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Perhaps you are curious what our own faculty members are working on? If you want to read some of their writing, here is what they recommend you look at:

Alex Watson

Alex Watson recommends looking at his academia page, where a lot of his publications are to be found. Here are the three he singled out:

• Watson (2014), “Light as an Analogy for Cognition in Buddhist Idealism (Vijñānavāda)”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 42, pp. 401–421.
• Watson (2017), “Self or No-Self. The Ātman Debate in Classical Indian Philosophy”, in Tuske (2017): Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics, pp. 293-218.
• Watson (2010), Bhatta Ramakantha’s Elaboration of Self-Awareness (svasamvedana), and How it Differs from Dharmakirti’s Exposition of the Concept, Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol 38, pp. 297-321.

Clancy Martin

Expect Clancy Martin‘s recommendations here soon.

Danny Weltman

These are Danny Weltman‘s most recent publications. They are forthcoming, so keep an eye out!

• “Territorial Exclusion: An Argument against Closed Borders.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, forthcoming.
• “Illiberalism Immigrants and Liberalism’s Commitment to its Own Demise.” Public Affairs Quarterly, forthcoming.

Eric Snyder

Here are Eric Snyder‘s favorites:

• “Counting, Measuring, and the Fractional Cardinalities Puzzle”, Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020
• “How to Count 2 1/2 Oranges,” with Jefferson Barlew, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2019
• “Neologicism, Frege’s Constraint, and the Frege-Heck Condition,” with Richard Samuels and Stewart Shapiro, Nous, 2018

Kranti Saran

Kranti Saran recommends that you read his Ergo paper on Attention:

• Saran (2018), “Does Mole’s Argument That Cognitive Processes Fail to Suffice for Attention Fail?”, in Ergo 5(18). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.018

Raja Rosenhagen

Raja Rosenhagen recommends this:

• “Norwood Russell Hanson’s Account of Experience. An Untimely Defense” (2019, online first). Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02395-3)
• “Toward Virtue: Moral Progress through Love, Just Attention, and Friendship” (2019), in: Dalferth, I. & T. Kimball. Love and Justice. Consonance or Dissonance. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 217-240.
• “Murdochian Presentationalism, Autonomy, and the Ideal Lovers’ Pledge” (forthcoming in Fedock, Kuehler, and Rosenhagen: Love, Justice, and Autonomy: Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge.)

Publications - Past Faculty

Aditi Chaturvedi

Aditi Chaturvedi suggests the following (though she also adds that she has changed her mind about Empedocles in the meantime):

• Chaturvedi (2016). “Harmonia and rta“, in: Seaford, R.: Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought, Edinburgh Scholarship, pp. 40-54.

Scott Dixon

Scott Dixon has the following three papers to recommend:

• Dixon, T. Scott (2020). Between Atomism and Superatomism. The Journal of Philosophical Logic. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09555-8.
• Dixon, T. Scott (2020). David Lewis, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. url: https://www.iep.utm.edu/d-lewis/.
• Dixon, T. Scott (2019). Relative Positionalism and Variable Arity Relations. Metaphysics 2, pp. 55–72, doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/met.21.