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Constance Naden’s Metaphysics: Hylo-Idealism’s Ideal Known World and Unknown Matter (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2024). Constance Naden’s Metaphysics: Hylo-Idealism’s Ideal Known World and Unknown Matter. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 62(3), 475-499

In 1880s Britain, Constance Naden defended “hylo-idealism,” a theory aiming to unify materialism with idealism. This paper offers the first sustained study of Naden’s metaphysical system. On this new reading of Naden’s hylo-idealism, her materialism... Read More about Constance Naden’s Metaphysics: Hylo-Idealism’s Ideal Known World and Unknown Matter.

The property of goal‐directedness: Lessons from the dispositions debate (2024)
Journal Article
Tugby, M. (online). The property of goal‐directedness: Lessons from the dispositions debate. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12417

The system‐property or ‘cybernetic’ theory of goals and goal‐directedness became popular in the twentieth century. It is a theory that has reductionist and behaviourist roots. There are reasons to think that the system‐property theory needs to be for... Read More about The property of goal‐directedness: Lessons from the dispositions debate.

What Logical Consequence Could, Could Not, Should, and Should Not Be (2024)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. (2024). What Logical Consequence Could, Could Not, Should, and Should Not Be. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 98(1), 255–275. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akae011

In ‘Logical Consequence (Slight Return)’, Gillian Russell asks ‘What is logical consequence?’, a question which has vexed logicians since at least the twelfth century, when people first began to wonder what it meant for one sentence (or proposition)... Read More about What Logical Consequence Could, Could Not, Should, and Should Not Be.

Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals (2024)
Book Chapter
Dunham, J. (2024). Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals. In S. Bender, & D. Perler (Eds.), Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy (245-264). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305316-13

This chapter gives an account of Condillac’s understanding of the abilities of human and non-human animals in his 1755 Traité des animaux. It argues that if we understand abilities in the broadest sense to capture all the things an animal is able to... Read More about Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals.

Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse? (2024)
Journal Article
Goff, P. (2024). Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?. Synthese, 204(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04621-z

Our best current science seems to suggest the laws of physics and the initial conditions of our universe are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. A significant number of scientists and philosophers believe that the fine-tuning is evidence for the... Read More about Is the fine-tuning evidence for a multiverse?.

Self-Regulated Sample Diversity in Large Language Models (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, M., Frawley, J., Wyer, S., Shum, H. P. H., Uckelman, S. L., Black, S., & Willcocks, C. G. (2024). Self-Regulated Sample Diversity in Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1891–1899)

Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties (2024)
Journal Article
Saunders, J., Slater, J., & Sticker, M. (2024). Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties. Philosophy Compass, 19(6), Article e12998. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12998

The Overdemandingness Objection maintains that an ethical theory or principle that demands too much should be rejected, or at least moderated. Traditionally, overdemandingness is considered primarily a problem for consequentialist ethical theories. R... Read More about Kant and Overdemandingness I: The Demandingness of Imperfect Duties.

Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. (2024)
Journal Article
Webster, E. (online). Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Article jrae007. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrae007

Over the last several decades, a growing group of environmental and medical historians have argued that engagement with the materiality of disease is critical to eroding the false boundaries between environment and health, and especially to the histo... Read More about Environmental Materialities and the History of Pandemics..

How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage (2024)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2024). How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739124000079

This paper discusses some of the major ethical issues that arise in connection with the widespread holding of cultural heritage by private collectors. If, as many people believe, and UNESCO has affirmed, cultural heritage is, in some morally signific... Read More about How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage.

Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter? (2024)
Journal Article
Moško, M., & Simpson, W. M. R. (2024). Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter?. Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, 6(1), 65-91. https://doi.org/10.3366/anph.2024.0103

Medieval interpretations of hylomorphism, in which substances are conceived as metaphysical composites of prime matter and substantial form, are receiving attention in contemporary philosophy. It has even been suggested that a recovery of Aquinas's c... Read More about Whose Hylomorphism? Which Theory of Prime Matter?.

How to Misspell 'Paris' (2024)
Journal Article
Miller, J. (in press). How to Misspell 'Paris'. Philosophy,

One feature of language is that we are able to make mistakes in our use of language. Amongst other sorts of mistakes, we can misspeak, misspell, missign, or misunderstand. Given this, it seems that our metaphysics of words should be flexible enough t... Read More about How to Misspell 'Paris'.

Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique (2024)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (online). Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique. Mortality, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2024.2338284

Alkaline hydrolysis is an increasingly popular method of disposing of human corpses, which involves dissolving them into a solution of 95% water and 5% alkali, producing some bone residue and a liquid waste that can be flushed into the sewer system o... Read More about Alkaline hydrolysis and respect for the dead: an ethical critique.

Disagreement about Evidence-Based Policy (2024)
Book Chapter
Cowen, N., & Cartwright, N. (in press). Disagreement about Evidence-Based Policy. In M. Baghramian, J. A. Carter, & R. Cosker-Rowland (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement. Routledge