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26Common Sense: A Contemporary Defense (review)Philosophy 81 (1): 165-170. 2006.Review of Common Sense: A Defence
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304What does McGinn think we cannot know?Analysis 57 (3): 196-201. 1997.Exactly what is McGinn saying when he claims that we cannot solve the mind-body problem? Just what is cognitively closed to us? The text suggests at least four possibilities. I work through each them in some detail, and I come to two principal conclusions. First, by McGinn's own understanding of the mind-body problem, he needs to show that we are cognitively closed to how brains generate consciousness, but he argues for something else, that we are cognitively closed to the brain property in virt…Read more
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60Climate change in 1,000 yearsThink 6 (17-18): 211-218. 2008.In issue 15, John Shand addressed the moral issue of climate change and suggested that what might happen in 1,000 years time is not as important, morally speaking, as many of us think. Here, James Garvey responds
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97Climate changeThe Philosophers' Magazine 50 (50): 50-51. 2010.If it’s correct to think that the West does wrong by doing nothing despite having the room to reduce emissions and the capacity to do so, then it’s correct to think that we’re doing wrong too, in our everyday lives. Your emissions might be as much as 20 times more than others in the world; you might be doing as much as 20 times the damage to the planet compared to other people. The bulbs are not enough
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33The wickedness of the long hot showerThe Philosophers' Magazine 41 82-86. 2008.If it’s correct to think that the West does wrong by doing nothing despite having the room to reduce emissions and the capacity to do so, then it’s correct to think that we’re doing wrong too, in our everyday lives. Your emissions might be as much as 20 times more than others in the world; you might be doing as much as 20 times the damage to the planet compared to other people. The bulbs are not enough
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87The InterviewThe Philosophers' Magazine 52 (52): 21-30. 2011.“Philosophy is constitutive of good citizenship. It becomes part of what you are when you are a good citizen – a thoughtful person. Philosophy has manyroles. It can be just fun, a game that you play. It can be a way you try to approach your own death or illness, or that of a family member. I’m just focusing on the place where I think I can win over people, and say ‘Look here, you do care about democracy don’t you? Then you’d better see that philosophy has a place.’”
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43Richard Sorabji interviewThe Philosophers' Magazine 60 (60): 66-74. 2013.Interview with Richard Sorabji