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31Backtracking Counterfactuals and Agents’ AbilitiesIn Marco Hausmann & Jörg Noller (eds.), Free Will: Historical and Analytic Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 139-164. 2021.John Martin Fischer argues that a version of the Consequence Argument that invokes a principle he calls the ‘Principle of the Fixity of the Past and Laws’ is immune to the broadly Lewisian response that the compatibilist can make to the ‘conditional’ version of the argument. In his contribution to this volume, he argues—in part by appealing to backtracking counterfactuals—that denying PFPL leads to trouble, specifically, for the fixed-laws compatibilist. I argue on behalf of the fixed-laws compa…Read more
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30In Defence of Different VoicesSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Helen Beebee, Anne-Marie McCallion ABSTRACT: Louise Antony draws a now well-known distinction between two explanatory models for researching and addressing the issue of women’s underrepresentation in philosophy – the ‘Different Voices’ and ‘Perfect Storm’ models – and argues that, in view of PS’s considerably higher social value, DV should be abandoned. We argue …
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22Diversity in Philosophy: Editors’ IntroductionSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Helen Beebee, Anne-Marie McCallion Download PDF.
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22Hume’s impact on causationThe Philosophers' Magazine 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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17JOHN FOSTER The Divine Lawmaker (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (2): 453-457. 2009.
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15De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis's HumeanismIn Barry Loewer & Jonathan Schaffer (eds.), A Companion to David Lewis, Wiley. 2015.Modality is standardly thought to come in two varieties: de dicto and de re. De re modality concerns the attribution of modal features to things or individuals, and enshrines a commitment to Aristotelian essentialism. This chapter considers how David Lewis's conception of de re modality fits into his overall metaphysics. The hypothesis is that the driving force behind his metaphysics in general, and his adherence to counterpart theory in particular, is the distinctly Humean thought that necessar…Read more
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10On David Hume: A Preface to the Special IssueHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 13 (1): 9-15. 2010.
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10Philosophy: Why it MattersPolity Press. 2019.Philosophy is a set of tools and techniques for clearly and systematically considering our arguments and uncovering our hidden assumptions, which helps us to make more informed choices about what to believe and how to act. Philosophy is everywhere, and open to everyone.
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10Introductory Formal LogicDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 3 (1): 53-62. 2003.
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3The Discourse InterviewDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 7 (2): 15-30. 2008.
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2IntroductionIn Helen Beebee & Julian Dodd (eds.), Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate, Clarendon Press. 2005.
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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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IntroductionIn Helen Beebee & Nigel Sabbarton-Leary (eds.), The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, Routledge. 2010.
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Hume and the Problem of CausationIn Lorne Falkenstein (ed.), Hume and the Contemporary 'Common Sense' Critique of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.This chapter traces Hume’s search for the impression-source of the idea of necessary connection through Book 1 of the Treatise. It then sketches and evaluates the main interpretative positions concerning Hume’s account of causation. These positions characterize Hume either as a regularity theorist who thinks that causation is merely a matter of temporal priority, contiguity, and constant conjunction, a projectivist who takes causal talk to have an essential non-representational element, or a ske…Read more
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