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Tensed Emotions, Evolution, and Time (2017)
Journal Article
Pearson, O. (2018). Tensed Emotions, Evolution, and Time. Philosophia, 46(2), 401-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9927-8

Prior showed that one could be relieved that the exams were over and not that they finished before a certain date or before a certain entity. One might think that these differences in relief are responsive to differences in the world so that there is... Read More about Tensed Emotions, Evolution, and Time.

Appropriate emotions and the metaphysics of time (2017)
Journal Article
Pearson, O. (2018). Appropriate emotions and the metaphysics of time. Philosophical Studies, 175(8), 1945-1961. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0944-z

Prior used our emotions to argue that tensed language cannot be translated by tenseless language. However, it is widely accepted that Mellor and MacBeath have shown that our emotions do not imply the existence of tensed facts. I criticise this orthod... Read More about Appropriate emotions and the metaphysics of time.

Emergence, Dependence, and Fundamentality (2017)
Journal Article
Pearson, O. (2018). Emergence, Dependence, and Fundamentality. Erkenntnis, 83(3), 391-402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9895-1

In a recent paper Barnes proposes to characterize ontological emergence by identifying the emergent entities with those entities which are both fundamental and dependent. Barnes offers characterizations of the notions of fundamentality and dependence... Read More about Emergence, Dependence, and Fundamentality.