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Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle (2019)
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Khosrowi, D. (2019). Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle. Journal of Economic Methodology, 26(1), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2018.1561078

I consider recent strategies proposed by econometricians for extrapolating causal effects from experimental to target populations. I argue that these strategies fall prey to the extrapolator’s circle: they require so much knowledge about the target p... Read More about Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle.

Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2019)
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Puddifoot, K. (2019). Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 26(4), 333-348. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2019.0048

Should people with mental health conditions ‘come out proud’, disclosing information about their condition(s)? Recent research highlights how disclosing this information can promote empowerment and decrease self-stigma. However, many people with ment... Read More about Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives.

Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality (2019)
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Dunham, J. (2020). Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(5), 987-1008. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1668351

Clarisse Coignet (1823-1918) played an important role in a number of the most important intellectual movements in nineteenth-century France. She grew up around and documented the leaders of the Fourierist movement, provided the philosophical support... Read More about Overcoming the Divide between Freedom and Nature: Clarisse Coignet on the Metaphysics of Independent Morality.

Extended modal realism — a new solution to the problem of intentional inexistence (2019)
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Thomas, A. D. (2020). Extended modal realism — a new solution to the problem of intentional inexistence. Philosophia, 48(3), 1197-1208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00126-z

Kriegel described the problem of intentional inexistence as one of the ‘perennial problems of philosophy’ (Kriegel Philosophical Perspectives 21(1), 307–340, 2007: 307). In the same paper, Kriegel alluded to a modal realist solution to the problem of... Read More about Extended modal realism — a new solution to the problem of intentional inexistence.

Two Dogmas of the Artistic-Ethical Interaction Debate (2019)
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Hanson, L. (2020). Two Dogmas of the Artistic-Ethical Interaction Debate. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50(2), 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2019.13

Can artworks be morally good or bad? Many philosophers have thought so. Does this moral goodness or badness bear on how good or bad a work is as art? This is very much a live debate. Autonomists argue that moral value is not relevant to artistic valu... Read More about Two Dogmas of the Artistic-Ethical Interaction Debate.

Natural Name Theory and Linguistic Kinds (2019)
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Miller, J. (2019). Natural Name Theory and Linguistic Kinds. Journal of Philosophy, 116(9), 494-508. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2019116930

The natural name theory, recently discussed by Johnson (2018), is proposed as an explanation of pure quotation where the quoted term(s) refers to a linguistic object such as in the sentence ‘In the above, ‘bank’ is ambiguous’. After outlining the the... Read More about Natural Name Theory and Linguistic Kinds.

Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally (2019)
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Cartwright, N., & Joyce, K. (2020). Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally. American Educational Research Journal, 57(3), 1045-1082. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219866687

This essay addresses the gap between what works in research and what works in practice. Currently, research in evidence-based education policy and practice focuses on RCTs. These can support causal ascriptions (‘It worked’) but provide little basis f... Read More about Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally.

Elements and (first) principles in chemistry (2019)
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Hendry, R. F. (2021). Elements and (first) principles in chemistry. Synthese, 198, 3391-3411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02312-8

The first principle of chemical composition is that elements are actually present in their compounds. It is a golden thread running through the history of compositional thinking in chemistry since before the chemical revolution. Opposed to this princ... Read More about Elements and (first) principles in chemistry.

Listening to People: Using Social Psychology to Spotlight an Overlooked Virtue (2019)
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Notess, S. E. (2019). Listening to People: Using Social Psychology to Spotlight an Overlooked Virtue. Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819118000529

I offer a novel interdisciplinary approach to understanding the communicative task of listening, which is under-theorised compared to its more conspicuous counterpart, speech. By correlating a Rylean view of mental actions with a virtue ethical frame... Read More about Listening to People: Using Social Psychology to Spotlight an Overlooked Virtue.

Enacting Hallucinatory Experience in Fiction: Metalepsis, Agency, and the Phenomenology of Reading in Muriel Spark's The Comforters (2019)
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Foxwell, J. (2019). Enacting Hallucinatory Experience in Fiction: Metalepsis, Agency, and the Phenomenology of Reading in Muriel Spark's The Comforters. Style (Fayetteville), 50(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1353/sty.2016.0007

This article examines Muriel Spark’s first novel, The Comforters, in the light of her autobiographical account of the hallucinations she experienced prior to writing the novel. In particular, it focuses on how Spark represents hallucinatory experienc... Read More about Enacting Hallucinatory Experience in Fiction: Metalepsis, Agency, and the Phenomenology of Reading in Muriel Spark's The Comforters.

Hegel, Norms and Ontology (2019)
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Saunders, J. (2019). Hegel, Norms and Ontology. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 36(3), 279-297

This paper lays out two recent accounts of Hegel's practical philosophy in order to present a challenge. According to Robert Stern and Mark Alznauer, Hegel attempts to ground our ethical practices in ontological norms. I argue that we cannot ground o... Read More about Hegel, Norms and Ontology.

What is meant by ‘rigour’ in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it. (2019)
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Cartwright, N. (2019). What is meant by ‘rigour’ in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it. Educational Research and Evaluation, https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2019.1617990

Across the evidence-based policy and practice (EBPP) community, including education, randomised controlled trials (RCTS) rank as the most “rigorous” evidence for causal conclusions. This paper argues that that is misleading. Only narrow conclusions a... Read More about What is meant by ‘rigour’ in evidence-based educational policy and what’s so good about it..