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22Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of MathematicsPhilosophical Quarterly 27 (109): 370. 1977.
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17Mind, Machine, and Metaphor: An Essay on Artificial Intelligence and Legal ReasoningPhilosophical Books 36 (2): 134-136. 1995.
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15Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore.Philosophical GrammarPhilosophical Quarterly 25 (100): 279. 1975.
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13The general aim of this project is to fundamentally re-think the design of teaching materials in view of what is now known about cognitive deficits and about what Howard Gardner has termed ‘multiple intelligences’. The applicant has implemented this strategy in two distinct areas, the first involving the writing of an English language programme for Chinese speakers, the second involving the construction of specialized equipment for teaching elementary logic to blind students. The next phase is t…Read more
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12The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and ExtensionsPhilosophical Quarterly 30 (119): 153-155. 1980.
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12Review of béla Szabados, Ludwig Wittgenstein on Race, Gender and Cultural Identity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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11The Adverbial Theory of Conceptual ThoughtThe Monist 65 (3): 379-392. 1982.Romane Clark has complained of the dissimilarity between Sellars’s treatment of conceptual thought and his treatment of sense impressions. For sense impressions are intrinsic to perceptions and, on Sellars’s view, both conceptual thought and perception are species of judgment. In the first section of this paper I want to raise a converse sort of complaint: Sellars offers an ‘adverbial’ theory of sense impressions and a similar account of conceptual thought. But this similarity of treatment is no…Read more
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11I was commissioned by Barry Smith, Editor of The Monist , to act as Advisory Editor for issue 88.1, January 2005 on the topic Humor, and we drafted the appended description. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2004, and you are welcome to submit an article to me for consideration (word limit 7,500 words, including footnotes). What the Editor and I are, hoping for, is some serious and seriously good philosophical writing on this topic.
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11III-A Unified Solution to Some ParadoxesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (1): 53-74. 2000.
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11Brevity (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. It is both a multifaceted topic of deep philosophical importance and a phenomenon that serves as a testing ground for theories in linguistics, psycholinguistics and computer modeling. Speakers use elliptical constructions and exploit salient features of the conversational environment, a process of pragmatic enrichment, so as to pack a great deal into a few words. They also tailor their words to theirparticular conversational partne…Read more
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10Humor and HarmSorites 3 27-42. 1995.For familiar reasons, stereotyping is believed to be irresponsible and offensive. Yet the use of stereotypes in humor is widespread. Particularly offensive are thought to be sexual and racial stereotypes, yet it is just these that figure particularly prominently in jokes. In certain circumstances it is unquestionably wrong to make jokes that employ such stereotypes. Some writers have made the much stronger claim that in all circumstances it is wrong to find such jokes funny; in other words that …Read more
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9IntroductionThe Monist 88 (1): 3-10. 2005.According to some commentators, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is all one big joke: we plough through the text trying to extract the sense out of each spare and heroic proposition, only to be told at the end, that anyone who understands the author will realize that all of his propositions are nonsensical and so are not even propositions. The whole work is a kind of hoax; the readers are ridiculed, but, with luck, will eventually have to laugh when they come to recognize that what they had taken for de…Read more
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8Goldstein invites the philosophical beginner to think hard about issues ranging from patriotism and racism to artificial intelligence and the mind, from love and fidelity to free will and mortality, taking an interdisciplinary approach.
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8The Imagination as Glory: The Poetry of James DickeyJournal of Aesthetic Education 22 (2): 118. 1988.
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University of KentRegular Faculty
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 1977