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79Veiled DisagreementJournal of Philosophy 111 (11): 608-630. 2014.A theory of how rationally to respond to disagreement requires a clear account of how to measure comparative reliability. Such an account faces a Generality Problem analogous to the well-known problem that besets reliabilist theories of knowledge. But whereas the problem for reliabilism has proved recalcitrant, I show that a solution in the case of disagreement is available. That solution is to measure reliability in the most fine-grained way possible, in light of all the circumstances of the pr…Read more
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9Life’s Form (review)Philosophical Review 111 (2): 308-310. 2002.Perhaps the most lively area of historical research in philosophy today concerns the scholastic antecedents of modern philosophy. As studies of modern philosophy have become more historically rigorous, over the past twenty years, they have become increasingly concerned with understanding the antecedents to figures such as Descartes and Locke. Of course, inasmuch as these authors were notoriously and proudly ignorant of scholastic thought, it is not to be expected that a better understanding of m…Read more
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6The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.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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320Form, substance, and mechanismPhilosophical Review 113 (1): 31-88. 2004.Philosophers today have largely given up on the project of categorizing being. Aristotle’s ten categories now strike us as quaint, and no attempt to improve on that effort meets with much interest. Still, no one supposes that reality is smoothly distributed over space. The world at large comes in chunks, and there remains a widespread intuition, even among philosophers, that some of these chunks have a special sort of unity and persistence. These, we tend to suppose, are most truly agents and su…Read more
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9Review of John Cottingham, Peter Hacker (eds.), Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (6). 2010.
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6Oxford studies in medieval philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.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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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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16The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (4): 590-591. 2000.
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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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Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |