All Outputs (1451)

Depicting Human Form (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Depicting Human Form. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 87, 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1358246119000274

This paper involves constructive exegesis. I consider the contrast between morality and art as sketched in Philippa Foot's 1972 paper of the same name, ‘Morality and Art’. I then consider how her views might have shifted against the background of the... Read More about Depicting Human Form.

Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy (2020)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2020). Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 120(2), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa007

For centuries, philosophers of time have produced texts containing words and pictures. Although some historians study visual representations of time, I have not found any history of philosophy on pictures of time within texts. This paper argues that... Read More about Time and Subtle Pictures in the History of Philosophy.

Better the drug you know: Commentary on “Daughton 2020, Natural experiment concept to accelerate the re-purposing of existing therapeutics for Covid-19” (2020)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A. (2020). Better the drug you know: Commentary on “Daughton 2020, Natural experiment concept to accelerate the re-purposing of existing therapeutics for Covid-19”. Global epidemiology, 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2020.100027

Universal consciousness and the ground of logic (2020)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2020). Universal consciousness and the ground of logic. In B. Goecke, & L. Jaskolla (Eds.), Pantheism and panpsychism (107-122). Brill/Mentis. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783957437303_007

Mechanisms, laws and explanation (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2020). Mechanisms, laws and explanation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(3), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00284-y

Mechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases whe... Read More about Mechanisms, laws and explanation.

Evidence and Knowledge from Computer Simulation (2020)
Journal Article
Parker, W. S. (2022). Evidence and Knowledge from Computer Simulation. Erkenntnis, 87(4), 1521-1538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00260-1

Can computer simulation results be evidence for hypotheses about real-world systems and phenomena? If so, what sort of evidence? Can we gain genuinely new knowledge of the world via simulation? I argue that evidence from computer simulation is aptly... Read More about Evidence and Knowledge from Computer Simulation.

The Foundations of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time (2020)
Book
Glick, D., Darby, G., & Marmodoro, A. (Eds.). (2020). The Foundations of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time. Oxford University Press

Still Life, A Mirror: Phasic Memory and Re-encounters with Artworks (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Still Life, A Mirror: Phasic Memory and Re-encounters with Artworks. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2), 423-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00472-y

Re-encountering certain kinds of artworks in the present (re-listening to music, re-reading novels) can often occasion a kind of recollection akin to episodic recollection, but which may be better cast as ‘phasic’, at least insofar as one can be said... Read More about Still Life, A Mirror: Phasic Memory and Re-encounters with Artworks.

Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias (2020)
Book Chapter
Holroyd, J., & Puddifoot, K. (2020). Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias. In E. Beeghly, & A. Madva (Eds.), An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice and the Social Mind. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107615

Because our knowledge-generating abilities are connected to our moral worth, we can wrong other people by treating them in ways that are disrespectful of their knowledge-generating abilities or place unjust epistemic burdens on them. Such wrongs are... Read More about Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias.

Organic Powers (2020)
Book Chapter
Tugby, M. (2020). Organic Powers. In A. S. Meincke (Ed.), Dispositionalism : perspectives from metaphysics and the philosophy of science (213-238). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28722-1_13

On the Experience of Activity: William James's Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism (2020)
Journal Article
Dunham, J. (2020). On the Experience of Activity: William James's Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 58(2), 267-291. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2020.0039

Is there a particular experience-type associated with the exercise of agency? This question was subject to lively philosophical debate in nineteenth-century France. William James paid close attention to these debates, and for most of his academic lif... Read More about On the Experience of Activity: William James's Late Metaphysics and the Influence of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism.

A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens (2020)
Journal Article
Peden, W. (2020). A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 51(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09485-3

In the Paradox of the Ravens, a set of otherwise intuitive claims about evidence seems to be inconsistent. Most attempts at answering the paradox involve rejecting a member of the set, which seems to require a conflict either with commonsense intuiti... Read More about A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens.

Getting the measure of Murdoch's Good (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Getting the measure of Murdoch's Good. European Journal of Philosophy, 28(1), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12540

Potentiality: actualism minus naturalism equals platonism (2020)
Journal Article
Giannini, G., & Tugby, M. (2020). Potentiality: actualism minus naturalism equals platonism. Philosophical inquiries, 8(1), 117-140. https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v8i1.278

Vetter (2015) develops a localised theory of modality, based on potentialities of actual objects. Two factors play a key role in its appeal: its commitment to Hardcore Actualism, and to Naturalism. Vetter’s commitment to Naturalism is in part manifes... Read More about Potentiality: actualism minus naturalism equals platonism.

Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do? (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N. (2020). Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do?. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 35(3), 269-323. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.21479

Philosophers of science have had little to say about 'middle-range theory' although much of what is done in science and of what drives its successes falls under that label. These lectures aim to spark an interest in the topic and to lay groundwork fo... Read More about Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do?.

Co-seeing and seeing through: reimagining Kant’s subtraction argument with Stumpf and Husserl (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Co-seeing and seeing through: reimagining Kant’s subtraction argument with Stumpf and Husserl. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(6), 1217-1239. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1695579

I draw on Carl Stumpf’s essay “Psychologie und Erkenntnistheorie” (1891), and his precocious On the Psychological Origin of the Idea of Space (1873), to set out a charge he raises against Kant’s form/matter distinction. The charge rests, I propose, o... Read More about Co-seeing and seeing through: reimagining Kant’s subtraction argument with Stumpf and Husserl.

‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices (2020)
Journal Article
Foxwell, J., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., & Woods, A. (2020). ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices. Consciousness and Cognition, 79, Article 102901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102901

Writers often report vivid experiences of hearing characters talking to them, talking back to them, and exhibiting independence and autonomy. However, systematic empirical studies of this phenomenon are almost non-existent, and as a result little is... Read More about ‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices.

Organisms, activity and being: on the substance of process ontology (2020)
Journal Article
Austin, C. (2020). Organisms, activity and being: on the substance of process ontology. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(2), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-0278-0

According to contemporary ‘process ontology’, organisms are best conceptualised as spatio-temporally extended entities whose mereological composition is fundamentally contingent and whose essence consists in changeability. In contrast to the Aristote... Read More about Organisms, activity and being: on the substance of process ontology.

Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty (2020)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2020). Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 46(10), 1203-1224. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453720903473

Learning about feminism can be a revelation for many students. However, for others, it can be a confounding, troubling experience. These difficulties return as problems for the teacher: how to help sceptical, resistant students understand the theory.... Read More about Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty.

Bivs, Space and 'in' (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2022). Bivs, Space and 'in'. Erkenntnis, 87(1), 369-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00198-z

I present a novel anti-sceptical BIV argument by focusing on conditions on the production and use of the locative preposition ‘in’. I distinguish two uses of ‘in’—material and descriptive phenomenological—and I explain in what respect movement is cen... Read More about Bivs, Space and 'in'.