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65Reply to Strawson:'David Hume: Objects and Power'In Stewart Duncan & Antonia LoLordo (eds.), Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses, Routledge. pp. 242. 2013.
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1229Causing and NothingnessIn L. A. Paul, E. J. Hall & J. Collins (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals, Mit Press. pp. 291--308. 2004.
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47Review of Skyrms & Eells (eds.), Probabilities & Conditionals (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 181-184. 1998.
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184Metaphysics: The Key ConceptsRoutledge. 2010._‘Informative, accessible, and fun to read— this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.’– __Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA_ _'Marvellous! This book provides the very best place to start for students wanting to take the first step into understanding metaphysics.Undergraduates would do well to buy it and consult it regularly. The quality and clarity of the material …Read more
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174Hume. Metaphysics and Epistemology (edited book)mentis. 2010.The articles in this special issue of the yearbook Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy all concern, in one way or another, Hume’s epistemology and metaphysics. There are discussions of our knowledge of causal powers, the extent to which conceivability is a guide to modality, and testimony; there are also discussions of our ideas of space and time, the role in Hume’s thought of the psychological mechanism of ‘completing the union’, the role of impressions, and Hume’s argument against the …Read more
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17JOHN FOSTER The Divine Lawmaker (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (2): 453-457. 2009.
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37Counterfactual Dependence and Broken Barometers: A Response to Flichman’s ArgumentCritica 29 (86): 107-119. 1997.
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37Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007.This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views Aims to improve the reader’s ability to engage critically with philosop…Read more
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IntroductionIn Helen Beebee & Nigel Sabbarton-Leary (eds.), The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, Routledge. 2010.
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192Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2005.This volume will be the starting point for future discussion and research.
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215Free will sans metaphysics?: Mark Balaguer: Free will as an open scientific problem. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010, 202pp, $35.00Metascience 21 (1): 77-81. 2011.Free will sans metaphysics? Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9525-5 Authors Helen Beebee, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT UK Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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366Causation and necessary connectionIn Alan Bailey & Dan O'Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, Continuum. pp. 131. 2012.
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Review of Douglas Ehring: Causation and persistence: a theory of causation (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 181-184. 1998.
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163Hume’s impact on causationThe Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 75-79. 2011.Many philosophers came to regard “causation” as an illegitimate pseudo-concept. This was a dominant view in analytic philosophy until quite late in the twentieth century. Russell famously quipped that “the law of causality” was “a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm”.
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589Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretationIn Huw Price & Richard Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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481Contingent laws rule: reply to BirdAnalysis 62 (3): 252-255. 2002.In a recent paper (Bird 2001), Alexander Bird argues that the law that common salt dissolves in water is metaphysically necessary - and he does so without presupposing dispositionalism about properties. If his argument were sound, it would thus show that at least one law of nature is meta- physically necessary, and it would do so without illicitly presupposing a position (dispositionalism) that is already committed to a necessitarian view of laws. I shall argue that Bird's argument is unsu…Read more
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196Review: Ellis, Scientific essentialism; The Philosophy of Nature (review)Mind 113 (450): 334-340. 2004.
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1283Are psychiatric kinds real?European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6 (1): 11-27. 2010.The paper considers whether psychiatric kinds can be natural kinds and concludes that they can. This depends, however, on a particular conception of ‘natural kind’. We briefly describe and reject two standard accounts – what we call the ‘stipulative account’ (according to which apparently a priori criteria, such as the possession of intrinsic essences, are laid down for natural kindhood) and the ‘Kripkean account’ (according to which the natural kinds are just those kinds that obey Kripkean sema…Read more
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59How to Carve Nature Across the Joints Without Abandoning Kripke-Putnam SemanticsIn Stephen Mumford & Matthew Tugby (eds.), Metaphysics and Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 141-163. 2013.‘Natural kind essentialism’—here defined as the view that (i) the existence of natural kinds is a mind- and theory-independent matter, (ii) their essences are intrinsic, and (iii) they have a hierarchical structure—is commonly thought to be justified by appeal to Kripke–Putnam semantics, according to which propositions like ‘water is H20’ are necessary a posteriori. This chapter argues that the Kripke–Putnam semantics is in fact compatible with the denial of each of the three tenets of natural k…Read more
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2IntroductionIn Helen Beebee & Julian Dodd (eds.), Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate, Clarendon Press. 2005.
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512The Two Definitions and the Doctrine of NecessityProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 107 (1pt3): 413-431. 2007.
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883Humean compatibilismMind 111 (442): 201-223. 2002.Humean compatibilism is the combination of a Humean position on laws of nature and the thesis that free will is compatible with determinism. This article's aim is to situate Humean compatibilism in the current debate among libertarians, traditional compatibilists, and semicompatibilists about free will. We argue that a Humean about laws can hold that there is a sense in which the laws of nature are 'up to us' and hence that the leading style of argument for incompatibilism?the consequence argume…Read more
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518Causation and ObservationIn Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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62Review. Causation & Persistence: A Theory of Causation. D Ehring (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 181-184. 1998.
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