Online Papers

PEER-REVIEWED, ORIGINAL JOURNAL ARTICLES (click anywhere to access):

Perceptual Metaphysics: The Case for Composites. (2025)

Philosophical Explorations. co-authored with Ivan V. Ivanov (I am the official corresponding author). March 2025, Volume 28, Issue 1; GOLD OPEN ACCESS (free forever): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13869795.2024.2419652

Ivanov & Schipper - PHIL EXPLORATIONS 2024 - Perceptual metaphysics the case for composites.pdf

Acting on Reasons: Synchronic Executive Control. (2025)

European Journal of Philosophy. Volume 33, Issue 1; Early View published 31 January 2024 (behind paywall): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejop.12925 but available to view as pre-publication, submitted version here: coming soon ; 27 pages total; pre-print pdf here

*An Abductive Defence of Truthmaker Realism (2024; though only available on 18 March 2025)

Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; Cambridge University Press; 2024; Volume 99, Issue 4: 563-595; doi:10.1017/S0031819124000238

Gold Open Access (free forever): here

Direct link to the PDF: here

Henry Habberley Price. (2023)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Co-authored with Paul Snowdon. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/price/; Published 4 November 2023; 15,000 words total

Singular Terms and Ontological Seriousness. (2023)

Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Volume 9, Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 574 - 595; FirstView 27 July 2022 (behind paywall) https://www.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.10, but available to view on the Cambridge Core Share site: here ; 22 pages total

Inquiry and Ordinary Truthmakers. (2022)

Metaphysica. Volume 23, Issue 2; published by De Guyter on 26 August 2022; FirstView 26 August 2022 (behind paywall) https://www.doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0035, , but available to view as pre-publication, submitted version here: here ; 27 pages total

Necessitation and the Changing Past. (2022)

Theoria (Stockholm): (2022; Volume88, Issue5, October 2022, pp. 997-1013). The paper is not published Open Access but you can download the "Submitted Version", the pre-print copy here. You can access the published version in Early View Online before it is assigned to an issue here: DOI: 10.1111/theo.12424 ; 27 pages total

Ontological accounting and aboutness: on Asay's A Theory of Truthmaking. (2022)

Asian Journal of Philosophy (Peer-reviewed Book Symposium): (2022; 1(1): 1-8). Not Open Access but free to read and view here and by clicking above. Also, the paper is downloadable for free for the first two years after publication. Downloaded 1,600+ times so far. Download a pre-print copy here. DOI: 10.1007/s44204-021-00005-z ; 8 pages total

Fundamental truthmakers and non-fundamental truths. (2021)

Synthese (Peer-reviewed): (2021; 198(4): 3073-3098; Online First: 4th June, 2019). (Downloaded 5,400+ times, as of 05-09-2025) OPENACCESS: DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02266-x; 26 pages total

Schipper - Fundamental truthmakers and non-fundamental truths - Synthese 2021 - Special Offprint.pdf

Aboutness and Ontology: A Modest Approach to Truthmakers. (2020)

Philosophical Studies (Peer-reviewed): (2020). Volume 177, Number 2. pp. 505-533 (Downloaded 3,800+ times, as of 09-09-2023; DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1192-6) OPENACCESS: DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1192-6 , 29 pages total

Schipper - Aboutness and ontology - a modest approach to truthmakers - digital off-print - Philosophical Studies 2020 - 10.1007_s11098-018-1192-6.pdf

Aboutness and negative truths: a modest strategy for truthmaker theorists. (2018)

Synthese (Peer-reviewed). Volume 195, Issue 8, August, pp. 3685--3722; [Downloaded 5,800+ times, as of 09-09-2021] OPENACCESS: here, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1396-x; 38 pages total

Schipper2018_Article_AboutnessAndNegativeTruthsAModestStrategyforTruthmakerTheorists-Synthese.pdf

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Schipper - Williamson's Abductive Paradigm and Theory Comparison in Philosophy - Forthcoming.pdf

As of November 2020, this paper is forthcoming in the book Philosophical Methods by Timothy Williamson (Beijing: Renmin University Press), which will also contain Professor Williamson's reply and will be translated into Chinese. Please cite the final published version of this paper when it is available (it is still forthcoming as of 27 July 2022).

BOOK REVIEWS:

Schipper - Dialectics in World Politics (ed Brincat) - Marx and Philosophy Review of Books - 2016.pdf

Review of Dialectics in World Politics, S. Brincat (Ed.) (2016)

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books: (2016). Review. available online: here OPENACCESS: https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/8124_dialectics-in-world-politics-review-by-arthur-schipper/

Review of The Equal Society: Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice, G. Hull (Ed.). (2017)

The Philosophical Quarterly: (2017). Review. Volume 67, Issue 269, 1 October 2017, Pages 863–865, available online: PREPRINT; OFFICIAL, DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqw063

Other Work

I have five manuscripts currently (Dec. 2021) under review at top-tier philosophy journals, at least five more articles and one book manuscript in active progress. The book manuscript is entitled: What Truths are About.

Further links:

https://philpeople.org/profiles/arthur-schipper

https://pku.academia.edu/ArthurSchipper

Truth and Reality: The Importance of Truthmaking for Philosophy (PhD Dissertation, UCL)

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