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Christine Korsgaard to Receive 2023 Rescher Medal
The University of Pittsburgh announces its award of the 2023 Nicholas Rescher Medal for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy to Christine Korsgaard, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. The event will take place on February 3, 2023.
James Shaw’s new book outlining a distinctive ‘bipartite’ reading of the rule-following sections of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations has recently been published with OUP (November 2022).
Mark Wilson’s new book, Imitation of Rigor, provides an “alternative history” of how analytic philosophy might have developed had the diagnostic insights of its philosopher/scientist forebears (e.g. Heinrich Hertz and Ernst Mach) not been cast aside in the vain pursuit of inappropriate standards of “ersatz rigor”. (OUP, 2022)
Editors Matthew Boyle and Evgenia Mylonaki gather influential minds to clarify and criticize John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism. HUP, 2023.
Normal functions are activities that parts of biological systems are, in some minimal sense, supposed to perform. In this paper, Goldwasser argues by example that cancer biologists regularly ascribe normal functions to parts of cancers. He argues that such ascription poses difficulties for standard accounts of function, opening the way for a novel pragmatist-inspired account of function which he calls the Modeling Account of Normal Function.