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A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes (2021)
Book Chapter
Alvarado, J. T., & Tugby, M. (2021). A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes. In L. Jansen, & P. Sandstad (Eds.), Neo-Aristotelian perspectives on formal causation (201-221). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329821

A combination of formal causation and natural-kind essentialism has good prospects. After all, natural-kind essentialists are under pressure to accept that natural kinds ground or formally cause the properties that characterize them. However, natural... Read More about A Problem for Natural-Kind Essentialism and Formal Causes.

The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity (2021)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., & Hackett, S. (2021). The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity. Musicology research, 7(Winter 2021),

The benefits of music participation are seen across health, education and social care contexts, and can help different people with different needs in different ways. As the boundaries between these contexts increasingly overlap, the need for flexible... Read More about The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity.

Cosmic hylomorphism: A powerist ontology of quantum mechanics (2021)
Journal Article
Simpson, W. M. R. (2021). Cosmic hylomorphism: A powerist ontology of quantum mechanics. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00342-5

The primitive ontology approach to quantum mechanics seeks to account for quantum phenomena in terms of a distribution of matter in three-dimensional space (or four-dimensional spacetime) and a law of nature that describes its temporal development. T... Read More about Cosmic hylomorphism: A powerist ontology of quantum mechanics.

Kinds of Arguments (2021)
Book Chapter
Uckelman, S. L. (2021). Kinds of Arguments. In R. Cross, & J. Paasch (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709604

The central methodology in western philosophy from the ancient Greeks is argumentation. Dialectical arguments are weaker than demonstrative ones, in that they lead to conclusions which are merely probable, rather than necessarily true; the weakness o... Read More about Kinds of Arguments.

Causation (2020)
Digital Artefact
Broadbent, A. (2020). Causation. [[Media unknown]]

An excess of meaning : conceptual over-interpretation in confabulation and schizophrenia (2020)
Journal Article
Bergamin, J. A. (2020). An excess of meaning : conceptual over-interpretation in confabulation and schizophrenia. Topoi, 39, 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9609-6

I argue that ordinary (non-pathological) confabulation is a side-effect of an interpretive faculty that makes sense of the world by rationalising our experience within the context of a personal and cultural narrative. However, I argue that a hyperact... Read More about An excess of meaning : conceptual over-interpretation in confabulation and schizophrenia.

Ontology of Powers. (2020)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2020). Ontology of Powers. In A. Meincke (Ed.), Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (13-26). Springer Verlag

Ventilator Triage Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic at U.S. Hospitals Associated With Members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (2020)
Journal Article
Antommaria, A. H. M., Gibb, T. S., McGuire, A. L., Wolpe, P. R., Wynia, M. K., Applewhite, M. K., …Eberl, J. T. (2020). Ventilator Triage Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic at U.S. Hospitals Associated With Members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors. Annals of Internal Medicine, 173(3), https://doi.org/10.7326/m20-1738