This is a paper which I wrote with my former colleague at Durham, Donnchadh O’Conaill. I’ve mentioned it here before, but I thought I’d advertise it again since it’s now available in print! The paper is a chapter in a Palgrave-Macmillan volume edited by Philip Goff. The volume is in the Philosophers in Depth series [...]
My commentary on Kathrin Koslicki’s recent book The Structure of Objects (2008, OUP) has just been published in the latest issue of Humana.Mente. It’s a special issue edited by Massimiliano Carrara, Roberto Ciuni, and Giorgio Lando, on ‘Composition, Counterfactuals and Causation’, especially with regard to the work of David Lewis. However, the editors wanted to [...]
My Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics volume is just about to be published by Cambridge University Press, and the cover art has now been released! It looks pretty good to me, although I may be biased since the cover photo is one of my own. I took it in 2008 on a hill walk in the Cheviots [...]
My paper ‘A Priori and A Posteriori: A Bootstrapping Relationship’, which was recently accepted for publication at the journal Metaphysica is now available as an Online Early article at www.springerlink.com. This paper is a follow-up to my 2008 piece, ‘A New Definition of A Priori Knowledge: In Search of a Modal Basis’, published in the [...]
I’ve posted a draft of my commentary on Kathrin Koslicki’s The Structure of Objects (OUP, 2008). The commentary will be published in a special issue of the Italian journal Humana.Mente. The issue is on Composition, Counterfactuals and Causation, and is edited by Massimiliano Carrara, Roberto Ciuni, and Giorgio Lando. Other contributors include Andrea Borghini, Louis [...]
After some expected delays, my Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics volume (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press) has finally progressed into production! There are still some things that need to be sorted out and I have no idea how long the copy editing will take — that’s entirely up to CUP — but I hope to see the [...]
The latest addition to the Wiley-Blackwell Philosophy for Everyone series is now out: Cannabis: What Were We Just Talking About?. I’ve got a paper in the volume as well, it’s entitled ‘Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy‘. You can buy the volume from Amazon (but you can download my paper from the previous [...]
I was pleased to hear recently that a volume edited by my friend Philip Goff, who is currently at the University of Hertfordshire, has been accepted for publication by Palgrave-Macmillan. The volume is called ‘Spinoza on Monism’ and it combines historical work on Spinoza with contemporary work on monism. What makes me especially happy about [...]
UPDATE: This volume has now been published! I have hinted towards a project that I’ve been working on in a few previous posts to this blog, and I am now happy to finally be able to advertise the project in detail. It is an edited volume entitled Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics, and I have just been [...]
Ben at (Blog&~Blog) has commented on my recent paper in the Australasian Journal of Logic, namely my ‘The Law of Non-Contradiction as a Metaphysical Principle’. I thought I would link to his post here in case someone is interested, see the comments section for my replies. The post is here.
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