualism (2018)
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Noonan, H. (2019). Presentism and actualism. Philosophia, 47(2), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-018-9993-6Presentism, some say, is either the analytic triviality that the only things that exist now are ones that exist now or the obviously false claim that the only things that have ever existed or will are ones that exist now. I argue that the correct und... Read More about Presentism and actualism.