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27Deconstruction against Itself: Derrida and NietzscheThe Ear of the Other: Texts and Discussions (review)Diacritics 16 (4): 59. 1986.
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25Limited Think: How Not to Read DerridaLimited Inc.Against Deconstruction (review)Diacritics 20 (1): 16. 1990.
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10Can 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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6The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals): Essays in the Rhetoric of PhilosophyPhilosophy and Rhetoric 19 (3): 201-204. 1983.
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16Treading Water in Neurath's Ship: Quine, Davidson, RortyPrincipia: 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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26Deconstruction: Theory and PracticeDeconstructive Criticism: An Advanced IntroductionSubstance 13 (2): 89. 1984.
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3Deconstruction and the Interests of TheoryBurns & Oates. 1992.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.
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NUTTALL, A. D. "A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination" (review)Mind 85 (n/a): 312. 1976.
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SCHEFFLER, I. "Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor" (review)Mind 90 (n/a): 448. 1981.
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1"The Main Light. On the Concept of Poetry": Justus Buchler (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 15 (4): 373. 1975.
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"Expression in Movement and the Arts": David Best (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 16 (2): 180. 1976.
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"The Structure of Literary Understanding": Stein Haugom Olsen (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 20 (1): 82. 1980.
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"The Sign in Music and Literature": Edited by Wendy Steiner (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 22 (4): 371. 1982.
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"Inquiries into the Fundamentals of Aesthetics": Stefan Morawski (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 18 (3): 281. 1978.
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The Deconstructive Turn Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy /Christopher Norris. --. --Methuen,, C1983 1984. 1984.
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14Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-DependenceEdinburgh University Press. 2019.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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2Truth and the Ethics of CriticismManchester 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.
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58Deconstruction, postmodernism and philosophy of science: Some Epistemo‐critical bearingsCultural Values 2 (1): 18-50. 1998.This essay argues a case for viewing Derrida's work in the context of recent French epistemology and philosophy of science; more specifically, the critical‐rationalist approach exemplified by thinkers such as Bachelard and Canguilhem. I trace this line of descent principally through Derrida's essay ‘White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy’. My conclusions are (1) that we get Derrida wrong if we read him as a fargone antirealist for whom there is nothing ‘outside the text'; (2) that h…Read more