Philosophy (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions

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    • "Human Nature and the Right to Coerce in Kant's Doctrine of Right". 

      PINHEIRO WALLA, ALICE (2014)
      This paper explores the alleged role of a conception of human nature for Kant’s justification of the duty to leave the state of nature and the related right to coerce others to enter the civil condition ...

    • "When the strictest right is the greatest wrong: Kant on Fairness." 

      PINHEIRO WALLA, ALICE (2015)

    • Book Review of Elisabeth Ellis, Kant s Political Theory 

      PINHEIRO WALLA, ALICE (2013)

    • A Commentary on Anna Stilz, Nations, States, and Territory and Lea Ypi, A Permissive Theory of Territorial Rights 

      PINHEIRO WALLA, ALICE (2014)

    • Obituary of B. Sharon Byrd 

      PINHEIRO WALLA, ALICE (2014)

    • Vectors and Beyond: Geometric Algebra and its Philosophical Significance 

      SIMONS, PETER (2009)
      An account of the history and recent revival of geometric algebra (first invented in the 19th century but later sidelined by vector theory), together with reflections on its importance for the philosophy of mathematics.

    • Formalism 

      SIMONS, PETER (Elsevier, 2009)
      Formalism is a philosophical theory of the foundations of mathematics that had a spectacular but brief heyday in the 1920s. After a long preparation in the work of several mathematicians and philosophers, it was brought ...

    • Bochenski and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy 

      SIMONS, PETER (Academia, 2011)
      This paper praises, upholds and justifies the balance found in Bochenski's philosophical writings between a systematic interest in theoretical questions and a purely historical approach to philosophy. The drawbacks of the ...

    • Conscience - an essay in moral psychology 

      LYONS, WILLIAM EDWARD (2009)
      The ultimate aim of this essay is to suggest that conscience is a very important part of human psychology and of our moral point of view, not something that can be dismissed as merely `a part of Christian theology?. The ...

    • A Short Glossary of Metaphysics 

      SIMONS, PETER (Routledge, 2009)
      NOTE: Many of the words in this glossary have everyday meanings which are different from these. We give only the more specialized philosophical meanings. JOHNSONIAN HEALTH WARNING: like all glossaries and dictionaries, ...

    • Whitehead: Process and Cosmology 

      SIMONS, PETER (Routledge, 2009)
      Alfred North Whitehead (1861?1947) occupies a remarkable position in twentieth century philosophy. Though he co-authored the seminal Principia mathematica with his former student Bertrand Russell, and later supervised ...

    • Why there are no states of affairs 

      SIMONS, PETER (Ontos, 2009)
      A state of affairs, such as that John loves Mary or that Gordon Brown is Scottish, is an entity which in some way corresponds to a true sentence, belief or judgement. Its correspondence is indicated by its being standardly ...

    • Twardowski on Truth 

      SIMONS, PETER (The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2009)
      Of those students of Franz Brentano who went on to become professional philosophers, Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is much less well-known than his older contemporaries Edmund Husserl and Alexius Meinong. Yet in terms ...

    • Ontic Generation: Getting Everything from the Basics 

      SIMONS, PETER (Ontos, 2009)
      Properly executed, metaphysics consists in part of painstaking ontological detail and in part of grand systematic speculation. The distinction between these two aspects is not new: it is inspired by Wolff?s distinction ...

    • Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond 

      SIMONS, PETER (Ontos, 2010)
      My copy of Reinhardt Grossmann?s The Categorial Structure of the World (CSW) contains the affectionate inscription ?To the Three Musketeers! With best wishes for their future adventures! R.G.? The other two musketeers ...

    • Supernumeration: Vagueness and Numbers 

      SIMONS, PETER (Oxford University Press, 2010)
      After reviewing the principal and well-known defects of fuzzy logic this paper proposes to use numerical values in conjunction with a supervaluational approach to vagueness. The two principal ideas are degrees of candidature ...