Causation in evidence-based medicine: In reply to Strand and Parkkinen
(2014)
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Kerry, R., Eriksen, T., Noer Lie, S., Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. (2014). Causation in evidence-based medicine: In reply to Strand and Parkkinen. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 20(6), 985-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12189
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Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic (2014)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2014). Review of Marko Malink, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic. Metascience, 23(3), 573-579
The tendential theory of sporting prowess (2014)
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Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. (2014). The tendential theory of sporting prowess. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 41(3), 399-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2014.911097
Accidents, modes, tropes, and universals (2014)
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Heil, J. (2014). Accidents, modes, tropes, and universals. American Philosophical Quarterly, 51(4), 333-344
From hospice to hospital: short-term follow-up study of hospice patient outcomes in a US acute care hospital surveillance system (2014)
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Pathak, E., Wieten, S., & Djulbegovic, B. (2014). From hospice to hospital: short-term follow-up study of hospice patient outcomes in a US acute care hospital surveillance system. BMJ Open, 4(7), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005196
Wonder and the patient (2014)
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Evans, H. (2015). Wonder and the patient. Journal of Medical Humanities, 36(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9320-6Is it possible to distinguish, as sociologist Arthur Frank proposes, an ‘ideal of wonder’ within which ill persons could recover some of their former sense of life and flourishing, even within the constraints of ill-health? Beyond this, are there mor... Read More about Wonder and the patient.
Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them (2014)
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Pemberton, J., & Cartwright, N. (2014). Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them. Erkenntnis, 79(10), 1745-1758. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9639-4Most of the regularities that get represented as ‘laws’ in our sciences arise from, and are to be found regularly associated with, the successful operation of a nomological machine. Reference to the nomological machine must be included in the cp-clau... Read More about Ceteris paribus laws need machines to generate them.
The Alien Paradox (2014)
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Tugby, M. (2015). The Alien Paradox. Analysis, 75(1), 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anu113Platonism delivers a theory of possibility that is distinct from both Lewisian modal realism and ersatz modal theories. By putting the topic of alien properties at centre stage in our modal theorizing, a strong preliminary case for platonism can be m... Read More about The Alien Paradox.
A Curious Dialogical Logic and Its Composition Problem (2014)
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Uckelman, S. L., Alama, J., & Knoks, A. (2014). A Curious Dialogical Logic and Its Composition Problem. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 43(6), 1065-1100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-013-9307-1Dialogue semantics for logic are two-player logic games between a Proponent who puts forward a logical formula φ as valid or true and an Opponent who disputes this. An advantage of the dialogical approach is that it is a uniform framework from which... Read More about A Curious Dialogical Logic and Its Composition Problem.
Narratology beyond the Human (2014)
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Herman, D. (2014). Narratology beyond the Human. Diegesis (Wuppertal), 3(2), 131-143This essay uses Lauren Groff’s 2011 short story “Above and Below” to explore aspects of a narratology beyond the human, considering how ideas developed by scholars of narrative bear on questions about the nature and scope of human-animal relationship... Read More about Narratology beyond the Human.
Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice (2014)
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Gambaudo, S. (2014). Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice. Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, 4(4), 145-160. https://doi.org/10.2478/texmat-2014-0010The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, as that which ties most, if... Read More about Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice.
Virtuous condonation (2014)
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Scarre, G. (2014). Virtuous condonation. Philosophical Papers, 43(4), 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2014.976442Moral philosophers have mostly condemned the condonation of a bad act as being close to complicity in wrongdoing or, at best, as indicative of a lax moral conscience. I argue, in contrast, that condoning a wrongful act is sometimes not only permissib... Read More about Virtuous condonation.
Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework (2014)
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Wilkinson, S. (2014). Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework. Consciousness and Cognition, 30, 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.002Two challenges that face popular self-monitoring theories (SMTs) of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) are that they cannot account for the auditory phenomenology of AVHs and that they cannot account for their variety. In this paper I show that both... Read More about Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework.
On the rationality of Case (2014)
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Hinzen, W. (2014). On the rationality of Case. Language Sciences, 46(Part B), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.03.003Case marking has long resisted rationalization in terms of language-external systems of cognition, representing a classical illustration in the generative tradition for an apparently purely ‘formal’ or ‘syntactic’ aspect of grammatical organization.... Read More about On the rationality of Case.
Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism? (2014)
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Marmodoro, A., Murphy, R. A., & Baker, A. (2014). Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(05), 494-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003798We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamen... Read More about Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?.
A Hard Look at Moral Perception (2014)
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Faraci, D. (2014). A Hard Look at Moral Perception. Philosophical Studies, 172(8), 2055-2072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0397-6This paper concerns what I take to be the primary epistemological motivation for defending moral perception. Offering a plausible account of how we gain moral knowledge is one of the central challenges of metaethics. It seems moral perception might h... Read More about A Hard Look at Moral Perception.
A New Explanatory Challenge for Nonnaturalists (2014)
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Cowie, C. (2014). A New Explanatory Challenge for Nonnaturalists. Res Philosophica, 91(4), 661-679. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2014.91.4.3According to some contemporary nonnaturalists about normativity (e.g., Parfit, Scanlon, Dworkin), normative facts exist in an ontologically non-committing sense. These nonnaturalists face an explanatory burden. They must explain their claim that norm... Read More about A New Explanatory Challenge for Nonnaturalists.
A focus on the history of light microscopy for cell culture (2014)
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Lancaster, C. (2014). A focus on the history of light microscopy for cell culture. Kaleidoscope (Durham), 6(1), 27-47This essay will consider the use and influence of light microscopy (and its variants) in biological cell culture. Improvements in technology generated several instruments for use by scholars in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and the microscop... Read More about A focus on the history of light microscopy for cell culture.
Two Approaches to Reasoning From Evidence or What Econometrics Can Learn From Biomedical Research (2014)
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Reiss, J. (2015). Two Approaches to Reasoning From Evidence or What Econometrics Can Learn From Biomedical Research. Journal of Economic Methodology, 22(3), 373-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2015.1071510This paper looks at an appeal to the authority of biomedical research that has recently been used by empirical economists to motivate and justify their methods. I argue that those who make this appeal mistake the nature of biomedical research. Random... Read More about Two Approaches to Reasoning From Evidence or What Econometrics Can Learn From Biomedical Research.
What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time (2014)
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Ratcliffe, M., Ruddell, M., & Smith, B. (2014). What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 1026. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01026One of the symptoms of trauma is said to be a “sense of foreshortened future.” Without further qualification, it is not clear how to interpret this. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological account of what the experience consists of. To do so, we f... Read More about What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time.