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Advisory Editor: Gordon Belot
John Earman
Quantum Bayesianism Assessed
Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl
Statistical Mechanics: A Tale of Two Theories
Sheldon Goldstein
Individualist and Ensemblist Approaches to the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker
Two Kinds of High-Level Probability
Jenann Ismael
Determinism, Counterpredictive Devices, and the Impossibility of Laplacean Intelligences
David Wallace
Naturalness and Emergence
Advisory Editors: Ken Gemes and Andrew Huddleston
Matthieu Queloz and Damian Cueni
Nietzsche as a Critic of Genealogical Debunking: Making Room for Naturalism without Subversion
Jessica N. Berry
Nietzsche on the Significance of Disagreement in the History of Philosophy
Aaron Ridley
Nietzsche on Tragedy: First and Last Thoughts
Timothy Stoll
Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Semblance
Jeremy Page
Nietzsche on Honesty
Maudemarie Clark
Nietzsche’s Nihilism
Brian Leiter
The Death of God and the Death of Morality
Advisory Editors: Mario De Caro, Brian Epstein, Erin Kelly
Mario De Caro, Brian Epstein, and Erin Kelly
Collective Responsibility and Social Ontology
Johannes Himmelreich and Holly Lawford-Smith
Punishing Groups: When External Justice Takes Priority over Internal Justice
Anne Schwenkenbecher
Collective Moral Obligations: ‘We-Reasoning’ and the Perspective of the Deliberating Agent
Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko
Race and the Responsibility to Abide by the Norms of Unchosen and Unjust Social Roles
Anna Moltchanova
Social Ontology for All (Kinds of Groups)
Frank Hindriks
The Duty to Join Forces: When Individuals Lack Control
Cynthia A. Stark
Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Psychological Oppression
Theodore Bach
Real Kinds in Real Time: On Responsible Social Modeling
Raul Hakli and Pekka Mäkelä
Moral Responsibility of Robots and Hybrid Agents
Advisory Editor: John Broome
Douglas MacLean
Climate Complicity and Individual Accountability
Garrett Cullity
Climate Harms
Hilary Greaves
Climate Change and Optimum Population
Lara Buchak
Weighing the Risks of Climate Change
Marc Fleurbaey, Maddalena Ferranna, Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Kian Mintz-Woo, Robert Socolow, Dean Spears, and Stéphane Zuber
The Social Cost of Carbon: Valuing Inequality, Risk, and Population for Climate Policy
John Broome
Against Denialism
Advisory Editor: A.W. Carus
A.W. Carus
Introduction
Thomas Uebel
Carnap’s Transformation of Epistemology and the Development of His Metaphilosophy
Geoffrey Hellman
Carnap* Replies
Sean Morris
Carnap and Quine: Analyticity, Naturalism, and the Elimination of Metaphysics
Marta Sznajder
Inductive Logic as Explication: The Evolution of Carnap’s Notion of Logical Probability
A.W. Carus
Going Global: Carnap’s Voluntarism and Price’s Expressivism
Huw Price
Carnapian Voluntarism and Global Expressivism: Reply to Carus
Rudolf Carnap
Two Early Metaphilosophical Texts:
Carnap’s Talk to the Freischar in Freiburg on “Religion and the Church” (1911)
Carnap’s Open Letter to Pastor Le Seur (1916)
Advisory Editors: Tiziana Andina, Carola Barbero, Carolyn Korsmeyer
Carolyn Korsmeyer
Introduction
Jèssica Jaques
Stovetop Philosophy: An interview with Ferran Adrià
Lisa Heldke
It’s Chomping All the Way Down: Toward an Ontology of the Human Individual
Nicola Perullo
Haptic Taste as a Task
Cain Todd
Tasting in Time: The Affective and Temporal Dimensions of Flavour Perception
Nick Zangwill
The Yummy and the Yucky: Expressive Language and the Agreeable
Matteo Ravasio
Food Landscapes: An Object-Centered Model of Food Appreciation
Matthew Adams
The Aesthetic Value of Local Food
Dorota Koczanowicz
Levitation, Superman’s Flight, and the Prose of Life
Tiziana Andina and Carola Barbero
Can Food Be Art?
Advisory Editor: Leo Zaibert
Stephen de Wijze
The Problem of Democratic Dirty Hands: Citizen Complicity, Responsibility, and Guilt
Charles Blattberg
Dirty Hands: The One and the Many
Mariam Thalos
Dirty Hands: The Phenomenology of Acting As an Authorized Agent
Matthew H. Kramer
Problems of Dirty Hands As a Species of Moral Conflicts
Patrick Taylor Smith
Political Revolution As Moral Risk
Jeremy Waldron
Dirtying One’s Hands by Sharing a Polity with Others
Advisory Editor: John Haldane
John Haldane
Ethics, Aesthetics, and Practical Philosophy
Roger Scruton
Why Beauty Matters
Ionut Untea
Homelessness in the Urban Landscape: Beyond Negative Aesthetics
Sondra Bacharach
Finding Your Voice in the Streets: Street Art and Epistemic Injustice
Eun Jung Kang
Fashion and the Aesthetic Aspects of Social Life
Nick Zangwill
Hotel Paintings and the Function of Art: Everyday Artistic Phenomena and Methodology in the Philosophy of Art
Gordon Graham
Art, Therapy, and Design
Bence Nanay
The Aesthetic Experience of Artworks and Everyday Scenes
Edward Winters
The World Is Not Enough
Anna Christina Ribiero
Aesthetic Luck
Lauren Ware and Alfred Archer
Beyond the Call of Beauty: Everyday Aesthetic Demands under Patriarchy
Advisory Editor: Werner Ceusters
Murat Aydede
Defending the IASP Definition of Pain
Frédérique de Vignemont
Pain and Touch
Michael Tye
Are Pains Feelings?
Bence Nanay
Pain and Mental Imagery
Nada Gligorov
Don’t Worry, This Will Only Hurt a Bit: The Role of Expectation and Attention in Pain Intensity
Grant Duncan
The Meanings of ‘Pain’ in Historical, Social, and Political Context
Advisory Editors: Angela Breitenbach and Michela Massimi
Zvi Biener and Eric Schliesser
The Certainty, Modality, and Grounding of Newton’s Laws
James Kreines
Kant on the Laws of Nature: Restrictive Inflationism and Its Philosophical Advantages
Lydia Patton
Kantian Essentialism in the Metaphysical Foundations
Chris Smeenk and Yann Benétreau-Dupin
The Cosmos As Involving Local Laws and Inconceivable without Them
Philippe Huneman
Kant’s Concept of Organism Revisited: A Framework for a Possible Synthesis between Developmentalism and Adaptationism?
Angela Breitenbach and Yoon Choi
Pluralism and the Unity of Science
Michela Massimi
Laws of Nature, Natural Properties, and the Robustly Best System
Marc Lange
Is Kantian Projectivism the Only Hope for Grounding the Principal Principle? (No.)
Advisory Editor: Gary Kemp
Gary Kemp
Is Everything a Set? Quine and (Hyper)Pythagoreanism
Sean Morris
The Significance of Quine’s New Foundations for the Philosophy of Set Theory
Adam Rieger
Was Quine Right About Subjunctive Conditionals?
John Divers
How Skeptical Is Quine’s “Modal Skepticism”?
Peter Hylton
Carnap and Quine on the Nature of Evidence (and the Nature of Philosophy)
Martin Gustafsson
Quine on Translation and Logical Deviance
Frederique Janssen-Lauret
The Quinean Roots of Lewis’s Humeanism
James Pearson
Caring for Quine’s Don’t-Cares
Lieven Decock
Quine’s “Strictly Vegetarian” Analyticity
Advisory Editor: Uriah Kriegel
Johannes L. Brandl
Was Brentano an Early Deflationist About Truth?
