Neil McDonnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil McDonnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | McDonnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONNELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7279-5277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Virtual reality peer-to-peer learning
Virtual reality offers exciting potential as a digital learning tool in Higher Education where users benefit from immersion within interactive environments. Similarly, peer-to-peer learning is a well-established pedagogical approach known to improve academic outcomes, social skills, and cost-saving. While both VR and peer learning have demonstrated benefits individually, limited research has examined how these approaches can be meaningfully integ…
Backwards counterfactuals
This paper offers two novel conceptual tools: one concerning the semantics of counterfactuals and what should be held fixed when assessing them (the modal moat), and the other concerning the pragmatics of counterfactual assertions and how to avoid the potential pitfalls of meaning more than we say (antecedent gluttony). These allow us to address existing issues with the assessment of backwards counterfactuals within a framework that applies equal…
Transitivity and proportionality in causation
It is widely assumed that causation is transitive, but putative counterexamples abound. These examples come in three varieties: switching cases, short circuit cases, and what I will call mismatch cases. In this paper I focus on the mismatch variety, which is widely taken to be the easiest to resolve. I will first introduce the cases and the existing strategy for dealing with them, then present a new counterexample which is immune to that strategy…
Causal exclusion and the limits of proportionality
The Non‐Occurrence of Events
event occurs.Yet once we attend to the question, we surely see that it has no determinate answer.(Lewis 2004, 186) Lewis 's original (1973) counterfactual analysis of causation states that one event is a cause of another iff there exists a chain of counterfactual dependence between them.One event counterfactually depends on another iff the following counterfactual conditional (or causal conditional) is true:This is to be read as follows: if event…
Transitivity and proportionality in causation
It is widely assumed that causation is transitive, but putative counterexamples abound. These examples come in three varieties: switching cases, short circuit cases, and what I will call mismatch cases. In this paper I focus on the mismatch variety, which is widely taken to be the easiest to resolve. I will first introduce the cases and the existing strategy for dealing with them, then present a new counterexample which is immune to that strategy…
The Non‐Occurrence of Events
event occurs.Yet once we attend to the question, we surely see that it has no determinate answer.(Lewis 2004, 186) Lewis 's original (1973) counterfactual analysis of causation states that one event is a cause of another iff there exists a chain of counterfactual dependence between them.One event counterfactually depends on another iff the following counterfactual conditional (or causal conditional) is true:This is to be read as follows: if event…
Causal exclusion and the limits of proportionality
The Non‐Occurrence of Events
event occurs.Yet once we attend to the question, we surely see that it has no determinate answer.(Lewis 2004, 186) Lewis 's original (1973) counterfactual analysis of causation states that one event is a cause of another iff there exists a chain of counterfactual dependence between them.One event counterfactually depends on another iff the following counterfactual conditional (or causal conditional) is true:This is to be read as follows: if event…
Transitivity and proportionality in causation
It is widely assumed that causation is transitive, but putative counterexamples abound. These examples come in three varieties: switching cases, short circuit cases, and what I will call mismatch cases. In this paper I focus on the mismatch variety, which is widely taken to be the easiest to resolve. I will first introduce the cases and the existing strategy for dealing with them, then present a new counterexample which is immune to that strategy…
Backwards counterfactuals
This paper offers two novel conceptual tools: one concerning the semantics of counterfactuals and what should be held fixed when assessing them (the modal moat), and the other concerning the pragmatics of counterfactual assertions and how to avoid the potential pitfalls of meaning more than we say (antecedent gluttony). These allow us to address existing issues with the assessment of backwards counterfactuals within a framework that applies equal…
Virtual reality peer-to-peer learning
Virtual reality offers exciting potential as a digital learning tool in Higher Education where users benefit from immersion within interactive environments. Similarly, peer-to-peer learning is a well-established pedagogical approach known to improve academic outcomes, social skills, and cost-saving. While both VR and peer learning have demonstrated benefits individually, limited research has examined how these approaches can be meaningfully integ…
Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)