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Leo Zaibert
Forgiveness: An Introduction
John Kekes
Blame Versus Forgiveness
Andrea Westlund
Anger, Faith, and Forgiveness
Ingvar Johansson
A Little Treatise on Forgiveness and Human Nature
Jeffrie G. Murphy
The Case of Dostoevsky’s General: Some Ruminations on Forgiving the Unforgivable
Glen Pettigrove
The Standing to Forgive
Berel Lang
Reconciliation: Not Retribution, not Justice, Perhaps not even Forgiveness
Peter M. Simons
Foreword
Michael Davis
Defining Engineering from Chicago to Shantou
Carl Mitcham
The Philosophical Inadequacy of Engineering
Billy V. Koen
The Engineering Method and its Implications for Scientific, Philosophical, and Universal Methods
Riichiro Mizoguchi and Yoshinobu Kitamura
A Functional Ontology of Artifacts
Wybo Houkes and Pieter E. Vermaas
Contemporary Engineering and the Metaphysics of Artefacts: Beyond the Artisan Model
Christian Illies and Anthonie Meijers
Artefacts Without Agency
Hans Poser
Technology and Necessity
Mariam Halos
Systems
Maurizio Ferraris and Luca Morena
Foreword
Romano Prodi
In Favour of Europe
John Laughland
European Integration: A Marxist Utopia?
Sebastiano Maffettone
The Legacy of the Enlightenment and the Exemplarity of the EU Model
Yves Hersant
Rally Round the European Flag?
Margaret Gilbert
A Real Unity of Them All
Maurizio Ferraris
Documentality, or Europe
Pascal Engel
Julien Benda’s Thoughtful Europe
Michael Moore
Introduction
Stephen Mumford
Passing Powers Around
Phil Dowe
Absences, Possible Causation, and the Problem of Non-Locality
Doug Ehring
Abstracting Away from Preemption
Chris Hitchcock
Problems for the Conserved Quantity Theory: Counterexamples, Circularity, and Redundancy
Bence Nanay
The Properties of Singular Causation
Michael Rota
An Anti-reductionist Account of Singular Causation
Jessica Wilson
Resemblance-based Resources for Reductive Singularism
Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
Privatizing Marriage
John Finnis
Marriage: A Basic and Exigent Good
Adèle Mercier
On the Nature of Marriage
Patrick Lee
Marriage, Procreation, and Same-Sex Unions
Adèle Mercier: Reply to Lee
Patrick Lee: Rejoinder to Mercier
Jeremy R. Garrett
History, Tradition, and the Normative Foundations of Civil Marriage
Alex Rajczi
A Populist Argument for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
Bryan R. Weaver and Fiona Woollard
Marriage and the Norm of Monogamy
Mary Catherine Geach
Lying with the Body
Andrea C. Westlund
The Reunion of Marriage
Brook Sadler
Re-thinking Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriage
Gerard Bradley
What’s in a Name?
Amie L. Thomasson
Phenomenal Consciousness and the Phenomenal World
Joseph Levine
Secondary Qualities: Where Consciousness and Intentionality Meet
Colin McGinn
Consciousness as Knowingness
Adam Pautz
The Interdependence of Phenomenology and Intentionality
Katalin Farkas
Phenomenal Intentionality without Compromise
Itay Shani
Against Consciousness Chauvinism
James Tartaglia
Intentionality, Consciousness, and the Mark of the Mental: Rorty’s Challenge
Terry Horgan and Uriah Kriegel
Phenomenal Intentionality Meets the Extended Mind
Anita L. Allen
The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit
Geoffrey Brennan
The Economy of Privacy: Institutional Design in the Economy of Esteem
Leslie P. Francis
Privacy and Confidentiality: The Importance of Context
Chandran Kukathas
Cultural Privacy
Scott Anderson
Privacy without the Right to Privacy
David Matheson
A Distributive Reductionism about the Right to Privacy
Steve Matthews
Privacy, Separation and Control
David Meeler
Is Information All We Need to Protect?
Travis Dumsday
Group Privacy and Government Surveillance of Religious Services
Michael T. Ghiselin and Olaf Breidbach
The Search for the Basis of Natural Classification
Stefan Schulz and Ingvar Johansson
Continua in Biological Systems
Russ Altman
Ontological Issues in Pharmacogenomics
Ludger Jansen
Tendencies and Other Realizables in Medical Information Sciences
Neil Williams
The Factory Model of Disease
Christopher J. O. Baker, Robert H. Warren, Volker Haarslev, Greg Butler
The Ecology of Ontologies in the Public Domain
Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi
Foreword
Hud Hudson
Lesser Kinds Quartet
Kristie Miller
Immaterial Beings
Andrew Wake, Joshua Spencer, and Gregory Fowler
Holes as Regions of Spacetime
Antony Galton
On the Paradoxical Nature of Surfaces: Ontology at the Physics/Geometry Interface
Jérôme Dokic
Two Ontologies of Sound
Casey O’Callaghan
Echoes
István Aranyosi
Shadows of Constitution
Roy Sorensen
The Vanishing Point
Alvin I. Goldman
A Program for “Naturalizing” Metaphysics, with Application to the Ontology of Events
John Haldane
Introduction: Scottish Philosophy
Gordon Graham
The Ambition of Scottish Philosophy
Daniel Robinson
The Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding
Paul Russell
Hume’s Lucretian Mission: Is It Self-Refuting?
Margaret Schabas
Groups Versus Individuals in Hume’s Political Economy
John Glassford
Sympathy and Spectatorship in Scottish Writing after Hume
Ryan Nichols
Natural Philosophy and its Limits in the Scottish Enlightenment
James Van Cleve
Reid’s Answer to Molyneux’s Question
Dabney Townsend
Dugald Stewart: Beauty and Taste
James Feiser
The Rise and Fall of James Beattie’s Theory of Truth
Jenny Keefe
James Ferrier and the Theory of Ignorance
Mark Weblin
John Anderson on Reid and Scottish Philosophy
John Laughland,
The Crooked Timber of Reality: Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and the Confusions Of Human Rights
April Morgan
Sovereignty’s New Story
Danilo Zolo
Contemporary Uses of the Notion of ‘Empire’
Daniel Kofman
The Normative Limits to the Dispersal of Territorial Sovereignty
David Chandler:
Potemkin Sovereignty: Statehood Without Politics in the New World Order
M. R. R. Ossewaarde
Three Rival Versions of Political Enquiry: Althusius and the Concept of Sphere Sovereignty
Siegfried van Duffel
Sovereignty as a Religious Concept
David S. Oderberg
Foreword
Stéphane Courtois
Genetics Engineering, Moral Autonomy, and Equal Treatment
Thomas May and Ryan Spellecy
Autonomy, Full Information, and Genetic Ignorance in Reproductive Medicine
Eve Garrard and Stephen Wilkinson
Choosing Disability: ‘Screening In’ and the Welfare of the Child
Anthony Wrigley
Genetic Selection and Modal Harms
Russell Blackford
Dr Frankenstein Meets Lord Devlin: Genetic Engineering and the Principle of Intangible Harm
Jacqueline A. Laing
Artificial Reproduction, Blood Relatedness, and Human Identity
Martin O’Neill
Genetic Information, Life Insurance, and Social Justice
E. J. Lowe
How Real is Substantial Change?
Antony Galton
On the Process of Coming into Existence
Lynne Rudder Baker
Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality
S. Matthew Liao
The Organism View Defended
Rose Koch
Conjoined Twins and the Biological Account of Personal Identity
Christopher Belshaw
My Beginnings
Eric T. Olson
The Paradox of Increase
Allan Hazlett
Disassembly and Destruction
Marc Trachtenberg
The Problem of International Order and How to Think About It
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
How International Relations Theorists Can Benefit by Reading Thucydides
Tom Sorell
Hobbes on Trade, Consumption and International Order
Kristen Hessler
Democratic Government and International Justice
Robert Jackson
Doctrinal War: Religion and Ideology in International Conflict
Philip Pettit,
Democracy, National and International
David Kaiser
Neither Marxist nor Whig: The Great Atlantic Crises, 1774-1962, and the Foundations of Domestic and International Order
Tomas Kapitan
Self-Determination and International Order
Hartry Field
Compositional Principles Versus Schematic Reasoning.
Robert Barnard and Terence Horgan
Truth As Mediated Correspondence
Frank Jackson
Representation, Truth, and Realism
Michael P. Lynch
Rewrighting Pluralism
Alexander Miller
Russell, Multiple Relations, and the Correspondence Theory Of Truth
Nikolaj Jang Pedersen
What Can the Problem of Mixed Inferences Teach Us about Alethic Pluralism?
Roy T. Cook
There are Non-Circular Paradoxes (But Yablo’s isn’t One of Them!)
Douglas Eden Patterson
Tarski, The Liar, and Inconsistent Languages
Nicholas J.J. Smith
Semantic Regularity and the Liar Paradox
Frank Arntzenius and John Hawthorne
Gunk and Continuous Variation
David Robb
Qualitative Unity and the Bundle Theory
John Heil
What is a Table?
E. J. Lowe
How are Ordinary Objects Possible?
M. Ayers
Ordinary Objects, Ordinary Language and Identity
R. Casati
Common Sense, Philosophical and Theoretical Notions of an Object: Some Methodological Problems
M. Heller
Anti-Essentialism and Counterpart Theory
Achille C. Varzi
Foreword
Theodore Sider
Traveling in A- and B- Time
Robin Le Poidevin
The Cheshire Cat Problem and Other Spatial Obstacles to Backwards Time Travel
Jonathan Simon
Is Time Travel a Problem for the Three-Dimensionalist?
Matthew Slater
The Necessity of Time Travel (on Pain of Indeterminacy)
Nicholas J.J. Smith
Why Would Time Travellers Try to Kill their Younger Selves?
Peter Vranas
Do Cry Over Spilt Milk: Possibly You Can Change the Past
Steven Savitt
Time Travel and Becoming
David Horacek
Time Travel in Indeterministic Worlds
Gordon Stevenson
Time Travel, Agency, and Nomic Constraint
Francisco J. Gil-White
How Conformism Creates Ethnicity Creates Conformism
(and Why This Matters to Lots of Things)
Richard H. McAdams
Conformity to Inegalitarian Conventions and Norms: The Relevance of Coordination and Esteem
Brian Skyrms
Dynamics of Conformist Bias
Patrick Colm Hogan
Dissenting Identities, or: The Radical Conformist’s Guide to Non-Conformism
Aaron Preston
Conformism in Analytic Philosophy: On Shaping Philosophical Boundaries and Prejudices
Introduction
Deborah Brown
What Part of ‘Know’ Don’t You Understand?
Peter B. Lewis
Schopenhauer’s Laughter
Nickolas Pappas
Morality Gags
John Lippitt
Is a Sense of Humour a Virtue?
Philip Percival
Comic Normativity and the Ethics of Humor
Oliver Conolly and Bashshar Haydar
The Good, the Bad and the Funny
Peter Cave
Humour and Paradox Laid Bare
Noël Carroll
Two Comic Plot Structures
David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller
How to be a Conventional Person
John Campbell
The First Person, Embodiment and the Certainty that One Exists
Matti Eklund
Personal Identity, Concerns, and Indeterminacy
Denis Robinson
Failing to Agree or Failing to Disagree? – Personal Identity Quasi-Relativism
Howard Robinson
Thought Experiments, Ontology and Concept-dependent Truthmakers
Carol Rovane
Alienation and the Alleged Separateness of Persons
Sydney Shoemaker
Brown and Brownson Revisited
David Wiggins
Reply to Shoemaker
Sydney Shoemaker
Reply to Wiggins
David Wiggins
Reply to Shoemaker
Classes, Worlds and Hypergunk
Daniel Nolan
Hypergunk
Allen Hazen
Chopping Up Gunk
John Hawthorne and Brian Weatherson
Grit or Gunk: Implications of the Banach-Tarski Paradox
Peter Forrest
Extended Simples: A Third Way Between Atoms and Gunk
Peter Simons
Borderline Simple or Extremely Simple?