Anna Giustina
Conscious Unity from the Top Down: A Brentanian Approach
Marion Hämmerli and Olivier Massin
Is Purple a Red and Blue Chessboard? Brentano on Colour Mixtures
Michelle Montague
A Contemporary View of Brentano’s Theory of Emotion
Kevin Mulligan
Brentano’s Knowledge, Austrian Verificationisms, and Epistemic Accounts of Truth and Value
Jonas Olson
Two Kinds of Ethical Intuitionism: Brentano’s and Reid’s
Hamid Taieb
Intentionality and Reference: A Brentanian Distinction
Mark Textor
From Mental Holism to the Soul and Back
Advisory Editors: Martin Beckstein and Francis Cheneval
Martin Beckstein and Francis Cheneval
Conservatism: Analytically Reconsidered
Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin
Practical Conservatism
Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin
Conservative Value
Vanessa Rampton
The Impossibility of Conservatism? An Example from Russian History
Nir Eyal and Emma Dayer-Tieffenbach
Incommensurability and Trade
Jonathan Pugh, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu
Bioconservatism, Partiality, and the Human-Nature Objection to Enhancement
Kieron O’Hara
Conservatism, Epistemology, and Value
Kristóf Nyíri
Conservatism and Common-Sense Realism
Advisory Editor: Fiora Salis
Roman Frigg and James Nguyen
The Fiction View of Models Reloaded
Fiora Salis
The Nature of Model-World Comparisons
Alisa Bokulich
Fiction As a Vehicle for Truth: Moving Beyond the Ontic Conception
Adam Toon
Fictionalism and the Folk
Gregory Currie
Models As Fictions, Fictions As Models
Elay Shech
Fiction, Depiction, and the Complementarity Thesis in Art and Science
Advisory Editor: Mark Alfano
Julia Driver
Minimal Virtue
Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet
Virtue, Happiness, and Well-Being
Peggy DesAutels
Power, Virtue, and Vice
Jacob Berger and Mark Alfano
Virtue, Situationism, and the Cognitive Value of Art
Quassim Cassam
Vice Epistemology
Ian James Kidd
Charging Others with Epistemic Vice
Brian Robinson
Character, Caricature, and Gossip
Noell Birondo
Virtue and Prejudice: Giving and Taking Reasons
Advisory Editor: Asa Kasher
Philip J. Rossi
War As Morally Unintelligible: Sovereign Agency and the Limits of Kantian Autonomy
David C. Graves
Martial Arts and the Artworld
Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen
Aidōs and Dikē in International Humanitarian Law: Is IHL a Legal or a Moral System?
Kevin P. Tobia
The Language of War
David Whetham
“Are We Fighting Yet?” Can Traditional Just War Concepts Cope With Contemporary Conflict and the Changing Character of War?
Christopher J. Eberle
Rights, Goods, and Proportionate War
Elad Uzan
Soldiers, Civilians, and In Bello Proportionality: A Proposed Revision
Advisory Editor: Patti Tamara Lenard
Patti Tamara Lenard
The Political Philosophy of Trust and Distrust in Democracies and Beyond
Paul Gowder
What the Laws Demand of Socrates—and of Us
Yann Allard-Tremblay
Trust and Distrust in the Achievement of Popular Control
Meena Krishnamurthy
(White) Tyranny and the Democratic Value of Distrust
Phil Parvin
Is Deliberative Democracy Feasible? Political Disengagement and Trust in Liberal Democratic States
Amandine Catala
Democracy, Trust, and Epistemic Justice
Alice MacLachlan
“Trust Me, I’m Sorry”: The Paradox of Public Apology
Neus Torbisco Casals
Beyond Altruism? Globalizing Democracy in the Age of Distrust
Advisory Editors: Javier Cumpa and Peter M. Simons
Otávio Bueno, Jacob Busch, & Scott A. Shalkowski
The No-Category Ontology
A.R.J. Fisher
Samuel Alexander’s Theory of Categories
Dale Jacquette
Categories and Preferences Among Category Systems
Fraser MacBride & Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Metaontology, Epistemology, and Essence: On the Empirical Deduction of the Categories
Gary S. Rosenkrantz
Life and Death
Johanna Seibt
Ontological Scope and Linguistic Diversity: Are There Universal Categories?
