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426Goldie on the virtues of artBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (1): 75-81. 2009.Peter Goldie has argued for a virtue theory of art, analogous to a virtue theory of ethics, one in which the skills and dispositions involved in the production and appreciation of art are virtues and not simply mere skills. In this note I highlight a link between the appreciation of art and its production, and explore the implications of such a link for a virtue theory of art.
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337Minding the Gap: Subjectivism and the DeductionKantian Review 23 (1): 99-109. 2018.Chapter 4 of Dennis Schulting’s book Kant’s Radical Subjectivism targets those commentators who take there to be a gap in the transcendental deduction of the categories, arguing instead that there is no gap between the necessary application of the categories and their exemplification in the object of experience. In these comments on the chapter, I suggest a minimal sense in which the fact that there is a gap is non-negotiable. The interesting question is not whether there is a gap which ne…Read more
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308Strawson's MetacritiqueIn Sybren Heyndels, Audun Bengtson & Benjamin De Mesel (eds.), P.F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy, Oxford University Press. 2023.What is the status of the claims which make up Kant’s arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason? This question seemed to Kant’s contemporaries to require a metacritique. Strawson’s criticisms of Kant should be understood in this context: as raising a metacritical challenge about Kant’s grounds for the claims which make up his arguments. What about the claims which make up Strawson’s own arguments in The Bounds of Sense? I argue in this chapter, against what I take to be the general consensus, tha…Read more
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295On Being Internally the SameIn Uriah Kriegel (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press. 2021.Internalism and externalism disagree about whether agents who are internally the same can differ in their mental states. But what is it for two agents to be internally the same? Standard formulations take agents to be internally the same in virtue of some metaphysical fact, for example, that they share intrinsic physical properties. Our aim in this chapter is to argue that such formulations should be rejected. We provide the outlines of an alternative formulation on which agents are internally t…Read more
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188Snapshot: P. F. StrawsonThe Philosophers' Magazine 84 48-53. 2019.P.F. Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth-century. His career centred around Oxford – first as Tutor and Fellow at University College, then as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College. His careful, thoughtful, and characteristically elegant written work was influential in moving Oxford philosophy from the anti-metaphysical leanings of A.J. Ayer and J.L. Austin to a renewed and rejuvenated era of traditional philosophy theori…Read more
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53Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and his Realism (review)Journal of Philosophy 113 (2): 112-116. 2016.
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13EditorialMind Current Issue 125 (500): 957-958. 2016.In their opening editorial the new Editors of MIND, Lucy O’Brien and Adrian Moore, explained that while the journal will continue to publish book reviews, their length will be increased and their number significantly reduced. The journal’s aim is ‘to include only book reviews that vie with articles in terms of their impact and potential for setting the agenda’. I am delighted to join the editorial team as Reviews Editor to help secure this goal. MIND has already begun the transition to commissio…Read more
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Immanuel Kant |
20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
The Problem of Other Minds |
Perception |
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Immanuel Kant |
The Problem of Other Minds |
Perception |