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53Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, edited by Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (review)Mind 120 (479): 882-888. 2011.
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29Review of Steven Horst, Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (4). 2008.
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44Multiple realizability and psychological laws: Evaluating Kim's challengeIn Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation, Imprint Academic. pp. 59. 2003.A close examination of Kim's argument in "Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction" for the claim that if a kind is multiply realizable in a way that blocks identification with more fundamental properties it is also a kind unlikely to appear as an appropriate kind in a theory in the first place. Ultimately, I argue that there is one reasonably promising argument of this sort, but its success turns on explanatory questions the answers to which are far from obvious.
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39Experience, appearance, and hidden featuresPSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 7. 2001.Charles Siewert has given us an ingenious thought experiment involving a limited lack of conscious experience. The possibility of the described case is incompatible with a number of popular theories of consciousness. Siewert acknowledges, however, that this possibility is not a direct threat to "hidden feature" theories. I aim to do two things: first, strengthen his defense of the claim that the case is genuinely possible by considering and rejecting some further attempts to explain away our tem…Read more
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116The conceptual link from physical to mental by Robert Kirk (review)Analysis 74 (3): 552-556. 2014.
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81Physicality for PhysicalistsTopoi 37 (3): 457-472. 2018.How should the “physical” in “physicalism” be understood? I here set out systematic criteria of adequacy, propose an account, and show how the account meets those criteria. The criteria of adequacy focus on the idea of rational management: to vindicate philosophical practice, the account must make it plausible that we can assess various questions about physicalism. The account on offer is dubbed the “Ideal Naturalist Physics” account, according to which the physical is that which appears in an i…Read more
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3Conceptual analysis, circularity, and the commitments of physicalismActa Analytica 16 (26): 119-133. 2001.
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