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Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter? (2023)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2024). Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?. Environmental Values, 33(3), 296–310. https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231171836

It is often supposed that valuable organisms are more valuable if they are rare. Likewise if they belong to endangered species. I consider what kinds of value rarity and endangerment can add in such cases. I argue that individual organisms of a valua... Read More about Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?.

How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage (2023)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2023). How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 30(4), 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739124000079

This paper discusses some of the major ethical issues that arise in connection with the widespread holding of cultural heritage by private collectors. If, as many people believe, and UNESCO has affirmed, cultural heritage is, in some morally signific... Read More about How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage.

Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany (2023)
Book Chapter
Dunham, J. (2023). Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany. In K. Chepurin, A. Efal-Lautenschläger, D. Whistler, & A. Yuva (Eds.), Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France (199-215). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39326-6_10

This study focuses on Charles Renouvier’s Manuel de philosophie moderne, in which he first sketches a philosophical system in dialogue with the “great men of learned Germany” presented as “Descartes’s disciples”. I argue that, although Renouvier aims... Read More about Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany.

The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties (2023)
Journal Article
Saunders, J., & Stern, R. (2023). The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties. ERGO, 10(12), 341-371. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.4642

In this paper, we do two things: first, we offer a metaphysical account of what it is to be an individual person through Hegel’s understanding of the concrete universal; and second, we show how this account of an individual can help in thinking about... Read More about The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties.

Christine Ladd-Franklin (2023)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2023). Christine Ladd-Franklin. In A. L. Stone, & L. Moland (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.16

Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American mathematician, logician, psychologist, and philosopher who studied at Vassar and Johns Hopkins and worked in institutions Germany and the United States. Although her scientific career spanned seemingly disparat... Read More about Christine Ladd-Franklin.

The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature. (2023)
Journal Article
Gillen, C., Jeancolas, C., McMahon, S., & Vickers, P. (2023). The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature. Astrobiology, 23(11), 1228-1237. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2023.0010

The term has become increasingly prevalent in astrobiology literature as our ability to search for life advances. Although this term has been useful to the community, its definition is not settled. Existing definitions conflict sharply over the bal... Read More about The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature..

Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed? (2023)
Journal Article
Jeancolas, C., Gillen, C., McMahon, S., Ward, M., & Vickers, P. J. (2024). Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?. International Journal of Astrobiology, 23, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1473550423000241

Astrobiology is a scientific endeavour involving great uncertainties. This could justify intellectual risk-taking associated with research that significantly deviates from the mainstream, to explore new avenues. However, little is known regarding the... Read More about Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?.

Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school (2023)
Journal Article
Whyman, T. (2025). Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 51(6), 951-970. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231203525

In a recent article, Fabian Freyenhagen argues that we should understand first-generation Frankfurt School critical theory (in particular, the work of Adorno and Horkheimer) as being defined by a kind of ‘linguistic turn’ analogous to one present in... Read More about Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school.