Erwin Tegtmeier
Particulars and Other Categories
Advisory Editors: Mario De Caro and Maurizio Ferraris
Mario De Caro & Maurizio Ferraris
Foreword
Graham Harman
Fear of Reality: On Realism and Infra-Realism
Lynne Rudder Baker
Ontology Down-to-Earth
Iain Hamilton Grant
Everything
Vincenzo Santarcangelo & Enrico Terrone
Sounds and Other Denizens of Time
Markus Gabriel
Neutral Realism
Mario De Caro
Realism, Common Sense, and Science
Maurizio Ferraris
Transcendental Realism
Advisory Editors: Karen Green and Ruth Hagengruber
Karen Green and Ruth Hagengruber
Introduction
Sarah Hutton
‘Blue-Eyed Philosophers Born on Wednesdays’: An Essay on Women and History of Philosophy
Mary Ellen Waithe
From Canon Fodder to Canon-Formation: How Do We Get There from Here?
Ruth Hagengruber
Cutting Through the Veil of Ignorance: Rewriting the History of Philosophy
Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman
Isotta Nogarola—The Beginning of Gender Equality in Europe
Andreas Blank
Mary Astell on Flattery and Self-Esteem
Jessica Gordon-Roth
Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Defence of Locke
Jacqueline Broad
“A Great Championess for Her Sex”: Sarah Chapone on Liberty As Nondomination and Self-Mastery
Karen Green
A Moral Philosophy of Their Own? The Moral and Political Thought of Eighteenth-Century British Women
Sandrine Berges
Sophie de Grouchy on the Cost of Domination in the Letters on Sympathy and Two Anonymous Articles in Le Républicain
Katarina Loncarevic
A Feminist Philosopher on the Fringe of History: Ksenija Atanasijevic and Ancient Greek Philosophy
Advisory Editors: Francesco Berto, Frederick Kroon, and Alberto Voltolini
Francesco Berto, Frederick Kroon, and Alberto Voltolini
Metaontology: Introduction
Graham Priest
Sein Language
Jody Azzouni
Freeing Talk of Nothing from the Cognitive illusion of aboutness
Chris Daly & David Liggins
Indefence of Existence Questions
Peter Van Inwagen
Fictionalist Nominalism and Applied Mathematics
Cian Dorr
Quantifier Variance and the Collapse Theorems
Kyle Mitchell
Pragmatism, Joint-Carving, and Ontology
Giorgio Lando & Giuseppe Spolaore
Transcendental Disagreement
Advisory Editor: Paul Humphreys
Anouk Barberousse & Cyrille Imbert
Recurring Models and Sensitivity to Computational Constraints
Tarja Knuuttila & Andrea Loettgers
Magnets, Spins, and Neurons: The Dissemination of Model Templates Across Disciplines
Seth Bullock
Levins and the Lure of Artificial Worlds
Alisa Bokulich
How the Tiger Bush Got Its Stripes: ‘How Possibly’ Vs. ‘How Actually’ Model Explanations
Johannes Lenhard
Autonomy and Automation: Computational Modeling, Reduction, and Explanation in Quantum Chemistry
Eckhart Arnold
What’s Wrong With Social Simulations?
OtáVio Bueno
Computer Simulations: An Inferential Conception
Claus Beisbart
Are We Sims? How Computer Simulations Represent and What This Means for the Simulation Argument
Advisory Editors: Maurizio Ferraris and Leonardo Caffo
Leonardo Caffo
Foreword
Enrico Terrone
Traces, Documents, and the Puzzle of “Permanent Acts”
Michael Buckland
Documentality Beyond Documents
Jean-Michel Salaün
Why the Document is Important…and How it Is Becoming Transformed
Maurizio Ferraris
Total Mobilization: Recording, Documentality, Normativity
Barry Smith and David Koepsell
Beyond Paper
Luca Martignani
Feline Microchip: An Exercise in the Sociology of Documentality
Boris Hennig
Documents: Fillers of Informational Gaps
Advisory Editor: Bence Nanay
Bence Nanay
The Dethroning of Ideocracy: Robert Musil as a Philosopher
Philip Kitcher
The Youth Without Qualities
Achille C. Varzi
Musil’s Imaginary Bridge
Sabine Döring
What is an Emotion? Musil’s Adverbial Theory
Kevin Mulligan
Foolishness, Stupidity, and Cognitive Values
Barbara Sattler
Contingency and Necessity: Human Agency in Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
Catrin Misselhorn
Musil’s Metaphysical View: Between Philosophical Naturalism and Philosophy as Literature
Philippe Mach
Ethics and Aesthetics: Reuniting the Siamese Twins
Catherine Wilson
Mach, Musil, and Modernism
Advisory Editor: Tamás Demeter
Tamás Demeter
Mental Fictionalism: The Very Idea
Adam Morton
Imaginary Emotion
Richard Joyce
Psychological Fictionalism, and the Threat of Fictionalist Suicide
Mark Sprevak
Fictionalism about Neural Representation
Chris Daly
Psychology and Indispensability
Daniel Hutto
Fictionalism about Folk Psychology
Ted Parent
In the Mental Fiction, Mental Fictionalism is Fictitious
Miklós Márton and János Tőzsér
Mental Fictionalism As an Undermotivated Theory
Advisory Editor: James Beebe
Justin L. Barrett & Ian M. Church
Should CSR Give Atheists Epistemic Assurance? On Beer-Goggles, BFFs, and Skepticism Regarding Religious Beliefs
John Teehan
The Cognitive Bases of the Problem of Evil
Jason Marsh
Darwin and the Problem of Natural Nonbelief
Steven Horst
Notions of Intuition in the Cognitive Science of Religion
Adam Green
Cognitive Science and the Natural Knowledge of God
Paul Draper & Ryan Nichols
Diagnosing Bias in Philosophy of Religion
Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
For God and Country, Not Necessarily for Truth: The Nonalethic Function of Superempirical Beliefs
Robert Audi
The Scientific Study of Religion and the Pillars of Human Dignity
Advisory Editor: Dale Jacquette
Ian Rumfitt
Sense and Evidence
Martin Stokhof
Formal Semantics and Wittgenstein: An Alternative?
Terence Horgan
Original Intentionality is Phenomenal Intentionality
Anil Gupta
The Relationship of Experience to Thought
Laureano Luna
Indefinite Extensibility in Natural Language
Advisory Editors: Randall Dipert and David Hershenov
Roberta De Monticelli
Constitution and Unity: Lynn Baker and the Unitarian Tradition
Lynne Rudder Baker
Technology and the Future of Persons
Amie L. Thomasson
The Ontological Significance of Constitution
Tessa Jones
The Constitution of Events
Ingvar Johansson
Constitution as a Relation within Mathematics
Harold Noonan
Moderate Monism, Sortal Concepts, and Relative Identity
E.J. Lowe
Mereological Extensionality, Supplementation, and Material Constitution
Andrew Newman
On the Constitution of Solid Objects out of Atoms
Advisory Editor: Julian Dodd
Stephen Davies
On Defining Music
Michael Morris
The Meaning of Music
James O. Young
Resemblance, Convention, and Musical Expressiveness
Bence Nanay
Musical Twofoldness
Stefano Predelli
When Music Makes Sounds
David Davies
Enigmatic Variations
Aaron Ridley
Musical Ontology, Musical Reasons
Robert Kraut
Ontology: Music and Art
Advisory Editor: Juha Räikkä
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Thalia Wheatley
The Disunity of Morality and Why it Matters to Philosophy
Walter Glannon
Neuropsychological Aspects of Enhancing the Will
Julian Savulescu, Ingmar Persson
Moral Enhancement, Freedom, and the God Machine
Alfred Mele
Another Scientific Threat to Free Will?
