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49Critical noticeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 34 (2). 1956.Book reviewed in this article:F.H. Bradley, Collected Works Volumes 1–5
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42Ethics and SciencePhilosophy 56 (218): 449-465. 1981.It has frequently been lamented that while the human species has made immense progress in science it is nevertheless ethically backward. This ethical backwardness is all the more dangerous because the advanced state of scientific knowledge has made available a technology with which we are able to destroy ourselves—indeed a technology which may have got so much out of hand that we may not even have the capacity to prevent it from destroying us.
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38The Philosophy of F. H. Bradley (review)Idealistic Studies 16 (3): 283-284. 1986.As the editors remark in their preface, the neglect of F. H. Bradley during the last forty years or so is partly due to the dearth of good secondary literature. This book amply rectifies this situation. Something like nineteenth-century idealism is once more in the air, as Dummett and his followers run together questions of truth with those of warranted assertability. H. H. Joachim talked horribly of something he called “truth-or-knowledge,” and in the end Bradley may not always have kept the tw…Read more
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35Ethics and SciencePhilosophy 56 (218). 1981.It has frequently been lamented that while the human species has made immense progress in science it is nevertheless ethically backward. This ethical backwardness is all the more dangerous because the advanced state of scientific knowledge has made available a technology with which we are able to destroy ourselves—indeed a technology which may have got so much out of hand that we may not even have the capacity to prevent it from destroying us
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35The Structure of Science. Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (review)Journal of Philosophy 59 (8): 216-223. 1962.
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35Sir William Mitchell, K.c.M.g. (1861-1962)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 40 (3). 1962.This Article does not have an abstract
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34A physicalist account of psychology (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (4): 403-410. 1979.
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33The Moving 'Now'Australasian Journal of Philosophy 31 (3). 1953.This Article does not have an abstract
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32Utilitarianism and Beyond Edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams Cambridge University Press, 1982, vii + 290 pp., £20, £7.50 paper (review)Philosophy 58 (225): 413-. 1983.
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32Explanation—Opening AddressRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 27 1-19. 1990.It is a pleasure for me to give this opening address to the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference on ‘Explanation’ for two reasons. The first is that it is succeeded by exciting symposia and other papers concerned with various special aspects of the topic of explanation. The second is that the conference is being held in my old alma mater, the University of Glasgow, where I did my first degree. Especially due to C. A. Campbell and George Brown there was in the Logic Department a big emphasis …Read more
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29‘Looks Red’ and Dangerous TalkPhilosophy 70 (274): 545-554. 1995.This paper is partly to get rid of some irritation which I have felt at the quite common tendency of philosophers to elucidate (for example) ‘is red’ in terms of ‘looks red’. For a relatively recent example see, for example, Frank Jackson and Robert Pargetter, ‘An Objectivist′s Guide to Subjectivism about Colour’. However rather than try to make a long list of references, I would rather say ‘No names, no pack drill’. I have even been disturbed to find the use of the words ‘looks red’ that I am o…Read more
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28Cohen, R., Hooker, C., Michalos, A., and Van evra, J. : "Proceedings of the 1974 biennial meeting, philosophy of science association" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 55 (n/a): 213. 1977.
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25QUINE, W. V. O.: The ways of paradox and other essaysAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 45 (n/a): 92. 1967.