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A Theory of Measurement (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N., Bradburn, N., & Fuller, J. (2017). A Theory of Measurement. In L. McClimans (Ed.), Measurement in medicine : philosophical essays on assessment and evaluation. Rowman & Littlefield

Ethical Judgment and Motivation (2017)
Book Chapter
Faraci, D., & McPherson, T. (2017). Ethical Judgment and Motivation. In T. McPherson, & D. Plunkett (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of metaethics (308-323). Routledge

Epistemic Discrimination (2017)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (2017). Epistemic Discrimination. In K. Lippert-Rasmussen (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination (54-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681634

Epistemic discrimination is prejudice, bias and discriminatory action suffered by individuals in their position as epistemic agents, that is, as individuals who can acquire knowledge, justified belief or understanding. Epistemic discrimination can be... Read More about Epistemic Discrimination.

On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism's Problem with Objectivity (2017)
Book Chapter
Faraci, D. (2017). On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism's Problem with Objectivity. In R. Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford studies in metaethics (244-264). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805076.003.0010

In print, the central objection to expressivism has been the Frege–Geach problem. Yet most cognitivists seem to be motivated by “deeper” worries, ones they have spent comparatively little time pursuing in print. Part of the explanation for this misma... Read More about On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism's Problem with Objectivity.

Medieval Logic (2017)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2017). Medieval Logic. In A. Malpass, & M. A. Marfori (Eds.), The history of philosophical and formal logic : from Aristotle to Tarski (71-99). Bloomsbury

Many people unfamiliar with the history of logic may think of the Middle Ages as a \Dark Ages" in logic, with little development beyond Aristotelian syllogistic and full of scholastic wrangling focused on uninteresting details. This could not be furt... Read More about Medieval Logic.

Wittgenstein on Memory (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, A. (2017). Wittgenstein on Memory. In S. Bernecker, & K. Michaelian (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory. Routledge

Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Scientism (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, B. (2017). Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Scientism. In J. Beale, & I. Kidd (Eds.), Wittgenstein and scientism (209-224). Routledge

Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology (2017)
Book Chapter
Wylie, A. (2017). Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology. In L. Magnani, & T. Bertolotti (Eds.), Springer handbook of model-based science (989-1002). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30526-4_46

I distinguish, by specificity and representational function, several different types of archaeological models: phenomenological, scaffolding, and explanatory models. These take the form of concrete, mathematical, and computational models (following W... Read More about Representational and Experimental Modeling in Archaeology.

Mechanisms and reduction in organic chemistry (2017)
Book Chapter
Hendry, R. (2017). Mechanisms and reduction in organic chemistry. In M. Massimi, J. Romeijn, & G. Schurz (Eds.), EPSA15 selected papers : the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Düsseldorf (111-124). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53730-6_15

The view that psychiatry should be elucidating the mechanisms behind mental phenomena is gaining momentum. This view, coupled with an intuition that such mechanisms must, by nature, be biological, has inspired the field to look to cognitive neuroscie... Read More about Mechanisms and reduction in organic chemistry.

Causal Powers: Why Humeans Can't Even Be Instrumentalists (2017)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2017). Causal Powers: Why Humeans Can't Even Be Instrumentalists. In J. D. Jacobs (Ed.), Causal powers (9-23). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796572.003.0002

Hume urged that there is no difference between the obtaining of a power and its exercise; others, that there is no difference between its exercise and the result that occurs. This chapter reinforces the reasons, based in the success of the analytic m... Read More about Causal Powers: Why Humeans Can't Even Be Instrumentalists.

What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones (2017)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L., Murphey, S., & Percer, J. (2017). What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones. In B. A. Pavlac (Ed.), Game of Thrones versus history : written in blood (241-250). Wiley

Nowhere is the border between history and fantasy more blurred than in people's perceptions of names. People often assume that names in modern fantasy stories are medieval in origin. Some fault for this assumption can be laid at the feet of the Fathe... Read More about What's in a Name? History and Fantasy in Game of Thrones.

The Mental Causation Debate and Qua Problems (2017)
Book Chapter
Gibb, S. (2017). The Mental Causation Debate and Qua Problems. In M. Paoletti, & F. Orilia (Eds.), Philosophical and scientific perspectives on downward causation (265-277). Routledge

G. E. M. Anscombe (2017)
Book Chapter
Wiseman, R. (2017). G. E. M. Anscombe. In D. Pritchard (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in philosophy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195396577-0330

G. E. M. Anscombe (b. 1919–d. 2001) is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant philosophers of the 20th century. Donald Davidson described her monograph Intention (see Anscombe 1957, cited under Intention) as the most important work on action... Read More about G. E. M. Anscombe.

Causation (2016)
Book Chapter
Broadbent, A. (2016). Causation. In M. Freeman, & M. Zeegers (Eds.), Forensic Epidemiology: Principles and Practices (112-130). Elsevier