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Prime Matter Revisited (2024)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W. (in press). Prime Matter Revisited. In Thomism Revisited. Cambridge University Press

Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals (2024)
Book Chapter
Dunham, J. (2024). Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals. In S. Bender, & D. Perler (Eds.), Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy (245-264). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305316-13

This chapter gives an account of Condillac’s understanding of the abilities of human and non-human animals in his 1755 Traité des animaux. It argues that if we understand abilities in the broadest sense to capture all the things an animal is able to... Read More about Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals.

Disagreement about Evidence-Based Policy (2024)
Book Chapter
Cowen, N., & Cartwright, N. (in press). Disagreement about Evidence-Based Policy. In M. Baghramian, J. A. Carter, & R. Cosker-Rowland (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement. Routledge

Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues (2023)
Book Chapter
Grote, T., & Broadbent, A. (2023). Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues. In S. Venkatapuram, & A. Broadbent (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (190-204). Routledge

Saving the macroscopic (2023)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W., & Horsley, S. (2023). Saving the macroscopic. In M. Harris (Ed.), God and the Book of Nature: Experiments in Theology of Science (131-154). Routledge

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.

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 Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online (2023)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J. (2023). The Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online. In C. Fox, & J. Saunders (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics (307-318). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003134749-30

Social media is a mess. Philosophers have recently helped catalogue some of the various ills. In this chapter, I relay some of this conceptual work on virtue signalling, piling on, ramping up, echo-chambers, epistemic bubbles, polarization, moral out... Read More about The Ethics of Social Media: Being Better Online.

Collective Powers (2023)
Book Chapter
Guo, X., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (142-166). New York and Abingdon: Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11

It is natural to think there are higher-level powers, such as a screen’s powers to display various images, and lower-level powers such as each pixel’s powers to display various colours. Moreover, it is natural to think that higher-level powers depend... Read More about Collective Powers.

Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley (2023)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2023). Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley. In A. Stone, & L. Moland (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century (C34S1–C34N22). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.34

Idealists agree that reality is somehow mental, holding say that reality comprises consciousness or spirit. Idealism can be developed in many different ways and, before the distinctive movement known as “British idealism” emerged, other idealisms wer... Read More about Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley.

Poverty, Stereotypes and Politics: Counting the Epistemic Costs (2023)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (in press). Poverty, Stereotypes and Politics: Counting the Epistemic Costs. In L. Smith, & A. Archer (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Poverty. Springer Nature

Epistemic analyses of stereotyping describe how they lead to misperceptions and misunderstandings of social actors and events. The analyses have tended so far to focus on how people acquire stereotypes and/or how the stereotypes lead to distorted per... Read More about Poverty, Stereotypes and Politics: Counting the Epistemic Costs.

Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis? (2023)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2023). Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?. In M. Garcia-Godinez (Ed.), Thomasson on Ontology (85-108). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23672-3_5

Amie Thomasson’s work provides numerous ways to rethink and improve our approach to metaphysics. This chapter is my attempt to begin to sketch why I still think the easy approach leaves room for substantive metaphysical work, and why I do not think t... Read More about Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?.

Love (2023)
Book Chapter
McKeever, N., & Saunders, J. (2023). Love. In M. Sellers, & S. Kirste (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (1-5). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_1070-1

Love is among the most valuable things in life. It is also complex, and relates to many moral and social issues. In this entry, we first outline what some of the different kinds of love are, before turning to explore what love actually is: a biologic... Read More about Love.

How Should Evidence Inform Education Policy? (2022)
Book Chapter
Joyce, K. E., & Cartwright, N. (2022). How Should Evidence Inform Education Policy?. In R. Curren (Ed.), Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172246-9

This chapter explores how evidence from various sources can support education policy decisions. Although policy arguments include some normative premises, we focus on the evidence needed to support their descriptive premises, homing in on predictions... Read More about How Should Evidence Inform Education Policy?.

Kinds of explanation in public health policy (2022)
Book Chapter
Broadbent, A., & Smart, B. (2022). Kinds of explanation in public health policy. In J. Sholl, & S. Rattan (Eds.), Explaining Health Across the Sciences (405-415). Springer Verlag

Sensation in Intention (2022)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2022). Sensation in Intention. In A. Haddock, & R. Wiseman (Eds.), The Anscombean Mind. Routledge