Harold W Noonan

Dados Biográficos

ID1007241
NOMEHarold W Noonan
PRENOMESHarold W
SOBRENOMENoonan
ASSINATURANOONAN H W
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0001-5538-5444
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES22
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1978
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Counterfactual Persons and the Argument Against Abortion

    Open AccessHarold W NoonanARTICLEUtilitas2026

    In his ‘The Countefactual Argument Against Abortion’ (2023) Ryan Kulesa argues that it is prima facie wrong to kill a ‘counterfactual person’. Some early foetuses, though still lacking consciousness, are counterfactual persons. Hence, it is prima facie wrong to kill (abort) these foetuses. Kulesa’s aim is to reconcile apparently conflicting intuitions about abortion and related acts, e.g., the failure to rescue frozen foetuses in abortion rescue …

  • No reason to doubt desert

    Open AccessHarold W NoonanARTICLEInquiry2025

    Pummer argues against the thesis: Desert. When people culpably do very wrong or bad acts, they deserve punishment in the following sense: at least other things being equal, they ought to be made worse off, simply in virtue of the fact that they culpably did wrong – even if they have repented, are now virtuous, and punishing them would benefit no one. This has strong intuitive appeal and is arguably central to many people’s views of punishment. If…

  • The personite problem remains

    Open AccessHarold W NoonanARTICLEInquiry2025

    Personites are shorter-lived person-like things temporarily coincident with persons. According to the four-dimensional view, they exist. Mark Johnston argues that acknowledging their existence renders activities which we ought to regard as wholly unproblematic morally questionable. So we face a dilemma: either we must reject the capacious personite-including ontology or reject central intuitions of our ordinary moral thinking. Many people disagre…

  • From Essence to Metaphysical Modality

    Open AccessHarold W NoonanARTICLEAxiomathes2022

    How can we acquire knowledge of metaphysical modality? How can someone come to know that he could have been elsewhere right now, or an accountant rather than a philosophy teacher, but could not have been a turnip? Jago proposes an account of a route to knowledge of the way things could have been and must be. He argues that we can move to knowledge of metaphysical modality from knowledge about essence. Curtis rejects Jago’s explanation. It cannot,…

  • The Possibility of Unity

    Open AccessHarold W NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2019

    In One Priest argues for the contradictoriness of Unity. The argument is that the unity of complex things is contradictory. It is contradictory that there are complex wholes composed of many parts. But there are. Thus, the explanation of unity has to be a contradictory entity, a gluon, which both is and is not an object. The book then develops and utilises a theory of gluons. The argument for the contradictoriness of Unity is crucial; without it …

  • The New Aristotelian Essentialists

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEMetaphysica2018

    In recent years largely due to the seminal work of Kit Fine and that of Jonathan Lowe there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of essence and the project of explaining de re necessity in terms of it. Of course, Quine rejected what he called Aristotelian essentialism in his battle against quantified modal logic. But what he and Kripke debated was a notion of essence defined in terms of de re necessity. The new Aristotelian essentiali…

  • Hume

    Harold W NoonanBOOKHume2007

    The father of modern scepticism and perhaps the most important English philosopher, Hume was lauded within his own lifetime as a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment. His 'naturalist' approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories of perception, personal identity, causation, politics, morality, and religion, many of which were extremely controversial and continue to make waves today. Harold Noonan's excelle…

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Knowledge

    Harold W Noonan, Harold NoonanBOOKRoutledge Philosophy GuideBook to…2002

    David Hume was one of the most important British philosophers of the eighteenth century. The first part of his Treatise on Human Nature is a seminal work in philosophy. Hume on Knowledge introduces and assesses:* Humes life and the background of the Treatise* The ideas and text in the Treatise* Humes continuing importance to philosophy

  • Animalism versus Lockeanism

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2001

    Journal Article Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie Get access Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 202, January 2001, Pages 83–90, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2001.00216.x Published: 12 January 2004

  • Animalism versus Lockeanism

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2001Citada por: 1Referências: 6

    I respond to criticisms by David Mackie in PQ, 49 (1999), pp. 369–76, of my previous paper on animalism and Lockeanism. I argue that the ‘transplant intuition’, that a person goes where his brain (or cerebrum) goes, is compatible both with animalism and Lockeanism. I give three arguments for this conclusion, two of them developing lines of thought in Parfit's work. However, I accept that animalism and Lockeanism are incompatible, and I go on to c…

  • Animalism Versus Lockeanism

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1998Citada por: 11Referências: 5

    My purpose is to explore the possible lines of reply available to a defender of the neo-Lockean position on personal identity in response to the recently popular ‘animalist’ objection. I compare the animalist objection with an objection made to Locke by Bishop Butler, Thomas Reid and, in our own day, Sydney Shoemaker. I argue that the only possible response available to a defender of Locke against the Butler–Reid–Shoemaker objection is to reject …

  • Constitution is Identity

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEMind1993

    Journal Article Constitution is Identity Get access HAROLD W. NOONAN HAROLD W. NOONAN Department of Philosophy The University of BirminghamP. O. Box 363 Birmingham B15 2TT UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume 102, Issue 405, January 1993, Pages 133–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/102.405.133 Published: 01 January 1993

  • Personal Identity

    Andrew Brennan, Harold W Noonan et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1992

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Personal Identity. By Harold Noonan. (London: Routledge, 1989. Pp. ix + 254. Price £35.00 hbk.) Andrew Brennan Andrew Brennan University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 166, January 1992, Pages 103–106, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220456 Published: 01 January 1992

  • Material Beings

    Harold W Noonan, Peter Van InwagenARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1992

    Journal Article Critical Notices Get access Material Beings. By Peter Van Inwagen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 299. Price $32.50.) Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 167, April 1992, Pages 239–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220220 Published: 01 April 1992

  • Thinking, Language and Experience

    Harold W Noonan, Hector-Neri CastenedaARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1991

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Thinking, Language and Experience. By Hector-Neri Castasieda. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Pp. xvi + 302. Price $29.50.) Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 162, January 1991, Pages 109–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219795 Published: 01 January 1…

  • Indeterminate Identity, Contingent Identity and Abelardian Predicates

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1991Citada por: 9

    Journal Article Indeterminate Identity, Contingent Identity and Abelardian Predicates Get access Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 163, April 1991, Pages 183–193, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219592 Published: 01 April 1991

  • The Possibility of Reincarnation

    Open AccessHarold W NoonanARTICLEReligious Studies1990

    Man has always hoped to survive his bodily death, and it is a central tenet of many religions that such survival is a reality. It has been supposed by many that one form such survival might take is reincarnation in another body. Subscribers to this view include Pythagoras, Plato sometimes, and a large number of Eastern thinkers. Other thinkers have, of course, disputed that reincarnation is a fact, and some have even denied that it is a possibili…

  • Abstract Objects

    Harold W Noonan, Bob HaleARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1989

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Abstract Objects. By Bob Hale (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. viii + 282. Price £27.50.) Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 156, July 1989, Pages 354–357, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220176 Published: 01 July 1989

  • Introducing Persons

    Harold W Noonan, Harold Noonan et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1988

  • Supervenience

    Harold W NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1987

    Journal Article Supervenience Get access H. W. Noonan H. W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 146, January 1987, Pages 78–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220062 Published: 01 January 1987

  • Understanding Identity Statements

    Harold W Noonan, Thomas V MorrisARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1986

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Understanding Identity Statements. By Thomas V. Morris (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984. Pp. xv + 152. Price £12.50, pb. £8.50) Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 144, July 1986, Pages 457–459, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220206 Published: 01 July 1986

  • The Concept of Identity

    Harold W Noonan, Eli HirschARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1984

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Concept of Identity. By Eli Hirsch (Oxford: OUP, 1982. Pp. x + 318. Price £14.50) Harold W. Noonan Harold W. Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 135, April 1984, Pages 175–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219518 Published: 01 April 1984

  • Fregean Thoughts

    Harold W Noonan, Harold NoonanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1984Citada por: 1

    Journal Article Fregean Thoughts Get access Harold Noonan Harold Noonan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 136, July 1984, Pages 205–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218757 Published: 01 July 1984

  • Objects and Identity

    C D C Reeve, Clara Reeve et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1983

    1. Absolute and Relative Identity.- 2. Diachronic Identity as Relative Identity.- 3. Sychronic Identity as Relative Identity.- 4. Quine on Synchronic Identity.- 5. Sortal Concepts and Identity.- 6. On the Notion of a Criterion of Identity.- 7. Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity.- 8. Restricted and Unrestricted Quantification.- 9. Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity Concluded.- 10. Events, Continuants and Diachronic Identity.- 11. C…

  • Wiggins' Second Thoughts on Identity

    Harold W Noonan, Harold Noonan et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1981

    Journal Article Wiggins’ Second Thoughts on Identity Get access David Wiggins, Sameness and Substance. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. Pp. 238. Price £12.50 Harold Noohan Harold Noohan University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 260–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219116 Published: 01 July 1981