All Outputs (11)

Temporal holism (2024)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. M. (online). Temporal holism. Philosophical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02267-8

How can a persisting object change whilst remaining the same object? Lewis, who frames this as the problem of temporary intrinsics, presents us with the perdurance solution: objects persist by having temporal parts which may have differing properties... Read More about Temporal holism.

Aristotle’s Alternative to Enduring and Perduring:Lasting (2022)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. M. (2022). Aristotle’s Alternative to Enduring and Perduring:Lasting. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 4(2), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2022.0069

Although Aristotle does not explicitly address persistence, his account of persisting may be derived from a careful consideration of his account of change. On my interpretation, he supposes that motions are mereological unities of their potential tem... Read More about Aristotle’s Alternative to Enduring and Perduring:Lasting.

Aristotle’s Solution to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox and its Implications (2022)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. M. (2022). Aristotle’s Solution to Zeno’s Arrow Paradox and its Implications. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 4(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2022.0061

Cosmic Hylomorphism vs Bohmian Dispositionalism: Implications of the ‘No-Successor Problem’ (2022)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W. M. R., & Pemberton, J. M. (2022). Cosmic Hylomorphism vs Bohmian Dispositionalism: Implications of the ‘No-Successor Problem’. In Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality: Naturalizing Quantum Theory between Scientific Realism and Ontological Indeterminacy (269-282). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99642-0_18

Powers: The No-Successor Problem (2021)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. (2021). Powers: The No-Successor Problem. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 7(2), 213-230. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2020.13

This essay considers the implications for the powers metaphysic of the no-successor problem: As there are no successors in the set of real numbers, one state cannot occur just after another in continuous time without there being a gap between the two... Read More about Powers: The No-Successor Problem.

Mechanisms, laws and explanation (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2020). Mechanisms, laws and explanation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(3), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00284-y

Mechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases whe... Read More about Mechanisms, laws and explanation.

Individuating Processes (2018)
Book Chapter
Pemberton, J. (2018). Individuating Processes. In O. Bueno, R.-L. Chen, & M. B. Fagan (Eds.), Individuation, process, and scientific practices (39-62). Oxford University Press

Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them (2014)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J., & Cartwright, N. (2014). Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them. Erkenntnis, 79(10), 1745-1758. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9639-4

Most of the regularities that get represented as ‘laws’ in our sciences arise from, and are to be found regularly associated with, the successful operation of a nomological machine. Reference to the nomological machine must be included in the cp-clau... Read More about Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them.

Aristotelian Powers: Without Them, What Would Modern Science Do? (2013)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N., & Pemberton, J. (2013). Aristotelian Powers: Without Them, What Would Modern Science Do?. In J. Greco, & R. Gross (Eds.), Powers and capacities in philosophy : the new Aristotelianism (93-112). Routledge

Why idealized models in economics have limited use (2005)
Book Chapter
Pemberton, J. (2005). Why idealized models in economics have limited use. In M. R. Jones, & N. Cartwright (Eds.), Idealization XII: Correcting the Model (35-46). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401202732_005

The Methodology of Actuarial Science (1999)
Journal Article
Pemberton, J. (1999). The Methodology of Actuarial Science. British Actuarial Journal, 5, 115-195. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1357321700000416