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Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2025) Miracles and the wooden leg problem. Religious Studies. ISSN 1469-901X (In Press)

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Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515, Hill, J., Bojak, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-3502, Gibbins, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-5352, Austin, C. and Cinotti, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2921-0901 (2025) Getting it wrong: biological mistake making as a cross-system, cross-scale phenomenon. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1469-9281 doi: 10.1080/02698595.2025.2472482

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Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2025) Fear of imprecision as the beginning of wisdom: commentary on ‘Definitional Drift Within the Science of Forgiveness’. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 45 (1). pp. 32-37. ISSN 2151-3341 doi: 10.1037/teo0000304

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515, Hill, J., Austin, C., Bojak, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-3502, Cinotti, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2921-0901 and Gibbins, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-5352 (2024) Biological mistake theory and the question of function. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X doi: 10.1017/psa.2024.56 (In Press)

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Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515, Hill, J., Austin, C., Bojak, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-3502, Gibbins, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-5352 and Cinotti, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2921-0901 (2023) Biological mistakes: what they are and what they mean for the experimental biologist. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537 doi: 10.1086/724444 (In Press)

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2023) Is prime matter energy? Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 101 (3). pp. 534-550. ISSN 1471-6828 doi: 10.1080/00048402.2021.2010222

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Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2019) Death, unity and the brain. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 40 (5). pp. 359-379. ISSN 1573-1200 doi: 10.1007/s11017-019-09479-8

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Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2019) On a so-called demonstration of the causal power of absences. Studia Neoaristotelica, 16 (1). pp. 141-148. ISSN 1804-6843 doi: 10.5840/studneoar20191614

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2017) Finality revived: powers and intentionality. Synthese, 194 (7). pp. 2387-2425. ISSN 1573-0964 doi: 10.1007/s11229-016-1057-5

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Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2017) Further clarity on co-operation and morality. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43 (4). pp. 192-200. ISSN 1473-4257 doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103476

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2017) Co-operation in the age of Hobby Lobby: when sincerity is not enough. Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 11 (1). pp. 15-30. ISSN 1747–5376

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2016) Divine premotion. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 794 (3). pp. 207-222. ISSN 1572-8684 doi: 10.1007/s11153-015-9536-z

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2015) All for the good. Philosophical Investigations, 38 (1-2). pp. 72-95. ISSN 1467-9205 doi: 10.1111/phin.12070

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2014) Being and goodness. American Philosophical Quarterly, 51 (4). pp. 345-356. ISSN 2152-1123

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Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2011) Essence and properties. Erkenntnis, 75 (1). pp. 85-111. ISSN 1572-8420 doi: 10.1007/s10670-011-9276-0

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2011) The world is not an asymmetric graph. Analysis, 71 (1). pp. 3-10. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: 10.1093/analys/anq115

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2010) Appearance and reality: what Plato can teach journalists and the media. MercatorNet.

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Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2003) Review of 'Paradoxes from A to Z' by M. Clark. Times Higher Education Supplement. ISSN 0049-3929

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2003) Review of 'Summulae de dialectica' by J. Buridan, edited by G. Klima. Times Literary Supplement. p. 9. ISSN 0307-661X

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2003) Why I am a Relativist. Quadrant. pp. 38-43.

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Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2021) Restoring the hierarchy of being. In: Simpson, W. M. R., Koons, R. C. and Orr, J. (eds.) Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Routledge. ISBN 9780367637149

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2018) The impossibility of natural necessity. In: Carruth, A., Gibb, S. C. and Heil, J. (eds.) Ontology, Modality, and Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E.J. Lowe. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198796299

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2018) The great unifier: form and the unity of the organism. In: Simpson, W. M. R., Koons, R. C. and Teh, N. J. (eds.) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Routledge, pp. 210-232. ISBN 9780415792561

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2017) No beginning, no explanation: the kalām cosmological argument and the principle of sufficient reason. In: Copan, P. and Lane Craig, W. (eds.) The Kalām Cosmological Argument Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past. Bloomsbury.

