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29Physicalism and Its Discontents (review)Philosophical Review 112 (3): 422-424. 2003.This is a book of new essays by different authors on physicalism. The essays are divided into three sections. In the first, the papers are, the editors say, “generally sympathetic” to physicalism. The opening paper, by Papineau, is a compelling historical discussion of the thesis of the completeness of physics, together with the suggestion that an appreciation of the empirical basis of this thesis led to the widespread acceptance of physicalism itself in the second part of the twentieth century.…Read more
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29PhysicalismIn Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans & Patrick Wilken (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. pp. 529-532. 2009.
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28Terence Horgan, Marcelo Sabatés, and David Sosa (eds.): Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World: Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1. 2016.Review of Horgan, Sabatés, and Sosa's (eds.) *Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World: Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim*.
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27IntroductionIn Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa & Daniel Stoljar (eds.), There's Something About Mary, Mit Press. 2003.Mary is confined to a black-and-white room, is educated through black-and-white books and through lectures relayed on black-and white television. In this way she learns everything there is to know about the physical nature of the world. She knows all the physical facts about us and our environment, in a wide sense of 'physical' which includes everything in completed physics, chemistry, and neurophysiology, and all there is to know about the causal and relational facts consequent upon all this, i…Read more
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22TransparencyIn Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans & Patrick Wilken (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness. pp. 639-41. 2009.
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22Is there Progress in Philosophy? A Brief Case for OptimismIn Russell Blackford & Damien Broderick (eds.), Philosophy's Future, Wiley. 2017-04-27.This chapter sets out an optimistic view of philosophical progress. The key idea is that the historical record speaks in favor of there being progress at least if we are clear about what philosophical problems are, and what it takes to solve them. I end by asking why so many people tend toward a pessimistic view of philosophical progress.
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21Review of Perry's Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness (review)Philosophical Quarterly 53 (213): 616-618. 2003.Review of Perrys *Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness*.
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16Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Dictionary of American PhilosophersIn John R. Shook (ed.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, . 2005.THOMSON, Judith Jarvis (1929– ) Judith Jarvis Thomson received her BA from Barnard College in 1950, her MA from Cambridge University in 1956, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1959. Her first teaching position was at Barnard where she was a lecturer from 1955–9, an instructor from 1959–60, and then Assistant Professor from 1960–2. In 1963, she moved to Boston, first as an Assistant Professor at Boston University (1963–4), and then to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has…Read more
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14Comments on Galen Strawson 'Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism'Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (10-11): 170-176. 2006.
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14Introduction to Special Issue: The Two-Dimensional Framework and Its Applications: Metaphysics, Language, MindPhilosophical Studies 118 (1): 1-10. 2004.
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6Précis of Ignorance and ImaginationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (3): 748-755. 2009.
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4The Identity Theory of MindIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand. 2010.
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2Shoemaker, S.-The First Person Perspective and Other Essays (review)Philosophical Books 39 105-108. 1998.This is a review essay of Sydney Shoemaker's The First-person Perspective and Other Essays
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Actors and zombiesIn Judith Thomson & Alex Byrne (eds.), Content and Modality: Themes From the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker, Oxford University Press Uk. 2006.
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Distinctions in DistinctionIn Jakob Hohwy & Jesper Kallestrup (eds.), Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Review of Mackie's *How Things Might Have Been* (review)Times Literary Supplement 1. 2006.This is a review of Penelope Mackie's *How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties*.
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The Content of PhysicalismDissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1995.Many philosophers of mind are concerned to defend the thesis called physicalism ; many others are concerned to refute it. Nevertheless, there is no generally agreed on idea of what physicalism is, and why it should matter whether the mental is physical. My thesis consists of four essays whose concern is with what physicalism is in its most plausible version, and what the importance of the thesis might be for the philosophy of mind. ;I begin with the question of whether it is possible to hold phy…Read more
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In praise of poiseIn Adam Pautz & Daniel Stoljar (eds.), Blockheads! Essays on Ned Block’s Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness, Mit Press. 2019.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphilosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |