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Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school (2023)
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Whyman, T. (2023). Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231203525

In a recent article, Fabian Freyenhagen argues that we should understand first-generation Frankfurt School critical theory (in particular, the work of Adorno and Horkheimer) as being defined by a kind of ‘linguistic turn’ analogous to one present in... Read More about Two sorts of philosophical therapy: Ordinary language philosophy, social criticism and the Frankfurt school.

Why Moral Paradoxes Support Error Theory (2023)
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Cowie, C. (2023). Why Moral Paradoxes Support Error Theory. Journal of Philosophy, 120(9), 457-483. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2023120927

Moral error theory has many troubling and counterintuitive consequences. It entails, for example, that actions we ordinarily think of as obviously wrong are not wrong at all. This simple observation is at the heart of much opposition to error theory.... Read More about Why Moral Paradoxes Support Error Theory.

Structure, essence and existence in chemistry (2023)
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Hendry, R. F. (2023). Structure, essence and existence in chemistry. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12387

Philosophers have often debated the truth of microstructural essentialism about chemical substances: whether or not the structure of a chemical substance at the molecular scale is what makes it the substance it is. Oddly they have tended to pursue th... Read More about Structure, essence and existence in chemistry.

Dialectical Aristotelianism: On Marx's account of what separates us from the animals (2023)
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Whyman, T. (2023). Dialectical Aristotelianism: On Marx's account of what separates us from the animals. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12712

I have noticed, in Anglophone philosophy, a certain way of invoking Marx. The pattern here is—understandably, given the relative scarcity of substantial engagement with Marx outside of (radical) political theory—a rather loose one. But I've spotted i... Read More about Dialectical Aristotelianism: On Marx's account of what separates us from the animals.

Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives (2023)
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Vickers, P., Cowie, C., Dick, S. J., Gillen, C., Jeancolas, C., Rothschild, L. J., & McMahon, S. (2023). Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0084

Potential biosignatures offering the promise of extraterrestrial life (past or present) are to be expected in the coming years and decades, whether from within our own solar system, from an exoplanet atmosphere, or otherwise. With each such potential... Read More about Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives.

The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson (2023)
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Thomas, E. (2023). The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson. Philosophers' Imprint, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.1281

Drawing on the 1870s-1880s work of Shadworth Hodgson and Robert Kelly, William James famously characterised the specious present as ‘the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible’. Literature on the pre-history of late ninet... Read More about The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson.

Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think (2023)
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Cartwright, N., & Ray, F. (2023). Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think. European Review, 31(4), 367-381. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1062798723000091

We begin from the assumption that where scientific research will predictably be used to affect things of moral significance in the world, you have a special duty, a duty of care, to ‘get it right’. This, we argue, requires a special kind of objectivi... Read More about Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think.

Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data (2023)
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Rod, N. H., Broadbent, A., Rod, M. H., Russo, F., Arah, O. A., & Stronks, K. (2023). Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data. Epidemiology, 34(4), 505-514. https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001612

Public health and the underlying disease processes are complex, often involving the interaction of biologic, social, psychologic, economic, and other processes that may be nonlinear and adaptive and have other features of complex systems. There is th... Read More about Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data.

John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook (2023)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2023). John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook. History and Philosophy of Logic, https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244

In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to know how to make use thereof (Eliot 1672) The Logick... Read More about John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook.

Understanding understanding in psychiatry (2023)
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Gough, J. (2023). Understanding understanding in psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, 34(3), 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x231163275

Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers’ ‘phenomenological’ psychiatry, and it is revised, used and defended by ma... Read More about Understanding understanding in psychiatry.

Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena (2023)
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Streicher, P., & Broadbent, A. (2023). Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena. Global epidemiology, 5, Article 100105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2023.100105

This paper critically evaluates the Suppression Threshold Strategy (STS) for controlling Covid-19 (C-19). STS asserts a “fundamental distinction” between suppression and mitigation strategies, reflected in very different outcomes in eventual mortalit... Read More about Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena.

The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy (2023)
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Thomas, E. (2023). The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2093157

In American-British philosophy around the turn of the twentieth century, every philosopher and their dog had something to say on time. Thinkers worried about our experience of time: Do we actually experience time? How do we experience the present? Is... Read More about The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy.

The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress (2023)
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Thomas, E. (2023). The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 40(1), 25-58. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521026.40.1.03

In 1765, Joseph Priestley created what may be the world's first modern timeline, A Chart of Biography. This paper offers the first study of the philosophy underlying Priestley's timeline. It argues that Priestley was pushed towards representing times... Read More about The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress.

Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy (2022)
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Fraser, J. D., & Vickers, P. (2022). Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1086/721635

The existence of multiple interpretations of quantum mechanics appears to pose a serious challenge for knowledge claims about the quantum domain. Hoefer (2020) argues that a scientific realist epistemology must be abandoned in this context, while Cal... Read More about Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy.