New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Strange Parts: the Metaphysics of Non-Classical Mereologies’ by Dr. Aaron Cotnoir … Provisional Abstract: The dominant theory of parts and wholes — classical extensional mereology — has faced a number of challenges in the recent literature. This article gives a sampling of some of the alleged counterexamples to some … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Divine passibility: God and emotion’ by Dr. Anastasia Scrutton … Provisional Abstract: While the impassibility debate has traditionally been construed in terms of whether God suffers, recent philosophy of religion has interpreted it in terms of whether God has emotions more generally. This article surveys the philosophical literature on … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Semantic Inferentialism and the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism’ by Dr. James Collin … Provisional Abstract: Alvin Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism makes the case that the conjunction of evolutionary theory and naturalism cannot be rationally believed, as, if both evolutionary theory and naturalism were true, it would be highly … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Political Liberalism and Citizenship Education’ by Prof. Blain Neufeld … Provisional Abstract: John Rawls claims that the kind of citizenship education required by political liberalism demands ‘far less’ than that required by comprehensive liberalism. Many educational and political theorists who have explored the implications of political liberalism for education … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘The Metaphysics of Constitution and Accounts of the Resurrection’ by Dr. Jonathan Loose … Provisional Abstract: Some Christian materialists have argued for the possibility of resurrection given that persons are constituted by bodies, and constitution is not identity. Baker’s constitutionist view claims superiority over animalist alternatives, but offers only … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Dynamic Epistemic Logic II: Logics of Information Change’ by Prof. Eric Pacuit … Provisional Abstract: Dynamic epistemic logic, broadly conceived, is the study of logics of information change. Inference, communication and observation are typical examples of informative events which have been subjected to a logical analysis. This article will … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Dynamic Epistemic Logic I: Modeling Knowledge and Beliefs’ by Prof. Eric Pacuit … Provisional Abstract: Dynamic epistemic logic, broadly conceived, is the study of logics of information change. In this first paper, I introduce the basic logical systems for reasoning about the knowledge and beliefs of a group of … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Exploring Philosophical Implications of Quantum Decoherence’ by Dr. Elise Crull … Provisional Abstract: Quantum decoherence is receiving a great deal of attention today not only in theoretical and experimental physics, but in branches of science as diverse as molecular biology, biochemistry, and even neuropsychology. It is no surprise that … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Recent Work on Molinism’ by Dr. Ken Perszyk … Provisional Abstract: Molinism reappeared on the philosophical stage in the 1970s, after it was unwittingly ‘rediscovered’ by Alvin Plantinga in his Free Will Defence against the ‘Logical’ Argument from Evil. The Molinist notion of middle knowledge has been the subject … Continue reading »

New Philosophy Compass article coming soon: ‘Thick Concepts’ by Dr. Debbie Roberts … Provisional Abstract: In ethics, aesthetics, and increasingly in epistemology, a distinction is drawn between thick and thin evaluative concepts. A common characterisation of the distinction is that thin concepts have only evaluative content whereas thick concepts combine evaluative and descriptive content. Because … Continue reading »