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20Review of Diana tietjens Meyers, Gender in the Mirror: Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (9). 2002.
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265PHILOSOPHY OF PERSONS: “Human Nature” and Its Role in Feminist TheoryIn Janet A. Kourany (ed.), Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, Princeton University Press. pp. 63-91. 1997.
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139Multiple Realizability, Projectibility, and the Reality of Mental PropertiesPhilosophical Topics 26 (1-2): 1-24. 1999.
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19On the proper treatment of the connection between connectionism and symbolismBehavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (1): 23-24. 1988.
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101Meta-linguistics: Methodology and ontology in Devitt's ignorance of languageAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (4). 2008.(2008). Meta-Linguistics: Methodology and Ontology in Devitt's Ignorance of Language. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 643-656.
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29Naturalizing radical translationIn A. Orenstein & Petr Kotatko (eds.), Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine, Kluwer Academic Print On Demand. pp. 141--150. 2000.
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45Introduction Atheism is a minority position in today’s world. At least in the parts of the globe accessible to pollsters, most people believe in God. The rate of theism has little to do with the level of scientific or technological development of the society in question. Consider, for example, the United States, where, despite the country’s constitutional commitment to the “separation of church and state,” most institutions of daily life are infused with theism.1 U.S. coins carry the proclamatio…Read more
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100Mental Causation (review)Philosophical Review 105 (4): 564. 1996.The old problem about mental causation arises out of dualism: if minds are not physical, how can they interact causally with bodies? The new problem about mental causation arises, ironically, out of materialism: if everything that happens, including intentional action, has a wholly physical cause, what room is left for distinctively mental causes? This is the problem to which the essays in Heil and Mele’s extremely useful volume are devoted. Although mental causation enthusiasts will recognize m…Read more
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95Law and order in psychologyPhilosophical Perspectives 9 (AI, Connectionism and Philosophi): 429-46. 1995.
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42Feeling Fine About the MindPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2): 381-387. 1997.The article presents a critique of John Searle’s attack on computationalist theories of mind in his recent book, The Rediscovery of the Mind. Searle is guilty of caricaturing his opponents, and of ignoring their arguments. Moreover, his own positive theory of mind, which he claims “takes account of” subjectivity, turns out to offer no discernible advantages over the views he rejects.
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6Degraded conditions: Confounds in the study of decision making – ERRATUMBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (1): 43. 2014.
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144Meaning and semantic knowledge: Louise M. AntonyAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 71 (1). 1997.
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80How to play the flute: A commentary on Dreyfus's “intelligence without representation” (review)Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (4): 395-401. 2002.
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58Degraded conditions: Confounds in the study of decision makingBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 19-20. 2014.
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19Everybody has got it: A defense of non-reductive materialismIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Jonathan D. Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2007.
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15Holism: A Consumer UpdateGrazer Philosophische Studien 46 135-161. 1993.Fodor and LePore's reconstruction of the semantic holism debate in terms of "atomism" and "anatomism" is inadequate: it fails to highlight the important issue of how intentional contents are individuated, and excludes or obscures several possible positions on the metaphysics of content. One such position, "weak sociabilism" is important because it addresses concerns of Fodor and LePore's molecularist critics about conditions for possession of concepts, without abandoning atomism about content in…Read more
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91Embodiment and epistemologyIn Paul K. Moser (ed.), The Oxford handbook of epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 463--478. 2002.In ”Embodiment and Epistemology,” Louise Antony considers a kind of ”Cartesian epistemology” according to which, so far as knowing goes, knowers could be completely disembodied, that is, pure Cartesian egos. Antony examines a number of recent challenges to Cartesian epistemology, particularly challenges from feminist epistemology. She contends that we might have good reason to think that theorizing about knowledge can be influenced by features of our embodiment, even if we lack reason to suppose…Read more
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45Is Psychological Individualism a Piece of Ideology?Hypatia 10 (3). 1995.I analyze and criticize Naomi Scheman's argument for the claim that psychological individualism-the thesis that psychological states are entities or particulars over which psychological theories may quantify-has no legitimate philosophical backing and is instead an element of patriarchal ideology. I conclude that Scheman's argument is flawed and that her thesis is false. Psychological individualism is perfectly compatible with and may even be required by feminist political theory.
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335Feeling fine about the mindPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2): 381-87. 1997.The article presents a critique of John Searle's attack on computationalist theories of mind in his recent book, The Rediscovery of the Mind. Searle is guilty of caricaturing his opponents, and of ignoring their arguments. Moreover, his own positive theory of mind, which he claims "takes account of" subjectivity, turns out to offer no discernible advantages over the views he rejects
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11661Different Voices or Perfect Storm: Why Are There So Few Women in Philosophy?Journal of Social Philosophy 43 (3): 227-255. 2012.
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62Chomsky and His Critics (review)Croatian Journal of Philosophy 5 (3): 589-596. 2005.In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky's work. Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan. Includes Chomsky's substantial…Read more
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