Recent publications by members of the department
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.
Read more "Stewart Duncan, Materialism from Hobbes to Locke. Oxford University Press."
Dr. John Biro argues against Davidson’s paratactic account of indirect speech, as in the example, “Galileo said that the Earth moves.”
Chris Dorst argues that the quantum measurement problem dissolves on a Humean conception of laws of nature.
Read more "Chris Dorst, “There is no measurement problem for Humeans.” Noûs."
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.
Graduate student James Simpson surveys a variety of closure principles of epistemic justification before proposing a novel multi-premise closure principle that cannot be used in Cartesian skeptical arguments.
Read more "James Simpson, “Getting a little closure for closure.” Synthese."
Kelly Trogdon and Gene Witmer argue for a definition of full grounding in terms of partial grounding, contrary to the current consensus in the literature.
Dr. Arina Pismenny uses the model of emotional rationality to argue that romantic love is not essentially moral in nature.
Dr. Rodrigo Borges introduces a special issue of Synthese on “post-Gettier” approaches to knowledge and justification.
In an editor’s introduction to a special issue, Dr. Ross and her collaborator Dr. Matthen explore several puzzle cases for the view of perception embraced by European philosophers of the modern period.
In a recent paper, Dr. Borges argues that inferential knowledge requires knowing all the propositions that knowledge depends on.
John Palmer’s latest publication is a book in the Cambridge Elements in Ancient Philosophy series