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121The inadequacy of anomalous monism as a realist theory of mindIn Gerhard Preyer, F. Siebelt & A. Ulfig (eds.), Language, Mind, and Epistemology: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1994.
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99Mental 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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93Meta-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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92Law and order in psychologyPhilosophical Perspectives 9 (AI, Connectionism and Philosophi): 429-46. 1995.
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89Embodiment 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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84The 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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79How 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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74What is naturalism?Think 19 (56): 21-33. 2020.Louise Antony explains a variety of naturalisms, and why she doesn't believe in God.
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72Ethical Naturalism: Problems and ProspectsIn Paul Bloomfield & David Copp (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism, Oxford University Press. pp. 193-219. 2023.This chapter discusses fundamental problems and prospects for ethical naturalism. Section 1 explains what is meant by “ethical naturalism” and surveys different versions of the view. Section 2 discusses the central philosophical challenge to ethical naturalism, viz., the “Normativity Objection.” Section 3 offers a battery of responses to it on behalf of the ethical naturalist. Section 4 explores a promising and novel approach to ethical naturalism, viz., a moral nativist theory that that combine…Read more
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59Chomsky 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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58Degraded conditions: Confounds in the study of decision makingBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 19-20. 2014.
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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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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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43A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and ObjectivityPhilosophical Review 104 (2): 317. 1995.
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37A pieced quilt: A critical discussion of Stephen Schiffer'sRemnants of MeaningPhilosophical Psychology 4 (1): 119-137. 1991.Abstract Stephen Schiffer, in his recent book, Remnants of Meaning, argues against the possibility of any compositional theory of meaning for natural language. Because the argument depends on the premise that there is no possible naturalistic reduction of the intentional to the physical, Schiffer's attack on theories of meaning is of central importance for theorists of mind. I respond to Schiffer's argument by showing that there is at least one reductive account of the mental that he has neglect…Read more
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36Against Amelioration, or: Don't Hire Any Conceptual Engineers Without Talking to Me FirstProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 96 168-85. 2022.ABSTRACT There is currently a great deal of enthusiasm for projects known sometimes as “amelioration” and sometimes as “conceptual engineering.” Such projects advocate either the revision of existing concepts, or the intentional creation of new concepts. It is held by advocates of amelioration that projects of this sort are necessary for the accomplishment of a variety of social justice goals. So, for example, many feminist theorists hold that the concept WOMAN must be revised if we are to pr…Read more
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