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Christopher Hookway

University of Sheffield
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Philosophy of the Americas
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    Reference, causation, and reality
    Semiotica 69 (3/4). 1988.
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    British Champions of Peirce
    European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (1). 2014.
    When the history of American philosophy in the nineteenth century can be written in great detail than hitherto, the important place of Charles S. Peirce as a pathfinder in every one of the many fields that his work touched will have to receive fuller recognition than has as yet been accorded to it. This quotation is from “Charles Peirce’s Pragmatism,” a paper by John Henry Muirhead that was published in The Philosophical Review in 1930s. It is evidence that the value of Peirce’s work was reco...
    American PragmatismCharles Sanders Peirce
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    Truth, rationality, and pragmatism: themes from Peirce (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2000.
    Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher and pragmatist, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1913). These themes center on the question of how we are to investigate the world rationally. Hookway shows how Peirce's ideas about this continue to play an important role in contemporary philosophy.
    RationalityCharles Sanders PeirceVirtue Epistemology
  • I. Hacking, , "Exercises in Analysis"
    Philosophical Quarterly 36 (145): 549. 1986.
  • Quine and Scepticism
    Quaderns de Filosofia i Ciència 34 31-40. 2004.
  • Action and Interpretation: Studies in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
    with Philip Pettit
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 13 (3): 219-221. 1980.
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    El escepticismo y el principio de justificación inferencial
    Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 161-182. 2000.
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    Philosophy and Cognitive Science (edited book)
    with Donald M. Peterson
    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
    Dynamical Systems
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    Mimicking Foundationalism: on Sentiment and Self‐control
    European Journal of Philosophy 1 (2): 156-174. 1993.
    Moral Emotivism and SentimentalismFoundationalism, Misc
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    The Presidential Address: Questions of Context
    Proceedings 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.