Below you may find selected research articles from Philosophy faculty in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

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Submissions from 2023

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Many Infinities, or Only One?, Giovanna Giardina, Marco Panza, and Daniele C. Struppa

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Does (Mis)communication Mitigate the Upshot of Diversity?, Keith Hankins, Ryan Muldoon, and Alexander Schaefer

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Have Underground Radiation Measurements Refuted the Orch OR Theory?: Comment on “At the Crossroad of the Search for Spontaneous Radiation and the Orch OR Consciousness Theory”, Kelvin J. McQueen

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When Do Parts Form Wholes? Integrated Information as the Restriction on Mereological Composition, Kelvin J. McQueen and Naotsugu Tsuchiya

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Flickering the W-Defense, Michael Robinson

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Keeping Promises to Supererogate, Michael Robinson

Submissions from 2022

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A Question of Fundamental Methodology: Reply to Mikhail Katz and His Coauthors, Tom Archibald, Richard T. W. Arthur, Giovanni Ferraro, Jeremy Gray, Douglas Jesseph, Jesper Lützen, Marco Panza, David Rabouin, and Gert Schubring

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Philosophic Fables, Gerald Gaus and John Thrasher

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Hume’s Politics and Four Dimensions of Realism, Keith Hankins and John Thrasher

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“Meddling in the work of another”: πολυπραγμονεῖν in Plato’s Republic, Brennan McDavid

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Plato’s Market Optimism, Brennan McDavid

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Now It’s Personal: From Me to Mine to Property Rights, David Shoemaker and Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2021

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Asymmetry and Symmetry of Acts and Omissions in Punishment, Norms, and Judged Causality, Toby Handfield, John Thrasher, Andrew Corcoran, and Shaun Nichols

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Smithian Sympathy and the Emergence of Norms, Keith Hankins

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Filled/Non-filled Pairs: An Empirical Challenge to the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness, Amber R. Hopkins and Kelvin J. McQueen

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Review of "James Lindley Wilson: Democratic Equality. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, Pp. 307.)", John Thrasher

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Putting Populism in Its Place, John J. Thrasher IV

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Consent to Unjust Institutions, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2020

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Geometry and Identity Theorems for Bicomplex Functions and Functions of a Hyperbolic Variable, Maria Elena Luna-Elizarrarás, Marco Panza, Michael Shapiro, and Daniele Carlo Struppa

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Trusting In Order to Inspire Trustworthiness, Michael Pace

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Agreeing to Disagree: Diversity, Political Contractualism, and the Open Society, John Thrasher

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On Minimal Morality, John Thrasher

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Academic Activism Revisited, Bas van der Vossen

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As Good as 'Enough and as Good', Bas van der Vossen

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Political Philosophy as Love of Wisdom, Bas van der Vossen

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The Ethics of Immigration and Economic Recovery, Bas van der Vossen

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The Problem of Self-Ownership, Bas van der Vossen and David Schmidtz

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Reformulating Bell's Theorem: The Search for a Truly Local Quantum Theory, Mordecai Waegell and Kelvin J. McQueen

Submissions from 2019

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Two of a Kind: Are Norms of Honor a Species of Morality?, Toby Handfield and John Thrasher

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Illusionist Integrated Information Theory, Kelvin J. McQueen

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Interpretation-Neutral Integrated Information Theory, Kelvin J. McQueen

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Cooperation and Excellence: A Premodern Case for Capitalism, John Thrasher

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Democracy Unchained: Contractualism, Individualism, and Independence in Buchanan’s Democratic Theory, John Thrasher

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Self-Ownership as Personal Sovereignty, John Thrasher

Submissions from 2018

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Greenbeards and Signaling: Why Morality isn't Indispensable, Toby Handfield, John Thrasher, and Julian García

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In Defence of the Self-Location Uncertainty Account of Probability in the Many-Worlds Interpretation, Kelvin J. McQueen and Lev Vaidman

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Frege's Constraint and the Nature of Frege's Foundational Program, Marco Panza and Andrea Sereni

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Evaluating Bad Norms, John Thrasher

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The Price of Sociality, John Thrasher

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Honor and Violence: An Account of Feuds, Duels, and Honor Killings, John Thrasher and Toby Handfield

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Political Stability in the Open Society, John Thrasher and Kevin Vallier

Submissions from 2017

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Peer Punishment Promotes Enforcement of Bad Social Norms, Klaus Abbink, Lata Gangadharan, Toby Handfield, and John Thrasher

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Is QBism The Future of Quantum Physics?, Kelvin J. McQueen

Submissions from 2016

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Tests for Intrinsicness Tested, Kelvin J. McQueen and René van Woudenberg

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Uncertain Rights Against Defense, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2015

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Four Tails Problems for Dynamical Collapse Theories, Kelvin J. McQueen

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Mass Additivity and A Priori Entailment, Kelvin J. McQueen

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The Ethics of Legislative Vote Trading, John Thrasher

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When Justice Demands Inequality, John Thrasher and Keith Hankins

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Diversity of Depoliticization?, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2014

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Ordering Anarchy, John Thrasher

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Facts about Global Justice, Bas van der Vossen

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Immigration and Self-Determination, Bas van der Vossen

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In Defense of the Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out of Politics, Bas van der Vossen

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Locke on Territorial Rights, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2013

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Review of John Tomasi, Free Market Fairness, John Thrasher

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Uniqueness and Symmetry in Bargaining Theories of Justice, John Thrasher

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The Fragility of Consensus: Public Reason, Diversity and Stability, John Thrasher and Kevin Vallier

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Imposing Duties and Original Appropriation, Bas van der Vossen

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Review of D. Chatterjee (ed.), The Ethics of Preventive War, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2012

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Epistemic Two-Dimensionalism and Arguments from Epistemic Misclassification, Edward Elliott, Kelvin J. McQueen, and Clas Weber

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Psychotherapy as Cultivating Character, Mike W. Martin

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Reconciling Justice and Pleasure in Epicurean Contractarianism, John Thrasher

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The Asymmetry of Legitimacy, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2011

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Assessing Law’s Claim to Authority, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2010

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Personality Disorders and Moral Responsibility, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 2009

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Truth and Healing a Veteran's Depression, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 2008

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On Legitimacy and Authority: A Response to Krehoff, Bas van der Vossen

Submissions from 2002

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On the Evolution of Depression, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 2001

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Ethics as Therapy: Philosophical Counseling and Psychological Health, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1999

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Depression and Moral Health: A Response to the Commentary, Mike W. Martin

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Depression: Illness, Insight, and Identity, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1998

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A Review of Erich H. Loewy, "Moral Strangers, Moral Acquaintance, and Moral Friends, Ethics, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1997

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A Review of Phil Washburn, "Philosophical Dilemmas: Building a Worldview", Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1996

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AIDS: Crisis in Professional Ethics, Mike W. Martin

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A Review of David H. Smith, "Entrusted: The Moral Responsibilities of Trusteeship", Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1994

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A Review of Eleanor L. Brilliant, "The United Way: Dilemmas of Organized Charity", Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1993

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Love's Constancy, Mike W. Martin

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Rethinking Reverence for Life, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1982

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Organizational Authority and Professional Responsibility in Clinical Sociology, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1981

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Professional and Ordinary Morality: A Reply to Freedman, Mike W. Martin

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Rights and the Meta-Ethics Of Professional Morality, Mike W. Martin

Submissions from 1975

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John Locke in the German Enlightenment: An Interpretation, Klaus P. Fischer