I begin by introducing the standoff between the transculturalist aim of moving beyond cultural inheritances, and the worry that this project is itself a product of cultural inheritances. I argue that this is rooted in concerns about the meaning of life, and in particular, the prospect of nihilism. I then distinguish two diametrically opposed humanistic responses to nihilism, post-Nietzschean re...

Nihilism about practical reasoning is the thesis that there no such thing as rationality—as rationally figuring out what to do. While other philosophers have defended a theoretically oriented version of thesis, usually called “error theory”, case made for fully it: we are so bad at do not really know doing it right would much look like. In particular, our control instrumental (or means-end) rat...

I argue that mereological nihilism fails because it cannot answer (what I describe as) the special arrangement question: when is it true that the xs (the mereological simples) are arranged F-wise? I suggest that the answers given in the literature fail and that the obvious responses that could be made look to undermine the motivations for adopting nihilism in the first place.

Accountants have long disputed whether financial statements should report current values and the effects of price changes. Indeed, the two kinds of adjustment are often confused. This study examines the asset revaluation and Current Cost Accounting (CCA) disclosure decisions of UK firms in 1983, using a costly contracting framework. We find the two decisions appear to have been taken for very d...

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The retrieval-extinction paradigm, which disrupts the reconsolidation of fear memories in humans, is a non-invasive technique that can be used to prevent the return of fear in humans. In the present study, unconditioned stimulus revaluation was applied in the retrieval-extinction paradigm to investigate its promotion of conditioned fear extinction in the memory reconsolidation window after part...

I examine three “anti-object” metaphysical views: nihilism—there are no objects at all—generalism—reality is ultimately qualitative, and anti-quantificationalism—quantification over objects does not perspicuously represent the world. After setting aside nihilism, I argue that generalists should be anti-quantificationalists. Along the way I attempt to articulate what a “metaphysically perspicuou...