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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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38Counterfactual 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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194Truthmakers: 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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391Causation and necessary connectionIn Alan Bailey & Dan O'Brien (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Hume, Continuum. pp. 131. 2012.
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1Review 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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164Hume’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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614Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretationIn Huw Price & Richard Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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504Contingent 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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1294Are 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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