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73Popkin’s revised scepticismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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53Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Probability And Possibility For Choice -- 1 Introductory -- 2 A Theory About Personal Power -- 3 A Criticism Of Keynes -- 4 Some More Theories About Personal Power -- 5 An Analogy Between Two Kinds Of Possibility -- 3 Probability And Natural Powers -- 1 Introductory -- 2 The Relation Between Epistemic And Natural Possibility -- 3 A Criticism Of …Read more
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9BENAYOUN Jean-Michel, Michel Prum and Patrick Tort (trans.): ŒuvresBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2): 455-459. 2008.
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John LockeIn Edward Craig (ed.), The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 583--600. 2005.
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20"The End of Metaphysics" and the Historiography of PhilosophyIn A. J. Holland (ed.), Philosophy, Its History and Historiography, Reidel. pp. 27-40. 1985.No doubt most philosophers who spend time on the history of philosophy are familiar with that question asked to embarrass (and liable to be asked by scientists in particular) why the history of the subject should be thought a significant part of the subject itself. Either there is progress in philosophy, it is said, or there is not. If there is progress, why the laborious backward glances? How can the past be so important? Why aren’t philosophers like psychologists, given perhaps a short histori…Read more
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15Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. 2007.Rationalism, Platonism and God comprises three main papers on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It provides a significant contribution to the exploration of the common ground of the great early-modern Rationalist theories, and an examination of the ways in which the mainstream Platonic tradition permeates these theories. John Cottingham identifies characteristically Platonic themes in Descartes's cosmology and metaphysics, finding them associated with two distinct, even…Read more
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40Locke: epistemology and ontologyRoutledge. 1991.This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
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93Can There Be a New Empiricism?The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 7 111-127. 2000.‘Empiricism’ has become for many a dirty word, and many writers have in mind the kind of neo-Humean Positivism that is the target of Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument, Quine’s ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, or Merleau-Ponty’s Phénoménologie de la perception. But examination of the Empiricist tradition before Hume uncovers views that do not involve anything like the much-abused “Myth of the Given” or twentieth-century sensedatum theory. This paper identifiesthe particular line of seventeenth-…Read more
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175The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.The Cambridge History of 17th Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge histories of philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the volumes …Read more
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137Individuals without SortalsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1). 1974.Consideration of the counting and reidentification of particulars leads naturally enough to the orthodox doctrine that, “on pain of indefiniteness,” an identity statement in some way involves or presupposes a general term or “covering concept”: i.e., that the principium individuationis or criterion of identity implied depends upon the kind of thing in question. Thus it is said that an auditor understands the question whether A is the same as B only in so far as he knows, however informally or im…Read more
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95Berkeley's Immaterialism and Kant's Transcendental IdealismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 13 51-69. 1982.Ever since its first publication critics of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason have been struck by certain strong formal resemblances between transcendental idealism and Berkeley's immaterialism. Both philosophers hold that the sensible world is mind-dependent, and that from this very mind-dependence we can draw a refutation of scepticism of the senses
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53Was Berkeley an empiricist or a rationalist?In Kenneth P. Winkler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, Cambridge University Press. pp. 34. 2005.
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1094Sense Experience, Concepts and Content, Objections to Davidson and McDowellIn Ralph Schumacher (ed.), Perception and Reality - From Descartes to the Present, Mentis. 2004.Philosophers debate whether all, some or none of the represcntational content of our sensory experience is conccptual, but the technical term "concept" has different uses. It is commonly linked more or less closely with the notions of judgdment and reasoning, but that leaves open the possibility that these terms share a systematic ambiguity or indeterminacy. Donald Davidson, however, holds an unequivocal and consistent, if paradoxical view that there are strictly speaking no psychological states…Read more
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4The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 2 Volume Paperback Set (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge histories of philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the v…Read more
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The foundations of knowledge and the logic of substanceIn Graham Alan John Rogers (ed.), Locke's Philosophy: Content and Context, Oxford University Press. pp. 49--73. 1994.
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95Ordinary Objects, Ordinary Language, and IdentityThe Monist 88 (4): 534-570. 2005.The thesis of this paper concerns the fundamental role of "ordinary objects" with respect to the structure of natural language. It ascribes their role as basic objects of reference to their being both natural and "given" individuals. Section 1 will summarize that idea. Further argument will be offered in Section 2. An objection appealing to physical theory will be answered in Section 3. Sections 4, 5, and 6 consider the implications of the thesis for current theories of the identity of "or…Read more
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154Locke: OntologyRoutledge. 1991.John Locke is the greatest English philosopher. _An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_, one of the most influential books in the history of thought, is his greatest work. In this study the historical meaning and philosophical significance of Locke's _Essay_ are investigated more comprehensively than ever before. _Locke_ was originally published in two volumes, _Epistemology_ and _Ontology_. This paperback edition has within its covers the full text of both volumes.
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60Berkeley's Immaterialism and Kant's Transcendental IdealismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 13 51-69. 1982.Ever since its first publication critics of Kant'sCritique of Pure Reasonhave been struck by certain strong formal resemblances between transcendental idealism and Berkeley's immaterialism. Both philosophers hold that the sensible world is mind-dependent, and that from this very mind-dependence we can draw a refutation of scepticism of the senses.
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84What is Realism?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (1): 293-320. 2002.A scholastic-Cartesian schema faithfully maps ordinary, effective ways of dealing with intentionality; yet its apparent incoherence provokes philosophers into opting for one of two stances, 'Cartesian' or 'direct realist', seemingly incompatible, yet each seem in accord with ordinary thought. A wide range of canonical and current theories, realist, idealist and hybrid, essentially involve one option or the other. We should instead consider why the language of intentionality, with its apparent an…Read more
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72Substance, Reality, and the Great, Dead PhilosophersAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 7 (1). 1970.
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Epistemology |
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