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2015) Religion and normative ethics. In: Oppy, G. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Routledge, London, pp. 316-328. ISBN 9781844658312

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2014) Is form structure? In: Novotny, D. D. and Novak, L. (eds.) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Routledge, London, pp. 164-180. ISBN 9780415709392

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2014) The metaphysics of privation. In: Huntelmann, R. and Hattler, J. (eds.) New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy. Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae, pp. 63-68. ISBN 9783868385458

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2011) No potency without actuality: the case of graph theory. In: Tahko, T. E. (ed.) Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-228. ISBN 9781107000643

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2010) 'Whatever is changing is being changed by something else': a reappraisal of premise one of the first way. In: Cottingham, J. G. and Hacker, P. (eds.) Mind, method, and morality: essays in honour of Anthony Kenny. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 140-164. ISBN 9780199556120

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2010) The doctrine of double effect. In: O'Connor, T. and Sandis, C. (eds.) A companion to the philosophy of action. Blackwell companions to philosophy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 324-330. ISBN 9781405187350

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2010) The metaphysical foundations of natural law. In: Zaborowski, H. (ed.) Natural moral law in contemporary society. Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy (53). Catholic University of America Press, Washington DC, USA, pp. 44-75. ISBN 9780813217864

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2009) Persistence. In: Kim, J., Sosa, E. and Rosenkrantz, G. (eds.) A companion to metaphysics. 2nd edition. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 55-65. ISBN 9781405152983 doi: 10.1111/b.9781405152983.2009.x

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2008) Concepts, dualism, and the human intellect. In: Antonietti, A., Corradini, A. and Lowe, E. (eds.) Psycho-physical dualism today: an interdisciplinary approach. Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield Group), Lanham, MD, pp. 211-233. ISBN 9780739123843

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2008) Teleology: inorganic and organic. In: Gonzalez, A. (ed.) Contemporary perspectives on natural law. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 259-279. ISBN 9780754660545

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2008) Self-love, love of neighbour and impartiality. In: Athanassoulis, N. and Vice, S. (eds.) The moral life: essays in honour of John Cottingham. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 58-84. ISBN 9780230527560

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2007) The cosmological argument. In: Meister, C. and Copan, P. (eds.) The Routledge companion to philosophy of religion. Routledge, London, pp. 341-50. ISBN 9780415380386

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2006) Instantaneous change without instants. In: Paterson, C. and Pugh, M. S. (eds.) Analytical Thomism: traditions in dialogue. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 101-118. ISBN 9780754634386

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2005) Predicate logic and bare particulars. In: Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (ed.) The old new logic: essays on the philosophy of Fred Sommers. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 183-210. ISBN 9780262651066

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2005) Hylemporhic dualism. In: Paul, E. F. and Miller, F. D. (eds.) Personal identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 70-99. ISBN 9780521617673

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2005) Towards a natural law critique of genetic engineering. In: Athanassoulis, N. (ed.) Philosophical reflections on medical ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 109-134. ISBN 9781403945273

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2004) The ethics of co-operation in wrongdoing. In: O'Hear, A. (ed.) Modern moral philosophy. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement (54). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 203-227. ISBN 9780521603263 doi: 10.1017/S1358246100008511

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2004) The structure and content of the good. In: Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 and Chappell, T. (eds.) Human values: new essays on ethics and natural law. 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 127-165. ISBN 9781403918109

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Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2019) The Metaphysics of Good and Evil. Routledge, pp226. ISBN 9780367408640

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2018) Opting out: conscience and cooperation in a pluralistic society. Institute of Economic Affairs, pp. 1-155. ISBN 9780255367615

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 (2007) Real Essentialism. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Routledge, London, pp314. ISBN 9780415872126

Oderberg, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515, ed. (2005) The old new logic: essays on the philosophy of Fred Sommers. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp254. ISBN 9780262651066

Oderberg, D. S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9585-0515 and Chappell, T., eds. (2004) Human values: new essays on ethics and natural law. 1st edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403918109