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Forgiveness and Ageing (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Forgiveness and Ageing. In C. Wareham (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing (146-160). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108861168.012

Ought ageing people sometimes to be prepared to forgive old offences that it would not have been (so) appropriate for them to have forgiven at an earlier date? The question is tackled in the framework of a narrative conception of human life that focu... Read More about Forgiveness and Ageing.

Quantum mechanics and the consciousness constraint (2022)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2022). Quantum mechanics and the consciousness constraint. In S. Gao (Ed.), Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics (117-139). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197501665.003.0006

This chapter argues that wave function monism – a popular theory of the ontology of quantum mechanics – cannot be true, on the grounds that its truth is inconsistent with the reality of consciousness. According to wave function monism, fundamental ph... Read More about Quantum mechanics and the consciousness constraint.

Shame and the Ethical in Williams (2022)
Book Chapter
Webster, A. K., & Bero, S. (2022). Shame and the Ethical in Williams. In A. Szigeti, & M. Talbert (Eds.), Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams (62-86). Oxford University Press

Bernard Williams’ Shame and Necessity (1993) was an influential early contribution to what has become a broader movement to rehabilitate shame as a moral emotion. But there is a tension in Williams’ discussion that presents an under-appreciated diffi... Read More about Shame and the Ethical in Williams.

Philosophy of Epidemiology (2022)
Book Chapter
Broadbent, A. (2022). Philosophy of Epidemiology. In L. McClimans (Ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Medicine (248-256). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International

How to Learn about Causes in the Single Case (2022)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2022). How to Learn about Causes in the Single Case. In J. Widner, M. Woolcock, & D. Ortega Nieto (Eds.), . Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108688253.003

RCTs have gained considerable prominence as a ‘gold standard’ for establishing whether a given policy intervention has a causal effect, but what do these experiments actually tell us and how useful is this information for policy-makers? Cartwright dr... Read More about How to Learn about Causes in the Single Case.

Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness. In P. Satne, & K. M. Scheiter (Eds.), Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment (207-222). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77807-1_11

Is it ever admissible for a ‘third party’ to grant forgiveness to an offender for an injury committed against another person? A distinction should be drawn between cases in which someone offers her own forgiveness to an offender for an injury inflict... Read More about Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness.

Does Linguistics Need (Weak) Emergence? (2022)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2022). Does Linguistics Need (Weak) Emergence?. In S. Wuppuluri, & I. Steward (Eds.), From Electrons to Elephants and Elections (23-38). (1). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92192-7_3

There are many different sorts of linguistic objects: words, sentences, paragraphs, phonemes, morphemes, and many more. There are also linguistic properties. That is, there are properties that seem, prima facie, to be (perhaps even uniquely) instanti... Read More about Does Linguistics Need (Weak) Emergence?.

What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box! (2022)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2022). What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!. In Powers, Time and Free Will (1-15). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92486-7_1

Modern science cannot do without Aristotelian powers – thus have argued Cartwright and Pemberton (2013) among many others. Aristotelian powers are essentially dynamic entities, which account for causal phenomena, and thus explain how change comes abo... Read More about What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!.

Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly. In I. Gammel, & J. Wang (Eds.), Creative Resilience and COVID-19 (61-69). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213536-8

This essay discusses the increase in the sense of vulnerability that many older people felt with the onset of COVID-19, which reverses the sense of security in old age which has been developing over recent decades. Pascal Bruckner’s book A Brief Eter... Read More about Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly.

Hume and Liberal Naturalism (2022)
Book Chapter
Smith, B. (2022). Hume and Liberal Naturalism. In M. De Caro, & D. Macarthur (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209472

The work of David Hume (1711–1776) is regarded as one of the most influential articulations of a naturalistic approach in philosophy, interpreted by many as a key inspiration for naturalist projects in a range of areas. Hume's ambition was to investi... Read More about Hume and Liberal Naturalism.

Space and its Relationship to God (2022)
Book Chapter
Janiak, A., & Thomas, E. (2022). Space and its Relationship to God. In D. Miller, & D. Jalobeanu (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution (424-438). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108.025

During the Scientific Revolution, philosophers wondered how best to understand space. Many debates revolved around the account advanced in Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy (1644), and this chapter treats it as a focal point. Descartes argued for... Read More about Space and its Relationship to God.

Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors (2021)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2021). Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (10-27). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925512.003.0002

This chapter introduces the reader to Aristotle’s account of causal powers and highlights the conceptual innovations he introduced in relation to the accounts of his predecessors, most notably Anaxagoras and Plato. The chapter argues that Aristotle’s... Read More about Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors.

Locke, Newton, and Edmund Law (2021)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2021). Locke, Newton, and Edmund Law. In J. Gordon-Roth, & S. Weinberg (Eds.), The Lockean Mind. Routledge

Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Dispositions (2021)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (2021). Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Dispositions. In K. McCain, S. Stapleford, & M. P. Steup (Eds.), Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003134565

People sometimes face an epistemic dilemma with regards to stereotyping. We harbor a stereotype that reflects something of social reality, e.g., high rates of criminal involvement among members of a certain social group. But if we apply the stereotyp... Read More about Stereotypes, Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Dispositions.