European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (EuJAP)

18/12/2024

Check out the latest review of Amy Kind’s Imagination and Creative Thinking by Ksenija Savčić (University of Rijeka), published in EuJAP. Read it here:

This is a review of the book Amy Kind IMAGINATION AND CREATIVE THINKING, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

29/11/2024

We are pleased to announce a new publication in EuJAP! In their paper “Revisiting McGee’s Counterexample to Modus Ponens”, Nicolás Lo Guercio (UBA/IIF-SADAF-CONICET) and Mariela Rubin (UBA/IIF-SADAF-CONICET) critically examine McGee’s (1985) alleged counterexample to Modus Ponens for indicative conditionals. They argue that pragmatic factors—ambiguity in indefinite phrases and ignorance inferences—distort intuitions about the inference’s acceptability, rather than challenging its validity.
The paper can be accessed at this link:

In this paper, we provide a novel explanation of McGee’s (1985) alleged counterexample to Modus Ponens for indicative conditionals. Our strategy is to show that pragmatic phenomena interfere with intuitions concerning the acceptability of the inferen...

19/11/2024

We are pleased to announce the final publication from our special issue on Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories! This time, we feature “What Counts as (Evidence of) Narrow Aesthetic Cognitivism” by Mario Slugan (Queen Mary University of London).
This paper challenges the validity of narrow aesthetic cognitivism by arguing that its claims about narrative fiction conveying truth lack empirical support. The paper can be accessed at this link:

In this paper I argue that the existing arguments for narrow aesthetic cognitivism are not valid. The reason is that the proponents of the view have mostly focused on theoretical debates rather than on empirical studies of the matter. I make my argum...

19/11/2024

We are pleased to announce the fifth publication from our special issue on Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories! This time, we feature “Cringe Overhang: The Perlocutionary Effects of Cringe Comedy” by Alexander Sparrow.
In Cringe Overhang, Alexander Sparrow examines cringe comedy, exploring why some laugh and others squirm. Through second-hand embarrassment and audience connection, he unpacks what makes this genre so polarizing. The paper can be accessed here:

Cringe comedy can make people so uncomfortable, the cringe continues even after the comedy has stopped. This paper explains this effect, which I call “cringe overhang”. If audiences weakly connect to the characters, they laugh. If audiences strongly...

18/11/2024

New EuJAP publication in the SI Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories! 🎥 Cara Rei Cummings-Coughlin's "The Summit of Safe Horror" asks: Do horror films harm our moral character? Spoiler alert: No, they don't! Read here:

Many people regularly watch horror films. While it seems clear that sporadically watching horror films will not make us bad people, if it is the main type of media that we consume, then are we still safe? I will defend most horror films from Di Muzio...

18/11/2024

The third paper in the Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories special issue! In "Ethics Education from Suffering on Screen? Tragic Visions in Arrival" James MacAllister (Edinburgh) explores how tragic films, like Villeneuve’s Arrival, foster ethics education:

In this paper I argue that tragic films can have significant potential for ethics education when they prompt audiences to sympathise with suffering on screen. I first summarise two accounts of the relationship between tragic art, moral education and...

16/11/2024

🎨 Publication alert! second publication from the EuJAP special issue on Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories.
Why invest in aesthetic education if "there's no disputing taste"? Ted Nannicelli proposes a "perceptual-cognitive model" to enhance our capacity for richer aesthetic experiences. Read here:

Here is a puzzle about aesthetic education. In a variety of contexts, we commit significant time, energy, and resources to aesthetic education. We teach (and in many cases publicly subsidize) university courses and degrees that have aesthetic educati...

16/11/2024

We are pleased to inform our readers that the first paper from the special issue “Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories” has been published. The paper by Professor Murray Smith, titled “Artistic Freedom Realised”, can be accessed at this link:

The fewer the constraints we encounter in an artistic endeavour, the greater our artistic freedom; as technology advances and presents us with more numerous options and ever-greater creative flexibility, so our artistic freedom burgeons. Such is the...

15/11/2024

🚀 Coming soon in EuJAP Vol. 20, No. 2! A special issue on "Aesthetic Education and Screen Stories," curated by guest editors Iris Vidmar Jovanović & Ema Luna Lalić from our home University of Rijeka. Get a sneak peek and read the introduction here:

As we prepare the papers for publication in Vol. 20, No. 2 of EuJAP, here is a sneak peek of the articles that will be published as part[...]

11/11/2024

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Dr. Mia Biturajac to our editorial board. Mia will serve as an assistant editor, helping us process new submissions. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of bioethics, philosophy of psychiatry, and general philosophy of medicine.

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Dr. Mia Biturajac to our editorial board. Mia will serve as an assistant editor, helping us process new submissions.[...]

30/09/2024

We are thrilled to announce the release of the complete Volume 20, Issue 1 (2024) of EuJAP. This issue features a diverse collection of articles that explore various philosophical topics, ranging from ontological investigations of truth to discussions about the foundations of normativity.

You can access the full issue here:https://eujap.uniri.hr/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/EuJAP-Vol20-No1-2024-FINAL.pdf

04/09/2024

We have a new publication titled “Is Kindness a Virtue?” by Professor Kristján Kristjánsson (Birmingham). The paper argues that the answer is no! The paper can be read here:

This article swims against the stream of academic discourse by answer the title question in the negative. This contrarian answer is not meant to undermine the view that kindness is a good thing; neither is it, however, an example of a mere philosophi...

03/09/2024

The Philosophy Journal Insight Project has updated EuJAP's profile. Check out the latest 2023 stats, including rankings in Scopus and Scimago, submission numbers, rejection rates, and more!

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26/08/2024

New paper alert: Our latest publication features Siddharth S's “Are Composite Subjects Possible? A Clarification of the Subject Combination Problem Facing Panpsychism” 📄

Panpsychism, the view that phenomenal consciousness is present at the fundamental physical level, faces the subject combination problem––the question of whether (and how) subjects of experience can combine. While various solutions to the problem have...

07/08/2024

New publication alert!
EuJAP has a new publication. The paper by Tomislav Bracanović (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia) is titled “Integrative Bioethics: A Blind Alley of European Bioethics“. The paper provides a critical overview of the recent developments in the integrative bioethics literature.

Integrative bioethics is a predominantly Croatian school of thought whose proponents claim to have initiated an innovative and recognizably European concept of bioethics capable of dealing with the most pressing issues of our time. In this paper, a c...

26/07/2024

We have a new publication in value theory. The paper by Erich Rast (Nova University Lisbon) is titled "Better-Making Properties and the Objectivity of Value Disagreement." Read it here:

A light form of value realism is defended according to which objective properties of comparison objects make value comparisons true or false. If one object has such a better-making property and another lacks it, this is sufficient for the truth of a...

27/06/2024

New publication alert: "Can We Defend Normative Error Theory?" by Joshua Taccolini. This paper discusses whether we can believe in Normative Error Theory and what that implies for its truth.

Normative error theorists aim to defend an error theory which says that normative judgments ascribe normative properties, and such properties, including reasons for belief, are never instantiated. Many philosophers have raised objections to defending...

01/06/2024

New publication alert: "Nontrivial Existence in Transparent Intensional Logic" by Miloš Kosterec critically examines Pavel Tichý's arguments for a constant universe of individuals across possible worlds:

The paper analyses the validity of arguments supporting the assumption of a constant universe of individuals over all possible worlds within Transparent Intensional Logic. These arguments, proposed by Tichý, enjoy widespread acceptance among research...