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Graham Frank Macdonald

University of Manchester
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  • University of Manchester
    Department of Philosophy
    Retired faculty
Manchester, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Social Science
20th Century Philosophy
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  • Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A. J. Ayer with his Replies to Them
    Mind 92 (368): 608-615. 1983.
    A. J. Ayer
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    Ayer, AJ
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
    A. J. Ayer
  • The biological turn
    In Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1994.
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    Causation, supervenience, and special sciences
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5): 631-631. 2004.
    Ross & Spurrett (R&S) argue that Kim's reductionism rests on a restricted account of supervenience and a misunderstanding about causality. I contend that broadening supervenience does nothing to avoid Kim's argument and that it is difficult to see how employing different notions of causality helps to avoid the problem. I end by sketching a different solution.
    Interlevel Relations in Cognitive ScienceSupervenient CausationSupervenience and Physicalism
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    Perception and identity: essays presented to A. J. Ayer, with his replies (edited book)
    with A. J. Ayer
    Cornell University Press. 1979.
    "The philosophical works of A. J. Ayer": p. [334]-341. Bibliography: p. [343]-346. Includes indexes.
    A. J. AyerThe Nature of Perceptual Experience, MiscNaive and Direct RealismSense-Datum TheoriesThe G…Read more
    A. J. AyerThe Nature of Perceptual Experience, MiscNaive and Direct RealismSense-Datum TheoriesThe GivenP. F. StrawsonPersons, Misc
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