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1097Thinking about relations: Strathern, Sahlins, and Locke on anthropological knowledgeAnthropological Theory 4 (16): 327-349. 2016.John Locke is known within anthropology primarily for his empiricism, his views of natural laws, and his discussion of the state of nature and the social contract. Marilyn Strathern and Marshall Sahlins, however, have offered distinctive, novel, and broad reflections on the nature of anthropological knowledge that appeal explicitly to a lesser-known aspect of Locke’s work: his metaphysical views of relations. This paper examines their distinctive conclusions – Sahlins’ about cultural relativism,…Read more
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86Review of Robert D. Rupert, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (3). 2010.
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1769Extended Mind and IdentityIn Jens Clausen & Neil Levy (eds.), Handbook of Neuroethics, Springer. pp. 423-439. 2014.Dominant views of personal identity in philosophy take some kind of psychological continuity or connectedness over time to be criterial for the identity of a person over time. Such views assign psychological states, particularly those necessary for narrative memory of some kind, special importance in thinking about the nature of persons. The extended mind thesis, which has generated much recent discussion in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, holds that a person’s psychological stat…Read more
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335Pluralism, entwinement, and the levels of selectionPhilosophy of Science 70 (3): 531-552. 2003.This paper distinguishes and critiques several forms of pluralism about the levels of selection, and introduces a novel way of thinking about the biological properties and processes typically conceptualized in terms of distinct levels. In particular, "levels" should be thought of as being entwined or fused. Since the pluralism discussed is held by divergent theorists, the argument has implications for many positions in the debate over the units of selection. And since the key points on which the…Read more
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