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A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London. Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. vi+282 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. US$45.00 (cloth). (2022)
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Webster, E. (2022). A Mighty Capital under Threat: The Environmental History of London. Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. vi+282 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. US$45.00 (cloth). Environmental History, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1086/721330

Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy (2022)
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Fraser, J. D., & Vickers, P. (2022). Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1086/721635

The existence of multiple interpretations of quantum mechanics appears to pose a serious challenge for knowledge claims about the quantum domain. Hoefer (2020) argues that a scientific realist epistemology must be abandoned in this context, while Cal... Read More about Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy.

Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth (2022)
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Rossetter, T. (2023). Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth. British Journal for the History of Science, 56(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087422000462

In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c.1635–1715) constructed a geological history from the Creation to the Final Consummation, positing pre... Read More about Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth.

Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart (2022)
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Gough, J. (2022). Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart. Biology and Philosophy, 38(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09889-4

Among those living systems, which are cognizers? Among the behaviours of, and causes of behaviour in, living systems, which are cognitive? Such questions sit at the heart of a sophisticated, ongoing debate, of which the recent papers by Corcoran et a... Read More about Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart.

Sameness of Word (2022)
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Miller, J. (2022). Sameness of Word. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 18(2), Article A2. https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.18.2.2

Although the metaphysics of words remains a relatively understudied domain, one of the more discussed topics has been the question of how to account for the apparent sameness of words. Put one way, the question concerns what it is that makes two word... Read More about Sameness of Word.

Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories (2022)
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Miller, J. (2022). Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories. Erkenntnis, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00646-3

In this paper, I discuss how to distinguish between ontological categories and ordinary categories. Using an argument against van Inwagen’s proposed account of what makes a category ontological as a springboard, I argue that if ontological categories... Read More about Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories.

On Certainty on the Foundations of History as a Discipline (2022)
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Hamilton, A. (2022). On Certainty on the Foundations of History as a Discipline. Topoi, 41(5), 979-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09844-8

Wittgenstein had little to say directly on philosophy of history. But some pertinent remarks in On Certainty have received little attention, apart from in Elizabeth Anscombe's short article on Hume and Julius Caesar. That article acknowledges its deb... Read More about On Certainty on the Foundations of History as a Discipline.

Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time (2022)
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Dunham, J. (2023). Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2136138

The similarities between William James’ Stream of Consciousness and Henri Bergson’s La durée réelle have often been noted. Both emphasize the fundamentally temporal nature of our conscious experience and its constant flow. However, in this article, I... Read More about Flights in the resting places: James and Bergson on mental synthesis and the experience of time.

Merely Verbal Disputes and Common Ground (2022)
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Miller, J. (2023). Merely Verbal Disputes and Common Ground. Theoria, 89(1), 114-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12449

In this paper, I offer a new characterization of what makes a dispute merely verbal. This new characterization makes use of Stalnaker’s notion of ‘common ground’, building on the framework initially outlined by Jenkins. I argue that this common groun... Read More about Merely Verbal Disputes and Common Ground.

Identifying Future-Proof Science (2022)
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Vickers, P. (in press). Identifying Future-Proof Science. Oxford University Press

First book to directly engage with the question of how to identify future-proof science Takes a transdisciplinary approach in its combination of historical, philosophical, and sociological methods Offers a companion to Alexander Bird's Knowing Scienc... Read More about Identifying Future-Proof Science.

Interrupting the conversation: Donald MacKinnon, wartime tutor of Anscombe, Midgley, Murdoch and Foot (2022)
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Mac Cumhaill, C., & Wiseman, R. (2022). Interrupting the conversation: Donald MacKinnon, wartime tutor of Anscombe, Midgley, Murdoch and Foot. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56(6), 838-850. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12689

Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot all studied at Oxford University during the Second World War. One of their wartime tutors was Donald MacKinnon. This paper gives a broad overview of MacKinnon's philosophical outlook as... Read More about Interrupting the conversation: Donald MacKinnon, wartime tutor of Anscombe, Midgley, Murdoch and Foot.