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13Getting what you paid for in quality control? Cell lines exemplify a more general challengeBioessays 36 (12): 1121-1121. 2014.
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16Getting fat from an inflamed relationship? The revenge of the holobiontBioessays 38 (2): 119-119. 2016.
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6Defeating Evolution, both Biological and Social: Can Environmentally Friendly Value Systems Adapt Quickly Enough?Bioessays 42 (2): 2000001. 2020.
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3Crediting curiosity and creativity in young scientists: Beyond the standard publication record …Bioessays 39 (8): 1700118. 2017.
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17Conferences After COVID and Academics in Adversity: Physical Globalization is Fragile, But so Too is Internet NeutralityBioessays 42 (7): 2000137. 2020.
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16Brownian Ratchets of Life: Stochasticity Combined with Disequilibrium Produces OrderBioessays 41 (6): 1900076. 2019.
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11A “plan B”: When and how to develop your alternative research projectBioessays 38 (10): 935-935. 2016.
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2A muddle of metrics – or how we neglected to recognize quality of scientific thoughtBioessays 37 (3): 227-228. 2015.
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10A Colloquial Language for the Essence of Life: Channelling Energy to Build the ImprobableBioessays 41 (5): 1900058. 2019.
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30Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and MetaphysicsOxford University Press. 2019.A.W. Moore presents eighteen of his philosophical essays, written since 1986, on representing how things are. He sketches out the nature, scope, and limits of representation through language, and pays particular attention to linguistic representation, states of knowledge, the character of what is represented, and objective facts or truths.
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23Ineffability and NonsenseSupplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 77 (1): 169-193. 2003.Criteria of ineffability are presented which, it is claimed, preclude the possibility of truths that are ineffable, but not the possibility of other things that are ineffable—not even the possibility of other things that are non-trivially ineffable. Specifically, they do not preclude the possibility of states of understanding that are ineffable. This, it is argued, allows for a reappraisal of the dispute between those who adopt a traditional reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and those who adop…Read more
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294I—The Presidential Address: Being, Univocity, and Logical SyntaxProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 115 (1pt1): 1-23. 2015.In this essay I focus on the idea of the univocity of being, championed by Duns Scotus and given prominence more recently by Deleuze. Although I am interested in how this idea can be established, my primary concern is with something more basic: how the idea can even be properly thought. In the course of exploring this issue, which I do partly by borrowing some ideas about logical syntax from Wittgenstein's Tractatus, I try to show how there can be dialogue between analytic philosophers and those…Read more
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283What are these Familiar Words Doing Here?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 51 147-171. 2002.This essay is concerned with six linguistic moves that we commonly make, each of which is considered in turn. These are: stating rules of representation; representing things categorically; mentioning expressions; saying truly or falsely how things are; saying vaguely how things are; and stating rules of rules of representation. A common-sense view is defended of what is involved in our doing each of these six things against a much more sceptical view emanating from the idea that linguistic behav…Read more
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305Ineffability and religionEuropean Journal of Philosophy 11 (2). 2003.It is argued that, although there are no ineffable truths, the concept of ineffability nevertheless does have application—to certain states of knowledge. Towards the end of the essay this idea is related to religion: it is argued that the language that results from attempting (unsuccessfully) to put ineffable knowledge into words is very often of a religious kind. An example of this is given at the very end of the essay. This example concerns the Euthyphro question: whether what is right is righ…Read more
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1Wittgenstein and infinityIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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55Wittgenstein and transcendental idealismIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker, Blackwell. pp. 174--199. 2007.
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3The transcendental doctrine of methodIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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95The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of ThingsCambridge University Press. 2011.This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions. In its unusually wide …Read more
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162Quasi‐realism and Relativism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (1). 2002.1. If it is true that ‘an ethic is the propositional reflection of the dispositions and attitudes, policies and stances, of people,’ as Simon Blackburn says in summary of the quasi-realism that he champions in this excellent and wonderfully provocative book, then it seems to follow that different dispositions, attitudes, policies and stances—different conative states, for short—will issue in different ethics, each with an equal claim to truth; and this in turn seems to be one thing that could be…Read more
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |