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10Review of "Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations About Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret" (review)Essays in Philosophy 19 (1): 138-145. 2018.
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11Every aspect of having and raising a child leads to profound and challenging philosophical questions. The Philosophical Parent is a companion for parents and parents-to-be that explores the myriad worries that come with making and raising children. Kazez explores eighteen perplexities, arguing for a novel view of the parent-child relationship, with implications at every stage of parenthood.
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55The Taste Question in Animal EthicsJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (4): 661-674. 2017.Advocates of veganism often assume that food enjoyment has little moral weight, because it involves mere taste pleasure. Because of the triviality of taste pleasure, they consider it obvious that harming animals to secure particular tastes is ‘unnecessary’. After discussing the elements of taste, defending the importance of taste, exploring what ‘unnecessary harm’ means, and introducing a number of taste related thought experiments, I argue that harm to animals is not always unnecessary, when wh…Read more
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Mental Representation and Causal ExplanationDissertation, The University of Arizona. 1990.Mental causation has been a concern in the philosophy of mind since Descartes. Intuitively, thoughts are causes of behavior, and they are causes of behavior in virtue of their mental properties. The computational theory of mind views thoughts as symbol tokenings, and thus as causes. However, if the computational theory of mind is correct, the causal efficacy of mental properties is problematic. ;A representation tokening causes further representation tokenings or behaviors in virtue of local com…Read more
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McCulloch, G., "The Game of the Name: Introducing Logic, Language and Mind" (review)Mind 99 (n/a): 647. 1990.
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35Book Review: C. Anthony Anderson and Joseph Owens. Propositional attitudes: The role of content in logic, language and mind (review)Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 35 (2): 299-310. 1994.
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72Can counterfactuals save mental causation?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (1): 71-90. 1995.This Article does not have an abstract
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32The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good LifeWiley-Blackwell. 2007._The Weight of Things_ explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the good life'. Looks at the views of philosophers such as Aristotle, the Stoics, Mill, Nietzsche, and Sartre as well as contributions from other traditions, such as Buddhism Incorporates key arguments from contemporary philosophers including Peter Singer, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Nozick, John Finnis, and Susan Wolf Uses examples from biography, literat…Read more
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