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Action and InterpretationBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (4): 396-401. 1980.Whether the interpretations made by social scientists of the thoughts, utterances and actions of other people, including those from an alien culture or a different period in history, are objectively correct, whether the forms of explanation they employ conform to those of the natural sciences, and whether values have a role in arriving at the theory that delivers the interpretations, are the main questions addressed by the contributors to this volume. Of particular importance in the discussion o…Read more
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3NotebookPhilosophy 53 (n/a): 431. 1978.//static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0031819100022609/resource/name/firstPage-S0031819100022609a.jpg.
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50Semantics 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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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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87The inaugural address: Fallibilism and the aim of inquiryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 81 (1). 2007.
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1PersonenverzeichnisIn Philip Pettit & Christopher Hookway (eds.), Handlung Und Interpretation: Studien Zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften, De Gruyter. pp. 223-224. 1982.
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Peirce and SkepticismIn John Greco (ed.), The Oxford handbook of skepticism, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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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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17Knowledge of the External World (The Problems of Philosophy: Their Past and Present)Philosophical Books 33 (4): 224-226. 1992.
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1Unbestimmtheit und InterpretationIn Philip Pettit & Christopher Hookway (eds.), Handlung Und Interpretation: Studien Zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften, De Gruyter. pp. 27-57. 1982.
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4Notebook: NotebookPhilosophy 59 (229): 425-426. 1984.//static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS003181910007011X/resource/name/firstPage-S003181910007011Xa.jpg.
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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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6Review Article: Ethics and the Pragmatist EnlightenmentJournal of Moral Philosophy 3 (2): 231-236. 2006.
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31The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical IntroductionPhilosophical Quarterly 32 (126): 87. 1982.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |