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9The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothes (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2006.Much of the modern period was dominated by a `reductionist' theory of science. On this view, to explain any event in the world is to reduce it down to fundamental particles, laws, and forces. In recent years reductionism has been dramatically challenged by a radically new paradigm called `emergence'. According to this new theory, natural history reveals the continuous emergence of novel phenomena: new structures and new organisms with new causal powers. Consciousness is yet one more emergent lev…Read more
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6Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Elder Hall, 8:00pm, Saturday 14 July, 2001. Chaired by Paul Davies.
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5BlanchotIn Simon Critchley & William R. Schroeder (eds.), A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.I had imagined this article beginning quite straightforwardly, if somewhat hyperbolically, with the following assertion and answer: The critical essays of Maurice Blanchot constitute one of the twentieth century's profoundest and most significant philosophical reflections on literature and literary language. This is, after all, not only what I believe to be the case but also an assertion and a belief whose plausibility this article would like to demonstrate. What makes it impossible simply to be…Read more
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3Defences in equity (edited book)Hart. 2018.This book is the fourth in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in equity. The essays range from those adopting a mainly doctrinal perspective to others that explore the law from a more philosophical perspective. Some essays concentrate on specific defences, while others are concerned with the links between defences, or with how defences relate to the structure of the law of equity generally. One aim of the book is to shed light on …Read more
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2Conceptual conservatism : The case of normative functionsIn Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives, Mit Press. 2009.
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1The paper notes the tendency and temptation for scholars and critics to find a justification in the novel for silencing or categorising Locke, and for lampooning or reducing to absurdity the project and the arguments of the Essay. It argues that such approaches can miss what is most interesting in the novel’s indebtedness to the Essay, and offers a reading of a famous sequence where Walter, Toby, and Tristram mention, quote, present, rearrange and redistribute one of Locke’s key doctrines, the s…Read more
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The conflict of evolutionary psychologyIn Valerie Gray Hardcastle (ed.), Where Biology Meets Psychology, Mit Press. 1999.
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Evolutionary Functions and Philosophy of MindDissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1994.This dissertation is concerned with two general issues. A theory of functional or teleological properties, as possessed by natural objects, grounded in the theory of evolution by natural selection. This I refer to as the evolutionary theory of functions. A cluster of theories in philosophy of mind which attempt to explicate intentionality--the representational powers of mental phenomena--in terms of evolutionary functions. ;The aim of this dissertation is threefold. To develop a version of the e…Read more
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IntroductionIn Paul S. Davies, Simon Douglas & James Goudkamp (eds.), Defences in equity, Hart. 2018.
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Freezing orders : casting off the shackles of the Siskina?In Ben McFarlane & Steven Elliot (eds.), Equity today: 150 years after the judicature reforms, Hart. 2023.
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Illegality in equityIn Paul S. Davies, Simon Douglas & James Goudkamp (eds.), Defences in equity, Hart. 2018.
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