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12Frank B. Farrell, Subjectivity, Realism and Postmodernism-The Recovery of the World Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (1): 32-35. 1995.
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152Bad FaithPhilosophy 64 (249). 1989.In 'Sartre on Bad Faith' Leslie Stevenson attempts to formulate the Sartrean notion of bad faith. According to Stevenson, someone is in bad faith, if she reflectively denies some state of affairs, of the truth of which she is pre-reflectively aware. Jeffrey Gordon counters with the criticism that, although Stevenson's analysis of Sartre is correct, it is a position which is philosophically indefensible. I argue that Stevenson's reflective denial account falls to Gordon's criticism, but that it i…Read more
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Robert L. Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock, eds., Wittgenstein and Quine (review)Philosophy in Review 18 389-391. 1998.
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5Michael N. Forster, Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (review)Philosophy in Review 25 (2): 104-106. 2005.
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JE Malpas, Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (4): 165-168. 1993.
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59Critical Notice of Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Jeffrey A. Bell, Andrew Cutrofello, and Paul M. Livingston (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (5): 694-713. 2017.This collection maintains a dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions, while aspiring to situate itself beyond the analytic-continental divide. It divides into four parts, Methodologies, Truth and Meaning, Metaphysics and Ontology, and Values, Personhood and Agency, though there is considerable overlap among the categories. History and temporality are recurrent themes, but there is a lot of metaphysics generally, with some philosophy of language, philosophy of social science, ethi…Read more
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50Précis of Philosophy and Its Epistemic NeurosesDialogue 43 (3): 569-576. 2004.I outline the main arguments of my book, Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses (Westview, 2000), in which I defend an anti-theoretical approach to traditional problems in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of language, focusing especially on external-world scepticism, the indeterminacy of reference, relativism and first-person authority, contending that these problems arise from embracing philosophical commitments that are not quite contradictory, but which suffer from what I describe …Read more
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96Kant’s Private-Clock ArgumentKant Studien 88 (4): 442-461. 1997.Examining the effectiveness of the Kant’s Refutation of Idealism as a critique of a Cartesian account of consciousness, I argue that Kant's reasoning turns on the insight that self-knowledge presupposes independent temporal determination of the self. This insight bears an intriguing resemblance to claims about meaning and justification that appear in Wittgenstein's later work. Much as Wittgenstein rules out the possibility of a private language, whose meanings derive from acts of inner ostensive…Read more