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678Self-knowledge and the "inner eye"Philosophical Explorations 1 (2): 83-106. 1998.What is knowledge of one's own current, consciously entertained intentional states a form of inner awareness? If so, what form? In this paper I explore the prospects for a quasi-observational account of a certain class of cases where subjects appear to have self-knowledge, namely, the so-called cogito-like cases. In section one I provide a rationale for the claim that we need an epistemology of self-knowledge, and specifically, an epistemology of the cogito-like cases. In section two I argue tha…Read more
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Connectionism and EliminativismIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1991.
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Philosophy of Psychology. Debates on Psychological ExplanationRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 187 (1): 110-111. 1997.
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6Explanation in HistoriographyIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 Acknowledgment Bibliography.
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Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary MetaphysicsPhilosophical Quarterly 56 (224): 459-463. 2006.
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23Externalism and NormsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 43 273-301. 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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29Reply 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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Anti-individualism and Psychological ExplanationIn Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1994.
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480The Epistemology of MeaningIn Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Millikan and her critics, Wiley. pp. 221--240. 2013.This chapter contains section titles: Introduction Section 1 Section 2 Conclusion.
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IntroductionIn Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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173The 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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740Emergence and Downward CausationIn Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |