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The focus of this episode is E.J. Lowe's "The rationality of metaphysics", published in  Synthese in 2011.*

*I have a slip of the tongue in the recording and say that the paper was published in 2021! It was definitely published in 2011.

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 For this episode, I’m joined by Professor Tuomas Tahko to discuss his paper “Where Do You Get Your Protein? Or: Biochemical Realization", published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 2020. Tuomas is Professor of Metaphysics of Science at the University of Bristol and principal investigator on the ERC funded MetaScience project.

Link to the paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/axy044
More about Tuomas: https://www.ttahko.net/
The MetaScience project: https://metascience.xyz/

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The focus of this episode is Amie Thomasson’s article “Norms and Modality”, published in the Routledge Handbook of Modality in 2021.

Link to the article: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315742144-17/norms-modality-amie-thomasson

Amie Thomasson: https://philpapers.org/s/Amie%20L.%20Thomasson

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For this episode, I’m joined by Dr Michael Townsen Hicks to discuss his paper “What Everyone Should Say about Symmetries (and How Humeans Get to Say It)”, published in Philosophy of Science in 2019. Mike is a research fellow on the FramePhys project at the University of Birmingham.

Link to the paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705475
More about Mike: https://www.townsenhicks.com/
The FraMEPhys project: https://framephys.org/

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The focus of this episode is Harjit Bhogal’s article “Nomothetic Explanation and Humeanism about Laws of Nature”, published in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics in 2020.

Link to the paper: https://philarchive.org/rec/BHONEA

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The focus of this episode is Shamik Dasgupta's article "Realism and the Absence of Value", published in The Philosophical Review in 2018.

Link to the article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article-abstract/127/3/279/135296/Realism-and-the-Absence-of-Value

Also: http://shamik.net/papers/dasgupta%20realism%20and%20the%20absence%20of%20value.pdf

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In this episode, Dr Toby Friend and I take a deep dive into his article "Megarian Variable Actualism", published in Synthese in 2021.

Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03257-7
More on Toby Friend: https://sites.google.com/view/tobyfriend

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The focus of this episode is Ned Markosian's paper "Sideways music, published in Analysis in 2019.

Link to the paper: https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-abstract/80/1/51/5543488?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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