Katherine Hawley
Simples, Stuff, and Simple People
Ned Markosian
Plurals and Simples
Gabriel Uzquiano
Being Conscious of Ourselves
David M. Rosenthal
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
Uriah Kriegel
Knowing the Reference of the First Person Pronoun
John Campbell
Self-Consciousness and the Unity of Consciousness
Tim Bayne
Inverted First-Person Authority
Colin McGinn
Introspection, Perception, and Epistemic Privilege: Response to McGinn
Quassim Cassam
Skepticism, Deflation and the Rediscovery of the Self
Stephen L. White
Wybo Houkes and Pieter Vermaas
Actions versus Functions: A Plea for an Alternative Metaphysics of Artifacts
Richard Cameron
How to be a Realist about sui generis Teleology Yet Feel at Home in the 21st Century
Ingvar Johannson
Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales
Tim Schroeder
Functions from Regulation
Peter H. Schwartz
An Alternative to Conceptual Analysis in the Function Debate
Marc Perlman
The Modern Philosopical Resurrection Of Teleology
Noël Carroll
Art and Mood: Preliminary Notes and Conjectures
Greg Currie and Jon Jureidini
Art and delusion
Mark DeBellis
Schenkerian Analysis and the Intelligent Listener
Mark Rollins
The Mind in Pictures: Perceptual Strategies and the Interpretation of Visual Art
Dominic McIver Lopes
Pictures and the Representational Mind
Robert Hopkins
Pictures, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
John Hyman
Subjectivism in the Theory of Pictorial Art
Deen K. Chatterjee
Moral Distance: Introduction
Jeremy Waldron
Who Is My Neighbor? – Humanity and Proximity
Wendy Hamblet
The Geography of Goodness: Proximity’s Dilemma
Soran Reader
Distance, Relationship and Moral Obligation
Richard Arneson
Consequentialism versus Special-Ties Partiality
Garrett Cullity
Asking Too Much
Jan Narveson
We Don’t Owe Them a Thing
Kok-Chor Tan
Patriotic Obligations
Catherine Wilson
A Humean Argument for Benevolence to Strangers
Nicholas Rescher
By the Standards of Their Day
Stephen M. Gardiner
The Pure Intergenerational Problem
Karen Green
Distance, Divided Responsibility and Universalizability
Neil Levy
Cultural Membership and Moral Responsibility
Bernard Weiner
A Naïve Psychologist Examines Bad Luck and the Concept of Responsibility
Susan Dwyer
Moral Development and Moral Responsibility
Raymond C. Tallis
Human Freedom as a Reality-Producing Illusion
Ishtiyaque Haji
Determinism and its Threat to the Moral Sentiments
David Zimmerman
Sour Grapes, Self-Abnegation and Character Building: Responsibility and Non-Responsibility for Self-Induced Preferences
John E. Roemer
Defending Equality of Opportunity
Ted Honderich
20 Million Years of Living Time
David Braybrooke
A Progressive Approach to Personal Responsibility for Global Beneficence
Peripatetic Perversion: a Neo-Aristotelian Account of the Nature of Sexual Perversion
Dirk Baltzley
Sexual Perversity
Jerrold Levinson
Kant and Sexual Perversion
Alan Soble
Perversion and Death
Ronald de Sousa
Christopher Williams,
Perverted Attractions Being Conscious of Ourselves
Sebastian Bauer and Heinrich Wansing
Consequence, Counterparts and Substitution
Peter Milne
Harmony, Purity, Simplicity, and a ‘Seemingly Magical Fact’
Aleksy Molczanow
Quantification and Inference
Gila Sher
Logical Consequence: An Epistemic Outline
Mark Siebel
Bolzano’s Concept of Consequence
John Cottingham
Descartes and the Voluntariness of Belief
Jennifer Church
Taking It to Heart: What Choice Do We Have?
David Owens
Epistemic Akrasia
Stephen Hetherington
Epistemic Responsibility: A Dilemma
Gordon Barnes
Resolving the Responsibilism Dilemma: A Reply to Hetherington
Mark Leon
Responsible Believers
Nishi Shah
Clearing Space for Doxastic Voluntarism
Grace Yee
Desiring to Believe
Jonathan Adler
Conundrums of Belief Self-Control
Brian Ribeiro
Epistemological Scepticism(s) and Rational Self-Control
Adam Morton
Introduction
DEFINING EVIL
Hillel Steiner
Calibrating Evil
Ernesto V. Garcia
A Kantian Theory of Evil
Stephen de Wijze
Defining Evil: Insights from the Problem of ‘Dirty Hands’
Paul Thompson
The Evolutionary Biology of Evil
EVIL CHARACTER
Daniel M. Haybron
Moral Monsters and Saints
Shaun Nichols
How Psychopaths Threaten Moral Rationalism: Is It Irrational to Be Immoral?
WHY WE NEED THE CONCEPT OF EVIL
Roy W. Perrett
Evil and Human Nature
Eve Garrard
Evil as an Explanatory Concept
APPENDIX:
Adam Morton
Review of Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, ed. The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives
Wayne Christensen and Mark Bickhard
Process Dynamics of Normative Function
John Dupre
Is ‘Natural Kind’ a Natural Kind Term?
Peter Godfrey-Smith
On the Evolution of Representational and Interpretive Capacities
Paul E. Griffiths
What is Innateness?
Joseph Laporte
Must Signals Handicap?
