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260Hume on Liberty and NecessityIn Peter Millican (ed.), Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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42The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume (review)Philosophical Books 31 (4): 203-205. 1992.
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16Scientism. Philosophy and the Infatuation with SciencePhilosophical Books 34 (4): 232-234. 1993.
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205God and first person in BerkeleyPhilosophy 82 (1): 87-114. 2007.Berkeley claims idealism provides a novel argument for the existence of God. But familiar interpretations of his argument fail to support the conclusion that there is a single omnipotent spirit. A satisfying reconstruction should explain the way Berkeley moves between first person singular and plural, as well as providing a powerful argument, once idealism is accepted. The new interpretation offered here represents the argument as an inference to the best explanation of a shared reality. Consequ…Read more
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118Beliefs, functionally discrete states, and connectionist networksBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3): 899-906. 1994.
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189Two Kinds of Causal ExplanationTheoria 76 (4): 287-313. 2010.To give a causal explanation is to give information about causal history. But a vast amount of causal history lies behind anything that happens, far too much to be included in any intelligible explanation. This is the Problem of Limitation for explanatory information. To cope with this problem, explanations must select for what is relevant to and adequate for answering particular inquiries. In the present paper this idea is used in order to distinguish two kinds of causal explanation, on the gro…Read more
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