Helen Beebee
British philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy. Previously, Beebee was the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at Manchester. Beebee's work has been influential across a wide variety of fields, including causation, free will, and natural kinds. Eric Schliesser, writing on NewApps, described Beebee as 'one of the most prominent metaphysicists of our time'. Beebee has a significant interest in the problem of underrepresentation of women in the field of philosophy, and has spoken about the problems that face women philosophers in a modern academic context, such as in her paper "Women and Deviance in Philosophy".
Helen Beebee's Published Works
Published Works
- The Oxford Handbook of Causation (2009) (331)
- Counterfactual Theories of Causation (2001) (231)
- The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature (2000) (199)
- Causing and Nothingness (2004) (153)
- Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (2005) (113)
- Hume on Causation (2006) (63)
- Necessary connections and the problem of induction (2011) (62)
- So Where's The Explanation? (2005) (55)
- Women in Philosophy in the UK: A report by the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy UK (2011) (40)
- The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds (2010) (39)
- Does Anything Hold the Universe Together? (2006) (36)
- Transfer of warrant, begging the question and semantic externalism (2001) (34)
- Are Psychiatric Kinds "Real"? (2010) (34)
- Probability as a Guide to Life (1997) (34)
- Women and Deviance in Philosophy (2013) (30)
- Local Miracle Compatibilism (2003) (27)
- Making a Difference: Essays on the Philosophy of Causation (2017) (27)
- I—Peter Millican: Humes Old and New Four Fashionable Falsehoods, and One Unfashionable Truth (2007) (22)
- Non‐paradoxical multi‐location (2003) (21)
- I—The Presidential AddressPhilosophical Scepticism and the Aims of Philosophy (2018) (21)
- Philosophy of science and the diagnostic process. (2013) (19)
- Women in Philosophy in the UK (2011) (17)
- Contingent laws rule: reply to Bird (2002) (14)
- Smilansky's alleged refutation of compatibilism (2008) (12)
- Legal Responsibility and Scalar Causation (2013) (12)
- De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis’s Humeanism (2015) (12)
- Metaphysics: The Key Concepts (2010) (11)
- Compatibilism and the Consequence Argument (2013) (10)
- Hume on Causation: The Projectivist Interpretation (2007) (10)
- Causation and Observation (2009) (10)
- On the Abuse of the Necessary A Posteriori (2010) (9)
- Hume and the Problem of Causation (2016) (7)
- Free Will: An Introduction (2013) (7)
- Humes Old and New II: The Two Definitions and the Doctrine of Necessity (2007) (6)
- Reply to Huemer on the Consequence Argument (2002) (6)
- XII—Seeing Causing (2003) (6)
- Hume's Two Definitions: The Procedural Interpretation (2011) (6)
- Causation, Projection, Inference and Agency (2015) (5)
- Introductory Formal Logic: Why do we do it? (2003) (5)
- Appendix 1: Seeing the Trends in the Data (2013) (4)
- Counterfactual dependence and broken barometers : A response to Flichman's argument (1997) (4)
- Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (2007) (4)
- Causes and Laws (2001) (3)
- Do causes raise the chances of effects (1998) (3)
- Making a Difference: Essays in Honour of Peter Menzies (2015) (3)
- Seeing Causing (2016) (2)
- Taking Hindrance Seriously (1997) (2)
- Do Ordinary Objects Exist? Yes (2016) (2)
- Reply to Strawson: 'David Hume: Objects and Power' (2013) (2)
- Causal Contribution in War (2020) (2)
- Nihil Obstat: Lewis’s Compatibilist Account of Abilities (2020) (2)
- In Defence of Different Voices (2020) (2)
- Women in Philosophy (2021) (1)
- Epiphenomenalism for Functionalists (2020) (1)
- Reply to Strawson (2012) (1)
- Chance-Changing Causal Processes (2004) (1)
- Backtracking Counterfactuals and Agents’ Abilities (2021) (1)
- Review of M. Balaguer, Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem (2012) (1)
- JOHN FOSTER The Divine Lawmaker (2009) (1)
- Causes and Laws: Philosophical Aspects (2015) (1)
- Review of Brian Ellis, Scientific Essentialism/The Philosophy of Nature (2004) (1)
- Causation and Necessary Connection (2012) (0)
- Paradoxes of Time Travel to the Future (2021) (0)
- CAUSAL REASONING AND THE GENESIS OF BELIEF (2006) (0)
- THE IDEA OF NECESSARY CONNECTION (2006) (0)
- Free Will: The Basics (2013) (0)
- Free will sans metaphysics? (2012) (0)
- Review of George Molnar, Powers (2005) (0)
- Thanks to the Reviewers (2011) (0)
- Causation and Free Will, by Carolina Sartorio (2017) (0)
- What Does Acting Freely Require? Some Incompatibilist Views (2013) (0)
- Essays on the Philosophy of Causation (2017) (0)
- Hume Studies Referees, 2007–2008 (2008) (0)
- Review: The Philosophy of Nature (2004) (0)
- Frankfurt’s Nefarious Neurosurgeon (2013) (0)
- Hume’s impact on causation (2011) (0)
- Reply to Strawson: Hume on objects and powers (2012) (0)
- Review: Scientific Essentialism (2004) (0)
- THE TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATION (2006) (0)
- Compatibilism, Sourcehood, and Manipulation Arguments (2013) (0)
- On David Hume: A Preface to the Special Issue (2010) (0)
- How to carve across the joints (2016) (0)
- David Hume's Impact on Causation (2011) (0)
- Readings On Laws Of Nature (2004) (0)
- Hume. Metaphysics and Epistemology (2010) (0)
- Counterfactual dependence and broken barometers (1997) (0)
- Radical Indeterminism and Top-Down Causation (2014) (0)
- History of Philosophy in General (2010) (0)
- Review of B. Skyrms & E. Eells, Probabilities and Conditionals (1998) (0)
- Review of Daniel Hausman, Causal Asymmetries (2000) (0)
- Recent Work on Causation (2001) (0)
- David Hume: Epistemology and Metaphysics (2010) (0)
- Compatibilism and the ability to do otherwise (2016) (0)
- Introduction to Part I: Regulating Reproduction (2009) (0)
- Review of J. Woodward, Making Things Happen (2006) (0)
- Editorial (2018) (0)
- Truthmakers and explanation (2006) (0)
- Diversity in Philosophy (2020) (0)
- Free will sans metaphysics? (2011) (0)
- Review of D. Ehring, Causation and Persistence (1998) (0)
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