Following Wesley Hohfeld's pioneering analyses, which demonstrated that the “folk” concept
of ownership conflated a variety of distinct legal relations, a deflationary “bundle theory” …

In this paper, I explore the links between liberal political theory and the evaluative nature of
medical classification, arguing for stronger recognition of those links in a liberal model of …

It is widely supposed that the prescription of placebo treatments to patients for therapeutic
purposes is ethically problematic on the grounds that the patient cannot give informed …

Abstract The Experimental Philosophy (“X-Phi”) movement applies the methodology of
empirical sciences–most commonly empirical psychology–to traditional philosophical …

Grammar is now widely regarded as a substantially biological phenomenon, yet the problem
of language evolution remains a matter of controversy among Linguists, Cognitive Scientists …

Can biological facts explain human morality? Aristotelian 'virtue'ethics has traditionally
assumed so. In recent years Alasdair MacIntyre has reintroduced a form of Aristotle's …

Politics and science, it is customarily and broadly assumed, should not mix. I investigate a
purported “new mental illness” arising from psychological stress associated with …

Anne Barnhill and Franklin Miller dispute my claim that the prescriptions of placebo
treatments to patients are not typically deceptive, and do not typically violate the patients' …

The philosophical dispute about linguistic normativity is one battlefield in a larger war over
the nature of language as an object of scientific study. For those influenced by Wittgenstein …

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