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Re-evaluating the credibility of eyewitness testimony: the misinformation effect and the overcritical juror (2018)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K. (2020). Re-evaluating the credibility of eyewitness testimony: the misinformation effect and the overcritical juror. Episteme, 17(2), 255-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.42

Eyewitnesses are susceptible to recollecting that they experienced an event in a way that is consistent with false information provided to them after the event. The effect is commonly called the misinformation effect. Because jurors tend to find eyew... Read More about Re-evaluating the credibility of eyewitness testimony: the misinformation effect and the overcritical juror.

Causation in Science and the methods of scientific discovery (2018)
Book
Anjum, R. L., & Mumford, S. (2018). Causation in Science and the methods of scientific discovery. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733669.001.0001

Lynton Crosby and the Dark Arts of Democracy (2018)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J. (2019). Lynton Crosby and the Dark Arts of Democracy. In C. Fox, & J. Saunders (Eds.), Media ethics, free speech, and the requirements of democracy (53-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203702444-4

Emergence, Reduction and the Identity and Individuation of Powers (2018)
Journal Article
Carruth, A. D. (2020). Emergence, Reduction and the Identity and Individuation of Powers. Topoi, 39, 1021-1030. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9621-x

One recently popular way to characterise strong emergence is to say that emergent entities possess novel causal powers. However, there is little agreement concerning the nature of powers. One controversy involves whether powers are single- or multi-t... Read More about Emergence, Reduction and the Identity and Individuation of Powers.

Substances. (2018)
Journal Article
Heil, J. (2018). Substances. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(5), 645-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1542276

The paper takes up a conception of substances according to which substances are simple property bearers, properties being modes, particular qualitative ways individual substances are. What a substance does or would do is determined by its qualities.... Read More about Substances..

Did the universe design itself? (2018)
Journal Article
Goff, P. (2019). Did the universe design itself?. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 85(1), 99-122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-018-9692-z

Many philosophers and scientists believe that we need an explanation as to why the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe are fine-tuned for life. The standard two options are: theism and the multiverse hypothesis. Both of these t... Read More about Did the universe design itself?.

Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person (2018)
Journal Article
Page, B. T. (2018). Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 85(3), 297-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-018-9694-x

Within contemporary philosophy of religion there are three main ways in which God is conceptualised in relation to personhood: (1) God is a person and so personal (PP). (2) God is non-personal, and so is not a person (NPNP). (3) God is a personal non... Read More about Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person.

Making offers they can't refuse: Consensus and domination in the WTO (2018)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2018). Making offers they can't refuse: Consensus and domination in the WTO. Moral Philosophy and Politics, 5(2), 227-256. https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2018-0061

The World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the international trade regime within which it operates, is regularly evaluated in terms of distributive outcomes or opportunities. A less-established concern is the extent to which the institutional structure... Read More about Making offers they can't refuse: Consensus and domination in the WTO.

The Similarity Hypothesis in Metaethics (2018)
Book Chapter
Cowie, C. (2018). The Similarity Hypothesis in Metaethics. In J. Suikkanen, & A. Kauppinen (Eds.), Methodology and moral philosophy (127-147). Routledge

‘Must there be Brute Facts?’ In E. Vintiadis and C. Mekios, eds. Brute Facts. 19–27. (2018)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2018). ‘Must there be Brute Facts?’ In E. Vintiadis and C. Mekios, eds. Brute Facts. 19–27. In E. Vintiadis, & C. Mekios (Eds.), Brute Facts. Oxford University Press

Moral Realism, Aesthetic Realism, and the Asymmetry Claim (2018)
Journal Article
Hanson, L. (2018). Moral Realism, Aesthetic Realism, and the Asymmetry Claim. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 129(1), 39-69. https://doi.org/10.1086/698732

Many people accept, at least implicitly, what I call the asymmetry claim: the view that moral realism is more defensible than aesthetic realism. This article challenges the asymmetry claim. I argue that it is surprisingly hard to find points of contr... Read More about Moral Realism, Aesthetic Realism, and the Asymmetry Claim.

Fine-tuned of necessity? (2018)
Journal Article
Page, B. T. (2018). Fine-tuned of necessity?. Res Philosophica, 95(4), 663-692. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1659

This paper seeks to explicate and analyze an alternative response to fine-tuning arguments from those that are typically given—namely, design or brute contingency. The response I explore is based on necessity, the necessitarian response. After showin... Read More about Fine-tuned of necessity?.

Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism and the Possibility of an Ancestral World (2018)
Journal Article
James, S. P. (2018). Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism and the Possibility of an Ancestral World. Philosophy East and West, 68(4), 1116-1133. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.0.0132

It is sometimes argued that metaphysical anti-realists cannot consistently affirm the evident truth that the world existed before any conscious subjects evolved. I consider how Mādhyamikas could respond, and, in so doing, clarify where Madhyamaka may... Read More about Madhyamaka, Metaphysical Realism and the Possibility of an Ancestral World.

Mechanisms, ceteris paribus laws and covering-law explanation (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2018). Mechanisms, ceteris paribus laws and covering-law explanation

Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited (2018)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2019). Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67(3), 153-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2018.1490518

Just as Shakespeare’s plays left their indelible stamp on the English language, so too did his names influence the naming pool in England at the beginning of the 17th century and beyond, and certain popular modern names are often described as inventi... Read More about Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited.

We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes (2018)
Journal Article
Faraci, D. (2020). We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes. Mind, 129(513), 225-234. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy054

Barry Maguire argues that there are no reasons for affective attitudes. ‘There is no reason for your incredulous reaction to’ this thesis, he claims. In this paper, I argue that we have no reason to accept his thesis. I first examine Maguire's purpor... Read More about We Have No Reason to Think There Are No Reasons for Affective Attitudes.

The Ontology of E. J. Lowe's Substance Dualism (2018)
Book Chapter
Carruth, A. D., & Gibb, S. C. (2018). The Ontology of E. J. Lowe's Substance Dualism. In A. D. Carruth, S. C. Gibb, & J. Heil (Eds.), Ontology, Modality, Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe. Oxford University Press

Ontology, Modality, Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe (2018)
Book
Carruth, A., Gibb, S., & Heil, J. (Eds.). (2018). Ontology, Modality, Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe. Oxford University Press

Revelation, consciousness+ and the phenomenal powers view (2018)
Journal Article
Goff, P. (2020). Revelation, consciousness+ and the phenomenal powers view. Topoi, 39, 1089-1092. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9594-9

Revelation is roughly the thesis that we have introspective access to the essential nature of our conscious states. This thesis is appealed to in arguments against physicalism. Little attention has been given to the problem that Revelation is a sourc... Read More about Revelation, consciousness+ and the phenomenal powers view.

If anyone is in Christ – new creation! (2018)
Journal Article
Page, B. T. (2020). If anyone is in Christ – new creation!. Religious Studies, 56(4), 525-541. https://doi.org/10.1017/s003441251800063x

This paper investigates the metaphysical transformation that occurs when a believer becomes a new creation, something which hasn’t yet been explored in the literature. I start by setting out what this ontological transformation involves, and then pro... Read More about If anyone is in Christ – new creation!.