Faculty Bookshelf: U - Z - Department of Philosophy

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Denis Walsh

Books

Selected Articles

Walsh, D.M. (forthcoming) Being human, Being Homo sapiens. In Hübner, K. (ed) Concepts: Human Nature. Oxford University Press.
Walsh, D.M. (forthcoming) Teleology and Purpose In: Love, A. and Nuño de la Rosa, L (eds) The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Springer
Walsh, D.M. (forthcoming) Aristotle and Contemporary Biology. In Connell, Sophia (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Walsh, D.M. and K. Wiebe (forthcoming) The being of living beings: Hylomorphism versus Foundational Materialism. In Meincke, Anne-Sophie (ed). Biological Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Walsh, D.M. (2019) The Paradox of Population Thinking In: Uller, T. and K. Laland (eds) Cause and Process in Biology. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press
Walsh, D.M. (2018) Objectcy and Agency: Toward A Methodological Vitalism. In Nicholson, D. and J. Dupré (eds) Everything Flows: Towards a process biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Walsh, D.M. A, Ariew, M. Matthen (2017) “Four Pillars of Statisticalism” Philosophy, Theory and Practice in Biology (New series) 1:1-17
Walsh, D.M. (2017) Chance caught on the wing: metaphysical commitment or methodological artifact? In Huneman, P and D. Walsh (eds) Challenging the Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, Inheritance Oxford University Press. pp. 239- 261
Walsh, D.M. and Philippe Huneman (2017) Challenging the Synthesis: Introduction. In Huneman, P. and D. Walsh (eds) Challenging the Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, Inheritance. Oxford University Press. pp. 1-36
Walsh, D.M. (2014) “Function and teleology.” In Thompson, R. Paul and Denis M. Walsh (2014) Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical and Religious Issues. Cambridge University Press. pp. 193-216.
Walsh D.M. (2014) “Adaptation and the Affordance Landscape.” In Pearce. T., Berger, G. and Desjardins. E. (eds). Entangled Life: Organism and environment in the Biological and social Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer pp. 213-236 (CD).
Walsh, D.M. (2012) “Situated Adaptationism.” In The Environment. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy Vol 9. Campbell, J.K., M. O’Rourke and M. M Slater (eds.), Contemporary Issues in MIT Press 89-116.
Walsh, D.M. (2013) Descriptions and Models: Some responses to Abrams’ Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and the Biomedical Sciences 44: 302-308.
Walsh, D.M. (2013) “The Negotiated Organism: Inheritance, Development and the Method of Difference” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 14 Jun 2013. DOI: 10.1111/bij
Walsh, D.M. (2010) “Not A Sure Thing,” Philosophy of Science 77: 147-171.

Owen Ware

Selected Articles

“Fichte’s Normative Ethics: Deontological or Teleological?” Mind (forthcoming).
“Fichte on Conscience.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Researc, Vol. XCV No. 2, September 2017.
“Kant’s Deductions of Morality and Freedom.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (2017): 116-147.
“Skepticism in Kant’s Groundwork.” European Journal of Philosophy 24 (2016): 375-396.
“Agency and Evil in Fichte’s Ethics.” Philosophers’ Imprint 15 (2015): 1-21.
“Forgiveness and Respect for Persons.” American Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2014): 247-260.
“Kant on Moral Sensibility and Moral Motivation.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (2014): 727-746. (Selected for the 2014 Philosopher’s Annual)
“Rethinking Kant’s Fact of Reason.” Philosophers’ Imprint 14 (2014): 1-21.
“Fichte’s Voluntarism.” European Journal of Philosophy 18 (2010): 262-282.
“The Duty of Self-Knowledge.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (2009): 671-698.

Jonathan Weisberg

Selected Articles

“Could’ve Thought Otherwise,” Philosophers‘ Imprint (forthcoming).
“Risk writ large” (with Johanna Thoma), in Philosophical Studies (2017) 174: 2369.
“Formal Epistemology”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2015).
“You’ve Come a Long Way, Bayesians”, Journal of Philosophical Logic: 40th Anniversary Issue (2015), 44(6): 817–34.
“Updating, Undermining, and Independence”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2015), 66(1): 121–59.
“Knowledge in Action”, Philosophers’ Imprint, 2013.“
“The Argument from Divine Indifference”, Analysis (2012), 72(4): 707–14
“The Bootstrapping Problem”, Philosophy Compass (2012), 7(9): 597–610.
“Bootstrapping in General”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81 (2010), 525-48.
“Embedding If and Only If ”, with Adam Sennet, Journal of Philosophical Logic (2012), 41(2): 449–60.
“Representation Theorems and the Foundations of Decision Theory”, with Christopher J. G. Meacham, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2011), 89(4): 641–63.
“Varieties of Bayesianism”, Handbook of the History of Logic, vol. 10 (2011), eds. Dov Gabbay, Stephan Hartmann, and John Woods.

Jessica Wilson

Selected Articles

‘Must Strong Emergence Collapse?’, with Umut Baysan (forthcoming). Philosophica special issue on strong emergence, Alex Carruth and James Miller, eds.
‘Three Barriers to Progress in Philosophy’ (forthcoming). Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress, Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick, eds.
‘Essence and Dependence’ (forthcoming). Meaning, Metaphysics, and Modality: Themes from Kit Fine, Mircea Dumitru, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
‘Abductive Two-Dimensionalism: A New Route to the A Priori Identification of Necessary Truths’, with Stephen Biggs (forthcoming). Synthese special issue on metaontology, Carlo Rossi, ed.un
‘Grounding-based Formulations of Physicalism’ (2016). Topoi issue on physicalism (Andreas Elpidorou, ed.).
‘Are There Indeterminate States of Affairs? Yes.’ (2017). Current Controversies in Metaphysics, Elizabeth Barnes, ed: 105–125.
‘The Unity and Priority Arguments for Grounding’ (2016). Scientific Compositiion and Metaphysical Ground, New Directions in Philosophy of Science, Ken Aizawa and Carl Gillett, eds.: 171–204.
‘Free Will and Mental Quausation’, with Sara Bernstein (2016). Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2:310–331.
‘The A Priority of Abduction’, with Stephen Biggs (2016). Philosophical Studies, doi:10.1007/s11098-016-0705-4 (online version).
‘Carnap, the Necessary A Posteriori, and Metaphysical Nihilism’, with Stephen Biggs (2016). Ontology After Carnap, Stephen Blatti and Sandra Lapointe, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 81–104.
‘Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong’ (2015). Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wuthrich, eds.: 251–306.
‘No Work for a Theory of Grounding’ (2014). Inquiry 57: 535–579.

Byeong-uk Yi

Selected Articles

“The Logic and Meaning of Plurals”, 2005 – Journal of Philosophical Logic 34 (5-6):459-506.
“The Logic and Meaning of Plurals”, (Part II), 2006 – Journal of Philosophical Logic 35 (3):239-288.