Small Worlds with Cosmic Powers
(2023)
Journal Article
Simpson, W. M. R. (2023). Small Worlds with Cosmic Powers. Journal of Philosophy, 120(8), 401-420. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2023120824
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Structure, essence and existence in chemistry (2023)
Journal Article
Hendry, R. F. (2023). Structure, essence and existence in chemistry. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12387Philosophers have often debated the truth of microstructural essentialism about chemical substances: whether or not the structure of a chemical substance at the molecular scale is what makes it the substance it is. Oddly they have tended to pursue th... Read More about Structure, essence and existence in chemistry.
Collective Powers (2023)
Book Chapter
Guo, X., & Tugby, M. (2023). Collective Powers. In C. J. Austin, A. Marmodoro, & A. Roselli (Eds.), Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (142-166). New York and Abingdon: Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003298830-11It is natural to think there are higher-level powers, such as a screen’s powers to display various images, and lower-level powers such as each pixel’s powers to display various colours. Moreover, it is natural to think that higher-level powers depend... Read More about Collective Powers.
Dialectical Aristotelianism: On Marx's account of what separates us from the animals (2023)
Journal Article
Whyman, T. (2023). Dialectical Aristotelianism: On Marx's account of what separates us from the animals. Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12712I have noticed, in Anglophone philosophy, a certain way of invoking Marx. The pattern here is—understandably, given the relative scarcity of substantial engagement with Marx outside of (radical) political theory—a rather loose one. But I've spotted i... Read More about Dialectical Aristotelianism: On Marx's account of what separates us from the animals.
Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley (2023)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2023). Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley. In A. Stone, & L. Moland (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century (C34S1–C34N22). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.34Idealists agree that reality is somehow mental, holding say that reality comprises consciousness or spirit. Idealism can be developed in many different ways and, before the distinctive movement known as “British idealism” emerged, other idealisms wer... Read More about Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley.
Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives (2023)
Journal Article
Vickers, P., Cowie, C., Dick, S. J., Gillen, C., Jeancolas, C., Rothschild, L. J., & McMahon, S. (2023). Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0084Potential biosignatures offering the promise of extraterrestrial life (past or present) are to be expected in the coming years and decades, whether from within our own solar system, from an exoplanet atmosphere, or otherwise. With each such potential... Read More about Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives.
The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2023). The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson. Philosophers' Imprint, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.1281Drawing on the 1870s-1880s work of Shadworth Hodgson and Robert Kelly, William James famously characterised the specious present as ‘the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible’. Literature on the pre-history of late ninet... Read More about The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson.
Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think (2023)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., & Ray, F. (2023). Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think. European Review, 31(4), 367-381. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1062798723000091We begin from the assumption that where scientific research will predictably be used to affect things of moral significance in the world, you have a special duty, a duty of care, to ‘get it right’. This, we argue, requires a special kind of objectivi... Read More about Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think.
Epistemic Agency and the Generalisation of Fear (2023)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K., & Trakas, M. (2023). Epistemic Agency and the Generalisation of Fear. Synthese, 202, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04222-2
Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis? (2023)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2023). Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?. In M. Garcia-Godinez (Ed.), Thomasson on Ontology (85-108). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23672-3_5Amie Thomasson’s work provides numerous ways to rethink and improve our approach to metaphysics. This chapter is my attempt to begin to sketch why I still think the easy approach leaves room for substantive metaphysical work, and why I do not think t... Read More about Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?.
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data (2023)
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Rod, N. H., Broadbent, A., Rod, M. H., Russo, F., Arah, O. A., & Stronks, K. (2023). Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data. Epidemiology, 34(4), 505-514. https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001612Public health and the underlying disease processes are complex, often involving the interaction of biologic, social, psychologic, economic, and other processes that may be nonlinear and adaptive and have other features of complex systems. There is th... Read More about Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data.
John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook (2023)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2023). John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook. History and Philosophy of Logic, https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to know how to make use thereof (Eliot 1672) The Logick... Read More about John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook.
Hylomorphism (2023)
Book
Simpson, W. M. R. (2023). Hylomorphism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026475This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an account of substances in terms of their 'matter' and 'form', adapting and applying it to the interface between physics and biology. It begins by indicating some reasons f... Read More about Hylomorphism.
Understanding understanding in psychiatry (2023)
Journal Article
Gough, J. (2023). Understanding understanding in psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, 34(3), 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x231163275Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers’ ‘phenomenological’ psychiatry, and it is revised, used and defended by ma... Read More about Understanding understanding in psychiatry.
Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena (2023)
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Streicher, P., & Broadbent, A. (2023). Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena. Global epidemiology, 5, Article 100105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2023.100105This paper critically evaluates the Suppression Threshold Strategy (STS) for controlling Covid-19 (C-19). STS asserts a “fundamental distinction” between suppression and mitigation strategies, reflected in very different outcomes in eventual mortalit... Read More about Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena.
Youth in Bloom: Girlhood Sexual Agency & Nondichotomous Sexual Consent in The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2023)
Journal Article
Tobin, K. (online). Youth in Bloom: Girlhood Sexual Agency & Nondichotomous Sexual Consent in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Mai (Göteborg),
Practical grounds for freedom: Kant and James on freedom, experience and an open future (2023)
Book Chapter
Saunders, J., & Williams, N. (2023). Practical grounds for freedom: Kant and James on freedom, experience and an open future. In J. Saunders (Ed.), Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self (155-172). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350187788.ch-10
Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self (2023)
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Saunders, J. (Ed.). (2023). Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350187788Freedom after Kant situates Kant’s concept of freedom in relation to leading philosophers of the period to trace a detailed history of philosophical thinking on freedom from the 18th to the 20th century. Beginning with German Idealism, the volume pre... Read More about Freedom After Kant: From German Idealism to Ethics and the Self.
Victoria Welby (2023)
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Thomas, E. (2023). Victoria Welby. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009345897In 1880s Britain, Victoria Welby (1837–1912) began creating a rich, wide-ranging metaphysical system. At its heart lies Motion, 'the great fact, the supreme category'. Drawing extensively on archive materials, this Element offers the first study of W... Read More about Victoria Welby.
The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2023). The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2093157In American-British philosophy around the turn of the twentieth century, every philosopher and their dog had something to say on time. Thinkers worried about our experience of time: Do we actually experience time? How do we experience the present? Is... Read More about The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy.