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35"Ought" Judgments and MotivationAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 39 (2). 2002.Competing metaethical theories are sometimes cast as alternative ways of responding to an inconsistency between two apparent features of moral judgments, viz., that they are truth-apt expressions of belief and that they have motivational force. I argue that this is an oversimplification that fails to address some important data that can be accommodated on the basis of a straightforward “good reasons” account of “ought” judgments that explains why certain of these judgments have motivational forc…Read more
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34A Kantian Account of Animal CognitionPhilosophical Forum 48 (4): 369-393. 2017.Kant holds that “on the basis of their actions” we can infer that “animals act in accordance with representations” (Critique of the Power of Judgment, 5: 464, fn.). Animals, like humans, have the powers of sensibility, imagination and choice, but lack the human powers of understanding, reason and free choice. They also lack first-person representation, consciousness, concepts and inner sense. Nevertheless, animals have an analog of reason that involves connections of representations that explain…Read more
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25Heidelberger on the First and Second PersonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (2): 323-331. 1985.
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23Hetherington on Possible ObjectsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (4). 1985.This Article does not have an abstract
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19Hob, Nob, and Hecate: The Problem of Quantifying OutAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (4). 1982.This Article does not have an abstract
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13Making Sense of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Philosophical IntroductionBloomsbury Academic. 2022.This book explains Kant's major claims in the Critique of Pure Reason, how they hang together, and how Kant supports them, clarifying the way in which his reasoning unfolds over the course of this groundbreaking work. The book concentrates on key parts of the B edition that are essential to a basic understanding of Kant's project and provides a sympathetic account of Kant's reasoning about perception, space, time, judgment, substance, causation, objectivity, synthetic a priori knowledge, and the…Read more
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6Zemach on BeliefAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 61 (4). 1983.This Article does not have an abstract
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5Perception and Objective KnowledgeThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 29-38. 2000.McDowell and Putnam are right to insist that objective knowledge is possible only because we are open to the world in perception, but neither of them offers an adequate account of the relationship between perception and perceptual judgments (which are at the core of our most fundamental knowledge of the world). This paper, intended as a contribution to the development of a sophisticated commonsense realism, proposes an account in terms of which perceptions acquire the status of perceptual judgme…Read more
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In Defence of the Adverbial Theory of ExperienceIn Thought, Language and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 95-106. 1998.This paper criticizes act-object accounts of experience and defends a version of the adverbial theory that is based on the assumption that sensory experiences always have propositional contents—in the sense that they do not represent bare individuals and properties, but whole states of affairs.
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BelievingDissertation, Indiana University. 1980.The emphasis in Part II is on the truth conditions of belief sentences. The chief aim is to show how the ontological account of belief advanced in Part I can serve as a basis for a theory of truth conditions for such sentences. The formal theory developed in Part II can, however, be discussed without reference to the earlier ontology. Chapter 11 presents the basic framework for the theory, and also deals with the truth conditions of the belief sentences which are construed as basic. In the later…Read more
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Semantics for ConditionalsDissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa). 1976.
Indiana University
PhD, 1980
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |