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42Why Reduction is UnderratedHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 22 (1): 121-136. 2019.The key idea behind reduction is a simple and familiar one: it’s that there’s more to things than meets the eye. Surprisingly, this simple idea provides the resources to block a number of notable anti-reductionist arguments: Mackie’s argument from queerness against objective moral values, Kripke’s Humphrey objection and its recent variants, and Jubien’s objection from irrelevance against Lewisian modal realism. What is wrong with each of these arguments is that they suppose that what is to be re…Read more
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38Review of *The Metaphysics within Physics* by Tim Maudlin (review)Analysis 69 (2): 374-375. 2009.
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32Why Only Us? Language and EvolutionAnalysis 78 (2): 381-383. 2018.Why Only Us? Language and Evolution By BerwickRobert C. and ChomskyNoamMassachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. 224 pp. £17.95 paper.
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31Agnosticism and the Balance of EvidenceIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Theistic Beliefs: Meta-Ontological Perspectives, De Gruyter. pp. 1-18. 2018.
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27A Conversation on GroundingThe Monist 106 (3): 317-325. 2023.Concerning a conversation about grounding between Philo, a quizzical maverick, and Cleanthes, a studious devotee of the very latest trends in metaphysics. Whereas Cleanthes enthuses about grounding, Philo counsels methodological caution and greater immersion in actual scientific practice.
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27Truth and being: E.J. Lowe and A. Rami : Truth and truth-making. Acumen Publishing Limited, Stocksfield, 2009, x + 262 pp, £18.00 PBMetascience 19 (3): 417-420. 2010.
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25Modality and Acquaintance with PropertiesThe Monist 81 (1): 44-68. 1998.What is required for you to know what a certain property is? And what is required for you to have the concept of that property? Hume held that a person who has never tasted a pineapple cannot know what the property tasting like a pineapple is. He also thought that this person cannot have the corresponding concept. A subsequent tradition in empiricism generalises these claims at least to all the so-called "secondary qualities." I will argue that this tradition is mistaken. I will argue that there…Read more
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19Review of MacBride (2018)Dialectica 74 (3). 2020.Fraser MacBride, On the Genealogy of Universals: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
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3Universals and Property Instances: The Alphabet of BeingPhilosophical Books 37 (4): 266-267. 2009.
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