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4Review of Alan Garfinkel: Forms of Explanation: Rethinking the Questions in Social Theory (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33 (4): 438-441. 1982.
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52Issues in Marxist Philosophy. Vol. I. Dialectics and Method. Vol. 2. Materialism. Vol. 3. Epistemology, Science, Ideology (review)Philosophical Review 91 (4): 632-637. 1982.
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18Marxism and the Jewish questionIn Martin Eve & David Musson (eds.), The Socialist Register, Merlin Press. pp. 19--19. 1982.A number of interrelated questions about Jewry, collectively referred to as 'the Jewish question', have been discussed by many Marxists, beginning with Marx himself in his essay, 'On the Jewish Question'. Perhaps the phrase has been forever discredited by those who not long ago offered the world its final solution. Names aside, the substantive issues are still of great importance for historical materialism. For example, we still have no plausible comprehensive account of the causes of anti-Semit…Read more
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55ACHINSTEIN, PETER [1983]: The Nature of Explanation. Oxford University Press. ix+385 pp. (ISBN 0-19-503215-2) (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (3): 377-384. 1986.
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37Singular explanation and the social sciencesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 15 (1): 130-149. 1990.
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12ExplanationIn Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1998.Book synopsis: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the most ambitious international philosophy project in many years. Edited by Edward Craig and assisted by thirty specialist subject editors, the REP consists of ten volumes of the world's most eminent philosophers writing for the needs of students and teachers of philosophy internationally. The REP is a project on an unparalleled scale.
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116The active and the passive: David -Hillel RubenAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 71 (1): 229-246. 1997.How to draw the distinction between activity and passivity? Whatever that might be, the causal theory of action cannot give the right answer, as it offers an essentially passive account of human action.
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Explanation in History and Social ScienceIn Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1998.
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44Realism in the Social SciencesIn Hilary Lawson & Lisa Appignanesi (eds.), Dismantling Truth, Weidenfeld. 1989.To what extend do the standard tests for realism, say in the philosophy of mind, apply to the social sciences?
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49Actions and Their PartsIn Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy: Metaphysics, . pp. 73-80. 1999.Do all actions have parts, and, if so, are their parts also actions? If they have parts, are there basic parts of actions which themselves have no further parts?
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305On SearlePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2): 443-447. 1997.Some problems in John Searle's The Construction of Social Reality. I express some doubts about his constitutive v. regulative rule distinction, and press some objections against his unanalysed idea of acceptance or agreement.
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123Trying in Some WayAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (4): 719-733. 2013.Does 'Person P tried to A' entail that there is some particular, whether a mental act or a brain state or whatever, that is a trying? Most discussions of trying assume that this entailment holds. There is no good reason for holding that this is a valid inference. In particular, I examine one 'Davidsonian' argument that might be used to justify the validity of such an inference and argue that the argument is not sound. See: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IxsuPqt7rvdzqMxpFiTv/full
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389Going in circlesIn Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (ed.), Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice, Cambridge University Press. pp. 312. 2009.What might it mean to say that there is such a thing as a hermeneutic circle in the social sciences? A consideration of some remarks by Charles Taylor and others and an interpretive reconstruction, and assessment, of the idea of such a circle.
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Marxism and the Jewish QuestionIn Martin Eve & David Musson (eds.), The Socialist Register, Merlin Press. 1982.
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1Book review of Morton White, 'What Is & What Ought to be Done' (review)Mind 92 (368): 631-633. 1983.Book review of Morton White, 'What Is & What Ought to be Done'
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29A note on justification: Its definition and its criteriaPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 37 (4): 552-555. 1977.
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Birkbeck, University of LondonDepartment of PhilosophyEmeritus Professor, Honorary Research Fellow
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Social Science |