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Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process (2020)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J. (2020). Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process. In K. Macnish, & J. Galliott (Eds.), Big data and democracy. Edinburgh University Press

Political advertising is changing. This chapter considers some of the implications of this for the democratic process. I begin with recent reports of online political advertising. From this, two related concerns emerge. The first is that online polit... Read More about Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process.

Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View (2020)
Journal Article
Parker, W. (2020). Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View. Philosophy of Science, 87(3), 457-477. https://doi.org/10.1086/708691

According to an adequacy-for-purpose view, models should be assessed with respect to their adequacy (or fitness) for particular purposes. Such a view has been advocated by scientists and philosophers alike. Important details, however, have yet to be... Read More about Model Evaluation: An Adequacy-for-Purpose View.

Arguing to theism from consciousness (2020)
Journal Article
Page, B. (2020). Arguing to theism from consciousness. Faith and Philosophy, 37(3), 336-362. https://doi.org/10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.3.5

I provide an argument from consciousness for God’s existence. I first give a form of the argument which ultimately, I think is difficult to evaluate. As such I move on to provide what I take to be a stronger argument, where I claim that consciousness... Read More about Arguing to theism from consciousness.

Getting serious about shared features (2020)
Journal Article
Khosrowi, D. (2020). Getting serious about shared features. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(2), 523-546. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy029

In Simulation and Similarity, Michael Weisberg offers a similarity-based account of the model–world relation, which is the relation in virtue of which successful models are successful. Weisberg’s main idea is that models are similar to targets in vir... Read More about Getting serious about shared features.

Lockdown is not egalitarian: the costs fall on the global poor (2020)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A., Walker, D., Chalkidou, K., Sullivan, R., & Glassman, A. (2020). Lockdown is not egalitarian: the costs fall on the global poor. The Lancet, 396(10243), https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2820%2931422-7

Travel Writing and Early Modern Experimental Philosophy (2020)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (in press). Travel Writing and Early Modern Experimental Philosophy. In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_97-1

Linguistic types are capacity-individuated action-types (2020)
Journal Article
Mallory, F. (2020). Linguistic types are capacity-individuated action-types. Inquiry, 63(9-10), 1123-1148. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2020.1772864

This paper is concerned with the ontological status of linguistic types. According to a widely held view, linguistic types are abstract objects that are instantiated or represented by tokens. The same types might be tokened by both speech, signing an... Read More about Linguistic types are capacity-individuated action-types.

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.

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

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

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.

Review of Peter Adamson, Medieval Philosophy, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, volume 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), xxii+637pp (2020)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). Review of Peter Adamson, Medieval Philosophy, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, volume 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), xxii+637pp. Philosophical Quarterly, 70(281), 890-892. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa014

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.