Research outputs
Selected research outputs
- Policing, Undercover Policing and 'Dirty Hands': The Case of State Entrapment (Journal article - 2024)
- The Basic Liberties: An Essay on Analytical Specification (Journal article - 2023)
- Entrapment (Chapter - 2024)
- What is the Incoherence Objection to Legal Entrapment? (Journal article - 2022)
- Entrapment, Temptation and Virtue Testing (Journal article - 2022)
- Needs, harms, and liberalism (Journal article - 2026)
2026
Needs, harms, and liberalism
McLeod, S. K., Shaw, A., & Tanyi, A. (2025). Needs, harms, and liberalism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 1-23. doi:10.1080/13698230.2025.2535868
2024
Policing, Undercover Policing and 'Dirty Hands': The Case of State Entrapment
Hill, D. J., McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2024). Policing, undercover policing and ‘dirty hands’: the case of state entrapment. Philosophical Studies, 181(4), 689-714. doi:10.1007/s11098-024-02110-0
Entrapment
Hill, D. J., McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2024). Entrapment. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminal Justice (pp. p179-p190). Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781789902990.entrapment
2023
The Basic Liberties: An Essay on Analytical Specification
McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2023). The basic liberties: An essay on analytical specification. European Journal of Political Theory, 22(3), 465-486. doi:10.1177/14748851211041702
2022
Liberalism and the Right to Strike
McLeod, S., & Tanyi, A. (2022). Liberalism and the Right to Strike. Public Ethics, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Retrieved from https://www.publicethics.org/post/liberalism-and-the-right-to-strike
What is the Incoherence Objection to Legal Entrapment?
Hill, D. J., McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2022). What is the Incoherence Objection to Legal Entrapment?. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 22(1). doi:10.26556/jesp.v22i1.1181
Entrapment, Temptation and Virtue Testing
Hill, D. J., McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2022). Entrapment, temptation and virtue testing. Philosophical Studies, 179(8), 2429-2447. doi:10.1007/s11098-021-01772-4
2021
Entrapment and 'Paedophile Hunters'
Hill, D. J., McLeod, S. K., & Tanyi, A. (2021). Entrapment and 'Paedophile Hunters'. Public Ethics, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Retrieved from https://www.publicethics.org/post/entrapment-and-paedophile-hunters
2020
Fregean Descriptivism
Dunbar, I. H., & McLeod, S. K. (2020). Fregean Descriptivism. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference (pp. 41-52). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003111894-5
2019
On a Supposed Puzzle Concerning Modality and Existence
Atkinson, T., Hill, D. J., & McLeod, S. K. (2019). On a Supposed Puzzle Concerning Modality and Existence. Organon F, 26(3), 446-473. doi:10.31577/orgf.2019.26306
2018
Basic Liberties, the Moral Powers and Workplace Democracy
McLeod, S. K. (2018). Basic Liberties, the Moral Powers and Workplace Democracy. Ethics, Politics & Society, 1, 231-259. doi:10.21814/eps.1.1.57
2017
Dummett and Frege on sense and Selbständigkeit
McLeod, S. K. (2017). Dummett and Frege on Sense and Selbständigkeit. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25(2), 309-331. doi:10.1080/09608788.2016.1230538
2015
Two Philosophies of Needs
McLeod, S. K. (2015). Two Philosophies of Needs. Polish Journal of Philosophy, 9(1), 33-50. doi:10.5840/pjphil2015912
2014
Absolute Biological Needs
McLeod, S. K. (2014). Absolute Biological Needs. Bioethics, 28(6), 293-301. doi:10.1111/bioe.12020
2011
Knowledge of Need
McLeod, S. K. (2011). Knowledge of Need. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 19(2), 211-230. doi:10.1080/09672559.2011.561616
First-order logic and some existential sentences
McLeod, S. K. (2011). First-order logic and some existential sentences. Disputatio, 4(31), 255-270. doi:10.2478/disp-2011-0012
2010
ON TRUTH-FUNCTIONALITY
HILL, D. J., & McLEOD, S. K. (2010). ON TRUTH-FUNCTIONALITY. The Review of Symbolic Logic, 3(4), 628-632. doi:10.1017/s1755020310000274
2009
RATIONALISM AND MODAL KNOWLEDGE
McLeod, S. K. (2009). RATIONALISM AND MODAL KNOWLEDGE. CRITICA-REVISTA HISPANOAMERICANA DE FILOSOFIA, 41(122), 29-42. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
2008
Knowledge of Necessity: Logical Positivism and Kripkean Essentialism
McLeod, S. K. (2008). Knowledge of Necessity: Logical Positivism and Kripkean Essentialism. Philosophy, 83(2), 179-191. doi:10.1017/s0031819108000454
HOW TO RECONCILE ESSENCE WITH CONTINGENT EXISTENCE
McLeod, S. K. (2008). HOW TO RECONCILE ESSENCE WITH CONTINGENT EXISTENCE. Ratio, 21(3), 314-328. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2008.00404.x
2007
On Two Arguments about the Logical Status of 'Exists'
McLeod, S. K. (2007). On Two Arguments about the Logical Status of 'Exists'. The Reasoner, 1(7), 3-5. Retrieved from http://www.kent.ac.uk/
2006
WHY ESSENTIALISM REQUIRES TWO SENSES OF NECESSITY
McLeod, S. K. (2006). WHY ESSENTIALISM REQUIRES TWO SENSES OF NECESSITY. Ratio, 19(1), 77-91. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2006.00310.x
2005
Modal Epistemology
McLeod, S. K. (2005). Modal Epistemology. Philosophical Books, 46(3), 235-245. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2008.00404.x
2001
Modality and Anti-Metaphysics
McLeod, S. K. (2001). Modality and Anti-Metaphysics. Ashgate.