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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/axn039

This 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.

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/s11007-008-9078-5

This 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 People with this delusion maintain that familiars, such as spouses, have been replaced by impostors.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.

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/9780199218844.003.0003

This 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/10.1515/9783110323566.83

This 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.