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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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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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2Words and Life, By Hilary Putnam, edited by James Conant. Harvard University press1994lxxvi + 531 pp. £35.95 (review)Philosophy 70 (273): 460-463. 1995.
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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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192Affective states and epistemic immediacyMetaphilosophy 34 (1-2): 78-96. 2003.Ethics studies the evaluation of actions, agents and their mental states and characters from a distinctive viewpoint or employing a distinctive vocabulary. And epistemology examines the evaluation of actions (inquiries and assertions), agents (believers and inquirers), and their states (belief and attitudes) from a different viewpoint. Given this common concern with evaluation, we should surely expect there to be considerable similarities between the issues examined and the ideas employed in the…Read more
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Sentiment and Self-ControlIn Paul Forster & Jacqueline Brunning (eds.), The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of C.S. Peirce, University of Toronto Press. pp. 201-222. 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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12Wittgenstein and Knowledge: Beyond Form and ContentJournal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (2). 1993.
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168Reasons for belief, reasoning, virtuesPhilosophical Studies 130 (1): 47--70. 2006.The paper offers an explanation of what reasons for belief are, following Paul Grice in focusing on the roles of reasons in the goal-directed activity of reasoning. Reasons are particularly salient considerations that we use as indicators of the truth of beliefs and candidates for belief. Reasons are distinguished from enabling conditions by being things that we should be able to attend to in the course of our reasoning, and in assessing how well our beliefs are supported. The final section argu…Read more
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121Epistemic norms and theoretical deliberationRatio 12 (4). 1999.Some fundamental epistemic norms govern the conduct of the activity of inquiry and the progress of theoretical deliberation. We monitor our deliberations by raising questions about how they should be conducted and about how effectively they have been carried out. Such questions ‘occur’ to us: we are often passive recipients of them. The paper discusses what determines when questions should occur to us and it investigates how far these observations can be seen as threatening our freedom of mind. …Read more
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78Truth, 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.
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11Intentionality By John R. Searle Cambridge University Press, 1983, x + 278 pp., £20.00, £7.50 paper (review)Philosophy 59 (229): 417-. 1984.
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34Dichotomies: Facts and Epistemic ValuesPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 95 (1): 55-69. 2008.The paper explores Putnam's denial of the "fact/value dichotomy." After attempting to identify the main themes in this aspect of Putnam's thought, I explore its implications for our understanding of epistemic evaluation and also consider its relations to some similar moves by other philosophers in the pragmatist tradition. The final section examines an argument of Putnam's which is sued to suggest that such a dichotomy can be self defeating when applied to epistemic evaluation
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15Peirce, Pragmatism, and Philosophical StyleJournal of Philosophical Research 39 325-337. 2014.After describing some of the ways in which pragmatist philosophers have employed different views about how to do philosophy, this paper explains how their different philosophical goals determine how they actually do philosoophy. We explain and discuss two aspects of Peirce’s work that are relevant to the ways in which he does philosophy: his remarks about the use of “literary prose” in philosophy and his valuable discussion of the “ethics of notation.” This is grounded in view of how philosophic…Read more
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21Conscious Belief and DeliberationAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 55 (1): 75-108. 1981.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |