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213Critical noticeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 33 (1). 1955.Book reviewed in this article:F.H. Bradley, Collected Works Volumes 1–5
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80ColoursPhilosophy 36 (April-July): 128-142. 1961.In this paper I wish first of all to argue against two possible views about colour qualities, which I shall label the Objectivist and Subjectivist views respectively. I find these views to be prevalent among philosophers of my acquaintance, though sometimes they are hidden by a veneer of post-Wittgensteinian sophistication. Part of my argument will depend on modern scientific theories of colour vision. In the second part of the paper I shall argue for a different view of my own
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18Benevolence as an over-riding attitudeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 55 (2). 1977.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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19Conditions of Rational Inquiry: A Study in the Philosophy of Value (review)Philosophical Review 72 (1): 104-106. 1963.
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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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65The brain in the vat and the question of metaphysical realismStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2): 237-247. 2004.This article indicates some ways in which the fantasy of the brain in the vat has been used in thought experiments to discuss important philosophical problems. The first has to do with scepticism about the external world. The second has to do with Hilary Putnam’s arguments for the indeterminacy of reference and his rejection of metaphysical realism. The third issue to which the brain in the vat is relevant has to do with the difference between broad and narrow content of beliefs and Putnam’s cha…Read more
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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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11Book Reviews : Renascent Rationalism. By HELIER J. ROBINSON. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975. Pp. xi + 290. $14.95 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 7 (3): 311-312. 1977.
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12Book reviews : Method and appraisal in the physical sciences: The critical background to modern science, 1800-1905. Edited by Colin Howson. New York: Cam bridge university press, 1976. Pp. VII + 344. $24.50 (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 7 (4): 425-426. 1977.
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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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8Utilitarianism and Beyond Edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard WilliamsCambridge University Press, 1982, vii + 290 pp., £20, £7.50 paper (review)Philosophy 58 (225): 413-414. 1983.
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189Ruth Anna Putnam and the fact-value distinctionPhilosophy 74 (3): 431-437. 1999.This article is a defence of the Fact-Value distinction against considerations brought up by Ruth Anna Putnam in three articles in Philosophy, especially her ‘Perceiving Facts and Values’ January 1998. I defend metaphysical realism about facts and anti-realism about values against Putnam' intermediate position about both and I relate the matter to the logic of imperatives. The motivations of scientists or historians to select fields of investigation are irrelevant to the objectivity of their hyp…Read more
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15The brain in the vat and the question of metaphysical realismStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2): 237-247. 2004.
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3S. A. Grave: "A History of Philosophy in Australia" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (n/a): 345. 1989.
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4PUTNAM, H.: "Realism and Reason: Philosophical Papers. Volume 3" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (n/a): 533. 1985.
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15Neural circuits and Block diagramsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5): 849-849. 1999.This commentary is intended to illuminate Gold's & Stoljar 's main contentions by exploiting a favorite comparison, namely, that between biology and electronics. Roughly, and leaving out Darwinian theory and the like, biology is physics and chemistry plus natural history just as electronics is physics plus wiring diagrams. Natural history contains generalizations, not laws. Psychology and cognitive science typically give more abstract explanations, as do “block diagrams” in electronics, and are …Read more