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Listening to People: Using Social Psychology to Spotlight an Overlooked Virtue (2019)
Journal Article
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..

Incorporating user values into climate services (2019)
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Parker, W. S., & Lusk, G. (2019). Incorporating user values into climate services. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-17-0325.1

Climate services should consider not just what users want to know, but also which errors users particularly want to avoid. Increasingly there are calls for climate services to be “co-produced” with users, taking into account not only the basic inform... Read More about Incorporating user values into climate services.

Hume on Belief and Vindicatory Explanations (2019)
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Smith, B. (2019). Hume on Belief and Vindicatory Explanations. Philosophy, 94(2), 313-337. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819119000111

Hume's account of belief is understood to be inspired by allegedly incompatible motivations, one descriptive and expressing Hume's naturalism, the other normative and expressing Hume's epistemological aims. This understanding assumes a particular way... Read More about Hume on Belief and Vindicatory Explanations.

The 4P Participatory Arts Recovery Model: Peers, Product, Personhood and Positive Interaction (2019)
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Fletcher, A., Hackett, S., & Carr, S. (2019). The 4P Participatory Arts Recovery Model: Peers, Product, Personhood and Positive Interaction. Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 10(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah.10.1.41_1

Using empirical evidence from a realist evaluation of music-based well-being interventions, we developed a recovery-focussed model for people with mental health issues. Arts-based approaches for mental health are used internationally and the concepts... Read More about The 4P Participatory Arts Recovery Model: Peers, Product, Personhood and Positive Interaction.

Trade-offs between epistemic and moral values in evidence-based policy (2019)
Journal Article
Khosrowi, D. (2019). Trade-offs between epistemic and moral values in evidence-based policy. Economics and Philosophy, 35(1), 49-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266267118000159

Proponents of evidence-based policy (EBP) call for public policy to be informed by high-quality evidence from randomized controlled trials. This methodological preference aims to promote several epistemic values, e.g. rigour, unbiasedness, precision,... Read More about Trade-offs between epistemic and moral values in evidence-based policy.

Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox? (2019)
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Cowie, C. (2020). Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox?. Philosophical Studies, 177(6), 1685-1702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01280-6

In this article I assess the prospects for a particular kind of resolution to Moore’s Paradox. It is that Moore’s Paradox is explained by the existence of a constitutive norm on belief. I focus on a constitutive norm relates that relates belief to kn... Read More about Do Constitutive Norms on Belief Explain Moore's Paradox?.

The Idealism and Pantheism of May Sinclair (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2019). The Idealism and Pantheism of May Sinclair. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 5(2), 137-157. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.45

During the early twentieth century, British novelist and philosopher May Sinclair published two book-length defenses of idealism. Although Sinclair is well known to literary scholars, she is little known to the history of philosophy. This paper provi... Read More about The Idealism and Pantheism of May Sinclair.

Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy (2019)
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Reiss, J. (2019). Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy. Social Epistemology, 33(2), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1577513

Taking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against Democracy (Brennan 2016) as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses: (1) There is No Such Thing as Superior Political Judgement; (2) There Is No... Read More about Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy.

Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge (2019)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2019). Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 16(1), 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20170002

Given a traditional intuitionist moral epistemology, it is notoriously difficult for moral realists to explain the reliability of our moral beliefs. This has led some to go looking for an alternative to intuitionism. Perception is an obvious contende... Read More about Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge.

Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence (2019)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2019). Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence. Philosophers' Imprint, 19(4), 1-26

Many philosophers hold out hope that some final condition on knowledge will allow us to overcome the limitations of the classic "justified true belief" analysis. The most popular intuitive glosses on this condition frame it as an absence of epistemic... Read More about Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence.