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Ethical Judgment and Motivation (2017)
Book Chapter
Faraci, D., & McPherson, T. (2017). Ethical Judgment and Motivation. In T. McPherson, & D. Plunkett (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of metaethics (308-323). Routledge

Epistemic Discrimination (2017)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (2017). Epistemic Discrimination. In K. Lippert-Rasmussen (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (54-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681634

Epistemic discrimination is prejudice, bias and discriminatory action suffered by individuals in their position as epistemic agents, that is, as individuals who can acquire knowledge, justified belief or understanding. Epistemic discrimination can be... Read More about Epistemic Discrimination.

Conscious thought and the cognitive fine-tuning problem (2017)
Journal Article
Goff, P. (2017). Conscious thought and the cognitive fine-tuning problem. Philosophical Quarterly, 68(270), 98-122. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqx039

Cognitive phenomenalism is the view that occurrent thoughts are identical with, or constituted of, cognitive phenomenology. This paper raises a challenge for (standard forms of) this view: the cognitive fine-tuning problem. In broad brushstrokes the... Read More about Conscious thought and the cognitive fine-tuning problem.

Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing (2017)
Journal Article
Schleicher, J., Schaafsma, M., Burgess, N. D., Sandbrook, C., Danks, F., Cowie, C., & Vira, B. (2018). Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing. Sustainable Development, 26(1), 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1692

The relationship between sustainable development’s prime goal, human wellbeing, and the natural environment has been narrowly conceived. This paper focuses on the possibility and the implications of treating the natural environment as a ‘constituent’... Read More about Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing.

Is consciousness transcendent? (2017)
Journal Article
Goff, P. (2017). Is consciousness transcendent?. Journal of philosophy of life, 7(1), 21-32

In this paper, I will discuss James Tartaglia’s view on consciousness, as laid out in chapters 4 and 5 of Philosophy in a Meaningless life. Chapter 4 is an excellent critique of physicalist accounts of consciousness. In chapter 5, Tartaglia develops... Read More about Is consciousness transcendent?.