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Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’ (2020)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2021). Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’. Higher Education, 82(1), 163-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00628-w

The threshold concept framework is a key contemporary theory in pedagogy. The core idea is that ‘threshold concepts’ are distinctively ‘troublesome’ for students and act as gatekeepers to their disciplines. No doubt the theory is compelling because t... Read More about Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’.

Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice (2020)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2020). Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice. Res Publica, 26(4), 461-479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-020-09482-0

This essay asks what it is about the practice of trade that grounds duties of justice between states as trade partners. The answer advanced is that such duties are grounded in the dependence that trade generates. The essay puts forward four condition... Read More about Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice.

Russellian monism (2020)
Book Chapter
Coleman, S., & Goff, P. (2020). Russellian monism. In U. Kriegel (Ed.), Oxford handbook of the philosophy of consciousness. Oxford University Press

Abduction and the Scientific Realist Case for Properties (2020)
Journal Article
Tugby, M. (2021). Abduction and the Scientific Realist Case for Properties. Grazer philosophische Studien, 98(1), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-000112

Traditionally, many arguments for realism about properties (universals or tropes) rely on a priori claims. The author argues that if we make use of an abductive principle that is commonly employed by scientific realists, a new argument for property r... Read More about Abduction and the Scientific Realist Case for Properties.

Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning (2020)
Journal Article
Webster, A. K., & Jenkins, K. (2021). Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99(4), 730-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2020.1799048

One challenge in providing an adequate definition of physical disability is that of unifying the heterogeneous bodily conditions that count as disabilities. We examine recent proposals by Elizabeth Barnes [2016], and Dana Howard and Sean Aas [2018],... Read More about Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning.

Mnemonic Justice (2020)
Book Chapter
Puddifoot, K. (in press). Mnemonic Justice. In S. Goldberg, & S. Wright (Eds.), Memory and Testimony: New Essays in Epistemology. Oxford University Press

Against the Theistic Multiverse (2020)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). Against the Theistic Multiverse. Kriterion (Salzburg), 34(4), 1-14

We argue that Kraay’s “theistic multiverse” response to the objections to theism [11] is unsuccessful as it simply shifts the problems leveled against theism from the level of possible worlds to the level of possible universes. Furthermore, when we r... Read More about Against the Theistic Multiverse.

The Aesthetics Of Imperfection Re-Conceived: Improvisations, Compositions And Mistakes (2020)
Journal Article
Hamilton, A. (2020). The Aesthetics Of Imperfection Re-Conceived: Improvisations, Compositions And Mistakes. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78(3), 289-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12749

Ted Gioia associated the “aesthetics of imperfection” with improvised music. In an earlier article, I extended it to all musical performance. This article reconceives my discussion, offering more precise analyses: (1) The aesthetics of imperfection i... Read More about The Aesthetics Of Imperfection Re-Conceived: Improvisations, Compositions And Mistakes.

Integrated Care Systems as an Arena for the Emergence of New Forms of Epistemic Injustice (2020)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., & Clarke, J. (2020). Integrated Care Systems as an Arena for the Emergence of New Forms of Epistemic Injustice. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 23(5), 723-737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10111-1

Epistemic injustice has rapidly become a powerful tool for analysis of otherwise hidden social harms. Yet empirical research into how resistance to knowing and understanding can be generated and replicated in social programmes is limited. We have ide... Read More about Integrated Care Systems as an Arena for the Emergence of New Forms of Epistemic Injustice.

The ontology of words: Realism, nominalism, and eliminativism (2020)
Journal Article
Miller, J. (2020). The ontology of words: Realism, nominalism, and eliminativism. Philosophy Compass, 15(7), Article e12691. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12691

What are words? What makes two token words tokens of the same word‐type? Are words abstract entities, or are they (merely) collections of tokens? The ontology of words tries to provide answers to these, and related questions. This article provides an... Read More about The ontology of words: Realism, nominalism, and eliminativism.

Panpsychism and Free Will: A Case Study in Liberal Naturalism (2020)
Journal Article
Goff, P. (2020). Panpsychism and Free Will: A Case Study in Liberal Naturalism. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 120(2), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa009

There has been a resurgence of interest in panpsychism in contemporary philosophy of mind. According to its supporters, panpsychism offers an attractive solution to the mind–body problem, avoiding the deep difficulties associated with the more conven... Read More about Panpsychism and Free Will: A Case Study in Liberal Naturalism.

Metaphysics as the Science of the Possible (2020)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2020). Metaphysics as the Science of the Possible. In R. Bliss, & J. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (480-491). Routledge

This chapter considers the view that a central concern of metaphysics is what is possible. That is, the idea is that, unlike science, metaphysics studies not only what is actual, but the ways that reality could be. This view, if right, provides metap... Read More about Metaphysics as the Science of the Possible.

Hylomorphic Unity (2020)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2020). Hylomorphic Unity. In R. Bliss, & J. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (284-299). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112596

One of the greatest metaphysical insights that Aristotle contributed to the history of philosophy is that objects may be partitioned in two ways: into parts and into abstracta. The latter kind of division has not received due attention among contempo... Read More about Hylomorphic Unity.