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The regulation of gender in menopause theory (2015)
Journal Article
Gambaudo, S. (2017). The regulation of gender in menopause theory. Topoi, 36(3), 549-559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-015-9351-2

'The regulation of gender in menopause theory' offers a critical commentary on some key theories of menopause experience. It aims to show that the theorisation of menopause keeps to the same epistemic and ideological lines as hegemonic understandings... Read More about The regulation of gender in menopause theory.

Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S., & Alderson-Day, B. (2016). Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(3), 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0288-6

In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce the proble... Read More about Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction.

Against Truth-Conditional Theories of Meaning: Three Lessons from the Language(s) of Fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L., & Chan, P. (2016). Against Truth-Conditional Theories of Meaning: Three Lessons from the Language(s) of Fiction. Res Philosophica, 2(93), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2016.2.93.4

Fictional discourse and fictional languages provide useful test cases for theories of meaning. In this paper, we argue against truth-conditional accounts of meaning on the basis of problems posed by language(s) of fiction. It is well-known how fictio... Read More about Against Truth-Conditional Theories of Meaning: Three Lessons from the Language(s) of Fiction.

In Defense of Real Cartesian Motion (2015)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2015). In Defense of Real Cartesian Motion. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 53(4), 747-762. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2015.0067

On Thomas Lennon’s (2007) “Eleatic” reading of Descartes, the Cartesian world is in reality motionless, its motions conceived as mere phenomenal appearances. Lennon is aware that this radical reading appears to be at odds with various Cartesian texts... Read More about In Defense of Real Cartesian Motion.

The linguistic roots of Natural Pedagogy (2015)
Journal Article
Mattos, O., & Hinzen, W. (2015). The linguistic roots of Natural Pedagogy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 1424. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01424

Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact th... Read More about The linguistic roots of Natural Pedagogy.

Scientific Models versus Social Reality (2015)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N. (2015). Scientific Models versus Social Reality. Building Research and Information, 44(3-4), 334-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2015.1083811

Policy predictions fail for the very many different kinds of case-by-case local factors described in the Building Research & Information (2015) special issue (vol. 43/4) entitled ‘Closing the Policy Gaps: From Formulation to Outcomes'. Work in philos... Read More about Scientific Models versus Social Reality.

From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance. (2015)
Journal Article
Dunham, J. (2015). From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(6), 1085-1105. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1078775

In this article, I argue that in his 1838 De l'habitude, Félix Ravaisson uses the analysis of habit to defend a Leibnizian monadism. Recent commentators have failed to appreciate this because they read Ravaisson as a typically post-Kantian philosophe... Read More about From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance..

Computer Simulation, Measurement, and Data Assimilation (2015)
Journal Article
Parker, W. (2015). Computer Simulation, Measurement, and Data Assimilation. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(1), 273-304. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axv037

This article explores some of the roles of computer simulation in measurement. A model-based view of measurement is adopted and three types of measurement—direct, derived, and complex—are distinguished. It is argued that while computer simulations on... Read More about Computer Simulation, Measurement, and Data Assimilation.

Immanent Philosophy of X (2015)
Journal Article
Hendry, R. (2016). Immanent Philosophy of X. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 55, 36-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.008

In this paper I examine the relationship between historians, philosophers and sociologists of science, and indeed scientists themselves. I argue that (i) they co-habit a shared intellectual territory (science and its past); and (ii) they should be ab... Read More about Immanent Philosophy of X.

Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2015). Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment. Ethics, Policy & Environment, 18(3), 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2015.1111616

This paper is about the practice of evaluating ecosystems on the basis of the cultural services they provide. My first aim is to assess the various objections that have been made to this practice. My second is to argue that when particular places are... Read More about Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Critical Assessment.

Real Acquaintance and Physicalism (2015)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2015). Real Acquaintance and Physicalism. In P. Coates, & S. Coleman (Eds.), The nature of phenomenal qualities : sense, perception & consciousness. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198712718.003.0005

‘Real acquaintance’ is a special kind of intimate relationship subjects bear to their phenomenal qualities, in virtue of which: (i) a psychologically normal subject can know the real nature of one of her phenomenal qualities by attending to that qual... Read More about Real Acquaintance and Physicalism.

Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court (2015)
Journal Article
Maehle, A. (2015). Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court. Journal of medical law and ethics, 3(1-2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.7590/221354015x14319325750151

An important problem for medical confidentiality in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the question if doctors could be required to give evidence in court about their patients’ condition. On the one hand, knowledge that personal informa... Read More about Preserving Confidentiality or Obstructing Justice? Historical Perspectives on a Medical Privilege in Court.

Henry More and the development of absolute time (2015)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2015). Henry More and the development of absolute time. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 54, 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.06.003

This paper explores the nature, development and influence of the first English account of absolute time, put forward in the mid-seventeenth century by the ‘Cambridge Platonist’ Henry More. Against claims in the literature that More does not have an a... Read More about Henry More and the development of absolute time.

Hilda Oakeley on Idealism, History and the Real Past (2015)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2015). Hilda Oakeley on Idealism, History and the Real Past. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(5), 933-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1055232

In the early twentieth century, Hilda Diana Oakeley (1867–1950) set out a new kind of British idealism. Oakeley is an idealist in the sense that she holds mind to actively contribute to the features of experience, but she also accepts that there is a... Read More about Hilda Oakeley on Idealism, History and the Real Past.

The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms (2015)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W., & Rosselló, J. (2015). The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 971. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00971

We hypothesize that linguistic (dis-)organization in the schizophrenic brain plays a more central role in the pathogenesis of this disease than commonly supposed. Against the standard view, that schizophrenia is a disturbance of thought or selfhood,... Read More about The linguistics of schizophrenia: thought disturbance as language pathology across positive symptoms.