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    Philosophy as Verse-Performance: five poems and a formalist prospectus
    Performance Philosophy 2 (2): 342-361. 2017.
    This article consists of five poems and an introductory essay. The poems are intended on the one hand to make a case for the currently underrated virtues of poetic formalism, i.e., for the revival of rhyme and meter as aspects of poetic practice. On the other they argue for a distinctly philosophical mode of poetry that embraces the values of conceptual or rational discourse as against a romantic-modernist conception premised on the intrinsic superiority of lyric, metaphor, symbol, analogy, and …Read more
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    Poetry as Philosophy: for Richard Rorty
    Philosophy Pathways 186 (1). 2014.
  • Hume A-Dying: notes from Boswell
    Philosophy Pathways 186 (1). 2014.
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    Deconstruction against Itself: Derrida and NietzscheThe Ear of the Other: Texts and Discussions (review)
    with Jacques Derrida, Christie V. McDonald, Claude Levesque, and Peggy Kamuf
    Diacritics 16 (4): 59. 1986.
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    Limited Think: How Not to Read DerridaLimited Inc.Against Deconstruction (review)
    with Jacques Derrida, Gerald Graff, and John M. Ellis
    Diacritics 20 (1): 16. 1990.
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    Can Realism Be Naturalized?
    Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 4 (1). 2000.
    Hilary Putnam has famously undergone some radical changes of mind with regard to the issue of scientific realism and its wider epistemological bearings. In this paper I defend the arguments put forward by early Putnam in his essays on the causal theory of reference as applied to natural-kind terms, despite his own later view that those arguments amounted to a form of 'metaphysical' realism which could not be sustained against various lines of sceptical attack. I discuss some of the reasons for P…Read more
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    The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals): Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy
    with Michael Ryan
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 19 (3): 201-204. 1983.
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    Treading Water in Neurath's Ship: Quine, Davidson, Rorty
    Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 2 (2). 1998.
    This article examines what I take to be some of the wrong turns and false dilemmas that analytic philosophy has run into since Quine's well-known attack on the two 'last dogmas' of old-style Logical Empiricism. In particular it traces the consequences of Quine's argument for a thoroughly naturalized epistemology, one that would view philosophy of science as 'all the philosophy we need', and that defines 'philosophy of science' in narrowly physicalist terms. I contend that this amounts to a third…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 86 (344): 617-620. 1977.
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    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 90 (359): 448-452. 1981.
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    A collection of essays in current analytical philosophy, which is united by a general concern with the uses of theory and the way that certain 'advanced' forms of literary-critical theory have been extended to other disciplines - often, the author argues, with undesirable results.
  • MARTIN, G. D. "Language, Truth and Poetry" (review)
    Mind 86 (n/a): 617. 1977.
  • "Art and Knowledge": Joseph Chiari (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 18 (1): 89. 1978.
  • "Philosophy and the Novel": Peter Jones (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 16 (1): 90. 1976.
  • "Critical Practice": Catherine Belsey (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 21 (2): 186. 1981.
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    "The Main Light. On the Concept of Poetry": Justus Buchler (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 15 (4): 373. 1975.
  • "Expression in Movement and the Arts": David Best (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 16 (2): 180. 1976.
  • "The Structure of Literary Understanding": Stein Haugom Olsen (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 20 (1): 82. 1980.
  • "The Sign in Music and Literature": Edited by Wendy Steiner (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 22 (4): 371. 1982.
  • "Inquiries into the Fundamentals of Aesthetics": Stefan Morawski (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 18 (3): 281. 1978.
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    Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to response-dependence, a topic that has become a main focus of interest for philosophers across a wide range of disciplines and subject areas.The response-dependence claim, in brief, is to provide a 'third way' between the realist (or objectivist) conception of truth as always potentially transcending the limits of human ascertainment and the anti-realist (or verificationist) case that truth cannot possibly transcend those limits since then we…Read more
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    Truth and the Ethics of Criticism
    Manchester University Press. 1994.
    This text is a reply to some of the more doctrinaire beliefs that pass for "radical" thinking. For the most part, Norris argues, these ideas are based on a false understanding of crucial episodes in their own pre-history.
  • Roy Bhaskar Interviewed
    The Philosophers' Magazine. Issue-8. forthcoming.