Outputs (18)

Interrupting the conversation: Donald MacKinnon, wartime tutor of Anscombe, Midgley, Murdoch and Foot (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Sensation in Intention (2022)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2022). Sensation in Intention. In A. Haddock, & R. Wiseman (Eds.), The Anscombean Mind. Routledge

The Importance of Murdoch's Early Encounters with Anscombe and Marcel (2022)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C., & Wiseman, R. (2022). The Importance of Murdoch's Early Encounters with Anscombe and Marcel. In M. Hopwood, & S. Panizza (Eds.), The Murdochian Mind. Routledge

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life (2022)
Book
Mac Cumhaill, C., & Wiseman, C. (2022). Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life. Chatto and Windus (UK), Doubleday (US)

Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose (2021)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C., & Wiseman, R. (2021). Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose. In H. Logue, & L. Richardson (Eds.), Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception (276-294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853534.003.0014

Anscombe’s published writings, lectures, and notes on sensation offer material for a sophisticated critique of philosophical theories of perception and a novel analysis of the concept of sensation. Her philosophy of perception begins with the traditi... Read More about Sensation and the Grammar of Life: Anscombe’s Procedure and Her Purpose.

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'.

'Raum' and 'room': Comments on Anton Marty on Space Perception (2018)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2019). 'Raum' and 'room': Comments on Anton Marty on Space Perception. In H. Leblanc, & G. Bacligalupo (Eds.), Anton Marty and Contemporary Philosophy. Palgrave McMillan

Perceptual Ephemera (2018)
Book
Mac Cumhaill, C., & Crowther, T. (Eds.). (2018). Perceptual Ephemera. Oxford University Press

Nonsense and Visual Evanescence (2018)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2018). Nonsense and Visual Evanescence. In T. Crowther, & C. Mac Cumhaill (Eds.), Perceptual Ephemera. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722304.003.0014

Absential Locations and the Figureless Ground (2018)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2018). Absential Locations and the Figureless Ground. Sartre Studies International, 24(1), 34-47. https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2018.240104

When Sartre arrives late to meet Pierre at a local establishment, he discovers not merely that Pierre is absent, but also Pierre’s absence, where this depends, or so Sartre notoriously supposes, on a frustrated expectation that Pierre would be seen a... Read More about Absential Locations and the Figureless Ground.

Night Fight (2017)
Book Chapter
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2017). Night Fight. In H. Naar, & F. Teroni (Eds.), The ontology of emotion (187-208). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275221.011

The Tactual Ground, Immersion and "the space between" (2017)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2017). The Tactual Ground, Immersion and "the space between". The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 55(1), 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12212

I ask whether figure-ground structure can be realized in touch, and, if so, how. Drawing on the taxonomy of touch sketched in Katz's 1925 The World of Touch, I argue that the form of touch that is relevant to such consideration is a species of immers... Read More about The Tactual Ground, Immersion and "the space between".

Perceiving Immaterial Paths. (2013)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2015). Perceiving Immaterial Paths. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90(3), 687-715. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12037

In what sense does empty space feature in visual experience? In the first part of this essay I sketch a view advanced by Soteriou (2011) and Richardson (2009) on which one's visual awareness of empty space is explained by appeal to ‘structural’ featu... Read More about Perceiving Immaterial Paths..

Specular Space (2011)
Journal Article
Mac Cumhaill, C. (2011). Specular Space. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 111(3pt3), 487-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00320.x