31 Result(s)

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Avoiding Strawson’s Crude Opposition: How to Straddle the Participant and Objective Stances

Commentators on P.F. Strawson’s reactive attitudes emphasize the opposition between the participant and objective attitudes. This tendency overlooks Strawson’s attempt to mitigate what he saw as “a crude oppos...

Neil Campbell, Alexander Carty in Acta Analytica (2024)

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Quausation and the Physical Indeterminism Luck Objection: a Reply to Moore

Dwayne Moore raises the physical indeterminism luck objection to libertarian theories of free will, which claims that because agents lack control over the indeterministic physical processes that cause choices,...

Neil Campbell in Philosophia (2023)

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Filling the gap: a series of 3D-printed titanium truss cages for the management of large, lower limb bone defects in a develo** country setting

Large segmental long bone defects are notoriously difficult to manage. Treatment is resource-intensive due to the complexity, cost, and specialized skills required. Truss designs are known for their triangular...

Hammaad Gamieldien, Nando Ferreira… in European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & … (2023)

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Contrastive Explanation, Efforts of Will, and Dual Responsibility

Neil Levy mounts two arguments against Robert Kane’s influential libertarian theory. According to the first, because Kanean self-forming actions are undetermined, there can be no contrastive explanation for wh...

Neil Campbell, Jamal Kadkhodapour in Acta Analytica (2022)

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Self-forming actions, contrastive explanations, and the structure of the will

Robert Kane’s libertarian theory is often attacked on the grounds that undetermined self-forming actions are not amenable to contrastive explanation. I propose that we should understand contrastive explanation...

Neil Campbell in Synthese (2020)

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Validation of the Mobius system for patient-specific quality assurance using introduced intentional errors

Mobius3D and MobiusFX are model-based verification tools for treatment plan dose calculation and treatment delivery. The software facilitates patient-specific quality assurance by extracting data from linear a...

Ivy Win Long Au, Laura Ciurlionis… in Australasian Physical & Engineering Scienc… (2017)

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A Defense of Derk Pereboom’s Containment Policy

Derk Pereboom disagrees with P.F. Strawson that abandoning the reactive attitudes associated with praise and blame would come at the price of exiting our personal relationships. According to Pereboom, we can c...

Neil Campbell, Jeremy Scharoun in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2016)

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Kim on Reductive Explanation

In the light of what appear to be clear counterexamples, I argue that Jaegwon Kim’s comparative evaluation of functional reduction and reduction via necessary identities is problematic. I trace the problem to ...

Neil Campbell in Acta Analytica (2015)

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Democracy and corruption: a complex relationship

We argue that an ‘electoral democracy’ is not sufficient to reduce corruption. Our contention is that the institutions associated with mature democracy are crucial to successfully deterring corrupt behaviour. ...

Shrabani Saha, Rukmani Gounder, Neil Campbell, J. J. Su in Crime, Law and Social Change (2014)

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Do MacDonald and MacDonald Solve the Problem of Mental Causal Relevance?

Ever since Davidson first articulated and defended anomalous monism, nonreductive physicalists have struggled with the problem of mental causation. Considerations about the causal closure of the physical domai...

Neil Campbell in Philosophia (2013)

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Reply to Nagasawa on the Inconsistency Objection to the Knowledge Argument

Yu** Nagasawa has recently defended Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument from the “inconsistency objection.” The objection claims that the premises of the knowledge argument are inconsistent with qualia epiphen...

Neil Campbell in Erkenntnis (2012)

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Functional Reduction and Mental Causation

Over the past few decades, Jaegwon Kim has argued that non-reductive physicalism is an inherently unstable position. In his view, the most serious problem is that non-reductive physicalism leads to type epiphe...

Dwayne Moore, Neil Campbell in Acta Analytica (2010)

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On Kim’s exclusion principle

In this paper we explore Jaegwon Kim’s principle of explanatory exclusion. Kim’s support for the principle is clarified and we critically evaluate several versions of the dual explananda response authors have ...

Neil Campbell, Dwayne Moore in Synthese (2009)

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Generalizing Qualia Inversion

Philosophers who advocate the possibility of spectrum inversionoften conclude that the qualitative content of experiential states pose aserious problem for functionalism. I argue that in order for the inversio...

Neil Campbell in Erkenntnis (2004)

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Causes and causal explanations: Davidson and his critics

Neil Campbell in Philosophia (2003)

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An Inconsistency in the Knowledge Argument

I argue that Frank Jackson's knowledge argument cannot succeedin showing that qualia are epiphenomenal. The reason for this is that there is, given thestructure of the argument, an irreconcilable tension betwe...

Neil Campbell in Erkenntnis (2003)

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Physicalism, Qualia Inversion, And Affective States

I argue that the inverted spectrum hypothesis is nota possibility we should take seriously. The principlereason is that if someone's qualia were inverted inthe specified manner there is reason to believe theph...

Neil Campbell in Synthese (2000)