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Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem (2013)
Journal Article
Tugby, M. (2013). Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem. Analysis, 73(3), 455-462. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/ant038

The causal nominalist theory of properties appears at first glance to offer a novel nominalist approach and one that can provide an illuminating response to the one over many problem. I argue, however, that on closer inspection causal ‘nominalism’ co... Read More about Causal Nominalism and the One Over Many Problem.

Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian Reading of Janet Frame's Autobiography (2013)
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Gambaudo, S. (2013). Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian Reading of Janet Frame's Autobiography. Life Writing, 10(3), 295-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2013.802412

Narratives express and constrain what we might say about experience. In this paper, I want to explain how Janet Frame (1924–2004) was conditioned by her mother to learn and use pre-agreed narratives of family history, the accurate performance of whic... Read More about Citation of Maternal Narratives: A Butlerian Reading of Janet Frame's Autobiography.

Perceiving Immaterial Paths. (2013)
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Mac Cumhaill, C. (2015). Perceiving Immaterial Paths. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90(3), 687-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12037

In what sense does empty space feature in visual experience? In the first part of this essay I sketch a view advanced by Soteriou (2011) and Richardson (2009) on which one's visual awareness of empty space is explained by appeal to ‘structural’ featu... Read More about Perceiving Immaterial Paths..

Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as formal dialogue systems (2013)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2013). Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as formal dialogue systems. Argumentation, 27(2), 143-166

Formal dialogue systems model rule-based interaction between agents and as such have multiple applications in multi-agent systems and AI more generally. Their conceptual roots are in formal theories of natural argumentation, of which Hamblin’s formal... Read More about Medieval Disputationes de obligationibus as formal dialogue systems.

Epistemic Disagreement and Practical Disagreement. (2013)
Journal Article
Cowie, C. (2014). Epistemic Disagreement and Practical Disagreement. Erkenntnis, 79(1), 191-209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-013-9485-9

It is often thought that the correct metaphysics and epistemology of reasons will be broadly unified across different kinds of reason: reasons for belief, and reasons for action. This approach is sometimes thought to be undermined by the contrasting... Read More about Epistemic Disagreement and Practical Disagreement..

Divergence of Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media (2013)
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Simpson, W. M. R., Horsley, S. A. R., & Leonhardt, U. (2013). Divergence of Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media. Physical Review A, 87(4), Article 043806. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.87.043806

We examine the local behavior of the regularized stress tensor commonly used in calculations of the Casimir force for a dielectric medium inhomogeneous in one direction. It is shown that the usual expression for the stress tensor is not finite anywhe... Read More about Divergence of Casimir stress in inhomogeneous media.

A Confrontation of Convergent Realism (2013)
Journal Article
Vickers, P. (2013). A Confrontation of Convergent Realism. Philosophy of Science, 80(2), 189-211. https://doi.org/10.1086/670297

For many years—and with some energy since Laudan’s “Confutation of Convergent Realism” (1981)—the scientific realist has sought to accommodate examples of false-yet-successful theories in the history of science. One of the most prominent strategies i... Read More about A Confrontation of Convergent Realism.