James Maclaurin
The Resurrection of Innateness
Sahotra Sarkar
Defining “Biodiversity”: Assessing Biodiversity
Elliot Sober
Reconstructing the Character States of Ancestors: A Likelihood Perspective on Cladistic Parsimony
Raz D. Chen Morris
Optics, Imagination and the Construction of Scientific Observation
Frank D. Horstmann
Hobbes on Hypotheses in Natural Philosophy
Sven K. Knebel
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino’s Quest for Principles of Induction
Cees van Leijenhorst
Place, Space and Matter in Calvinist Physics
Christoph Lüthy
An Aristotelian Watchdog as Avant-Garde Physicist: Julius Caesar Scaliger
Peter McLaughlin
Contraries and Counterweights: Descartes’ Statical Theory of Impact
Jean-Luc Solères
The Question of Intensive Magnitudes among some Jesuits in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Daniel Dennett
The Evolution of Culture
Lynd Forguson
Oxford and the “Epidemic” of Ordinary Language Philosophy
Alvin I. Goldman
Social Routes to Belief and Knowledge
Philip Kitcher
Infectious Ideas: Some Preliminary Explorations
Ruth Garrett Millikan.
Purposes and Cross-purposes: On the Evolution of Languages and Language
F. C. T. Moore
Scribes and Texts: A Test Case for Models of Cultural Transmission
Asa Kasher and Ronen Sadka
Constitutive Rule Systems and Cultural Epidemiology
Henry E. Kyburg, Jr.
Probability as a Guide to Life
Timothy McGrew
Direct Inference and the Problem of Induction
Isaac Levi
Objective Modality and Direct Inference
Wesley Salmon
Explaining Things Probabilistically
Christopher Hitchcock
Causal Generalization and Good Advice
Nancy Cartwright
What is Wrong with Bayes Nets?
Gary Malinas
Simpson’s Paradox: A Logically Benign, Empirically Treacherous Hydra
Clark Glymour
Instrumental Probability
James Bohman
Cosmopolitan Republicanism
Alain Boyer
On the Modern Relevance of Old Republicanism
Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin
Republican Liberty and Resilience
Vivienne Brown
Self-government: the master trope of republican liberty
John Ferejohn
Pettit’s Republic
Frank Lovett
Domination: A Preliminary Analysis
Gurpreet Singh Rattan
Prospects for a Contemporary Republicanism
Maurizio Viroli
The Republican Renaissance and its Limits
Martha C. Nussbaum
Four Paradigms of Philosophical Politics
Richard Flathman
The Self Against and For Itself: Montaigne and Sextus Empiricus on Freedom, Discipline and Resistance
Steven Affeldt
Society as a Way of Life: Perfectibility, Self-Transformation, and the Origination of Society in Rousseau
Richard Shusterman
Somaesthetics and Care of the Self: The Case of Foucault
Joseph Sen
On Slowness on Philosophy
Yuri Balashov
Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn
Berit Brogaard
Presentist Four-Dimensionalism
Kit Fine
A Counterexample to Locke’s Thesis
Mark Heller
Temporal Overlap is Not Coincidence
Robin Le Poidevin
Continuants and Continuity
Josh Parsons
Must a Four-dimentionalist Believe in Temporal Parts?
Peter Simons
How To Exist at a Time When You Have No Temporal Parts
Peter van Inwagen
Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time
Frank Arntzenius
Are There Really Instantaneous Velocities?
Jody Azzouni
Applying Mathematics: An Attempt to Design a Philosophical Problem
Robert W. Batterman
A ‘Modern’ (= Victorian?) Attitude towards Scientific Understanding
Lawrence Sklar
Topology versus Measure in Statistical Mechanics
Sheldon R. Smith
Resolving Russell’s Anti-Realism about Causation: The Connection between Causation and the Functional Dependencies of Mathematical Physics
Mark Wilson
The Unreasonable Uncooperativeness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences
Mario Mignucci
Parts, Quantification and Aristotelian Predication
Deborah Brown
Immanence and Individuation: Brentano and the Scholastics on Knowledge of Singulars
Jan Berg
From Bolzano’s Point of View
Peter Simons
The Four Phases of Philosophy: Brentano’s Theory and Austria’s History
Erwin Tegtmeier
Meinong’s Complexes
Ingvar Johansson
Determinables as Universals
Per Lindström
Quasi-Realism in Mathematics
D. M. Armstrong
Difficult Cases in the Theory of Truthmaking
Johanna Seibt
Constitution Theory and Metaphysical Neutrality: A Lesson for Ontology?