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

The existential situation of the patient: Well-being and absence (2018)
Book Chapter
Burwood, S. (2018). The existential situation of the patient: Well-being and absence. In K. Galvin (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Well-Being (133-140). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724966-14

“Probably there is no better guarantee of a really unhealthy life than perfect health.” This paradoxical, and somewhat melancholic, assessment of our prospects for clinical well-being is given by J. H. van den Berg in The Psychology of the Sickbed. T... Read More about The existential situation of the patient: Well-being and absence.

Music, essence and context (2018)
Book Chapter
Zangwill, N. (in press). Music, essence and context. In R. Povilioniene, R. Stanevi?i?t?, & N. Zangwill (Eds.), Essence and context. New York: Springer Publishing Company