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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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43Scholastic Qualities, Primary and SecondaryIn Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 41. 2011.
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42William Heytesbury on Knowledge: Epistemology without Necessary and Sufficient ConditionsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 12 (4). 1995.
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39Where Socratic Akrasia Meets the Platonic GoodJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (1): 1-21. 2021.ARRAY
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39Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge, by Therese Scarpelli CoryMind 124 (494): 623-626. 2015.A review of Cory's book.
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37A Realistic Theory of Categories: An Essay on OntologyReview of Metaphysics 51 (3): 666-667. 1998.
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35Science and CertaintyIn The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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34Old Bad AttitudesPhilosophers' Imprint 22 (n/a). 2022.The systematic study of male misogyny began with Christine de Pizan at the start of the fifteenth century. Although her work has generally been neglected within the history of philosophy, her ideas illuminate many questions of pressing current philosophical concern, including the nature of epistemic injustice, the prospects for an individualistic methodology in social theory, and the epistemology of disagreement.
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32After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and IllusionsOxford University Press. 2017.After Certainty offers a reconstruction of the history of epistemology, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that we might hope to achieve in this world. Pasnau ranges widely over philosophy from Aristotle to the 17th century, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline.
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31Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and JustificationReview of Metaphysics 49 (3): 653-654. 1996.This is not a work of historical scholarship, but a provocative attempt to apply ancient Pyrrhonism and the later Wittgenstein to the problems of contemporary analytic epistemology.
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30On Efficient Causality (review)Philosophical Review 105 (4): 533-535. 1996.A quick scan of the leading figures in western philosophy reveals that relatively few have made a name for themselves by defending intuitive, natural, and sensible positions. Aristotle is one, and perhaps Aquinas is another. Francisco Suarez, the sixteenth-century Spanish scholastic, would be a third. His invariable working procedure is to give copious consideration to the various ancient and medieval views, and then to find some sensible compromise position. But today Suarez can hardly claim to…Read more
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26Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (3): 653-654. 1996.
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25The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical EssayAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (4): 842-845. 2022.After four massive scholarly volumes surveying the successes of modern science, Stephen Gaukroger turns here to an ambitious but slight volume on philosophy’s failures. It’s a curious book, in part...
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24Review of Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (12). 2003.
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23Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief (review)Philosophical Review 107 (4): 624-626. 1998.In August of 1989, as an eighteen-year-old atheist spending his last night at home before setting off cross-country for college, I had the one and only mystical experience of my life to date. Rather than grapple with expressing the content of that experience, let me quote from part of the record Blaise Pascal made of his own mystical experience, one that seems to have been similar in many respects to my own
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22Aquinas: Basic Works (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2014.Drawn from a wide range of writings and featuring state-of-the-art translations, _Basic Works_ offers convenient access to Thomas Aquinas' most important discussions of nature, being and essence, divine and human nature, and ethics and human action. The translations all capture Aquinas's sharp, transparent style and display terminological consistency. Many were originally published in the acclaimed translation-cum-commentary series _The Hackett Aquinas_, edited by Robert Pasnau and Jeffrey Hause…Read more
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22Plotting Augustine's ConfessionsLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3 (2): 77-106. 2000.Some ideas on how to teach the Confessions in an introductory philosophy class.
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22Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969–1994 (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (1): 166-168. 1997.This is not a study of the philosophical problem of other minds but rather a collection of reviews and critical essays, all but one previously published, on the work of others. The book’s twenty-two essays are equally divided into two parts, reflecting Nagel’s dual interests: philosophy of mind and ethical and political philosophy.
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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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18Id Quo CognoscimusIn Petra Simo Kärkkäinen Knuuttila (ed.), Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, . pp. 131--149. 2008.
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17The Philosophy of AquinasWestview. 2004.Beginning with a brief overview of Aquinas’ life and philosophical career, the authors introduce his overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his substantive theorizing in a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics, philosophy of human nature, philosophy of mind, and ethical and political theory. Although not intended to provide a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of Aquinas’ far-reaching writings, the volume does present a systematic int…Read more
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16Action, Intention, and ReasonReview of Metaphysics 49 (2): 398-400. 1995.This volume collects thirteen papers by Robert Audi on action theory, all but two previously published, and dating back as far as the early 1970s. The reader should not be misled by the book's publicity, which proclaims that we are being given "for the first time... a full version of his [Audi's] theory of... human action". Despite such claims, this volume is no more than a collection of papers, and consequently it does not offer the depth and continuity one would expect from a book-length treat…Read more
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16Mediaeval Reactions to the Encounter Between Faith and Reason. the Aquinas Lecture, 1995Review of Metaphysics 51 (1): 179-180. 1997.The story Wippel tells in this brief but valuable volume is a familiar one, of how the early medieval consensus on the relationship between faith and reason collapsed in the thirteenth century under siege from radical Aristotelians at the University of Paris. Wippel gives his account in clear terms especially well suited to beginning students. Although there are few novelties in this volume, everything is based on the most up-to-date research, and a third of the volume consists of detailed notes…Read more
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