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49Therapeutic 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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10The 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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63Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic BeliefPhilosophical Review 107 (4): 624. 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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1Review of Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (12). 2003.
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4Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. O…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
| Epistemology |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |