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8Philosophy and Cognitive Science (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1993.This volume, derived from the Royal Institute of Philosophy 1992 conference, brings together some of the leading figures in the burgeoning field of cognitive science to explore current and potential advances in the philosophical understanding of mind and cognition. Drawing on work in psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy, the papers tackle such issues as concept acquisition, blindsight, rationality and related questions as well as contributing to th…Read more
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13Strands of System (review)Philosophical Review 106 (2): 286-288. 1997.Each volume in the Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy examines the fundamental ideas of a single philosopher, presenting one basic text by the thinker in question, and supplementing this by “a very thorough and up-to-date commentary.” The format is most successful when a reasonably short classic work containing the subject’s most important claims can be found. We might expect it to work much less well with a thinker like Peirce, serious study of whose work cannot avoid t…Read more
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55Analyticity, Linguistic Rules and Epistemic EvaluationRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 42 197-. 1997.We can characterise thought in two different ways. Which is preferred can have implications for important issues about reasoning and the norms that govern cognition. The first, which owes much to the picture of the mind encountered in Descartes' Meditations, observes that paradigmatic examples of thoughts and inferences are events and processes whose special characteristics stem from their being ‘mental’ occurrences. For example they are conscious or, if unconscious, they stand in some special r…Read more
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19Graeme Forbes., The Metaphysics of ModalityInternational Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 80-81. 1989.
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70The principle of pragmatism: Peirce's formulations and examplesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.
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42When deduction leads to beliefRatio 8 (1): 24-41. 1995.The paper questions the common assumption that rational individuals believe all propositions which they know to be logical consequences of their other beliefs: although we must acknowledge the truth of a proposition which is a deductive consequence of our beliefs, we may not genuinely believe it. This conclusion is defended by arguing that some familiar counterexamples to the claim that knowledge is justified true belief fail because they involve propositions which are not really believed. Belie…Read more
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6Robert Almeder, "The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical Introduction" (review)Philosophical Quarterly 32 (26): 87. 1982.
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6Epistemology and inquiry: The primacy of practiceIn Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology Futures, Oxford University Press. pp. 95--110. 2006.
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15Naturalism and rationalityPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 70 35-56. 2000.
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124Cognitive virtues and epistemic evaluationsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2). 1994.(1994). Cognitive virtues and epistemic evaluations. International Journal of Philosophical Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 211-227. doi: 10.1080/09672559408570791
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3Logical principles and philosophical attitudes: Peirce's response to James's pragmatismIn Ruth Anna Putnam (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to William James, Cambridge University Press. pp. 145--65. 1997.
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31Review: Peter Ochs, Peirce, pragmatism and the logic of scripture. (review)Religious Studies 35 (3): 371-384. 1999.
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28The American Pragmatists. By Cheryl Misak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 304pp, £25 ISBN: 978-0-19-923120-1 (review)Philosophy 89 (1): 180-184. 2014.
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7 PragmatismIn M. W. F. Stone & Jonathan Wolff (eds.), The Proper Ambition of Science, Routledge. pp. 2--103. 2000.
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82Belief and freedom of mindPhilosophical Explorations 12 (2). 2009.There are concepts of freedom of mind and freedom of belief which do not depend on the freedom of agency. After discussing some impediments to such freedom of mind, the paper explores some arguments of Dennett, Michael Smith and Philip Pettit, and Josefa Toribio. Borrowing ideas from Schiller, the paper concludes that such freedom has an emotional or aesthetic dimension
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25Scepticism and the Principle of Inferential JustificationPhilosophical Issues 10 (1): 344-365. 2000.
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13Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism: Themes from PeircePhilosophical Quarterly 52 (206): 117-119. 2002.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |