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211Atheism, Naturalism, and MoralityIn Michael Peterson & Ray VanArragon (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, 2nd edition, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 66-78. 2019.It is a commonly held view that the existence of moral value somehow depends upon the existence of God. Some proponents of this view take the very strong position that atheism entails that there is no moral value; but most take the weaker position that atheism cannot explain what moral value is, or how it could have come into being. Call the first position Incompatibility, and the second position Inadequacy. In this paper, I will focus on the arguments for Inadequacy. There are two main ar…Read more
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236Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (edited book)Oup Usa. 2010.Atheists are frequently demonized as arrogant intellectuals, antagonistic to religion, devoid of moral sentiments, advocates of an "anything goes" lifestyle. Now, in this revealing volume, nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering these common stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief. These highly engaging personal essays capture the marvelous diversity to be found among atheists, providing a portrait that will surpris…Read more
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5IntroductionIn Louise M. Antony & Norbert Hornstein (eds.), Chomsky and His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains section titled: References.
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16A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and ObjectivityPhilosophical Review 104 (2): 317. 1995.
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9Because I Said So: Toward a Feminist Theory of AuthorityHypatia 20 (4): 59-79. 2000.Feminism is an antiauthoritarian movement that has sought to unmask many traditional “authorities” as ungrounded. Given this, it might seem as if feminists are required to abandon the concept of authority altogether. But, we argue, the exercise of authority enables us to coordinate our efforts to achieve larger social goods and, hence, should be preserved. Instead, what is needed and what we provide for here is a way to distinguish legitimate authority from objectionable authoritarianism.
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20The mental and the physicalIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
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2Philosophy and PsychologyIn Herman Cappelen, Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press. 2016.Philosophy and psychology have always been inseparable, particularly with regard to issues of methodology. The chapter begins with a brief history of the a priori and introspectivist traditions of both, and of the various forms of behaviorism that were a reaction to them. It then turns to the “computational” and “functionalist” approaches to the mind that grew out of the development of the computer and especially the linguistic work of Noam Chomsky. These blossomed into the research program of “…Read more
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12Because I Said So: Toward a Feminist Theory of AuthorityHypatia 20 (4): 59-79. 2005.Feminism is an antiauthoritarian movement that has sought to unmask many traditional “authorities” as ungrounded. Given this, it might seem as if feminists are required to abandon the concept of authority altogether. But, we argue, the exercise of authority enables us to coordinate our efforts to achieve larger social goods and, hence, should be preserved. Instead, what is needed and what we provide for here is a way to distinguish legitimate authority from objectionable authoritarianism.
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4ThinkingIn Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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147The openness of illusionsPhilosophical Issues 21 (1): 25-44. 2011.Illusions are thought to make trouble for the intuition that perceptual experience is "open" to the world. Some have suggested, in response to the this trouble, that illusions differ from veridical experience in the degree to which their character is determined by their engagement with the world. An understanding of the psychology of perception reveals that this is not the case: veridical and falsidical perceptions engage the world in the same way and to the same extent. While some contemporar…Read more
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4The socialization of epistemologyIn Robert E. Goodin & Charles Tilly (eds.), The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis, Oxford University Press. pp. 58. 2006.
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3The inadequacy of anomalous monism as a realist theory of mindIn Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt & Alexander Ulfig (eds.), Language, Mind and Epistemology: On Donald Davidson’s Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.
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26The ‘Faith’ of an AtheistPhilosophic Exchange 32 (1). 2002.For many religious believers, belief in God is as fundamental as my belief in my own body. That is because the believer thinks that belief in God is a necessary condition for living a meaningful life. This paper argues that belief in God is not necessary for living a meaningful life. Morality, meaning, and love are all independent of God. All that is required for a meaningful life is a sustaining belief that humankind is worth something. This kind of faith is available to an atheist.
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1The nomic and the robustIn Barry M. Loewer (ed.), Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics, Blackwell. 1991.
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7Realization theory and the philosophy of mind: comments on Sydney Shoemaker’s physical realizationPhilosophical Studies 148 (1): 89-99. 2010.
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1Semantic anorexia: On the notion of content in cognitive scienceIn Hilary Putnam & George Boolos (eds.), Meaning and method: essays in honor of Hilary Putnam, Cambridge University Press. 1990.
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6Situating Feminist EpistemologyThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 8 31-40. 2000.I understand feminist epistemology to be epistemology put at the service of feminist politics. That is, a feminist epistemology is dedicated to answering the many questions about knowledge that arise in the course of feminist efforts to understand and transform patriarchal structures, questions such as: Why have so many intellectual traditions denigrated the cognitive capacities of women? Are there gender differences in epistemic capacities or strategies, and what would be the implications for e…Read more
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