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Please allow me to recapitulate some territory that will be familiar to most readers. Here is how the problem of mental causation has typically been set up since shortly after the onset of non-reductive physicalism. It is now widely assumed that the realm of the physical is causally closed. This means that the probability of any event’s occurring is fully determined by physical causes, and physical causes alone. There is no space in the physical causal nexus for any non-physical event to exert a…Read more
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19Interpreting Davidson (edited book)Center for the Study of Language and Inf. 2001.Donald Davidson is, arguably, the most important philosopher of mind and language in recent decades. His articulation of the position he called "anomalous monism" and his ideas for unifying the general theory of linguistic meaning with semantics for natural language both set new agendas in the field. _Interpreting Davidson_ collects original essays on his work by some of his leading contemporaries, with Davidson himself contributing a reply to each and an original paper of his own
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127Reference, causal powers, externalist intuitions, and unicornsIn Richard Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge, De Gruyter. pp. 329. 2004.In this chapter, I will compare and contrast singular concepts with what I call
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63IntentionalityIn Frank Jackson & Michael Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2005.Article
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37VI*—In the Mood for a Semantic TheoryProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 91 (1): 103-118. 1991.Gabriel Segal; VI*—In the Mood for a Semantic Theory, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 91, Issue 1, 1 June 1991, Pages 103–118, https://doi.org/1.
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O jednorodnej analizie semantycznej deskrypcji określonych i nieokreślonych (tłum. Filip Kawczyński)Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 75. 2010.
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Truth andIn Barry C. Smith (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 189. 2006.
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Narrow ContentIn Brian McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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27Consciousness, by W. G. Lycan (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1): 240-243. 1991.
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139A Slim Book About Narrow ContentMIT Press. 2000.The book, written in a clear, engaging style, contains four chapters.
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184The Causal Inefficacy of ContentMind and Language 24 (1): 80-102. 2009.The paper begins with the assumption that psychological event tokens are identical to or constituted from physical events. It then articulates a familiar apparent problem concerning the causal role of psychological properties. If they do not reduce to physical properties, then either they must be epiphenomenal or any effects they cause must also be caused by physical properties, and hence be overdetermined. It then argues that both epiphenomenalism and over‐determinationism are prima facie perfe…Read more
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100Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic TheoryMIT Press. 1995.Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth- theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan program in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, i…Read more
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6Review of Robert A. Wilson: Cartesian psychology and physical minds: Iindividualism and the sciences of mind (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (1): 151--156. 1997.
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32Common Sense, Science, and ‘Spirituality’Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (4): 325-328. 2013.
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Allow me to recapitulate some territory that will be familiar to most readers. Here is how the problem of mental causation has typically been set up since shortly after the onset of non-reductive physicalism. It is now widely assumed that the realm of the physical is causally closed: every physical event has a complete physical cause, a cause that is sufficient for the event’s occurrence. This apparently leaves us with a limited number of options concerning psychological causation, none of which…Read more
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15Verdad y significadoIdeas Y Valores 53 (125): 49-79. 2004.The paper provides a sketch of the place of the work of Donald Davidsonin the study of formal semantics for natural languages. It discusses someimportant relations between Davidsons work and ideas due to Frege,Tarski, Quine and Chomsky. A criticism of Davidsons behaviouristicmethodology is offered..
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87Alcoholism, Disease, and InsanityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (4): 297-315. 2013.It is argued that alcoholism, and substance addiction generally, is a disease. It is not of its nature chronic or progressive, although it is in serious cases. It is better viewed as a psychological disease than a neurological one. It is argued that each time an alcoholic takes a drink, this is the result of choice; however, in cases of serious affliction, such choices are compulsive and may be called 'involuntary' in that they are made against the subject's will, motivated by an overwhelmingly …Read more
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61Truth and MeaningIn Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.This article says something about previous work related to truth and meaning, goes on to discuss Davidson and related papers of his, and then discusses some issues arising. It begins with the work of Gottlob Frege. Much work in the twentieth century developed Frege's ideas. A great deal of that work continued with the assumption that semantics is fundamentally concerned with the assignments of entities to expressions. So, for example, those who tried to develop a formal account of sense did so b…Read more
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27Four arguments for the indeterminacy of translationIn A. Orenstein & Petr Kotatko (eds.), Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine, Kluwer Academic Print On Demand. pp. 131--139. 2000.
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140Cognitive content and propositional attitude attributionsIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Jonathan D. Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2006.Tyler Burge (Burge (1979)) has developed a very influential line of anti-individualistic thought. He argued that the cognitive content of a person
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20A Slim Book on Narrow ContentMIT Press. 1999.A good understanding of the nature of a property requires knowing whether that property is relational or intrinsic. Gabriel Segal's concern is whether certain psychological properties—specifically, those that make up what might be called the "cognitive content" of psychological states—are relational or intrinsic. He claims that content supervenes on microstructure, that is, if two beings are identical with respect to their microstructural properties, then they must be identical with respect to t…Read more