Issues, 2020-Present

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Advisory Editor: Kirk Lougheed

Kirk Lougheed
The Nature of Contemporary African Moral and Political Philosophy: An
Introduction

Thaddeus Metz
A Relational Theory of Dignity and Human Rights: An Alternative to Autonomy

Kirk Lougheed
African Liveliness as a Secular Moral Theory: Problems and Prospects

Motsamai Molefe
African, Black, and Western Conceptions of Human Dignity

Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues
A Relational View of Homosexuality

Michael Onyebuchi Eze
Decolonizing “Decolonization” and Knowledge Production beyond Eurocentrism

Anke Graness and Martina Kopf
Changing the Frame: New Epistemic Frameworks and Social Transformation in
African Feminist Theory

Ajume H. Wingo
In the Shade of Power: The Sacred Art of Leveling up the Powerless


Advisory Editor: H. Orri Stefánsson

Elizabeth Finneron-Burns
‘Humanity’: Constitution, Value, and Extinction

Hilary Greaves
Concepts of Existential Catastrophe

Richard Pettigrew
Should Longtermists Recommend Hastening Extinction Rather Than Delaying It?

Kacper Kowalczyk and Nikhil Venkatesh
Risk, Non-Identity, and Extinction

SJ Beard and Patrick Kaczmarek
Existential Risk, Astronomical Waste, and the Reasonableness of a Pure
Time Preference for Well-Being

Karim Jebari and Andrea S. Asker
Saved by the Dark Forest: How a Multitude of Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Can Prevent a Hobbesian Trap

Alex McLaughlin
Existential Risk, Climate Change, and Nonideal Justice


Advisory Editor: Elvira Basevich

Chike Jeffers
Du Bois on Government and Democratic Debate

Elvira Basevich
Democracy’s Values and Ideals: A Duboisian Defence

Robert Gooding-Williams
Democratic Despotism, Democratic Culture, and the Democratic Ideal

Wendy Salkin
You Say I Want a Revolution

Inés Valdez
The Dividends of Democracy’s Destruction: Surplus, Ideology, and Militarism in
the Turn to Empire in Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction

Kimberly Ann Harris
The Faithfulness to Fact

Liam Kofi Bright
Duboisian Leadership through Standpoint Epistemology


Advisory Editors: Christos Kyriacou and Gregory Stoutenburg

Nevin Climenhaga
How Infallibilists Can Have It All

Wayne A. Davis
A Safe Road to Infallibilism?

Mark Satta
Really Knowing: A Collocational Argument for an Infallibilist Sense of ‘Know’

Charity Anderson
Cartesian Infallibilism and a Guarantee of Truth

Christos Kyriacou
How Not to Be a Fallibilist

Timothy Williamson
Knowledge-First Inferential Evidence: A Response to Dunn

Jeremy Fantl
Disingenuous Infallibilism


Advisory Editor: Chris Daly

Alan Sidelle
The Grounding Mystique

Ned Hall
An Epistemic Approach to Ground

H.K. Andersen
Running Causation Aground

Chris Daly
Explanation Good, Grounding Bad

Natalja Deng
Time, Grounding, and Esoteric Metaphysics

David Mark Kovacs
Varieties of Grounding Skepticism

Mark Wilson and Chris Daly
A Conversation on Grounding

Wouter A. Cohen and Benjamin Marschall
Would Carnap Have Tolerated Modern Metaphysics?

Theodore Sider
The New Collapse Argument against Quantifier Variance


Advisory Editors: Tiziana Andina and Fausto Corvino

Avner de-Shalit
Do the Current Poor Owe Anything to Future Persons? The Transgenerational
Community Principle and Prioritarianism

Luigi Bonatti and Lorenza Alexandra Lorenzetti
Transgenerational Communitarianism in a Global Interconnected World: A Critique

Janna Thompson
Birthright Entitlements and Obligations in an Intergenerational Political Society

Susan Dodds
Janna Thompson’s Contributions to Philosophy

Tiziana Andina and Fausto Corvino
Transgenerational Social Structures and Fictional Actors: Community-Based
Responsibility for Future Generations

John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
Generationality: On Intergenerationality, Transgenerationality, and
the ‘Generation War’

May Sim
Confucianism and Transgenerational Grounds for Justice

Ferdinando G. Menga
When the Generational Overlap Is the Challenge Rather Than the Solution.
On Some Problematic Versions of Transgenerational Justice

Matt Dean
Group Immortality and Transgenerational Meaning


Advisory Editor: Finlay Malcolm

Matthew Ratcliffe
The Underlying Unity of Hope and Trust

Anne Jeffrey and Krista Mehari
The Primacy of Hope for Human Flourishing

Michael Scott
The Proper Objects of Faith and Hope

Elizabeth Jackson
Faithfully Taking Pascal’s Wager

Andrew Chignell
Demoralization and Hope: A Psychological Reading of Kant’s Moral Argument

Paul Faulkner
On the Nature of Faith and Its Relation to Trust and Belief

Katherine Dormandy
Rational Faith: How Faith Construed as Trust Does, and Does Not,
Go Beyond Our Evidence

Thomas W. Simpson
Faith as Trust

Finlay Malcolm
Global Faith, Trust, and Hope


Advisory Editor: Daniele Lorenzini

Matthieu Queloz
Genealogy, Evaluation, and Engineering

Lee Wilson
Genealogy as Meditation and Adaptation with the Han Feizi

Amy Allen
Dripping with Blood and Dirt from Head to Toe: Marx’s Genealogy of Capitalism in Capital, Volume 1

Daniel R. Rodríguez-Navas
Psychology, Physiology, Medicine: The Perspectivist Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality

Sacha Golob
Is Heidegger’s History of Being a Genealogy?

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
On Moral Unintelligibility: Beauvoir’s Genealogy of Morality in the
Second Sex

Daniele Lorenzini
Reason Versus Power: Genealogy, Critique, and Epistemic Injustice

Guy Longworth
Vindicating Reasons


Advisory Editors: Sebastian Hüsch and Klaus Viertbauer

Dorothea Frede
The Holy and the God-Loved: The Dilemma in Plato’s Euthyphro

Katherin Rogers
St. Anselm of Canterbury on God and Morality

Eleonore Stump
Aquinas’s Theory of Goodness

John E. Hare
Contemplation

Ingolf U. Dalferth
Autonomy and Radical Evil: Kant’s Ethical Transformation of Sin

Sebastian Hüsch and Klaus Viertbauer
Anti-Climacus and the Demoralization of Sin

C. Stephen Evans
Could a Divine-Command Theory of Moral Obligations Justify Horrible Acts? Some Kierkegaardian Reflections

J.L. Schellenberg
The Tribute of Faith: Theistic Commitment as Moral Gesture

Francis X. Clooney, S. J.
God, God’s Perfections, and the Good: Some Preliminary Insights from the Catholic-Hindu Encounter


Advisory Editors: Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker

Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker
Introduction: Levels of Reality

William Bechtel
Levels in Biological Organisms: Hierarchy of Production Mechanisms, Heterarchy of Control Mechanisms

Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker
The Multiple-Computations Theorem and the Physics of Singling Out a Computation

Christian List
Special-Science Counterfactuals

Michela Massimi
Perspectival Ontology: Between Situated Knowledge and Multiculturalism

Philippos Papayannopoulos, Nir Fresco, and Oron Shagrir
On Two Different Kinds of Computational Indeterminacy

David Papineau
The Statistical Nature of Causation

Gualtiero Piccinini
An Egalitarian Account of Composition and Realization


Advisory Editors: Jonardon Ganeri and Itay Shani

Jonardon Ganeri and Itay Shani
What Is Cosmopsychism?

Itay Shani
Cosmopsychism, Coherence, and World-Affirming Monism

Miri Albahari
Panpsychism and the Inner-Outer Gap Problem

Jonardon Ganeri
Cosmic Consciousness

Wolfgang Fasching
On the Atman Thesis Concerning Fundamental Reality

Luca Gasparri
Sankaran Monism and the Limits of Thought

Swami Medhananda
The Playful Self-Involution of Divine Consciousness: Sri Aurobindo’s Evolutionary Cosmopsychism and His Response to the Individuation Problem

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Analytic Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Ramanuja’s Visistadvaita Vedanta

Monima Chadha
A Buddhist Response to the Quality-Combination Problem for Panpsychism


Advisory Editors: Anneli Jefferson and Philip Robichaud

Manuel Vargas
Constitutive Instrumentalism and the Fragility of Responsibility

Per-Erik Milam
Get Smart: Outcomes, Influence, and Responsibility

Philip Robichaud
Characterizing the Value of Morally Responsible Agency

Daphne Brandenburg
Consequentialism and the Responsibility of Children: A Forward- Looking Distinction between the Responsibility of Children and Adults

Derk Pereboom
Undivided Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility

Mark Alfano
Towards a Genealogy of Forward-Looking Responsibility

Michael McKenna
Wimpy Retributivism and the Promise of Moral Influence Theorists

Nadine Elzein
Deterrence and Self-Defence

Katrina L. Sifferd
How Is Criminal Punishment Forward-Looking?


Advisory Editor: Samuel Lebens

Hud Hudson
Iblis, Abraham, and Teleological Suspensions

Behnam Zolghadr
How to Abū Hāšim Meinong

Keshav Singh
Vice and Virtue in Sikh Ethics

Victoria S. Harrison
What if the Dead Are Never Really Dead?

