Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Causation: Further Themes
(Taylor and Francis, 2018) -
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
(2016) -
The Day Roosevelt was Assassinated
(Open Court, 2011) -
A Deliberative Approach to Causation
(2017) -
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 ... -
Euclid's Context Principle
(2014) -
Explanation, Justification, and Egalitarianism
(2021)This paper argues that the philosophy of explanation can help inform core debates in value theory. Specifically, it argues that there is a consistent parallelism between the properties of explanation and the properties of ... -
Exploring people s beliefs about the experience of time
(2021)Philosophical debates about the metaphysics of time typically revolve around two contrasting views of time. On the A-theory, time is something that itself undergoes change, as captured by the idea of the passage of time; ... -
External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency
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Formalism
(Elsevier, 2009)Formalism is a philosophical theory of the foundations of mathematics that had a spectacular but brief heyday in the 1920s. After a long preparation in the work of several mathematicians and philosophers, it was brought ... -
Foundational Grounding and Creaturely Freedom
(2021)The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could ... -
Four Categories - and More
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
