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35The 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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Murray G. Murphey, "The Development of Peirce's Philosophy" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (3): 667. 1994.
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7FrontmatterIn Philip Pettit & Christopher Hookway (eds.), Handlung Und Interpretation: Studien Zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften, De Gruyter. 1982.
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Peirce-Arg PhilosophersRoutledge. 1985.First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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15Consciousness and Causality: A Debate on the Nature of MindPhilosophical Books 27 (2): 110-112. 1986.
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102Short on Peirce's early theory of signsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4). 2007.: T.L. Short's book argues that Peirce's early theory of signs was flawed, and that the development of his mature theories required a new start and the rejection of some fundamental doctrines from the earlier view. While agreeing that Peirce's view of signs changed and agreeing on the new developments that were of most significance, I express some doubts about Short's diagnosis of why such changes were required. I argue that the changes were required, not by internal inconsistencies in the earli…Read more
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8British Champions of PeirceEuropean 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...
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8The Themes of Quine's Philosophy: Meaning, Reference, and Knowledge. by Edward F. Becker. Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 336, £60. ISBN-13: 978-1107-015234 (review)Philosophy 88 (4): 627-630. 2013.
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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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2Modest Transcendental Arguments and Sceptical Doubts: A Reply to StroudIn Robert Stern (ed.), Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 173--87. 1999.
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44When 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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31QuinePolity. 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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19Common sense, science and scepticism: A historical introduction to the theory of knowledgeHistory of European Ideas 18 (4): 610-611. 1994.
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13" Signo y pensamiento" by Josep L. Blasco, Tobies Grimaltos and Dora SánchezTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 19 (2): 125-127. 2000.
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20Lotze and the Classical PragmatistsEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 1 (1): 44-52. 2009.It has been said that, after the fall of modernism, Hermann Lotze (1817-81) reigned as the single most influential philosopher in Germany, perhaps the world” (Sullivan 2008: 2). It is now not easy to take such claims about Lotze seriously, and historical surveys of nineteenth century philosophy treat him as a marginal figure, if they mention him at all. Part of the explanation of this change in his standing becomes clear if we accept Sullivan’s helpful observation that Lotze was a ‘prominent...
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2Words and Life, By Hilary Putnam, edited by James Conant. Harvard University press1994lxxvi + 531 pp. £35.95 (review)Philosophy 70 (273): 460-463. 1995.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |