Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry
(2022)A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope
(2023)Berkeley is best known for his immaterialism and the texts that extol it—the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. He made his case by treatise, then by dialogue, and this tendency ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women
(2023)In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in ... -
Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
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Bochenski and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy
(Academia, 2011)This paper praises, upholds and justifies the balance found in Bochenski's philosophical writings between a systematic interest in theoretical questions and a purely historical approach to philosophy. The drawbacks of the ... -
Causation: Further Themes
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Conscience - an essay in moral psychology
(2009)The ultimate aim of this essay is to suggest that conscience is a very important part of human psychology and of our moral point of view, not something that can be dismissed as merely `a part of Christian theology?. The ... -
Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism
(2017)The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since (1) every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and (2) cases of causal overdetermination are rare, it follows that if (3) mental events cause physical ... -
Counteressential Conditionals
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The Day Roosevelt was Assassinated
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A Deliberative Approach to Causation
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Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics?
(2019)There are temporal asymmetries in our attitudes towards the past and future. For example, we judge that a given amount of work is worth twice as much if it is described as taking place in the future, compared to the past ...
