HAROLD NOONAN's Outputs (5)

The problem of reference change (2020)
Book Chapter
Noonan, H. (2020). The problem of reference change. In S. Biggs, & H. Geirsson (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of linguistic reference (600). Routledge

From Essence to Metaphysical Modality? (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2022). From Essence to Metaphysical Modality?. Axiomathes, 32(2), 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10516-020-09527-2

How can we acquire knowledge of metaphysical modality? How can someone come to know that he could have been elsewhere right now, or an accountant rather than a philosophy teacher, but could not have been a turnip? Jago proposes an account of a route... Read More about From Essence to Metaphysical Modality?.

Are personites a problem for endurantists? (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2020). Are personites a problem for endurantists?. Philosophical Forum, 51(4), 399-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/phil.12270

The Great Western Railway (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. W. (2020). The Great Western Railway. Philosophia, 49(2), 741-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00260-z

In On The Plurality of Worlds Lewis presents the case of the Great Western Railway as a candidate counter-example, along with the usual suspects, to the thesis that two things cannot be in the same place at the same time. Typically, pluralists or man... Read More about The Great Western Railway.

Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited (2020)
Journal Article
Noonan, H. (2020). Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited. Metaphysica, 21(1), 151–165. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2020-0004

Blackburn argues against naturalistic moral realism. He argues that there is no conceptual entailment from satisfying a naturalistic predicate to satisfying a moral predicate. But the moral is conceptually supervenient on the natural. However, this c... Read More about Blackburn’s Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism: Revisited.