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46The Perceiver's Share: Realism, Scepticism, and Response DependenceMetaphilosophy 34 (4): 387-424. 2003.Response‐dispositional (RD) properties are standardly defined as those that involve an object's appearing thus or thus to some perceptually well‐equipped observer under specified epistemic conditions. The paradigm instance is that of colour or other such Lockean “secondary qualities”, as distinct from those—like shape and size—that pertain to the object itself, quite apart from anyone's perception. This idea has lately been thought to offer a promising alternative to the deadlocked dispute betwe…Read more
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43This book brings together three main topics - deconstruction, philosophy of language, and literary theory - that have figured centrally in Christopher Norris's work over the past two decades. It offers a refreshingly clear and vigorous statement of his views as to how ‘theory' might profit from a greater awareness of current philosophical debates while philosophy might likewise gain by adopting a more open-minded attitude toward developments in literary theory. Most significant here is Norris's …Read more
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39Philosophy Outside-In: A Critique of Academic ReasonEdinburgh University Press. 2013.Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that academic philosophy has been conducted over the past quarter-century and, in doing so, offers a strong counter-statement to the overly specialised character of much recent work in the analytic mainstream.Topics addressed include speculative realism, the 'extended mind' hypothesis, experimental philospophy, the ontology of political song, Shakespearean language as a challenge to the norms of linguistic philosophy, and anti-realism …Read more
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39Staying for an answer: Truth, knowledge, and the Rumsfeld creedPhilosophy and Social Criticism 30 (7): 777-798. 2004.Should the truth-value of statements be thought of as epistemically constrained or as determined by objective factors that stand quite apart from our best knowledge, evidence, or powers of conceptual grasp? The anti-realist/realist debate turns ultimately on this disagreement. My article takes its lead from a famous pronouncement by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield to the effect that there are ‘known knowns’, i.e. ‘things that we know we know’; ‘known unknowns’, or ‘things we know we do not…Read more
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37Jurisprudence, deconstruction and literary theory: A brief survey and critical reviewRes Publica 1 (1): 57-69. 1995.
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37Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic IdeologyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3): 250-251. 1990.Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers a much-needed corrective to the pattern of extreme antithetical response which marked the initial reception to de Man's writings. Norris addresses de Man's relationship to philosophical thinking in the…Read more
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33In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continental philosophy. While keeping the analytic tradition squarely in view, his book focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou, two of the most original and significant figures in the recent history of ideas. Norris argues that these thinkers have decisively reconfigured the terrain of contemporary philosophy and, between them, pointed a wa…Read more
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31Ambiguities of the third way: Realism, anti-realism, and response-dependencePhilosophical Forum 33 (1). 2002.
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30McDowell on Kant: Redrawing the Bounds of SenseMetaphilosophy 31 (4): 382-411. 2000.John McDowell’s Mind and World is a notable attempt to redirect the interest of analytic philosophers toward certain themes in Kantian and more recent continental thought. Only thus, he believes, can we move beyond the various failed attempts – by Quine, Davidson, Rorty, and others – to achieve a naturalised epistemology that casts off the various residual “dogmas” of old-style logical empiricism. In particular, McDowell suggests that we return to Kant's ideas of “spontaneity” and “receptivity” …Read more
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28Theory-change and the logic of enquiry : New bearings in philosophy of science theory-change of enquiry : New bearings in of science philosophyReview of Metaphysics 53 (1): 21-68. 1999.This article examines various (in my view) failed or problematic attempts to overcome the limits of logical empiricism in epistemology and philosophy of science. It focuses on Quine's influential critique of that doctrine and on subsequent critiques of Quine that challenge his appeal to the scheme/content dichotomy as a third residual 'dogma' of empiricism (Davidson) or his espousal of a radically physicalist approach that rejects the possibility of quantifying into modal contexts (Marcus). I en…Read more
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28This Routledge Revival , first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close reading that has come to characterize literary theory in its more advanced or speculative forms. This prese…Read more
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26Theory-Change and the Logic of Enquiry: New Bearings in Philosophy of ScienceReview of Metaphysics 53 (1). 1999.ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE has tended to define itself squarely against the kinds of so-called metaphysical approaches that have characterized so-called continental philosophy in the line of descent from Husserl. Indeed, Husserl’s project of phenomenological enquiry was the target of criticism by Frege—and later by Gilbert Ryle—which pretty much set the agenda for subsequent debate. That project seemed to them some form of argument that reveals his basically psychologistic approach, on…Read more
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24Deconstruction against Itself: Derrida and NietzscheThe Ear of the Other: Texts and Discussions (review)Diacritics 16 (4): 59. 1986.
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24Deconstruction: Theory and PracticeDeconstructive Criticism: An Advanced IntroductionSubstance 13 (2): 89. 1984.
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23Platonism, music and the listener's shareContinuum. 2006.This is an important piece of work from an influential and highly-acclaimed theorist exploring the New Musicology and other debates in recent philosophy of ...
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21Limited Think: How Not to Read DerridaLimited Inc.Against Deconstruction (review)Diacritics 20 (1): 16. 1990.
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