Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Thinking with the Cartesians and Speaking with the Vulgar: Extrinsic Denomination in the Philosophy of Antoine Arnauld
(2022)Arnauld follows Descartes in denying that sensible qualities like color are modes of external objects. Yet, unlike Malebranche, he resists the apparent implication that ordinary statements like ‘this marble is white’ are ... -
Thomas Reid on Character and Freedom
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Time Travel and Counterfactual Asymmetry
(2021)We standardly evaluate counterfactuals and abilities in temporally asymmetric terms—by keeping the past fixed and holding the future open. Only future events depend counterfactually on what happens now. Past events do ... -
Time, Flies, and Why We Can?t Control the Past
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"Tint and Form": The Geometric Philosophy Underlying Oliver Byrne's Elements
(2022)Oliver Byrne published his ground-breaking and visually remarkable edition of Euclid’s Elements in 1847. The book is extraordinary: its pages are adorned with generous four-colour diagrams, illustrations and grids, and ... -
Twardowski on Truth
(The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2009)Of those students of Franz Brentano who went on to become professional philosophers, Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is much less well-known than his older contemporaries Edmund Husserl and Alexius Meinong. Yet in terms ... -
Understanding Omnipotence
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Varieties of Epistemic Freedom
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Varieties of Parthood: Ontology learns from Engineering
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Vectors and Beyond: Geometric Algebra and its Philosophical Significance
(2009)An account of the history and recent revival of geometric algebra (first invented in the 19th century but later sidelined by vector theory), together with reflections on its importance for the philosophy of mathematics. -
What message are we sending bottle-feeding families when we place formula in the same retail category as cigarettes?
(Image Magazine, 2021)I have a powerful memory of first reflecting on Irish breastfeeding politics. I was 20 and visiting a then- new American coffee chain that had arrived on my local main street. Amid trying to figure out which series of ... -
Where It's At: Modes of Occupation and Kinds of Occupant
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Whitehead: Process and Cosmology
(Routledge, 2009)Alfred North Whitehead (1861?1947) occupies a remarkable position in twentieth century philosophy. Though he co-authored the seminal Principia mathematica with his former student Bertrand Russell, and later supervised ... -
Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond
(Ontos, 2010)My copy of Reinhardt Grossmann?s The Categorial Structure of the World (CSW) contains the affectionate inscription ?To the Three Musketeers! With best wishes for their future adventures! R.G.? The other two musketeers ... -
Why there are no states of affairs
(Ontos, 2009)A state of affairs, such as that John loves Mary or that Gordon Brown is Scottish, is an entity which in some way corresponds to a true sentence, belief or judgement. Its correspondence is indicated by its being standardly ...
