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Are Some Perfumes Works of Art? (2020)
Journal Article
Brozzo, C. (2020). Are Some Perfumes Works of Art?. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78(1), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12687

What more do we need to fully appreciate perfumes, beyond considering them objects for aesthetic appreciation? My contention is that our appreciation of some perfumes would be largely incomplete, unless we acknowledged them as works of art. I defend... Read More about Are Some Perfumes Works of Art?.

Meeting the evil god challenge (2020)
Journal Article
Page, B., & Baker-Hytch, M. (2020). Meeting the evil god challenge. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101(3), 489-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12304

The evil god challenge is an argumentative strategy that has been pursued by a number of philosophers in recent years. It is apt to be understood as a parody argument: a wholly evil, omnipotent, and omniscient God is absurd, as both theists and athei... Read More about Meeting the evil god challenge.

Anne Conway as a Priority Monist: A Reply to Gordon-Roth (2020)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2020). Anne Conway as a Priority Monist: A Reply to Gordon-Roth. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 6(3), 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.1

For early modern metaphysician Anne Conway, the world comprises creatures. In some sense, Conway is a monist about creatures: all creatures are one. Yet, as Jessica Gordon-Roth (2018) has astutely pointed out, that monism can be understood in very di... Read More about Anne Conway as a Priority Monist: A Reply to Gordon-Roth.

"Monkeys and Monads" (2020)
Book Chapter
Dunham, J. (2020). "Monkeys and Monads". In J. Weckend, & L. Strickland (Eds.), Leibniz's Legacy and Impact. Routledge

Philosophical Perspectives on Earth System Modeling: Truth, Adequacy, and Understanding (2020)
Journal Article
Gramelsberger, G., Lenhard, J., & Parker, W. (2020). Philosophical Perspectives on Earth System Modeling: Truth, Adequacy, and Understanding. Journal of Advances in Modelling Earth Systems, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1029/2019ms001720

We explore three questions about Earth system modeling that are of both scientific and philosophical interest: What kind of understanding can be gained via complex Earth system models? How can the limits of understanding be bypassed or managed? How s... Read More about Philosophical Perspectives on Earth System Modeling: Truth, Adequacy, and Understanding.

Legal Rights and Nature's Contributions to People: Is There a Connection? (2020)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2020). Legal Rights and Nature's Contributions to People: Is There a Connection?. Biological Conservation, 241, Article 108325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108325

It has been claimed that approaches to conservation framed in terms of nature’s contributions to people are congenial to ones framed in terms of rights. This paper provides what has so far been lacking – namely, an argument in support of this claim.... Read More about Legal Rights and Nature's Contributions to People: Is There a Connection?.

The power of color (2020)
Journal Article
Marmodoro, A., & Grasso, M. (2020). The power of color. American Philosophical Quarterly, 57(1), 65-78

Are colors features of objects “out there in the world” or are they features of our inner experience and only “in our head?” Color perception has been the focus of extensive philosophical and scientific debate. In this paper we discuss the limitation... Read More about The power of color.

Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism (2020)
Journal Article
Saunders, J., & Sticker, M. (2020). Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 102(4), 646-673. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2020-1010

In this paper, we draw attention to several important tensions between Kant’s account of moral education and his commitment to transcendental idealism. Our main claim is that, in locating freedom outside of space and time, transcendental idealism mak... Read More about Moral Education and Transcendental Idealism.

Category Mistakes. (2019)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2019). Category Mistakes. In J. Cumpa (Ed.), Categorical Ontologies: From Realism to Eliminativism. Routledge

Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle (2019)
Journal Article
Khosrowi, D. (2019). Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle. Journal of Economic Methodology, 26(1), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2018.1561078

I consider recent strategies proposed by econometricians for extrapolating causal effects from experimental to target populations. I argue that these strategies fall prey to the extrapolator’s circle: they require so much knowledge about the target p... Read More about Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle.

The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (2019)
Book
Cheyne, P., Hamilton, A., & Paddison, M. (Eds.). (2019). The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199347773.001.0001

Spanning all cultures, rhythm is the basic pulse that animates poetry and music. The recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience—particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and l... Read More about The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics.

Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2019)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K. (2019). Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 26(4), 333-348. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2019.0048

Should people with mental health conditions ‘come out proud’, disclosing information about their condition(s)? Recent research highlights how disclosing this information can promote empowerment and decrease self-stigma. However, many people with ment... Read More about Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives.

Cosmopsychism, micropsychism and the grounding relation (2019)
Book Chapter
Goff, P. (2020). Cosmopsychism, micropsychism and the grounding relation. In W. Seager (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of panpsychism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717708

Constitutive micropsychism is the view that all facts are grounded in consciousness-involving facts at the micro-level. Constitutive cosmopsychism is the view that all facts are grounded in consciousness-involving facts concerning the universe. I arg... Read More about Cosmopsychism, micropsychism and the grounding relation.

Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, A., Macarthur, D., Squires, R., Tugby, M., & Wiseman, R. (2019). Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis. In P. Cheyne, A. Hamilton, & M. Paddison (Eds.), The philosophy of rhythm : aesthetics, music, poetics (15-42). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199347773.003.0002

The advantages of the dialogue form—in particular, the advantage of openness—have been neglected in post-eighteenth-century philosophy. Unlike the currently dominant journal article form, the present dialogue neither arrives at, nor seeks to impose,... Read More about Dialogue on Rhythm: Entrainment and the Dynamic Thesis.