Causation and prediction in epidemiology: A guide to the “Methodological Revolution”
(2015)
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Broadbent, A. (2015). Causation and prediction in epidemiology: A guide to the “Methodological Revolution”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.06.004
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British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Hilda Oakeley Against McTaggart, Leibniz, and Others (2015)
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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/10.1080/09608788.2015.1059314In 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)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2016). Book Review: Articulating Medieval Logic by Terence Parsons. Philosophical Quarterly, 66(263), 432-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv061Medieval 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)
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Carruth, A. D. (2016). Powerful Qualities, Zombies and Inconceivability. Philosophical Quarterly, 66(262), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv055One 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.
VIII—Defending Dualism (2015)
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Gibb, S. (2015). VIII—Defending Dualism. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 115(2pt2), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2015.00388.xIn the contemporary mental causation debate, two dualist models of psychophysical causal relevance have been proposed which entail that although mental events are causally relevant in the physical domain, this is not in virtue of them causing any phy... Read More about VIII—Defending Dualism.
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)
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Cartwright, N., Cowen, N., Virk, B., & Mascarenhas-Keyes, S. (2015). Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroomWhat 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.
A Pragmatist Theory of Evidence (2015)
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Reiss, J. (2015). A Pragmatist Theory of Evidence. Philosophy of Science, 82(3), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1086/681643Two approaches to evidential reasoning compete in the biomedical and social sciences: the experimental and the pragmatist. Whereas experimentalism has received considerable philosophical analysis and support since the times of Bacon and Mill (and con... Read More about A Pragmatist Theory of Evidence.
Why Old Things Matter (2015)
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James, S. P. (2015). Why Old Things Matter. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 12(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-4681038It is, I suggest, unclear whether any old inanimate objects deserve to be treated with respect simply because they are old. Yet this does not entail that an object’s age has no bearing at all on the question of how it may permissibly be treated. I de... Read More about Why Old Things Matter.
Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (2015)
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Faraci, D. (2015). Review of Moral Psychology & Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of EthicsThis 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.
The image of mind in the language of children with autism (2015)
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Hinzen, W., Rosselló, J., Mattos, O., Schroeder, K., & Vila, E. (2015). The image of mind in the language of children with autism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 841. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00841
The future of climate modeling (2015)
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Katzav, J., & Parker, W. (2015). The future of climate modeling. Climatic Change, 132(4), 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1435-xRecently a number of scientists have proposed substantial changes to the practice of climate modeling, though they disagree over what those changes should be. We provide an overview and critical examination of three leading proposals: the unified app... Read More about The future of climate modeling.
Identity and distinctness in online interaction: encountering a problem for narrative accounts of self (2015)
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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-yThis 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)
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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.12080A 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.
Epidemiological evidence in law: a comment on Supreme Court Decision 2011Da22092, South Korea (2015)
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Broadbent, A. (2015). Epidemiological evidence in law: a comment on Supreme Court Decision 2011Da22092, South Korea. Epidemiology and Health, 37, https://doi.org/10.4178/epih/e2015025
Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an Introduction to Casimir Physics (2015)
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Simpson, W. (2015). Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an Introduction to Casimir Physics. World Scientific PublishingForces 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
Universals, Laws, and Governance (2015)
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Tugby, M. (2015). Universals, Laws, and Governance. Philosophical Studies, 173(5), 1147-1163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-015-0521-2Proponents of the dispositional theory of properties typically claim that their view is not one that offers a realist, governing conception of laws. My first aim is to show that, contrary to this claim, if one commits to dispositionalism then one doe... Read More about Universals, Laws, and Governance.
The Causal Closure Principle (2015)
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Gibb, S. (2015). The Causal Closure Principle. Philosophical Quarterly, 65(261), 626-647. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqv030In the mental causation debate, there is a common assumption that interactive dualism is false because of the principle of the causal closure of the physical domain. However, this paper argues that recent advances in metaphysics—more specifically, in... Read More about The Causal Closure Principle.