Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (18)

Epistemic pluralism : the missing link and the ambitions of epistemology (2020)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2020). Epistemic pluralism : the missing link and the ambitions of epistemology. Metaphilosophy, 51, 485-498

In this paper epistemic pluralism concerning knowledge is taken to be the claim that very different facts may constitute knowledge. The paper argues for pluralism by arguing that very different facts can constitute the knowledge‐making links between... Read More about Epistemic pluralism : the missing link and the ambitions of epistemology.

Music, essence and context (2019)
Book Chapter
Zangwill, N. (2019). Music, essence and context. In R. Povilioniene, R. Stanevičiūtė, & N. Zangwill (Eds.), Of Essence and Context: Between Music and Philosophy (27-41). Springer Publishing Company

I defend the application of the notion of essence to music. I appeal to the essences of events rather than objects, and I focus on functional events, such as handshakes, which have historical essences. Musical essences are like that. This allows us t... Read More about Music, essence and context.

Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy (2019)
Book
Stanevičiūtė, R., Zangwill, N., & Povilionienė, R. (Eds.). (2019). Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14471-5

This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing pra... Read More about Of essence and context: Between music and philosophy.

Brutalist non-naturalism and Hume's principle (2018)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2018). Brutalist non-naturalism and Hume's principle. Dialectica, 72(3), 365-383. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-8361.12235

Does moral non-naturalism have a problem with supervenience? That is, are necessary relations between moral and natural properties mysterious if those properties are distinct? Here I try to remove anxiety about the modal comments of moral non-natural... Read More about Brutalist non-naturalism and Hume's principle.

The yummy and the yucky: Expressive language and the agreeable (2018)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2018). The yummy and the yucky: Expressive language and the agreeable. The Monist, 101(3), 294–308. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/ony007

I probe the judgments of the agreeable that we make about food and drink. I first separate different concerns that we might have with food and drink. After that, I address expressive language by first sketching an evolutionary language-game-theoretic a... Read More about The yummy and the yucky: Expressive language and the agreeable.

Self-belief and agency (2017)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2017). Self-belief and agency. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 38(1), 35-52

I argue for the view that we all believe that we exist from the fact that the belief is a presupposition of some of our mental life. We cannot argue from perceptual experience, but we can argue from action. I defend an essentially active (or perhaps... Read More about Self-belief and agency.

Moral dependence and natural properties (2017)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2017). Moral dependence and natural properties. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 91(1), 221-243. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akx007

I explore the Because Constraint—the idea that moral facts depend on natural facts and that moral judgements ought to respect the dependence of moral facts on natural facts. I consider several issues concerning its clarification and importance.

Scepticism about Scepticism (2015)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2016). Scepticism about Scepticism. Philosophy : the journal of the British Institute of Philosophical Studies, 91(1), 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819115000522

Skeptical arguments are intuitively gripping. Or at least they seem to be. They readily capture the imagination and curiosity of beginners in philosophy. The arguments are easy to state but seemingly impossible to answer. Furthermore there is a power... Read More about Scepticism about Scepticism.

Clouds of illusion in the aesthetics of nature (2013)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2013). Clouds of illusion in the aesthetics of nature. Philosophical Quarterly, 63(252), 576-596. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.12050

I defend extreme formalism about the aesthetics of inorganic nature. I outline the general issue over aesthetic formalism as it manifests itself in the visual arts. The main issue is over whether we need to know about the history of artworks in order... Read More about Clouds of illusion in the aesthetics of nature.

Normativity and the metaphysics of mind (2009)
Journal Article
Zangwill, N. (2010). Normativity and the metaphysics of mind. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 88(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048400902739610

I consider the metaphysical consequences of the view that propositional attitudes have essential normative properties. I argue that realism should take a weak rather than a strong form. I argue that expressivism cannot get off the ground. And I argue... Read More about Normativity and the metaphysics of mind.

Moral dependence
Book Chapter
Zangwill, N. Moral dependence. . The University of Hull