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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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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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33Review: Peter Ochs, Peirce, pragmatism and the logic of scripture. (review)Religious Studies 35 (3): 371-384. 1999.
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7 PragmatismIn M. W. F. Stone & Jonathan Wolff (eds.), Proper Ambition of Science, Routledge. pp. 2--103. 2000.
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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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27Scepticism 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.
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1On Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification by Robert J. FogelinEuropean Journal of Philosophy 5 93-96. 1997.
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24Action and interpretation: studies in the philosophy of the social sciences (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1977.Whether the interpretations made by social scientists of the thoughts, utterances and actions of other people, including those from an alien culture or a ...
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100Regulating InquiryThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 149-157. 2000.Appeal to the idea of an epistemic virtue promises insight into our practices of epistemic evaluation through employing a distinctive view of the ways in which we formulate and respond to reasons. Traits of ‘epistemic character’ guide our reasoning and reflection, and can be responsible for various forms of irrationality. One component of such a view is that emotions, sentiments and other affective states are far more central to questions of epistemic rationality than is commonly supposed. This …Read more
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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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22Review article: Ethics and the pragmatist enlightenmentJournal of Moral Philosophy 3 (2): 231-236. 2006.
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8413 Emotions and epistemic evaluationsIn Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich & Michael Siegal (eds.), The Cognitive Basis of Science, Cambridge University Press. pp. 251. 2002.
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87The inaugural address: Fallibilism and the aim of inquiryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 81 (1). 2007.
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90Minds, Machines And Evolution (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1984.This is a volume of original essays written by philosophers and scientists and dealing with philosophical questions arising from work in evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence. In recent years both of these areas have been the focus for attempts to provide a scientific, model of a wide range of human capacities - most prominently perhaps in sociobiology and cognitive psychology. The book therefore examines a number of issues related to the search for a 'naturalistic' or scientific acco…Read more
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11Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles PeircePhilosophical Review 106 (2): 286. 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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19Knowledge of the External World (The Problems of Philosophy: Their Past and Present)Philosophical Books 33 (4): 224-226. 1992.
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8Handlung Und Interpretation: Studien Zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften (edited book)De Gruyter. 1982.Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Handlung und Interpretation" verfügbar.
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Peirce and SkepticismIn John Greco (ed.), The Oxford handbook of skepticism, Oxford University Press. 2008.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |