The C-word, the P-word, and realism in epidemiology
(2019)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A. (2021). The C-word, the P-word, and realism in epidemiology. Synthese, 198(S10), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02169-x
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Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy (2019)
Journal Article
Reiss, J. (2019). Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy. Social Epistemology, 33(2), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1577513Taking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against Democracy (Brennan 2016) as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses: (1) There is No Such Thing as Superior Political Judgement; (2) There Is No... Read More about Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy.
Plotinus on Perception (2019)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2019). Plotinus on Perception. In G. B, & S. J.f. (Eds.), The senses and the history of perception. Routledge
Metaphysics: An introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History (2019)
Book
Marmodoro, A., & Mayr, E. (2019). Metaphysics: An introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History. Oxford University Press
Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge (2019)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2019). Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 16(1), 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20170002Given a traditional intuitionist moral epistemology, it is notoriously difficult for moral realists to explain the reliability of our moral beliefs. This has led some to go looking for an alternative to intuitionism. Perception is an obvious contende... Read More about Moral Perception and the Reliability Challenge.
Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence (2019)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2019). Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence. Philosophers' Imprint, 19(4), 1-26Many philosophers hold out hope that some final condition on knowledge will allow us to overcome the limitations of the classic "justified true belief" analysis. The most popular intuitive glosses on this condition frame it as an absence of epistemic... Read More about Groundwork for an Explanationist Account of Epistemic Coincidence.
The inquiry model of medicine (2019)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A. (2019). The inquiry model of medicine. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 191(4), https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.180508
Habits of Mind: A Brand New Condillac (2019)
Journal Article
Dunham, J. (2019). Habits of Mind: A Brand New Condillac. https://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.11Is there anything in the mind that was not first in the senses? According to the received view, the French empiricist Étienne Bonnot de Condillac’s (1714–1780) answer to this was a firm “No”. Unlike Locke, who accepted the existence of innate faculti... Read More about Habits of Mind: A Brand New Condillac.
Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy (2019)
Book
Fox, C., & Saunders, J. (2019). Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203702444
On the individuation of words (2019)
Journal Article
Miller, J. (2020). On the individuation of words. Inquiry, 63(8), 875-884. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2018.1562378The idea that two words can be instances of the same word is a central intuition in our conception of language. This fact underlies many of the claims that we make about how we communicate, and how we understand each other. Given this, irrespective o... Read More about On the individuation of words.
Wage Exploitation and the Nonworseness Claim: Allowing the Wrong, to Do More Good (2019)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2019). Wage Exploitation and the Nonworseness Claim: Allowing the Wrong, to Do More Good. Business Ethics Quarterly, 29(2), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2018.28Many believe that employment can be wrongfully exploitative, even if it is consensual and mutually beneficial. At the same time, it may seem third parties should not do anything to preclude or eliminate such arrangements, given these same considerati... Read More about Wage Exploitation and the Nonworseness Claim: Allowing the Wrong, to Do More Good.
How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present (2019)
Journal Article
Roselli, A. (2019). How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present. Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(49), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0009What is the Specious Present? Which is its duration? And why, ultimately, do we need it to figure in our phenomenological account of temporal perception? In this paper, after introducing the role of the Specious Present in the main models that accoun... Read More about How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present.
Natural Meanings and Cultural Values (2019)
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James, S. P. (2019). Natural Meanings and Cultural Values. Environmental Ethics, 41(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics20194112In many cases, rivers, mountains, forests, and other so-called natural entities have value for us because they contribute to our well-being. According to the standard model of such value, they have instrumental or “service” value for us on account of... Read More about Natural Meanings and Cultural Values.
Objects, Ordinary and Otherwise (2018)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2018). Objects, Ordinary and Otherwise. In The Nature of Ordinary Objects. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316612897.005
Powers and potentiality (2018)
Book Chapter
Mumford, S., & Anjum, R. (2018). Powers and potentiality. In K. Engelhard, & M. Quante (Eds.), Handbook of Potentiality (261 - 278). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1287-1_10Analytic philosophers have in recent decades rediscovered powers as the basis for an all-encompassing metaphysics and philosophy of nature. What recommends the powers view is its explanatory utility, including a putative explanation of potentiality.... Read More about Powers and potentiality.
Accidents unmoored (2018)
Journal Article
Heil, J. (2018). Accidents unmoored. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(2), 113-120
James and the Metaphysics of Intentionality: Royce, Bergson, and the Miller-Bode Objections (2018)
Book Chapter
Dunham, J. (2018). James and the Metaphysics of Intentionality: Royce, Bergson, and the Miller-Bode Objections. In A. Klein (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of William James. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199395699.001.0001
‘What the patient wants’: an investigation of the methods of ascertaining patient values in evidence‐based medicine and values‐based practice (2018)
Journal Article
Wieten, S. (2018). ‘What the patient wants’: an investigation of the methods of ascertaining patient values in evidence‐based medicine and values‐based practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.12471
The Mystery of the Mystery of Consciousness (2018)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2018). The Mystery of the Mystery of Consciousness. In M. P. Guta (Ed.), Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties. Routledge
Transcendental Freedom and its Discontents (2018)
Journal Article
Saunders, J. (2018). Transcendental Freedom and its Discontents. Con-Textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, 1(8), 319-322. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2383864This introduction briefly lays out the basics of Kant’s concept, transcendental freedom, and some of its discontents. It also provides an overview of the dossier itself, introducing Katerina Deligiorgi’s discussion of ought-implies-can, Patrick Frier... Read More about Transcendental Freedom and its Discontents.