Benjamin I. Huff
Free Will for the Long Run

Robert Merrihew Adams
Nestorius and Nestorianism

Samuel Lebens
Proselytism as Epistemic Violence: A Jewish Approach to the Ethics of Religious Persuasion

Thaddeus Metz and Motsamai Molefe
Traditional African Religion as a Neglected Form of Monotheism

Olla Solomyak
Above Time: Rabbi Nachman’s Tzaddik and Enlightened Temporal Experience


Advisory Editors: Ben Colburn and Hallvard Lillehammer

Ben Colburn and Hallvard Lillehammer
Editors’ Introduction: Responsibility, Luck, and a Pandemic

Lubomira Radoilska
Circumstance, Answerability, and Luck

Teresa Kuan
Vicarious Responsibility and the Problem of ‘Too Much’: Moral Luck from the Perspective of Ordinary Ethics

Christopher D. Bennett
Complicity and Normative Control

Stephanie Collins and Niels de Haan
Interconnected Blameworthiness

Trystan S. Goetze
Moral Entanglement: Taking Responsibility and Vicarious Responsibility

Charlotte Knowles
Responsibility in Cases of Structural and Personal Complicity: A Phenomenological Analysis

Rowan Mellor
Faces of Vicarious Responsibility

Nora Heinzelman
Compensation and Moral Luck

Nicola Lacey and Hanna Pickard
Why Standing to Blame May Be Lost but Authority to Hold Accountable Retained: Criminal Law as a Regulative Public Institution


Advisory Editor: Galen Strawson

David Builes
The World Just Is the Way It Is

Matthew Bisconti
John Heil’s General Ontology

Don Garrett
Monism, Spinoza’s Way

Galen Strawson
Identity Metaphysics

Elizabeth Miller
Non-Piecemeal Pluralism

Mattia Riccardi
Nietzschean Monism? A Pandispositionalist Proposal

Donovan Wishon
Radical Empiricism, Neutral Monism, and the Elements of Mind


Advisory Editors: Mario De Caro and Juliet Floyd

Gary Ebbs
Hilary Putnam’s Liberal Naturalism about Language Use, Reference, and Truth

David Macarthur
Exploding the Realism-Antirealism Debate: Putnam contra Putnam

Henri Wagner
The Significance of the Division of Linguistic Labor

Sandra Laugier
Necrology of Ontology: Putnam, Ethics, Realism

Sofia Miguens
The Human Face of Naturalism: Putnam and Diamond on Religious Belief and the “Gulfs between Us”

Mario de Caro and Hilary Putnam
Free Will and Quantum Mechanics

Juliet Floyd
Aspects of the Real Numbers: Putnam, Wittgenstein, and Nonextensionalism

Zeynep Soysal
Descriptivism about the Reference of Set-Theoretic Expressions: Revisiting Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Arguments

Charles Travis
The Objects of Rational Thought (a Sketch)

Jean-Philippe Narboux
Conceptual Truth, Necessity, and Negation

Jacques Bouveresse and Hilary Putnam
A Conversation between Jacques Bouveresse and Hilary Putnam


Advisory Editors: Helen Beebee and Ann Whittle

David K. Lewis
Outline of “Nihil Obstat: An Analysis of Ability”

Helen Beebee, Maria Svedberg, and Ann Whittle
Nihil Obstat: Lewis’s Compatibilist Account of Abilities

Alfred R. Mele
Free Will and Luck: Compatibilism versus Incompatibilism

Marcela Herdova
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: On Control, Transformative Experiences, and Turning Over a New Leaf

Dana Kay Nelkin
Responsibility, Reflection, and Rational Ability

Kadri Vihvelin
Killing Time Again

Randolph Clarke
It’s Up to You

Helen Steward
Agency as a Two-Way Power: A Defence


Advisory Editor: Andreas Elpidorou

Andreas Elpidorou
Neglected Emotions

Carolyn Price
The Many Flavours of Regret

Krista K. Thomason
I’ll Show You: Spite as a Reactive Attitude

Somogy Varga and Shaun Gallagher
Anticipatory-Vicarious Grief: The Anatomy of a Moral Emotion

Julien A. Deonna
On the Good that Moves Us

Jenefer Robinson
Aesthetic Emotions

Joerg Fingerhut and Jesse J. Prinz
Aesthetic Emotions Reconsidered


Advisory Editors: Irene McMullin and Robert Stern

Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Løgstrup, Levinas and the Mother: Ethics, Love, and the Relationship to the Other

Steven Crowell
Phenomenology, Ontology, Nihilism: Løgstrup, Levinas, and the Limits of Philosophical Anthropology

Irene McMullin
Levinas and Løgstrup on the Phenomenology (and Metaphysics?) of Moral Agency

Michael L. Morgan
Levinas, Løgstrup, and the Idea of Command

Robert Stern
How Is Love of the Neighbour Possible? A Løgstrupian Response to a Lutheran Critique of Levinas—and Vice Versa

Patrick Stokes
To Trust the Liar: Løgstrup and Levinas on Ethics, War, and Openness

Simon Thornton
Ontology and Ethics: Løgstrup between Heidegger and Levinas