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British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Hilda Oakeley Against McTaggart, Leibniz, and Others (2015)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2015). British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Hilda Oakeley Against McTaggart, Leibniz, and Others. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(6), 1150-1168. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1059314

In the early twentieth century, a rare strain of British idealism emerged which took Leibniz's Monadology as its starting point. This paper discusses a variant of that strain, offered by Hilda Oakeley (1867–1950). I set Oakeley's monadology in its ph... Read More about British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Hilda Oakeley Against McTaggart, Leibniz, and Others.

Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2016). Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons. Philosophical Quarterly, 66(263), 432-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv061

Medieval logic can often ‘seem to consist of a variety of unsystematic and disparate remarks, and it is not at all obvious whether or how they fit together’ (p. 1). In this ambitious book, Terence Parsons seeks to demonstrate how ‘medieval logic can... Read More about Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons.

Powerful Qualities, Zombies and Inconceivability (2015)
Journal Article
Carruth, A. D. (2016). Powerful Qualities, Zombies and Inconceivability. Philosophical Quarterly, 66(262), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv055

One powerful argument for dualism is provided by Chalmers: the ‘zombie’ or conceivability argument. This paper aims to establish that if one adopts the ‘Powerful Qualities’ account of properties developed by Martin and Heil, this argument can be resi... Read More about Powerful Qualities, Zombies and Inconceivability.

Tropes and the Generality of Laws (2015)
Book Chapter
Gibb, S. (2015). Tropes and the Generality of Laws. In G. Galluzzo, & M. Loux (Eds.), The problem of universals in contemporary philosophy (156-172). Cambridge University Press

Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cartwright, N., Cowen, N., Virk, B., & Mascarenhas-Keyes, S. (2015). Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom

What allows research evidence to contribute to successful social policy and improve practice in public services? The establishment of the What Works Network, a group of evidence ‘clearing houses’, that summarise academic research evidence for practit... Read More about Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom.

Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (2015)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2015). Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics

This collection contains essays from the Workshop on Moral Psychology and Human Agency at the University of Michigan in 2012, funded through co-editor Daniel Jacobson's Templeton grant, "The Science of Ethics." The editors describe the contributors a... Read More about Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics.

Identity and distinctness in online interaction: encountering a problem for narrative accounts of self (2015)
Journal Article
Carruth, A. D., & Hill, D. W. (2015). Identity and distinctness in online interaction: encountering a problem for narrative accounts of self. Ethics and Information Technology, 17(2), 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-015-9364-y

This paper examines the prevalent assumption that when people interact online via proxies—avatars—they encounter each other. Through an exploration of the ontology of users and their avatars we argue that, contrary to the trend within current discuss... Read More about Identity and distinctness in online interaction: encountering a problem for narrative accounts of self.

How Could Laws Make Things Happen? (2015)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N. (2015). How Could Laws Make Things Happen?. In N. Spurway (Ed.), Laws of Nature, Laws of God? Proceedings of the Science and Religion Forum Conference 2014 (115-135). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Nothing is Hidden: Contextualism and the Grammar-Meaning Interface (2015)
Journal Article
Hinzen, W. (2015). Nothing is Hidden: Contextualism and the Grammar-Meaning Interface. Mind and Language, 30(3), 259-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12080

A defining assumption in the debate on contextual influences on truth-conditional content is that such content is often incompletely determined by what is specified in linguistic form. The debate then turns on whether this is evidence for positing a... Read More about Nothing is Hidden: Contextualism and the Grammar-Meaning Interface.

Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an Introduction to Casimir Physics (2015)
Book
Simpson, W. (2015). Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an Introduction to Casimir Physics. World Scientific Publishing

Forces of the Quantum Vacuum presents a number of theoretical approaches to Casimir, van der Waals and Casimir–Polder forces that have been fruitfully employed in mainstream research, and also reviews the experimental evidence for Casimir forces. Beg... Read More about Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an Introduction to Casimir Physics.

Against constitutive Russellian monism (2015)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2015). Against constitutive Russellian monism. In T. Alter, & Y. Nagasawa (Eds.), Consciousness in the physical world : perspectives on Russellian Monism. Oxford University Press