Robyn Repko Waller
Beyond Button Presses: The Neuroscience of Free and Morally Appraisable Actions
Andrew Fenton
Neuroscience and the Problem of Other Animal Minds: Why It May Not Matter So Much for Neuroethics
Andy Lamey
Primitive Self-Consciousness and Avian Cognition
Juha Räikkä, Saul Smilansky
The Ethics of Alien Attitudes
Advisory Editor: James R. Beebe
Amie L. Thomasson
Experimental Philosophy and the Methods of Ontology
Jonathan M. Weinberg, Joshua Alexander, Chad Gonnerman, Shane Reuter
Restrictionism and Reflection: Challenge Deflected, or Simply Redirected?
Niki Pfeifer
Experiments on Aristotle’s Thesis: Towards an Experimental Philosophy of Conditionals
Florian Cova, Nicolas Pain
Can Folk Aesthetics Ground Aesthetic Realism?
Mark Alfano, James R. Beebe, Brian Robinson
The Centrality of Belief and Reflection in Knobe-Effect Cases: A Unified Account of the Data
Shaun Nichols
The Indeterminist Intuition: Source and Status
Chris Zarpentine, Heather Cipolletti, Michael Bishop
WINO Epistemology and the Shifting-Sands Problem
Ram Neta
Knowing from the Armchair that Our Intuitions Are Reliable
Advisory Editor: H.E. Baber
Multiculturalism And Cultural Diversity
H.E. Baber: Dilemmas of Multiculturalism: An Introduction
Roy L. Brooks: Cultural Diversity: It’s All About the Mainstream
Can Multiculturalism Be Liberal?
Erik Christensen: Revisiting Multiculturalism and Its Critics
Frederik Stjernfelt: Liberal Multiculturalism as Political Philosophy: Will Kymlicka
Group Rights
Stephen Biggs: Liberalism, Feminism, and Group Rights
Cindy Holder: Devolving Power to Sub-State Groups: Some Worries About the Worries
Liberal Democracies And Illiberal Minorities
Geoffrey Brahm Levey: Liberal Autonomy as a Pluralistic Value
Deen Chatterjee: Veiled Politics: The Liberal Dilemma of Milticulturalism
Cultural Diversity And Social Capital
Richard Thompson Ford: Cultural Rights Versus Civic Virtue?
Advisory Editor: Gillian Brock
Gillian Brock
Cosmopolitanism Versus Non-Cosmopolitanism: The State of Play
Richard W. Miller
Rawls and Global Justice: A Dispute over a Legacy
Kok-Chor Tan
Two Conceptions of Liberal Global Toleration
Simon Caney
Humanity, Associations, and Global Justice: In defence of humanity-centered cosmopolitan egalitarianism
Darrel Moellendorf
Cosmopolitanism and Compatriot Duties
Michael Blake
Coercion, Global Justice, and Political Association
Andrea Sangiovanni
Global Justice and the Moral Arbitrariness of Birth
Pablo Gilabert
Cosmopolitan Overflow
Rekha Nath
Equal Standing in the Global Community
Margaret Moore and Patti Lenard
Rooted cosmopolitanism and special duties
Advisory Editors: Simon Caney and Derek Bell
Introduction
Simon Caney and Derek Bell
Avner de Shalit
Climate Change Refugees, Compensation and Rectification
Greg Bognar
Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Climate Change Policy?
Avram Hiller
Climate Change and Individual Responsibility
Benjamin Hale
Nonrenewable Resources and the Inevitability of Outcomes
Derek Bell
Global Climate Justice, Historic Emissions and Excusable Ignorance
Edward Page
Climatic Justice and the Fair Distribution of Atmospheric Burdens: A Conjunctive Account
Darrel Moellendorf
A Right to Sustainable Development
Advisory Editor: Matthew H. Slater
Anjan Chakravartty
Scientific Realism and Ontological Relativity
Bence Nanay
What if Reality has No Architecture?
Devin Henry
Aristotle’s Pluralistic Realism
John T. Roberts
Extra-Physical Structure in a Physical World? or, Is the Study of Life Provincial?
Matthew C. Haug
Natural Properties and the Special Sciences: Nonreductive Physicalism without Levels of Reality or Multiple Realizability
Carrie Jenkins
Is Metaphysical Dependence Irreflexive?
Daniel Nolan
Categories and Ontological Dependence
Advisory Editor: Neil E. Williams
Sydney Shoemaker
Realization, Powers, and Property Identity
E.J. Lowe
How Not to Think of Powers: A Deconstruction of the ‘Dispositions and Conditionals’ Debate
John Heil
Powers and the Realization Relation
Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum
Spoils to the Vector: How to Model Causes If You Are a Realist About Powers
Jonathan D. Jacobs
Powerful Qualities, Not Pure Powers
Sungho Choi
Finkish Dispositions and Contextualism
Jessica Wilson
Non-Reductive Realization and the Powers-based Subset Strategy
Advisory Editor: Niccolò Guicciardini
Michael Friedman
A Post-Kuhnian Approach to the History and Philosophy of Science
Menachem Fisch
Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency
George E. Smith
Revisiting Accepted Science: The Indispensability of the History of Science
Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Patterns of Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics
Bence Nanay
Rational Reconstruction Reconsidered
A.W. Carus
The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge: Howard Stein’s Reshaping of Logical Empiricism
Gábor Á. Zemplén & Tamás Demeter
Being Charitable to Scientific Controversies: On the Demonstrativity of Newton’s Experimentum Crucis
Andrew Janiak
Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton
Advisory Editor: Richard Davies
Richard Davies
Intellectual Propriety
Rita Risser
Determinism, Creative Works and Proprietorship
Paul Taylor
Images and Stories
Laura Biron
Two Challenges to the Idea of Intellectual Property
Andrea Bottani
Intellectual Property as a Kind of Metaproperty
Massimiliano Carrara and Marzia Soavi
Copies, Replicas and Counterfeits of Artworks and Artifacts
Michael Wreen
The Ontology of Intellectual Property
James Wilson
Ontology and the Regulation of Intellectual Property
Jonathan Trerise
Against the Strength of Patent Protection
David Koepsell
Authorship and Artifacts: Remaking IP Law for Future Objects
Advisory Editors: Robin O. Andreasen and Ron Mallon
Sally Haslanger
Language, Politics and “The Folk”: Looking for “The Meaning” of ‘Race’
Bernard R. Boxill
“A Man’s a Man for All That”
Jorge J.E. Gracia
Racism: Negative and Positive?
Edouard Machery, Luc Faucher, and Daniel R. Kelly
On the Alleged Inadequacy of Psychological Explanations of Racism
Bence Nanay
Three Ways of Resisting Racism
Jonathan Michael Kaplan
When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S.
Lawrence Blum
Racialized Groups: The Sociohistorical Consensus
Joshua Glasgow
The End of Historical Constructivism: Circularity, Redundancy, Indeterminacy
Christoph Fehige and Robert H. Frank
Feeling Our Way to the Common Good: Utilitarianism and the Moral Sentiments
Advisory Editor: Quentin Smith
Duncan Pritchard
Absurdity, Angst, and the Meaning of Life
David Heyd and Franklin G. Miller
Life Plans: Do They Give Meaning to our Lives?
Lisa Bortolotti
Agency, Life Extension, and the Meaning of Life
Laurence James
Activity and the Meaningfulness of Life
Bence Nanay
Group Selection and our Obsession with the Meaning of Life
Michael A. Almeida
Two Challenges to Moral Nihilism
Tim Oakley
The Issue is Meaninglessness
Shidan Lotfi
The ‘Purposiveness’ of Life: Kant’s Critique of Natural Teleology
Jason Murphy
Betting on Life: A Pascalian Argument for Seeking to Discover Meaning
Christoph Fehige and Robert H. Frank
Feeling Our Way to the Common Good: Utilitarianism and the Moral Sentiments