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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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56James’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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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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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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20Graeme Forbes., The Metaphysics of ModalityInternational Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 80-81. 1989.
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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 Cade Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology futures, Oxford University Press. pp. 95--110. 2006.
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70The principle of pragmatism: Peirce's formulations and examplesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.
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125Cognitive 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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16Naturalism and rationalityPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 70 35-56. 2000.
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33Review: Peter Ochs, Peirce, pragmatism and the logic of scripture. (review)Religious Studies 35 (3): 371-384. 1999.
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2BackmatterIn Philip Pettit & Christopher Hookway (eds.), Handlung Und Interpretation: Studien Zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften, De Gruyter. pp. 225-226. 1982.
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29The 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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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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92Belief 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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7 PragmatismIn M. W. F. Stone & Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Proper Ambition of Science, Routledge. pp. 2--103. 2000.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |