Title: The Genesis of Lewis鈥檚 Counterfactual Analysis of Causation Abstract: Lewis presented a prototype counterfactual analysis of causation back in 1958 鈥� aged just 16 or 17 鈥� in the very first undergraduate philosophy essay he ever wrote. I place this paper in its historical context, relating it to the state of the debate at…
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Title: ‘Should Responsibility Affect Who Gets a Kidney?’ Abstract: About 98,000 people in the US are waiting for a kidney transplant, but only around 20,000 kidneys become available each year. As a result, doctors sometimes have to decide who gets a kidney. Many people (though few medical providers) hold that, when two patients need the…
DESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how best to assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a central topic of contemporary analytic philosophy. Current work in conceptual engineering goes in two main directions. Case study research, on the one hand, which focuses on specific concepts and then…
Abstract:聽Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When novelty serves as a marker and metric…
Title: ‘Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty’ Abstract: Novelty鈥攗nderstood as the value of saying something new鈥攁ppears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When…
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