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85Necessitating nominalismActa Analytica 24 (3): 193-196. 2009.It is argued that, if Armstrong is correct and truthmakers necessitate the truths they make true, then the truthmakers must include facts about the meanings of the words used to express those truths, and nominalism apparently results. This conclusion, no doubt unpalatable to Armstrong, is, it is claimed, the result of his having failed to distinguish sufficiently the meanings of words and the properties of things.
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26The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (review)Philosophical Review 128 (2): 228-232. 2016.
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4Sister Prudence Allen, The Concept of Woman, Vol. II. The Early Humanist Reformation 1250-1500 (review)Philosophy in Review 23 (5): 313-316. 2003.
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180The other as another otherHypatia 17 (4): 1-15. 2002.: De Beauvoir and Irigaray are archetypes of two opposed feminisms: egalitarian feminism and radical feminism of difference. Yet a filiation exists between de Beauvoir's claim, that women is Other, and Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. This paper explores the relationship between de Beauvoir's and Irigaray's notion of otherness. It argues that Irigaray deforms de Beauvoir's categories, and that de Beauvoir provides a more coherent prospect for the development of an authentic feminine subje…Read more
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31Two Distinctions in Environmental GoodnessEnvironmental Values 5 (1). 1996.In her paper, 'Two distinctions in goodness', Korsgaard points out that while a contrast is often drawn between intrinsic and instrumental value there are really two distinctions to be drawn here. One is the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic value, the other is that between having value as an end and having value as a means. In this paper I apply this contrast to some issues in environmental philosophy. It has become a commonplace of environmentalism that there are intrinsic values in …Read more
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1Margaret Simons, Beauvoir and the Second Sex: Feminism, Race and the Origins of Existentialism Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (1): 21-26. 2000.
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9JoEllen DeLucia, A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759–1820 (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 15 (2): 236-239. 2017.
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1Jo-Anne Pilardi, Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (1): 21-26. 2000.
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53On some footnotes to Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Defence of the Essay Of Human UnderstandingBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (4): 824-841. 2019.ABSTRACTTwo footnotes added to the version of Catharine Cockburn’s Defence of the Essay Of Human Understanding reprinted in her Works have led to various accusations, including that s...
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3Michael Beaney, ed., The Frege Reader Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 18 (4): 238-239. 1998.
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69A Plague on Both Your HousesThe Monist 82 (2): 278-303. 1999.Objections are raised to the demand that one be either exclusively for or against continental philosophy, and two arguments are developed; one in support of, and one against, positions developed within the continental tradition. The first is a quick argument against A.J. Ayer’s rejection, on the basis of Frege’s logical insights, of Heidegger and Sartre’s use of ‘nothing’. The second is a longer argument against Derrida’s claim, on the basis of his critique of Husserl’s phenomenology, that the d…Read more
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30Catharine Macaulay on the WillHistory of European Ideas 39 (3): 409-425. 2013.Catharine Macaulay's discussion of freedom of the will in her Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth has received little attention, and what discussion there is attributes a number of different, incompatible views to her. In this paper the account of the nature of freedom of the will that she develops is related to her political aspirations, and the metaphysical position that she adopts is compared to those of John Locke, Samuel Clarke, Joseph Priestley, William Godwin, and others. It is ar…Read more
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42Davidson's Derangement: Of the Conceptual Priority of LanguageDialectica 55 (3): 239-258. 2001.Davidson has argued that the phenomenon of malapropism shows that languages thought of as social entities cannot be prior in the account of communication. This may be taken to imply that Dummett's belief, that language is prior in the account of thought, cannot be retained. This paper criticises the argument that takes Davidson from malapropism to the denial of the priority of language in the account of communication. It argues, against Davidson, that the distinction between word meaning and wha…Read more
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1Elizabeth Fallaize, ed., Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader (review)Philosophy in Review 20 21-26. 2000.
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109Distance, Divided Responsibility and UniversalizabilityThe Monist 86 (3): 501-515. 2003.Peter Singer is responsible for having developed a powerful argument that apparently shows that most of us are far more immoral than we take ourselves to be. Many people follow a minimalist morality. They avoid killing, stealing, lying and cruelty, but feel no obligation to devote themselves to the well-being of everybody else. If we are unstintingly generous, constantly kind or untiring advocates for the prevention of cruelty, we take it that we are doing more morally than is strictly required.…Read more
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2Elizabeth Fallaize, ed., Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 20 (1): 21-26. 2000.
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41Catharine Macaulay’s enlightenment faith and radical politicsHistory of European Ideas 44 (1): 35-48. 2018.The disappearance of Catharine Macaulay’s eighteenth-century defense of the doctrines that justified the seventeeth-century republican parliament, has served to obscure an important strand of enlightenment faith, that was active in the lead up to the American and French Revolutions, and that also played a significant role in the history of feminism. This faith was made up of two intertwined strands, ‘Christian eudaimonism’ and ‘rational altruism’. Dominant contemporary accounts of the origins of…Read more
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63Analysing analytic philosophy: The rise of analytic philosophy: edited by Hans-Johann Glock, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, 95p. 10£ (review)Philosophia 28 (1-4): 511-529. 2001.
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47Australian Women PhilosophersIn Graham Robert Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), The Antipodean philosopher, Lexington Books. 2011.History of women philosophers in Australia delivered as part of a series of of lectures on many aspects of philosophy in Australia
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7Emasculating metaphor : whither the maleness of reason?In Lynda Burns (ed.), Feminist Alliances, Brill. pp. 91-108. 2006.
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33Brain writing and DerridaAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 71 (3). 1993.An approach to Derrida's différance from the perspective of analytic philosophy of language which attempts to show both how many of Derrida's insights are influenced by analytic philosophy of language and can be related to ideas found in Quine, Wittgenstein, and Dennett, but which ultimately concludes that the linguistic idealism that he promotes is incoherent.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |