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14Review of Sergio Moravia and Scott Staton: The Enigma of the Mind: The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 328-330. 1996.
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33Sergio Moravia, The Enigma of the Mind: The Mind–Body Problem in Contemporary Thought. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, cloth £35.00, paper £12.95 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 328-330. 1996.
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23Particles and Ideas: Bishop Berkeley's Corpuscularian Philosophy (review)Philosophical Books 31 (2): 75-77. 1990.
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20Folk psychology and theoretical statusIn Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith (eds.), Theories of Theories of Mind, Cambridge University Press. pp. 105--118. 1996.
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215Contrast, inference and scientific realismSynthese 160 (2): 249-267. 2008.The thesis of underdetermination presents a major obstacle to the epistemological claims of scientific realism. That thesis is regularly assumed in the philosophy of science, but is puzzlingly at odds with the actual history of science, in which empirically adequate theories are thin on the ground. We propose to advance a case for scientific realism which concentrates on the process of scientific reasoning rather than its theoretical products. Developing an account of causal–explanatory inferenc…Read more
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72The internal problem of dreaming: Detection and epistemic riskInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (2). 2008.There are two epistemological problems connected with dreaming, which are of different kinds and require different treatment. The internal problem is best seen as a problem of rational consistency, of how we can maintain all of: Dreams are experiences we have during sleep. Dream-experiences are sufficiently similar to waking experiences for the subject to be able to mistake them for waking experiences. We can tell that we are awake. (1)-(3) threaten to violate a requirement on discrimination: th…Read more
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