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25The Second Person: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (edited book)Routledge. 2015.The past few years have witnessed an exponentially growing body of work conducted under the ‘second person’ heading. This idea has been explored in various areas of philosophy , in developmental psychology, in psychiatry, and even in neuroscience. We may call this interest in the second person the ‘You Turn’. To put it at its most general, and ambitious, the idea driving much of the work is this: proper attention to the ways in which we relate to one another when we stand in second person relati…Read more
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25‘Like the shadow of one’s own head, [the referent of one’s ‘I’ thoughts] will not wait to be jumped on. And yet it is never very far ahead; indeed, sometimes it does not seem to be ahead of the pursuer at all. It evades capture by lodging itself in the very inside of the muscles of the pursuer. It is too near even to be within arm’s reach.’(C of M 177-89)
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22Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and PsychologyPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (220): 528-530. 2005.
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14Objectivity and the Perspective of ConsciousnessEuropean Journal of Philosophy 5 (3): 235-250. 2002.
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14Perceptual Intentionality. Attention and ConsciousnessRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 43 181-202. 1998.A representative expression of current thinking on the ‘problem of consciousness’ runs as follows. There is one, impenetrably hard problem; and a host of soluble, and in this sense easy problems. The hard problem is: how could a physical system yield subjective states? How could there be something it is like to be a physical system? This problem corresponds to a concept of consciousness invariably labelled ‘phenomenal consciousness’. It is here, with respect to phenomenal consciousness, that we …Read more
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14Consciousness, Acquaintance and Demonstrative ThoughtPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2): 433-440. 2001.Suppose you are a blindsighted subject and an experimenter sitting opposite you says of an object in your functionally blind field ‘that peach looks delicious’. Unless you move your head to encompass the object within your normal field of vision you will not know which object she is talking about. Suppose now she reverts to the strategy used by neurophsychologists who work with blindsighted subjects and simply tells you that there is an object there and asks you either to reach for it or guess i…Read more
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12The A Priori and the Empirical in Theories of Emotion: Smedslund's “Conceptual Analysis” of EmotionCognition and Emotion 6 (6): 457-466. 1992.
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3The Explanatory Role of ConsciousnessIn Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: The Problem Perceptual Consciousness and Action: Experimental Dissociations and Commonsense Connections Awareness of Intentions and Action Initiation References.
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2Consciousness, self-consciousness and communicationIn Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception, Routledge. 2007.
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1Problems in the Philosophy and Psychology of Spatial Representation (edited book)Blackwell. 1993.
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On understanding schizophreniaIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), Exploring the Self: Philosophical and Psychopathological Perspectives on Self-experience, John Benjamins. 2000.
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IntroductionIn Johannes Roessler & Naomi Eilan (eds.), Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Clarendon Press. 2003.
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Self-Consciousness and ExperienceDissertation, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). 1988.Available from UMI in association with The British Library. Requires signed TDF. ;We find ourselves in a world not of our own making; and in acquiring knowledge about the world and our situation in it we have nothing to go on but our psychological states; they are the immediate given. Let us label this claim the Basic Datum. What I shall call the Minimal Constraint is the claim, 'An account of the states of mind of subjects credited with knowledgeable thoughts about a mind-independent world must…Read more
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Spatial Representation. Problems in philosophy and psychologyRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 191 (1): 119-120. 2001.
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Joint attention, communication, and mindIn Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack & Johannes Roessler (eds.), Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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The Explanatory Role of Consciousness in ActionIn Sabine Maasen, Wolfgang Prinz & Gerhard Roth (eds.), Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality, Oxford University Press. pp. 188-201. 2003.
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On understanding schizophreniaIn Dan Zahavi (ed.), Exploring the Self: Philosophical and Psychopathological Perspectives on Self-experience, John Benjamins. 2000.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |