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392Phenomenal intentionality and the brain in a vatIn Richard Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge, De Gruyter. 2004.
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52Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1991."A third of the papers in this volume originated at the 1987 Spindel Conference ... at Memphis State University"--Pref.
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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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86Practicing 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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44Wright's Truth and ObjectivityNoûs 29 (1). 1995.In this critical study I first summarize Crispin Wright's "Truth and Objectivity". Wright maintains (1) that truth- aptness of a given discourse is neutral about questions of realism and anti- realism concerning the discourse, but also (2) that such metaphysical questions largely turn on discourse- specific constraints governing the truth- predicate. I urge a distinction between (i) Wright's general approach to truth and objectivity, and (ii) his apparent inclination to implement and the approac…Read more
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199Causal compatibilism and the exclusion problemTheoria 16 (40): 95-116. 2001.Terry Horgan University of Memphis In this paper I address the problem of causal exclusion, specifically as it arises for mental properties (although the scope of the discussion is more general, being applicable to other kinds of putatively causal properties that are not identical to narrowly physical causal properties, i.e., causal properties posited by physics). I summarize my own current position on the matter, and I offer a defense of this position. I draw upon and synthesize relevant discus…Read more
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212Science nominalized properlyPhilosophy of Science 54 (2): 281-282. 1987.Although Hale and Resnik are correct in their specific objection to my proposal for nominalizing science, the proposal can be saved by means of a simple and plausible modification
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16Kim 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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466Functionalism, qualia, and the inverted spectrumPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (June): 453-69. 1984.
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Structured representations in connectionist systems?In Steven 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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1Multiple reference, multiple realization, and the reduction of mindIn Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 2001.
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Spindel Conference 1987 Connectionism and the Philosophy of MindDept. Of Philosophy, Memphis State University. 1988.
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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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57Resisting 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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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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