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11The Dispositions of DescartescIn Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 69-78. 2009.
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36Knowing causes: Descartes on the world of matterPhilosophica 76 (2). 2005.In this essay, we discuss how Descartes arrives at his mature view of material causation. Descartes position changes over time in some very radical ways. The last section spells out his final position as to how causation works in the world of material objects. When considering Descartes causal theories, it is useful to distinguish between vertical and horizontal causation. The vertical perspective addresses Gods relation to creation. God is essential being, and every being other than God …Read more
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33Review of Barry C. Smith (ed.), Fritz Allhoff (ed.), Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine; and, Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (4). 2008.
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54Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.One of the perennial themes in philosophy is the problem of our access to the world around us; do our perceptual systems bring us into contact with the world as it is or does perception depend upon our individual conceptual frameworks? This volume of new essays examines reference as it relates to perception, action and realism, and the questions which arise if there is no neutral perspective or independent way to know the world. The essays discuss the nature of referring, concentrating on the wa…Read more
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4Chapter two. God and efficient causationIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 36-81. 2009.
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24A recent drawing of the theory/observation distinctionPhilosophy of Science 38 (3): 413-414. 1971.James Cornman has recently offered a definition for ‘observation term’ which he takes to meet most, if not all, of the standard objections to such definitions. He also employs this definition against certain materialists, but in what follows I wish only to address myself to the proposed definition. I shall argue that he has failed to show any logical difference between “observation terms,” as he defines them, and terms which are not so classified. I shall show that his definition is too restrict…Read more
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The person-centered rhetoric of seventeenth-century scienceIn Marcello Pera & William R. Shea (eds.), Persuading Science: The Art of Scientific Rhetoric, Science History Publications, Usa. pp. 143--156. 1991.
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165Activities and causation: The metaphysics and epistemology of mechanismsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 18 (1). 2004.This article deals with mechanisms conceived as composed of entities and activities. In response to many perplexities about the nature of activities, a number of arguments are developed concerning their epistemic and ontological status. Some questions concerning the relations between cause and causal explanation and mechanisms are also addressed.
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The Cambridge Companion to Galileo (JR Milton)Philosophical Books 41 (1): 29-30. 2000.Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with th…Read more
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76Mechanistic Information and Causal ContinuityIn Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo & Jon Williamson (eds.), Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press. 2010.Some biological processes move from step to step in a way that cannot be completely understood solely in terms of causes and correlations. This paper develops a notion of mechanistic information that can be used to explain the continuities of such processes. We compare them to processes that do not involve information. We compare our conception of mechanistic information to some familiar notions including Crick’s idea of genetic information, Shannon-Weaver information, and Millikan’s biosemantic…Read more
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Some cogitations on interpretationsIn Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.), Interpretation: Ways of Thinking About the Sciences and the Arts, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.
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17The meta‐language of psychiatry as cross‐disciplinary effort: In response to Zachar (2012)Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (3): 710-720. 2012.
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2Explanations of Colors: A Comment to HardinIn P. Machamer & M. Carrier (eds.), Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind, Pittsburgh University Press and Universtaetsverlag Konstanz. pp. 5--113. 1997.
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27This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.
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5ReferencesIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 243-250. 2009.
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45Daniela Bailer‐Jones, 1969–2006International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21 (2). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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20ObservationPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1970. 1970.
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23Chapter five. Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideasIn J. E. McGuire & Peter Machamer (eds.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 164-197. 2009.
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7Wahrnehmung / Philosophie / Wissenschaft / Geschichte.
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Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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