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108Souls and the beginning of life (a reply to Haldane and lee)Philosophy 78 (4): 521-531. 2003.In a recent book, I attempt to use the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas to defend a moderate view regarding abortion: that an abortion at any time during a pregnancy should be considered a grave loss, but that it should be considered murder only after roughly the middle of the second trimester. John Haldane and Patrick Lee contend that I have misunderstood the implications of Aquinas's view, and that in fact his metaphysics supports the conclusion that a human being comes into existence at the mome…Read more
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44Intentionality and final causesIn Dominik Perler (ed.), Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality, Brill. pp. 301--24. 2001.
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171Disagreement and the value of self-trustPhilosophical Studies 172 (9): 2315-2339. 2015.Controversy over the epistemology of disagreement endures because there is an unnoticed factor at work: the intrinsic value we give to self-trust. Even if there are many instances of disagreement where, from a strictly epistemic or rational point of view, we ought to suspend belief, there are other values at work that influence our all-things considered judgments about what we ought to believe. Hence those who would give equal-weight to both sides in many cases of disagreement may be right, from…Read more
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44Therapeutic Reflections on Our Bipolar History of PerceptionAnalytic Philosophy 57 (4): 253-284. 2016.The long history of theorizing about perception divides into two quite distinct and irreconcilable camps, one that takes sensory experience to show us external reality just as it is, and one that takes such experience to reveal our own mind. I argue that we should reject both sides of this debate, and admit that the phenomenal character of experience, as such, reveals little about the nature of the external world and even less about the mind.
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20LanguageReview of Metaphysics 49 (3): 650-651. 1996.If ever a case is to be made that ancient philosophy is just an early species of analytic philosophy, this is the volume to do it. Everson has assembled eleven essays, mostly by Oxford scholars, that range widely over ancient theories of language from Parmenides to Augustine. Some of the essays will prove more useful to advanced scholars, others to students and nonspecialists. The quality of the essays, in every case, is extremely high.
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9The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy 2 Volume Paperback Set (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of learning some centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, a sequence of chapters takes the reader through developments in many and varied fields, including logic and language, natural philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. Close attention is paid to the context of medieval philosophy, with d…Read more
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