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4Essays on ParadoxesOup Usa. 2016.This volume brings together Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes, both published and new. A common theme unifying these essays is that philosophically interesting paradoxes typically resist either easy solutions or solutions that are formally/mathematically highly technical. Another unifying theme is that such paradoxes often have deep-sometimes disturbing-philosophical morals.
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85Practicing safe epistemologyPhilosophical Studies 102 (3). 2001.Reliablists have argued that the important evaluative epistemic concept of being justified in holding a belief, at least to the extent that that concept is associated with knowledge, is best understood as concerned with the objective appropriateness of the processes by which a given belief is generated and sustained. In particular, they hold that a belief is justified only when it is fostered by processes that are reliable (at least minimally so) in the believer’s actual world.[1] Of course, rel…Read more
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Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David LewisLanham: Rowman &Amp; Littlefield. 2001.Reality and Humean Supervenience confronts the reader with central aspects in the philosophy of David Lewis, whose work in ontology, metaphysics, logic, probability, philosophy of mind, and language articulates a unique and systematic foundation for modern physicalism
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212A nonclassical framework for cognitive scienceSynthese 101 (3): 305-45. 1994.David Marr provided a useful framework for theorizing about cognition within classical, AI-style cognitive science, in terms of three levels of description: the levels of (i) cognitive function, (ii) algorithm and (iii) physical implementation. We generalize this framework: (i) cognitive state transitions, (ii) mathematical/functional design and (iii) physical implementation or realization. Specifying the middle, design level to be the theory of dynamical systems yields a nonclassical, alterna…Read more
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4Against the token identity theoryIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Ernest LePore (eds.), Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 1985.
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20Kim on the Mind—Body Problem (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (4). 1996.For three decades the writings of Jaegwon Kim have had a major influence in philosophy of mind and in metaphysics. Sixteen of his philosophical papers, together with several new postscripts, are collected in Kim [1993]. The publication of this collection prompts the present essay. After some preliminary remarks in the opening section, in Section 2 I will briefly describe Kim's philosophical 'big picture' about the relation between the mental and the physical. In Section 3 I will situate Kim's ap…Read more
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464Functionalism, qualia, and the inverted spectrumPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (June): 453-69. 1984.
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Structured representations in connectionist systems?In S. Davis (ed.), Connectionism: Theorye and Practice, Oxford University Press. 1991.
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2Troubles on Moral Twin Earth: the 'Open-Question Argument'RevivedPhilosophical Papers 21 153-175. 1992.
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Spindel Conference 1987 Connectionism and the Philosophy of MindDept. Of Philosophy, Memphis State University. 1988.
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56Resisting the tyranny of terminology: The general dynamical hypothesis in cognitive scienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (5): 643-643. 1998.What van Gelder calls the dynamical hypothesis is only a special case of what we here dub the general dynamical hypothesis. His terminology makes it easy to overlook important alternative dynamical approaches in cognitive science. Connectionist models typically conform to the general dynamical hypothesis, but not to van Gelder's.
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Actions, reasons, and the explanatory role of contentIn Brian P. McLaughlin (ed.), Dretske and His Critics, Blackwell. 1991.
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95Supervenience and cosmic hermeneuticsSouthern Journal of Philosophy Supplement 22 (S1): 19-38. 1984.
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12Review of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain by Paul M. Churchland (review)Philosophy of Science 63 (3): 476-478. 1996.
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352Troubles for new wave moral semantics: The 'open question argument' revivedPhilosophical Papers 21 (3): 153-175. 1992.(1992). TROUBLES FOR NEW WAVE MORAL SEMANTICS: THE ‘OPEN QUESTION ARGUMENT’ REVIVED. Philosophical Papers: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 153-175. doi: 10.1080/05568649209506380
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