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Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited (2018)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2019). Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67(3), 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2018.1490518

Just as Shakespeare’s plays left their indelible stamp on the English language, so too did his names influence the naming pool in England at the beginning of the 17th century and beyond, and certain popular modern names are often described as inventi... Read More about Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited.

We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes (2018)
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Faraci, D. (2020). We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes. Mind, 129(513), 225-234. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy054

Barry Maguire argues that there are no reasons for affective attitudes. ‘There is no reason for your incredulous reaction to’ this thesis, he claims. In this paper, I argue that we have no reason to accept his thesis. I first examine Maguire's purpor... Read More about We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes.

Revelation, consciousness+ and the phenomenal powers view (2018)
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Goff, P. (2020). Revelation, consciousness+ and the phenomenal powers view. Topoi, 39, 1089-1092. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9594-9

Revelation is roughly the thesis that we have introspective access to the essential nature of our conscious states. This thesis is appealed to in arguments against physicalism. Little attention has been given to the problem that Revelation is a sourc... Read More about Revelation, consciousness+ and the phenomenal powers view.

If anyone is in Christ – new creation! (2018)
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Page, B. T. (2020). If anyone is in Christ – new creation!. Religious Studies, 56(4), 525-541. https://doi.org/10.1017/s003441251800063x

This paper investigates the metaphysical transformation that occurs when a believer becomes a new creation, something which hasn’t yet been explored in the literature. I start by setting out what this ontological transformation involves, and then pro... Read More about If anyone is in Christ – new creation!.

Cross-disciplinary evidence principles for social-environmental sustainability (2018)
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Game, E., Tallis, H., Olander, L., Alexander, S., Busch, J., Cartwright, N., …Sutherland, W. (2018). Cross-disciplinary evidence principles for social-environmental sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 1(9), 452-454. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0141-x

Evidence-based approaches to sustainability challenges must draw on knowledge from the environment, development and health communities. To be practicable, this requires an approach to evidence that is broader and less hierarchical than the standards... Read More about Cross-disciplinary evidence principles for social-environmental sustainability.

Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914 (2018)
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Maehle, A. (2020). Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky072

Traditional historiography tends to draw a negative picture of British doctors’ ethics during the long nineteenth century. The medical professional ethics of this period have been described as self-serving and as a tool to monopolise the health care... Read More about Beyond Professional Self-Interest: Medical Ethics and the Disciplinary Function of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, 1858-1914.

Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysical Realism (2018)
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James, S. P. (2018). Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysical Realism. European Journal of Philosophy, 26(4), 1312-1323. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12386

Global metaphysical antirealism (or “antirealism”) is often thought to entail that the identity of each and every concrete entity in our world ultimately depends on us—on our adoption of certain social and linguistic conventions, for instance, or on... Read More about Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysical Realism.

Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism (2018)
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Vickers, P. (2020). Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(3), 987-1012. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy035

Probably the most dramatic historical challenge to scientific realism concerns Arnold Sommerfeld’s 1916 derivation of the fine structure energy levels of hydrogen. Not only were his predictions good, he derived exactly the same formula that would lat... Read More about Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism.

The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory (2018)
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Fraser, J. D. (2020). The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(2), 391-413. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx042

The perturbative approach to quantum field theory (QFT) has long been viewed with suspicion by philosophers of science. This article offers a diagnosis of its conceptual problems. Drawing on Norton’s ([2012]) discussion of the notion of approximation... Read More about The Real Problem with Perturbative Quantum Field Theory.

Imprecise probability and the measurement of Keynes’s 'Weight of arguments' (2018)
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Peden, W. (2018). Imprecise probability and the measurement of Keynes’s 'Weight of arguments'

Many philosophers argue that Keynes’s concept of the “weight of arguments” is an important aspect of argument appraisal. The weight of an argument is the quantity of relevant evidence cited in the premises. However, this dimension of argumentation do... Read More about Imprecise probability and the measurement of Keynes’s 'Weight of arguments'.

What evidence should guidelines take note of? (2018)
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Cartwright, N. (2018). What evidence should guidelines take note of?. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 24(5), 1139-1144. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12959

The Guidelines Challenge Conference on which this special issue builds asked as the first of its “further relevant questions”: “How do we incorporate more types of causally relevant information in guidelines?” This paper first supports the presupposi... Read More about What evidence should guidelines take note of?.

Are All Primitives Created Equal? (2018)
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Miller, J. (2018). Are All Primitives Created Equal?. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 56(2), 273-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12279

Primitives are both important and unavoidable, and which set of primitives we endorse will greatly shape our theories and how those theories provide solutions to the problems that we take to be important. After introducing the notion of a primitive p... Read More about Are All Primitives Created Equal?.

Absential Locations and the Figureless Ground (2018)
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Mac Cumhaill, C. (2018). Absential Locations and the Figureless Ground. Sartre Studies International, 24(1), 34-47. https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2018.240104

When Sartre arrives late to meet Pierre at a local establishment, he discovers not merely that Pierre is absent, but also Pierre’s absence, where this depends, or so Sartre notoriously supposes, on a frustrated expectation that Pierre would be seen a... Read More about Absential Locations and the Figureless Ground.

In defense of “targeting” some dissent about science (2018)
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Nash, E. J. (2018). In defense of “targeting” some dissent about science. Perspectives on Science, 26(3), 325-359. https://doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00277

In a recent article in this journal—“Who’s Afraid of Dissent?”—Immaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann argue that “targeting” dissent about science that is perceived to be problematic is both misguided and dangerous. I contend that their argum... Read More about In defense of “targeting” some dissent about science.