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308Dancy Cartwright: Particularism in the philosophy of science (review)Acta Analytica 21 (2): 30-40. 2006.This paper aims to explore the space of possible particularistic approaches to Philosophy of Science by examining the differences and similarities between Jonathan Dancy’s moral particularism—as expressed in both his earlier writings (e.g., Moral Reasons , 1993), and, more explicitly defended in his book Ethics without Principles (2004)—and Nancy Cartwright’s particularism in the philosophy of science, as defended in her early collection of essays, How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983), and her lat…Read more
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24Stephen Mulhall, Philosophical Myths of the Fall Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 60-62. 2007.
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112Gilbert Ryle , Collected Papers Volume II: Collected Essays 1929-1968 . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (6): 455-457. 2011.
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132The limits of ignorance Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9571-z Authors Constantine Sandis, Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford, OX2 9AT UK Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796
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104Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?In David Bakhurst, Margaret Olivia Little & Brad Hooker (eds.), Thinking about reasons: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy, Oxford University Press. pp. 29. 2013.
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96Review of Adam Morton, The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology As Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9). 2003.
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28Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics of Politics: Selected Essays (Vol. 2) Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 49-51. 2008.
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206New essays on the explanation of action (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2009.A solid cast of contributors present the first collection of essays on the Philosophy of Action
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121“If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats”: Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of LifeNordic Wittgenstein Review 4 131-153. 2015.This essay introduces a tension between the public Wittgenstein’s optimism about knowledge of other minds and the private Wittgenstein’s pessimism about understanding others. There are three related reasons which render the tension unproblematic. First, the barriers he sought to destroy were metaphysical ones, whereas those he struggled to overcome were psychological. Second, Wittgenstein’s official view is chiefly about knowledge while the unofficial one is about understanding. Last, Wittgenste…Read more
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165Hitchcock's Conscious Use of Freud's UnconsciousEurope's Journal of Psychology 3 56-81. 2009.This paper argues that Hitchcock's so-called 'Freudian' films (esp. Spellbound, Psycho, and Marnie) pay tribute to the cultural magnetism of Freud's ideas whist being critical of the tehories themselves.
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211Dretske on the Causation of BehaviorBehavior and Philosophy 36 71-86. 2008.In two recent articles and an earlier book Fred Dretske appeals to a distinction between triggering and structuring causes with the aim of establishing that psychological explanations of behavior differ from non-psychological ones. He concludes that intentional human behavior is triggered by electro-chemical events but structured by representational facts. In this paper I argue that while this underrated causalist position is considerably more persuasive than the standard causalist alternative, …Read more
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163The Explanation of Action in HistoryEssays in Philosophy 7 (2): 12. 2006.This paper focuses on two conflations which frequently appear within the philosophy of history and other fields concerned with action explanation. The first of these, which I call the Conflating View of Reasons, states that the reasons for which we perform actions are reasons why (those events which are) our actions occur. The second, more general conflation, which I call the Conflating View of Action Explanation, states that whatever explains why an agent performed a certain action explains why…Read more
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66Animal EthicsIn Richard Corrigan (ed.), Ethics: A University Guide, Progressive Frontiers Pubs.. pp. 21. 2010.
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175Philosophy for younger people: A polemicPhilosophical Pathways. 2004.Recent years have seen a high increase in the teaching of Philosophy in schools. Programs such as Pathways Schools in Australia International Society for Philosophers, since 2003), 'Philosophy in Schools' in the UK (Royal Institute of Philosophy, since 1999), and 'Philosophy for Children' in the USA, Australia, and the UK (International Council for Philosophical Inquiry since 1985 & Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education since 1993) are spreading around the world…Read more
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133NassimTaleb in conversation with Constantine SandisPhilosophy Now (Sep/Oct): 24. 2008.COnstantien Sandis speaks to Nassim Taleb about inductive knowledge,black swans, Hume, Popper, and Wittgenstein.
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89Gilbert Ryle , Collected Papers Volume I: Critical Essays . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (6): 455-457. 2011.
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59The Meaning of Hume's Necessary ConnexionsIn Keith Allen & Tom Stoneham (eds.), Causation and Modern Philosophy, Routledge. 2010.
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111Contextualist vs. Analytic History of PhilosophyThink 8 (22): 1-5. 2009.This paper uses analogies between Socratic and Wittgenseinian dialogues to argue that analytic philosophy of history should not be abandoned. In their responses to my paper ‘In Defence of Four Socratic Doctrines’ James Warren and John Shand raised a number of important methodological objections, relating to the study of the history of philosophy. I here respond by questioning the supremacy of contextualist history of philosophy over the so-called ‘analytic’ approach. I conclude that the history…Read more