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A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (2016). A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(2), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0260-5

I suggest that we can think of delusional misidentification in terms of systematic errors in the management of mental files. I begin by sketching the orthodox “bottom-up” aetiology of delusional misidentification. I suggest that the orthodox aetiolog... Read More about A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification.

Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2016). Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19(1), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9592-6

In the US Environmental Protection Agency, the World Wide Fund for Nature and many other environmental organisations, it is standard practice to evaluate particular woods, wetlands and other such places on the basis of the ‘ecosystem services’ they a... Read More about Ecosystem Services and the Value of Places.

Catharine Cockburn on Unthinking Immaterial Substance: Souls, Space, and Related Matters (2015)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2015). Catharine Cockburn on Unthinking Immaterial Substance: Souls, Space, and Related Matters. Philosophy Compass, 10(4), 255-263. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12210

The early modern Catharine Cockburn wrote on a wide range of philosophical issues and recent years have seen an increasing interest in her work. This paper explores her thesis that immaterial substance need not think. Drawing on existing scholarship,... Read More about Catharine Cockburn on Unthinking Immaterial Substance: Souls, Space, and Related Matters.

Good News for Moral Error Theorists: A Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt Strategies (2015)
Journal Article
Cowie, C. (2016). Good News for Moral Error Theorists: A Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt Strategies. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94(1), 115-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2015.1026269

Moral error theories are often rejected by appeal to ‘companions in guilt’ arguments. The most popular form of companions in guilt argument takes epistemic reasons for belief as a ‘companion’ and proceeds by analogy. I show that this strategy fails.... Read More about Good News for Moral Error Theorists: A Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt Strategies.

Casimir forces at the cutting edge (2015)
Book Chapter
Simpson, W., Leonhardt, U., Decca, R., & Buhmann, S. Y. (2015). Casimir forces at the cutting edge. In W. M. R. Simpson, & U. Leonhardt (Eds.), Forces of the Quantum Vacuum: an introduction to Casimir Physics (227-246). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814644761_0007

It would be a pity if you read this far, decided that it all made perfect sense, and put the book down, supposing that scientists have got the Casimir effect ‘pretty much figured out’. They haven't, and physics only thrives when people ask questions.... Read More about Casimir forces at the cutting edge.

Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2016). Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, 29(2), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12091

It is often assumed that to say that nature should be protected for the sake of human beings just is to say that it should be protected because it is a means to one or more anthropocentric ends. I argue that this assumption is false. In some contexts... Read More about Protecting Nature for the Sake of Human Beings.

Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (2015)
Book
James, S. P. (2015). Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction. Polity Press

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans bel... Read More about Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction.

EBP: Where Rigor Matters (2015)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, N., & Marcellesi, A. (2015). EBP: Where Rigor Matters. In C. Crangle, A. García de la Sienra, & H. E. Longino (Eds.), Foundations and methods from mathematics to neuroscience : essays inspired by Patrick Suppes. CSLI Publications

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (2015)
Book
Marmodoro, A., & Prince, B. (Eds.). (2015). Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107447974

Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cartwright, N. (2015). Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why

How do we establish singular causal claims? It seems we do this all the time, from courtrooms to cloud chambers. Nevertheless, there is a strong lobby in the evidence-based medicine and policy movements that argues that we cannot make reliable causal... Read More about Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why.

The dispositionalist deity: how God creates laws and why theists should care (2015)
Journal Article
Page, B. T. (2015). The dispositionalist deity: how God creates laws and why theists should care. Zygon, 50(1), 113-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12150

How does God govern the world? For many theists “laws of nature” play a vital role. But what are these laws, metaphysically speaking? I shall argue that laws of nature are not external to the objects they govern, but instead should be thought of as r... Read More about The dispositionalist deity: how God creates laws and why theists should care.

Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James. (2015)
Journal Article
Dunham, J. (2015). Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(4), 756-778. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.1002074

This article investigates the history of the relation between idealism and pragmatism by examining the importance of the French idealist Charles Renouvier for the development of William James's ‘Will to Believe’. By focusing on French idealism, we ob... Read More about Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James..

The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity (2015)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2015). The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity. Synthese, 192(8), 2361-2377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0670-z

The medieval distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic words is usually given as the distinction between words which have signification or meaning in isolation from other words (such as nouns, pronouns, verbs) and those which have signif... Read More about The Logic of Categorematic and Syncategorematic Infinity.

Beyond bioethics: the 5th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable (2015)
Journal Article
Simon, J., Broadbent, A., & Gifford, F. (2015). Beyond bioethics: the 5th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 36, 1-5

‘A Medicine for my State of Mind’: The Role of Wordsworth in John Stuart Mill's Moral and Psychological Development (2015)
Journal Article
McKinnell, L. (2015). ‘A Medicine for my State of Mind’: The Role of Wordsworth in John Stuart Mill's Moral and Psychological Development. Utilitas, 27(01), 43-60. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0953820814000302

According to Jeremy Bentham's account of happiness, pleasure is understood as homogeneous, without qualitative differences between pleasures, and the relation between pleasure and its objects is understood as morally and psychologically arbitrary. Jo... Read More about ‘A Medicine for my State of Mind’: The Role of Wordsworth in John Stuart Mill's Moral and Psychological Development.

Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World (2015)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2015). Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World. In A. Marmodoro, & B. Prince (Eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (94-111). Cambridge University Press

Freedom and Control: on the Modality of Free Will (2015)
Journal Article
Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. L. (2015). Freedom and Control: on the Modality of Free Will. American Philosophical Quarterly, 52(1), 1-11

Free will is a problem of modality, hampered by a commitment to modal dualism: the view that there is only necessity and pure contingency. If we have necessity, then things couldn't have been otherwise, against the Principle of Alternate Possibilitie... Read More about Freedom and Control: on the Modality of Free Will.

Huck vs. Jojo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame (2015)
Book Chapter
Faraci, D., & Shoemaker, D. (2015). Huck vs. Jojo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame. In J. Knobe, T. Lombrozo, & S. Nichols (Eds.), Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (7-27). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198718765.003.0002

When Huckleberry Finn fails to turn in Jim, he believes he is going to hell for doing what he has been raised to believe is wrong. When Susan Wolf’s JoJo—raised by his dictator father to embrace his father’s evil values—grows up, he tortures peasants... Read More about Huck vs. Jojo: Moral Ignorance and the (A)symmetry of Praise and Blame.

Forward models and passive psychotic symptoms (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (2015). Forward models and passive psychotic symptoms. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, Article 22. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00022

Accessibilism and the Challenge from Implicit Bias (2015)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K. (2016). Accessibilism and the Challenge from Implicit Bias. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 97(3), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12056

Recent research in social psychology suggests that many beliefs are formed as a result of implicit biases in favour of members of certain groups and against members of other groups. This article argues that beliefs of this sort present a counterexamp... Read More about Accessibilism and the Challenge from Implicit Bias.