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58The pragmatic maxim: essays on Peirce and pragmatismOxford University Press. 2012.Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers.
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56Epistemic akrasia and epistemic virtueIn A. Fairweather & L. Zagzebski (eds.), Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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55James’s Epistemology and the Will to BelieveEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (1): 30-38. 2011.William James’s paper “The Will to Believe” defends some distinctive and controversial views about the normative standards that should be adopted when we are reflecting upon what we should believe. He holds that, in certain special kinds of cases, it is rational to believe propositions even if we have little or no evidence to support our beliefs. And, in such cases, he holds that our beliefs can be determined by what he calls “passional considerations” which include “fear and hope, prejudice and…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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53Normative Concepts and Epistemological InternalismMetaepistemology and Skepticism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (4): 907. 1998.
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52Logical Necessity and Other Essays By I. G. McFetridge, edited by John Haldane and Roger Scruton. The Aristotelian Society, ix + 240 pp., £12.00 (review)Philosophy 67 (260): 264-. 1992.
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50I pragmatisti italiani a cura di Giovanni Maddalena e Giovanni TuzetIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 22 (1): 237-252. 2009.Comments on G. Maddalena and G. Tuzet, editors, I Pragmatisti Italiani. Tra Alleati e Nemeci (Italian Pragmatists. Between Enemies and Allies). Milano: Albo Versorio, 2007.
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48"... A Sort of Composite Photograph": Pragmatism, Ideas, and SchematismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (1/2). 2002.
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46Semantics By John Lyons Cambridge University Press, 1977. Vol. 1, xiii + 371 pp., £12.00, £3.95 paper; Vol. 2, xiv + 526 pp., £15.00, £4.95 paper (review)Philosophy 53 (205): 421-. 1978.
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44On Quine: New Essays (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 168-170. 1996.The product of a conference in San Marino in 1990, this volume contains revised versions of fifteen of the conference papers and some thirteen pages of Quine's "reactions" to issues raised elsewhere in the volume. The contributors include Italian and other European scholars together with around a dozen distinguished American visitors.
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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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39Comments on Essays from Conference “The Idea of Pragmatism”Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 51 (4): 397. 2015.My initial education in philosophy was in Oxford and in the philosophy of ‘ordinary language’ and the philosophy of language. My heroes were Wittgenstein and H.P Grice. I was intrigued by showing how metaphysical or ontological theories could be disposed of as lacking meaning. While I was studying for an M.A. at the University of East Anglia, I was taught by Martin Hollis who led me to read C.I. Lewis’s Mind and The World Order. The book was a challenge and I doubt that I understood all of it. T…Read more
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35Design and Chance: The Evolution of Peirce's Evolutionary CosmologyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (1). 1997.
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35How to be a Virtue EpistemologistIn Linda Zagzebski & Michael DePaul (eds.), Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives From Ethics and Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 183--202. 2003.This chapter points out that standard versions of virtue epistemology accept and are motivated by the same central problems in epistemology — such as analyzing the concepts of knowledge and justification, and addressing skeptical challenges — which motivate contemporary epistemology. The only significant difference is that virtue epistemology claims that the concepts of knowledge and justification must be analyzed in terms of virtues. What motivates virtue ethicists, however, is not what is moti…Read more
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34Dichotomies: Facts and Epistemic ValuesPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 95 (1): 55-69. 2008.The paper explores Putnam's denial of the "fact/value dichotomy." After attempting to identify the main themes in this aspect of Putnam's thought, I explore its implications for our understanding of epistemic evaluation and also consider its relations to some similar moves by other philosophers in the pragmatist tradition. The final section examines an argument of Putnam's which is sued to suggest that such a dichotomy can be self defeating when applied to epistemic evaluation
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33The Presidential Address: Questions of ContextProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96 (1). 1996.Christopher Hookway; I *—The Presidential Address: Questions of Context, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 1–16, h.
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33The epicurean argument: Determinism and scepticismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 32 (1). 1989.This paper examines Honderich's attempt to make sense of the widespread view that acceptance of determinism undermines reason and knowledge. Since I am largely in sympathy with Honderich's approach to these issues, the paper develops a theme suggested by his discussion and disagrees with some details of the focus of his argument rather than challenging the general principles he employs. After introducing the issue and sketching Honderich's version of the argument from determinism to scepticism, …Read more
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32QuinePolity. 2013.This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Hookway traces the development of Quine's work from his early criticisms of logical positivism and empiricism to his more recent theories about mind and…Read more
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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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31The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical IntroductionPhilosophical Quarterly 32 (126): 87. 1982.
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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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28Review of Charles Sanders Peirce, Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 8: 1890-1892 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
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26Towards a Transformation of Philosophy By Karl-Otto Apel Translated by Glyn Adey and David Frisby London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, xi + 308 pp., £12.50 (review)Philosophy 56 (215): 134-. 1981.
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25Scepticism and the Principle of Inferential JustificationPhilosophical Issues 10 (1): 344-365. 2000.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |