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317Beyond program explanationIn Geoffrey Brennan (ed.), Common minds: themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--27. 2007.
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523Self-Knowledge and Inner SpaceIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Mcdowell and His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 73--88. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Externalism and Authoritative Self‐Knowledge The “Fully Cartesian” Conception Externalism and Authoritative Self‐Knowledge A Suggestion.
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27Externalism and normsIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge University Press. pp. 273-301. 1998.We think that certain of our mental states represent the world around us, and represent it in determinate ways. My perception that there is salt in the pot before me, for example, represents my immediate environment as containing a certain object, a pot, with a certain kind of substance, salt, in it. My belief that salt dissolves in water represents something in the world around me, namely salt, as having a certain observational property, that of dissolving. But what exactly is the relation betw…Read more
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21Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary MetaphysicsWiley-Blackwell. 2005._Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics_ is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. Contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. Examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals. Mounts a forceful and persuasive case for anti-reductionism
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1Causal relevance and explanatory exclusionIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1994.
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147Shoemaker on self-knowledge and inner sensePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 711-38. 1999.What is introspective knowledge of one's own intentional states like? This paper aims to make plausible the view that certain cases of self-knowledge, namely the cogito-type ones, are enough like perception to count as cases of quasi-observation. To this end it considers the highly influential arguments developed by Sydney Shoemaker in his recent Royce Lectures. These present the most formidable challenge to the view that certain cases of self-knowledge are quasi-observational and so deserve det…Read more
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2Reductionism: Historiography and PsychologyIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 4 5 Bibliography.
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196Mind-Body Identity TheoriesRoutledge. 1989.Chapter One The most plausible arguments for the identity of mind and body that have been advanced in this century have been for the identity of mental ...
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36IntrospectionIn Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. pp. 741-766. 2007.‘Introspection’ is a term used by philosophers to refer to a special method or means by which one comes to know certain of one's own mental states; specifically, one's current conscious states. It derives from the Latin ‘spicere’, meaning ‘look’, and ‘intra’, meaning ‘within’; introspection is a process of looking inward. Introspectionist accounts of self-knowledge fall within the broader domain of theories of self-knowledge, understood as views about the nature of and basis for one's knowledge …Read more
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31What is empiricism?--, Nativism, naturalism, and evolutionary theoryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 64 (1): 81-92. 1990.
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