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Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse? (2024)
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Goff, P. (2024). Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?. Synthese, 204(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04621-z

Our best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidence for the... Read More about Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?.

Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties (2024)
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Saunders, J., Slater, J., & Sticker, M. (2024). Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties. Philosophy Compass, 19(6), Article e12998. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12998

The Overdemandingness Objection maintains that an ethical theory or principle that demands too much should be rejected, or at least moderated. Traditionally, overdemandingness is considered primarily a problem for consequentialist ethical theories. R... Read More about Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties.

Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. (2024)
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Webster, E. (2024). Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Article jrae007. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrae007

Over the last several decades, a growing group of environmental and medical historians have argued that engagement with the materiality of disease is critical to eroding the false boundaries between environment and health, and especially to the histo... Read More about Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics..

How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage (2024)
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Scarre, G. (2024). How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739124000079

This paper discusses some of the major ethical issues that arise in connection with the widespread holding of cultural heritage by private collectors. If, as many people believe, and UNESCO has affirmed, cultural heritage is, in some morally signific... Read More about How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage.

Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter? (2024)
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Moško, M., & Simpson, W. M. R. (2024). Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter?. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 6(1), 65-91. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2024.0103

Medieval interpretations of hylomorphism, in which substances are conceived as metaphysical composites of prime matter and substantial form, are receiving attention in contemporary philosophy. It has even been suggested that a recovery of Aquinas's c... Read More about Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter?.

How to Misspell 'Paris' (2024)
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Miller, J. (in press). How to Misspell 'Paris'. Philosophy,

One feature of language is that we are able to make mistakes in our use of language. Amongst other sorts of mistakes, we can misspeak, misspell, missign, or misunderstand. Given this, it seems that our metaphysics of words should be flexible enough t... Read More about How to Misspell 'Paris'.

Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique (2024)
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Scarre, G. (2024). Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique. Mortality, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2024.2338284

Alkaline hydrolysis is an increasingly popular method of disposing of human corpses, which involves dissolving them into a solution of 95% water and 5% alkali, producing some bone residue and a liquid waste that can be flushed into the sewer system o... Read More about Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique.

How Exactly Does Panpsychism Help Explain Consciousness? (2024)
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Goff, P. (2024). How Exactly Does Panpsychism Help Explain Consciousness?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 31(3-4), 56-82. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.31.3.056

There has recently been a revival of interest in panpsychism as a theory of consciousness. The hope of the contemporary proponents of panpsychism is that the view enables us to integrate consciousness into our overall theory of reality in a way that... Read More about How Exactly Does Panpsychism Help Explain Consciousness?.

A beginner's guide to crossing the road: towards an epistemology of successful action in complex systems (2024)
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van der Merwe, R., & Broadbent, A. (2024). A beginner's guide to crossing the road: towards an epistemology of successful action in complex systems. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241232777

Crossing the road within the traffic system is an example of an action human agents perform successfully day-to-day in complex systems. How do they perform such successful actions given that the behaviour of complex systems is often difficult to pred... Read More about A beginner's guide to crossing the road: towards an epistemology of successful action in complex systems.

Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice (2024)
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Puddifoot, K., & Sandelind, C. (2024). Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice. Journal of Social Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12557

There is strong psychological evidence suggesting that social and institutional structures can cause people to experience trauma and stress that leads to memory distortion and disorganisation. We argue that these outcomes can constitute a mnemonic fo... Read More about Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice.

Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter? (2023)
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James, S. P. (2023). Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?. Environmental Values, https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719231171836

It is often supposed that valuable organisms are more valuable if they are rare. Likewise if they belong to endangered species. I consider what kinds of value rarity and endangerment can add in such cases. I argue that individual organisms of a valua... Read More about Rarity and Endangerment: Why Do They Matter?.

The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties (2023)
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Saunders, J., & Stern, R. (2023). The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties. ERGO, 10(12), 341-371. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.4642

In this paper, we do two things: first, we offer a metaphysical account of what it is to be an individual person through Hegel’s understanding of the concrete universal; and second, we show how this account of an individual can help in thinking about... Read More about The Individual as an Object of Love: The Property View of Love Meets the Hegelian View of Properties.

The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature. (2023)
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Gillen, C., Jeancolas, C., McMahon, S., & Vickers, P. (2023). The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature. Astrobiology, 23(11), 1228-1237. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2023.0010

The term has become increasingly prevalent in astrobiology literature as our ability to search for life advances. Although this term has been useful to the community, its definition is not settled. Existing definitions conflict sharply over the bal... Read More about The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature..

Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed? (2023)
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Jeancolas, C., Gillen, C., McMahon, S., Ward, M., & Vickers, P. J. (2023). Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?. International Journal of Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1017/s1473550423000241

Astrobiology is a scientific endeavour involving great uncertainties. This could justify intellectual risk-taking associated with research that significantly deviates from the mainstream, to explore new avenues. However, little is known regarding the... Read More about Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?.