To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2023). To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge. In P.F. Strawson and His Legacy. In Audun Bengtson, Benjamin De Mesel and Sybren Heyndels (eds.) (192-211). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858474.003.0010

How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.

Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes (2023)
Book Chapter
Dupre, G. (2023). Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes. In Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, vol. 3 (57–86). (3). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198879466.003.0003

There is a tension at the heart of much contemporary work in philosophy of psychology—specifically, within representational theories of mind. On the one hand, the central insight of this tradition is that mental and behavioral processes are understoo... Read More about Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes.

The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare (2023)
Book Chapter
Mandelbaum, M. The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare. In Variations on Sovereignty. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287506-3

This chapter traces the discursive and phantasmic (re-)productions of state sovereignty in IR theory from traditional scholarship to contemporary mainstream IR theory, thus contributing to recent analyses of sovereignty in critical and historical IR.... Read More about The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare.

War stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982 (2023)
Thesis
Beales, J. M. War stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/425832

Scholars have extensively studied the cultural and political impacts of the Falklands War in Britain. However, despite the proliferation of veterans’ memoirs, oral histories, and written accounts of the war there are few academic analyses of veterans... Read More about War stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982.

How Far Do We Self-legislate? (2023)
Journal Article
Baiasu, S. (2023). How Far Do We Self-legislate?. Philosophia, 51(2), 525-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00613-4

: In his early writings, Kant regarded the autonomy of the will as the supreme principle of morality, as well as the sole principle of all moral laws and of the duties conforming to them. Nevertheless, this impressively sounding principle gradually d... Read More about How Far Do We Self-legislate?.

Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Mythen, G., & Weston, S. (2022). Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation. Health, Risk and Society, 1 - 19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2022.2150750

This article draws on data collected from a qualitative study designed to assess the effectiveness of an early intervention programme aimed to raise awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) among young people. The programme was implemented by a l... Read More about Interrogating the deployment of ‘risk’ and ‘vulnerability’ in the context of early intervention initiatives to prevent child sexual exploitation.

Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt (2022)
Journal Article
George. (2022). Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt

“Hayah Karima” or “Decent Life” is a national initiative that aims to improve the quality of life and provide better services in rural and unplanned settlements in Egypt within the framework of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt Vision 2030.... Read More about Securing sustainability and access to energy in low- and middle-income countries: opportunities for the ‘Hayah Karima’ programme in Egypt.

‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice (2022)
Journal Article
Wells, H. M., Aston, E. V., Bradford, B., O'Neill, M., Clayton, E., & Andrews, W. (2023). ‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 25(1), 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557221132962

In recent years, police forces in the United Kingdom have introduced various technologies that alter the methods by which they interact with the public. In a parallel development, many forces have also begun to embrace the concept of procedural justi... Read More about ‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice.

The Ontology of Freedom (2022)
Journal Article
Tartaglia. (2022). The Ontology of Freedom. Human Affairs, 32(4), 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-0040

I begin by clarifying Tallis’s revisionary terminology, showing how he redraws the lines of the traditional debate about free will by classifying himself as a compatibilist, when in standard terms he is an incompatibilist. I then examine what I take... Read More about The Ontology of Freedom.

‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus’: The Death Drive Now and Then (2022)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2022). ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus’: The Death Drive Now and Then

Starting from an exploration of Freud’s notion of the Death Drive and applying it to our times (said to have arrived at the End of History) this contribution argues that our contemporary thanatological moment does still offer, against all odds, the p... Read More about ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus’: The Death Drive Now and Then.

The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance (2022)
Book Chapter
Mandelbaum, M. (2022). The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance. In P. de Orellana, & N. Michelsen (Eds.), Global Nationalism Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century (3-22). https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800611542_0002

What is it in nationalism that lends itself to such continuous permutations and repetitions, to its perpetuum mobile? Why are ‘we’ continuously investing in it despite its failures and indeed its darker side of exclusions, xenophobia and even genocid... Read More about The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance.

Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction? (2022)
Journal Article
Parr, H. (2022). Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 15(3), 266-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2078543

This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, th... Read More about Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?.

Reference and morphology* (2022)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2022). Reference and morphology*. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 106(3), 655-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12896

The dominant tradition in analytic philosophy of language views reference as paradigmatically enabled by the acquisition of words from other speakers. Via chains of transmission, these words connect the referrer to the referent. Such a picture assume... Read More about Reference and morphology*.

The Necessity of Conceivability (2022)
Journal Article
Allen, S., & Cumpa, J. (2022). The Necessity of Conceivability. Synthese, 200(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03534-z

In his conceivability argument, Chalmers assumes that all properties have their causal powers contingently and causal laws are also contingent. We argue this claim conflicts with how conceivability itself must work for the conceivability argument to... Read More about The Necessity of Conceivability.

George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist. Archives of Natural History, 102 - 116. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0761

George Perry (c.1718–1771) is known for his involvement in the development of the iron and engineering industries of Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire and Liverpool, and also for his ambition to publish a history together with new maps of L... Read More about George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist.

Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers (2022)
Journal Article
Allen. (2022). Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00451-3

Do conceivability arguments work against physicalism if properties are causal powers? By considering three different ways of understanding causal powers and the modality associated with them, I will argue that most, if not all, physicalist powers the... Read More about Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers.

Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind (2022)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2022). Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind. Mind and Language, 38(2), 394-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12400

Language has long been a problem-case for subsymbolic theories of mind. The reason for this is obvious: Language seems essentially symbolic. However, recent work has developed a potential solution to this problem, arguing that linguistic symbols are... Read More about Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind.

Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2021). Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom. Archiwum Medycyny Sądowej i Kryminologii, 39-61. https://doi.org/10.7420/AK2021.33

The pandemic presented a uniquely unrestricted bonanza in many countries for opportunistic profitmaking at the public expense. In the United Kingdom, this took the form of collusion between senior political figures and business associates in purchasi... Read More about Populism, scandal management and state-facilitated “covid-corruption” in the United Kingdom.

Imagination and Revision (2021)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G., & Jonas, A. (2021). Imagination and Revision. In The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (215-232). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367821814-14

When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257757

Context: The Covid-19 pandemic hit the developed world differentially due to accidental factors, and countries had to respond rapidly within existing resources, structures, and processes to manage totally new health challenges. This study aimed to id... Read More about When Covid-19 first struck: analysis of the influence of structural characteristics of countries - technocracy is strengthened by open democracy.