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82Emergence and Non-reductive PhysicalismIn Sophie Gibb, Robin Hendry & Tom Lancaster (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Emergence, Routledge. pp. 195-205. 2018.
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20Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary MetaphysicsWiley-Blackwell. 2008._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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164Rethinking folk-psychology: Alternatives to theories of mindPhilosophical Explorations 11 (3). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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1669Mary Meets Molyneux: The Explanatory Gap and the Individuation of Phenomenal ConceptsNoûs 38 (3): 503-524. 2004.It is widely accepted that physicalism faces its most serious challenge when it comes to making room for the phenomenal character of psychological experience, its so-called what-it-is-like aspect. The challenge has surfaced repeatedly over the past two decades in a variety of forms. In a particularly striking one, Frank Jackson considers a situation in which Mary, a brilliant scientist who knows all the physical facts there are to know about psychological experience, has spent the whole of her l…Read more
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82McDowell and His Critics (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.The most comprehensive discussion available of the work of philosopher, John McDowell. Contains newly commissioned papers by distinguished philosophers on McDowell’s work, along with substantial replies to each by McDowell himself. The contributors are philosophers with international reputations for their work in the areas in which they are contributing. Covers the whole of McDowell’s philosophy, including his contributions in ancient philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy …Read more
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216McDowell’s Alternative Conceptions of the WorldInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (1): 87-94. 2011.This Article does not have an abstract
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350The identity theory of truth and the realm of reference: Where Dodd goes wrongAnalysis 69 (2): 297-304. 2009.In ‘On McDowell's identity conception of truth’ , we suggested that McDowell's Identity Theory, according to which a proposition is true if and only if it is identical with a fact, is only fully understood when we realize that there are two identity claims involved. The first is that, when one thinks truly, the content of a whole thought is identical with a Tractarian Tatsachen – a complex fact constituted by simple Sachverhalte – and the second is that these simple Sachverhalte are in turn iden…Read more
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Vermazen, B. and Hintikka, M , "Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events" (review)Mind 94 (n/a): 632. 1985.
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59Berkeley, by George PitcherJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 12 (1): 91-93. 1981.
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Tacit KnowledgeIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1994.
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1402Emergence and Downward CausationIn Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary MetaphysicsPhilosophical Quarterly 56 (224): 459-463. 2006.
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Connectionism and EliminativismIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1991.
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111Reply to Cynthia MacdonaldPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (3): 739-745. 1999.What is introspective know ledge 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 de…Read more
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788What is Colour? A Defence of Colour PrimitivismIn Robert Johnson Michael Smith (ed.), Passions and Projections: Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn, Oxford University Press. pp. 116-133. 2015.
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231Mind-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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159Emergence in mind (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would ...
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1049Consciousness, self-consciousness, and authoritative self-knowledgeProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1pt3): 319-346. 2008.Many recent discussions of self-consciousness and self-knowledge assume that there are only two kinds of accounts available to be taken on the relation between the so-called first-order (conscious) states and subjects' awareness or knowledge of them: a same-order, or reflexive view, on the one hand, or a higher-order one, on the other. I maintain that there is a third kind of view that is distinctively different from these two options. The view is important because it can accommodate and make in…Read more
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452The metaphysics of mental causationJournal of Philosophy 103 (11): 539-576. 2006.A debate has been raging in the philosophy of mind for at least the past two decades. It concerns whether the mental can make a causal difference to the world. Suppose that I am reading the newspaper and it is getting dark. I switch on the light, and continue with my reading. One explanation of why my switching on of the light occurred is that a desiring with a particular content (that I continue reading), a noticing with a particular content (that it is getting dark), and a believing with a par…Read more
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Anti-individualism and Psychological ExplanationIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1994.
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94Self-knowledge and the First PersonIn Maureen Sie, Marc Slors & Bert van den Brink (eds.), Reasons of one's own, Ashgate. 2004.It is a familiar view in the philosophy of mind and action is that for a thought or attitude to constitute a reason for an action is for it to render intelligible, in the light of norms of rationality or reason, that action. However, I can make sense of your actions in this way by crediting you with attitudes that I myself do not hold. Equally, you can do this for my actions. So not all reasons for one’s actions are one’s own reasons. What more is involved in a reason’s being one’s own reason fo…Read more
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1524‘‘In My ‘Mind’s Eye’: Introspectionism, Detectivism, and the Basis of Authoritative Self-KnowledgeSynthese 191 (15). 2014.It is widely accepted that knowledge of certain of one’s own mental states is authoritative in being epistemically more secure than knowledge of the mental states of others, and theories of self-knowledge have largely appealed to one or the other of two sources to explain this special epistemic status. The first, ‘detectivist’, position, appeals to an inner perception-like basis, whereas the second, ‘constitutivist’, one, appeals to the view that the special security awarded to certain self-know…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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| Epistemology |
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Mind |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |