Outputs (5)

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.

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.

Getting the measure of Murdoch's Good (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Getting the measure of Murdoch's Good. European Journal of Philosophy, 28(1), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12540

Co-seeing and seeing through: reimagining Kant’s subtraction argument with Stumpf and Husserl (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2020). Co-seeing and seeing through: reimagining Kant’s subtraction argument with Stumpf and Husserl. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 28(6), 1217-1239. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2019.1695579

I draw on Carl Stumpf’s essay “Psychologie und Erkenntnistheorie” (1891), and his precocious On the Psychological Origin of the Idea of Space (1873), to set out a charge he raises against Kant’s form/matter distinction. The charge rests, I propose, o... Read More about Co-seeing and seeing through: reimagining Kant’s subtraction argument with Stumpf and Husserl.

Bivs, Space and 'in' (2020)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2022). Bivs, Space and 'in'. Erkenntnis, 87(1), 369-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00198-z

I present a novel anti-sceptical BIV argument by focusing on conditions on the production and use of the locative preposition ‘in’. I distinguish two uses of ‘in’—material and descriptive phenomenological—and I explain in what respect movement is cen... Read More about Bivs, Space and 'in'.