Department Publications
- Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. Rowman & Littlefield. April 26, 2022
Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard's edited volume explores the moral dimensions of love through the lenses of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
- Duncan Purves, “Fairness in Algorithmic Policing.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association. March 23, 2022
Duncan Purves argues that there are two overlooked normative factors that are essential to a full assessment of the moral permissibility of predictive policing: fairness in the social distribution of the benefits and burdens of policing as well as the distinctive role of consent in determining fair distribution.
- Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, and Schuyler Sturm, “Five ethical challenges for data-driven policing.” AI and Ethics. March 23, 2022
Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, and Schuyler Sturm's recent paper synthesizes scholarship from several academic disciplines to identify and analyze five major ethical challenges facing data-driven policing.
- Stewart Duncan, Materialism from Hobbes to Locke. Oxford University Press. January 6, 2022
Stewart Duncan's new book explores how a series of seventeenth-century philosophers tried to address the question of whether or not humans are purely material beings.
- John Biro, “What Galileo Said.” Argumenta. December 18, 2021
Dr. John Biro argues against Davidson's paratactic account of indirect speech, as in the example, "Galileo said that the Earth moves."
- Chris Dorst, “There is no measurement problem for Humeans.” Noûs. October 14, 2021
Chris Dorst argues that the quantum measurement problem dissolves on a Humean conception of laws of nature.
- Stewart Duncan, “Locke, God, and Materialism.” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. September 30, 2021
Stewart Duncan investigates Locke's views about materialism by comparing Locke's arguments with those of Descartes and Cudworth. These comparisons shed light on Locke's views about the causation of perfection and the nature of superaddition.