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76Epistemic Entitlement, Warrant Transmission and Easy KnowledgeAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1): 213-245. 2004.
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3Tacit knowledge and subdoxastic statesIn Noam Chomsky & Alexander George (eds.), Reflections on Chomsky, Blackwell. 1989.
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99Pathologies of Belief (edited book)Blackwell. 1991.In this book, psychologists and philosophers describe and discuss a range of case studies of delusional beliefs, drawing out general lessons both for the cognitive architecture of the mind and for the notion of rationality, and exploring connections between the delusional beliefs that occur in schizophrenia and the flawed understanding of beliefs that is characteristic of autism.
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186Folk psychology and mental simulationIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 42, Cambridge University Press. pp. 53-82. 1998.This paper is about the contemporary debate concerning folk psychology – the debate between the proponents of the theory theory of folk psychology and the friends of the simulation alternative.<sup>1</sup> At the outset, we need to ask: What should we mean by this term ‘folk psychology’?
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12Ethics briefingsJournal of Medical Ethics 36 (11): 716-718. 2010.In August, Amnesty International and the World Medical Association expressed concern at reports that a judge in Saudi Arabia had asked several hospitals in the country whether they could perform an operation to damage a man's spinal cord as punishment for attacking another man and leaving him paralysed. The man had already been sentenced to seven months imprisonment for the crime, the injured victim requested the further sentence under Sharia Law, which is strictly enforced across Saudi Arabia. …Read more
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239Reference, contingency, and the two-dimensional frameworkPhilosophical Studies 118 (1-2): 83-131. 2004.I review and reconsider some of the themes of ‘Two notions of necessity’ (Davies and Humberstone, 1980) and attempt to reach a deeper understanding and appreciation of Gareth Evans’s reflections (in ‘Reference and contingency’, 1979) on both modality and reference. My aim is to plot the relationships between the notions of necessity that Humberstone and I characterised in terms of operators in two-dimensional modal logic, the notions of superficial and deep necessity that Evans himself described, …Read more
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288Folk psychology and mental simulationRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 43 53-82. 1998.This paper is about the contemporary debate concerning folk psychology – the debate between the proponents of the theory theory of folk psychology and the friends of the simulation alternative.<sup>1</sup> At the outset, we need to ask: What should we mean by this term ‘folk psychology’?
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105Externalism and armchair knowledgeIn Paul Artin Boghossian & Christopher Peacocke (eds.), New Essays on the A Priori, Oxford University Press. pp. 384--414. 2000.[I]f you could know a priori that you are in a given mental state, and your being in that state conceptually or logically implies the existence of external objects, then you could know a priori that the external world exists. Since you obviously _can.
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28Mental Simulation: Evaluations and Applications - Reading in Mind and Language (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1995.Many philosophers and psychologists argue that out everyday ability to predict and explain the actions and mental states of others is grounded in out possession of a primitive 'folk' psychological theory. Recently however, this theory has come under challenge from the simulation alternative. This alternative view says that human beings are able to predict and explain each other's actions by using the resources of their own minds to simulate the psychological aetiology of the actions of the other…Read more
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100Understanding Minds and Understanding Communicated Meanings in SchizophreniaMind and Language 17 (1‐2): 68-104. 2002.The work reported in this paper investigated the putative functional dependence of pragmatic language skills on general mind‐reading capacity by testing theory‐of‐mind abilities and understanding of non‐literal speech in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls. Patients showed difficulties with inferring mental states on a false‐belief picture‐sequencing task and with understanding metaphors and irony on a story‐comprehension task. These difficulties were independent of low verbal IQ…Read more
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144Consciousness and the varieties of aboutnessIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. pp. 2. 1994.Thinking is special. There is nothing quite like it. Thinking
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24Klassische Aufklärung. Überlegungen zur Modernisierung der deutsch-jüdischen Kultur am Beispiel des Exlibris von David FriedländerZeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 55 (1): 40-61. 2003.