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38Fenomenologia cielesnej percepcjiAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (T): 25-36. 2011.[Phenomenology of Bodily Perception] Since this is colloquium on phenomenological and experimental approaches to cognition I’d like to set up te problem I want to address in terms of two of the different strands that we find in Merleau-Ponty’s thinking about the phenomenology of the body. One of these strands is profoundly insightful. The other one, however, seems to me to be lacking in plausibility – or rather, to put it less confrontationally and more in keeping with the spirit of the colloqui…Read more
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20Nonconceptual Self-Consciousness And Cognitive ScienceSynthese 129 (1): 129-149. 2001.This paper explores some of the areaswhere neuroscientific and philosophical issuesintersect in the study of self-consciousness. Taking aspoint of departure a paradox (the paradox ofself-consciousness) that appears to blockphilosophical elucidation of self-consciousness, thepaper illustrates how the highly conceptual forms ofself-consciousness emerge from a rich foundation ofnonconceptual forms of self-awareness. Attention ispaid in particular to the primitive forms ofnonconceptual self-consciou…Read more
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3Rational Decisions, Ken Binmore. Princeton University Press, 2009, x + 200 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 26 (1): 95-101. 2010.
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213Thinking Without WordsOxford University Press USA. 2003.Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to non-linguistic creatures. One consequence of this is that ascriptions of thoughts to non-linguistic creatures have frequently been held…Read more
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15Thought, Reference, and Experience: Themes From the Philosophy of Gareth Evans (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2005.Thought, Reference, and Experience is a collection of important new essays on topics at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophical logic. The starting-point for the papers is the brilliant work of the British philosopher Gareth Evans before his untimely death in 1980 at the age of 34. Evans's work on reference and singular thought transformed the Fregean approach to the philosophy of thought and language, showing how seemingly technical issues in philosophi…Read more
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16Rational Decisions, Binmore Ken. Princeton University Press, 2009, x + 200 pages. (review)Economics and Philosophy 26 (1): 95-101. 2010.
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177Nonconceptual Self-Consciousness And Cognitive ScienceSynthese 129 (1): 129-149. 2001.This paper explores some of the areas where neuroscientific and philosophical issues intersect in the study of self-consciousness. Taking as point of departure a paradox (the paradox of self-consciousness) that appears to block philosophical elucidation of self-consciousness, the paper illustrates how the highly conceptual forms of self-consciousness emerge from a rich foundation of nonconceptual forms of self-awareness. Attention is paid in particular to the primitive forms of nonconceptual sel…Read more
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The domain of folk psychologyIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Minds and Persons, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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42The reinterpretation hypothesis: Explanation or redescription?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (2): 131-132. 2008.Penn et al. propose the relational reinterpretation hypothesis as an explanation of the profound discontinuities that they identify between human and nonhuman cognition. This hypothesis is not a genuine replacement for the explanations that they reject, however, because as it stands, it simply redescribes the phenomena it is trying to explain
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101Cartesian Skepticism: Arguments and AntecedentsIn John Greco (ed.), The Oxford handbook of skepticism, Oxford University Press. 2008.The most frequently discussed skeptical arguments in the history of philosophy are to be found in the tightly argued twelve paragraphs of Descartes’ Meditation One. There is considerable controversy about how to interpret the skeptical arguments that Descartes offers; the extent to which those arguments rest upon implicit epistemological and/or metaphysical presuppositions; their originality within the history of skepticism; and the role they play within Cartesian philosophy and natural science.…Read more
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30Personal and sub‐personal; A difference without a distinctionPhilosophical Explorations 3 (1): 63-82. 2000.This paper argues that, while there is a difference between personal and sub‐personal explanation, claims of autonomy should be treated with scepticism. It distinguishes between horizontal and vertical explanatory relations that might hold between facts at the personal and farts at the sub‐personal level. Noting that many philosophers are prepared to accept vertical explanatory relations between the two levels, I argue for the stronger claim that, in the case of at least three central personal l…Read more
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13Negation, Contrariety, and Practical Reasoning: Comments on Millikan’s Varieties of MeaningPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3): 663-669. 2007.
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7Animal reasoning and proto-logicIn Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. pp. 127-137. 2006.
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43Music, Isomorphism and Metaphor: Comments on Peacocke’s ‘The Perception of Music: Sources of Significance’Modern Schoolman 86 (3-4): 261-265. 2009.
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251The Body and the Self (edited book)MIT Press. 1995.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1 Self-Consciousness and the Body: An Interdisciplinary Introduction by Naomi Eiland, Anthony Marcel and José Luis Bermúdez 2 The Body Image and Self-Consciousness by John Campbell 3 Infants’ Understanding of People and Things: From Body Imitation to Folk Psychology by Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore 4 Persons, Animals, and Bodies by Paul F. Snowdon 5 An Ecological Perspective on the Origins of Self by George Butterworth 6 Objectivity, Causality, and Agenc…Read more
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46Scepticism and the justification of transcendental idealismRatio 8 (1): 1-20. 1995.In this paper I explore a justification for transcendental idealism that emerges from the dialogue with philosophical scepticism in which Kant is on and off engaged throughout the Critique of Pure Reason. Many commentators, most prominently Strawson, have claimed that transcend‐ ental idealism is an unfortunate addition to the Critique, one that can profitably be excised in the interests of clarity and coherence. Against this general picture I urge that transcendental idealism is in fact a very …Read more
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234Immunity to error through misidentification and past-tense memory judgementsAnalysis 73 (2): 211-220. 2013.Autobiographical memories typically give rise either to memory reports (“I remember going swimming”) or to first person past-tense judgements (“I went swimming”). This article focuses on first person past-tense judgements that are (epistemically) based on autobiographical memories. Some of these judgements have the IEM property of being immune to error through misidentification. This article offers an account of when and why first person past-tense judgements have the IEM property
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15Review of José Luis Bermúdez: The Paradox of Self-Consciousness: Representation and Mind (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (3): 483-486. 1999.
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376Thinking Without Words: An Overview for Animal EthicsThe Journal of Ethics 11 (3): 319-335. 2007.In Thinking without Words I develop a philosophical framework for treating some animals and human infants as genuine thinkers. This paper outlines the aspects of this account that are most relevant to those working in animal ethics. There is a range of different levels of cognitive sophistication in different animal species, in addition to limits to the types of thought available to non-linguistic creatures, and it may be important for animal ethicists to take this into account in exploring issu…Read more
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31Ecological perception and the notion of a non-conceptual point of viewIn Jose Luis Bermudez, Anthony J. Marcel & Naomi M. Eilan (eds.), The Body and the Self, Mit Press. 1995.
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116The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge, by Peter CarruthersMind 122 (485): 263-266. 2013.
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111Cognitive impenetrability, phenomenology, and nonconceptual contentBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (3): 367-368. 1999.This commentary discusses Pylyshyn's model of perceptual processing in the light of the philosophical distinction between the conceptual and the nonconceptual content of perception. Pylyshyn's processing distinction maps onto an important distinction in the phenomenology of visual perception.
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55Believing Against the Evidence, by Miriam Schleifer McCormick (review)Mind 125 (499): 942-945. 2016.
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