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80Realism v. IdealismPhilosophy 61 (237): 295-312. 1986.It is characteristic of realists to separate ontology from epistemology and of idealists to mix the two things up. By ‘idealists’ here I am mainly referring to the British neo-Hegelians but the charge of mixing up ontology and epistemology can be made against at least one ‘subjective idealist’, namely Bishop Berkeley, as his wellknown dictum ‘esse ispercipi’ testifies. The objective idealists rejected the correspondence theory of truth and on the whole accepted a coherence theory. The qualificat…Read more
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5Utilitarianism and Generalized BenevolencePacific Philosophical Quarterly 61 (1-2): 115-121. 1980.
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J. D. Barrow and F. J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle"Philosophical Quarterly 37 (149): 463. 1987.
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3Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-UtilitarianismIn Thomas L. Carson & Paul K. Moser (eds.), Morality and the good life, Oxford University Press. 1997.
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13Nicholas Maxwell, The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, cloth £35. ISBN: 0 19 823776 6 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (4): 907-911. 2000.
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11Infinite Minds: A Philosophical CosmologyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (4): 522-524. 2002.Book Information Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology. Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology John Leslie Oxford Clarendon Press 2001 xii + 234 £25 By John Leslie. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Pp. xii + 234. £25
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How to Turn the Tractatus Wittgenstein into (Almost) Donald DavidsonIn Ernest LePore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Blackwell. pp. 92--100. 1986.
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Metaphysischer RealismusIn Marcus Willaschek (ed.), Realismus, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag. pp. 2143--107. 2000.
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The Challenge of Scientific MaterialismIn Alan R. Malachowski (ed.), Richard Rorty, London ;sage. pp. 1--5. 2002.
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6Ockham’s razorIn James H. Fetzer (ed.), Principles of philosophical reasoning, Rowman & Allanheld. pp. 118--28. 1984.
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Philosophical Problems of Cosmology in Nouvelles tendances du réalisme: la perspective australienneRevue Internationale de Philosophie 41 (160): 112-126. 1987.
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20Computational processes, representations and propositional attitudesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1): 97-97. 1980.
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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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Laws of Nature as a Species of RegularitiesIn John Bacon, Keith Campbell & Lloyd Reinhardt (eds.), Ontology, Causality and Mind: Essays in Honour of D.M. Armstrong, Cambridge University Press. pp. 152-169. 1993.
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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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21Varieties of Realism: A Rationale for the Natural Sciences By Rom Harré Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, viii+375 pp., £25.00 (review)Philosophy 62 (242): 541-. 1987.
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570Commentaries on David Hodgson's "a plain person's free will"Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (1): 20-75. 2005.REMARKS ON EVOLUTION AND TIME-SCALES, Graham Cairns-Smith; HODGSON'S BLACK BOX, Thomas Clark; DO HODGSON'S PROPOSITIONS UNIQUELY CHARACTERIZE FREE WILL?, Ravi Gomatam; WHAT SHOULD WE RETAIN FROM A PLAIN PERSON'S CONCEPT OF FREE WILL?, Gilberto Gomes; ISOLATING DISPARATE CHALLENGES TO HODGSON'S ACCOUNT OF FREE WILL, Liberty Jaswal; FREE AGENCY AND LAWS OF NATURE, Robert Kane; SCIENCE VERSUS REALIZATION OF VALUE, NOT DETERMINISM VERSUS CHOICE, Nicholas Maxwell; COMMENTS ON HODGSON, J.J.C. Smart; T…Read more