The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800.
(2008)
Book
Eddy, M. (2008). The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800. Routledge
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Frisch, Muller, and Belot on an Inconsistency in Classical Electrodynamics (2008)
Journal Article
Vickers, P. (2008). Frisch, Muller, and Belot on an Inconsistency in Classical Electrodynamics. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 59(4), 767-792. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axn039This paper follows up a debate as to whether classical electrodynamics is inconsistent. Mathias Frisch makes the claim in Inconsistency, Asymmetry and Non-Locality ([2005]), but this has been quickly countered by F. A. Muller ([2007]) and Gordon Belo... Read More about Frisch, Muller, and Belot on an Inconsistency in Classical Electrodynamics.
For analytic bioethics (2008)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A. (2008). For analytic bioethics. Clinical Ethics, 3(4), https://doi.org/10.1258/ce.2008.008031
The Difference Between Cause and Condition (2008)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A. (2008). The Difference Between Cause and Condition. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 108(1pt3), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2008.00250.x
Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. (2008)
Book
Lowe, E. (2008). Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action. Oxford University Press
Touch and Situatedness (2008)
Journal Article
Ratcliffe, M. (2008). Touch and Situatedness. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 16(3), 299-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672550802110827This paper explores the phenomenology of touch and proposes that the structure of touch serves to cast light on the more general way in which we 'find ourselves in a world'. Recent philosophical work on perception tends to emphasize vision. This, I s... Read More about Touch and Situatedness.
The Phenomenological Role of Affect in the Capgras Delusion (2008)
Journal Article
Ratcliffe, M. (2008). The Phenomenological Role of Affect in the Capgras Delusion. Continental Philosophy Review, 41(2), 195-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-008-9078-5This paper draws on studies of the Capgras delusion in order to illuminate the phenomenological role of affect in interpersonal recognition. People with this delusion maintain that familiars, such as spouses, have been replaced by impostors. It is ge... Read More about The Phenomenological Role of Affect in the Capgras Delusion.
Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (2008)
Book
Cartwright, N., Cat, J., Fleck, L., & Uebel, T. (2008). Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics. Cambridge University Press
Why be Hanged for Even a Lamb? (2008)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2008). Why be Hanged for Even a Lamb?. In B. Monton (Ed.), Images of empiricism (32-45). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199218844.003.0003This chapter examines van Fraassen's motivation for restricting his scientific theoretical commitments to claims about observables. Many critics have argued that the observable/unobservable distinction van Fraassen draws on is either an illegitimate... Read More about Why be Hanged for Even a Lamb?.
In Praise of the Representation Theorem (2008)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2008). In Praise of the Representation Theorem. In M. Frauchiger, & W. Essler (Eds.), Representation, evidence, and justification : themes from Suppes (83-90). Ontos Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110323566.83This paper will take up three of Patrick Suppes’s favourite topics: representation, invariance and causality. I begin not immediately with Suppes’s own work but with that of his Stanford colleague, Michael Friedman. Friedman argues that various high... Read More about In Praise of the Representation Theorem.
Traditional Moral Knowledge and Experience of the World (2008)
Journal Article
Smith, B. (2008). Traditional Moral Knowledge and Experience of the World
Prospects for an explanatory theory of semantics (2008)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2008). Prospects for an explanatory theory of semantics. Biolinguistics, 2(4), 348-363