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61Intuitionism, Constructive Interpretation, and CricketPhilosophical Papers 37 (2): 319-331. 2008.This paper is a re-reading of Colin Radford's paper 'The Umpire's Dilemma', published in Analysis in 1985. It argues that Radford's dilemma has been unjustly ignored and has interesting (and problematic) implications for both intuitionism and Ronald Dworkin's constructive interpretationist jurisprudence.
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39Should We Tolerate People Who Split?Southern Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 1-17. 1992.Thought-experiments in which one person divides into two have been important in the literature on personal identity. I consider three influential arguments which aim to undermine the force of these thought-experiments – arguments from David Wiggins, Patricia Kitcher and Kathleen Wilkes. I argue that all three fail, leaving us to face the consequences of splitting, whatever those may be.
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Book Reviews (review)Theoria 54 (112): 109-123. 2007.Daniel Dennet by Matthew Elton Simon Beck Globalization and Justice by Kai Nielsen Glen M. SegellThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker Deborah Roberts Georges Bataille by Michel Surya Derek Hook Thinking after Heidegger by David Wood Jeanne Marie Kusina.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Action |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |