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Socially Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities (2021)
Book Chapter
Webster, A. K. (2021). Socially Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities. In D. Shoemaker (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 7 (104-129). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844644.003.0006

This chapter proposes a distinctive kind of agency that can vindicate the agency of members of marginalized groups while accommodating the autonomy-undermining influences of oppression. Socially embedded agency—the locus of which is in the exercise o... Read More about Socially Embedded Agency: Lessons from Marginalized Identities.

What Counts as a 'Good Metaphysical Language'? (2021)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2021). What Counts as a 'Good Metaphysical Language'?. In J. Miller (Ed.), The Language of Ontology (102-118). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895332.003.0007

The objectively best language is intended to refer to some metaphysically privileged language that ‘carves reality at its joints’ perfectly. That is, it is the kind of language that various ‘metaphysical deflationists’ have argued is impossible. One... Read More about What Counts as a 'Good Metaphysical Language'?.

Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose (2021)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C., & Wiseman, R. (2021). Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose. In H. Logue, & L. Richardson (Eds.), Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception (276-294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853534.003.0014

Anscombe’s published writings, lectures, and notes on sensation offer material for a sophisticated critique of philosophical theories of perception and a novel analysis of the concept of sensation. Her philosophy of perception begins with the traditi... Read More about Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose.

Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People? (2021)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2021). Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?. In S. M. Gardiner (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.013.34

This chapter aims, first, to investigate the metaphysical difficulties concerning the status of the dead and the basis of the obligations that the living owe to them and, second, to determine in more detail what rights the dead may have and what obli... Read More about Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?.

A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes (2021)
Book Chapter
Alvarado, J. T., & Tugby, M. (2021). A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes. In L. Jansen, & P. Sandstad (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on formal causation (201-221). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329821

A combination of formal causation and natural-kind essentialism has good prospects. After all, natural-kind essentialists are under pressure to accept that natural kinds ground or formally cause the properties that characterize them. However, natural... Read More about A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes.

Kinds of Arguments (2021)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2021). Kinds of Arguments. In R. Cross, & J. Paasch (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709604

The central methodology in western philosophy from the ancient Greeks is argumentation. Dialectical arguments are weaker than demonstrative ones, in that they lead to conclusions which are merely probable, rather than necessarily true; the weakness o... Read More about Kinds of Arguments.

Ontology of Powers. (2020)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2020). Ontology of Powers. In A. Meincke (Ed.), Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (13-26). Springer Verlag

Trusting Atoms (2020)
Book Chapter
Hendry, R. F. (2020). Trusting Atoms. In U. Zilioli (Ed.), Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to the Present (470-488). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350107526

antiquity to the present day. This collection covers the richness of its history, starting with how the Ancient Greeks came to assume the existence of atoms and concluding with contemporary metaphysical debates about structure, time and reality. Focu... Read More about Trusting Atoms.

In defence of phenomenal sharing (2020)
Book Chapter
Goff, P., & Roelofs, L. (in press). In defence of phenomenal sharing. In L. Bugnon, & M. Nida-Rumelin (Eds.), The Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and the Nature of Conscious Subjects. Routledge

Atoms as Universals (2020)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2020). Atoms as Universals. In U. Zilioli (Ed.), Atomism in philosophy: A history from antiquity to the present (387-399). Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter explores how atomism – the view that there are fundamental indivisible objects – can be combined with a realist ontology of universals. We propose and develop a new theory that views an atom as an instance of a simple universal (such as... Read More about Atoms as Universals.

Russellian monism (2020)
Book Chapter
Coleman, S., & Goff, P. (2020). Russellian monism. In U. Kriegel (Ed.), Oxford handbook of the philosophy of consciousness. Oxford University Press

Mnemonic Justice (2020)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (in press). Mnemonic Justice. In S. Goldberg, & S. Wright (Eds.), Memory and Testimony: New Essays in Epistemology. Oxford University Press