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37Review of Naomi Eilan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, Johannes Roessler (eds), Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds -- Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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406Foucault and Kripke on the Proper Names of AuthorsPhilosophy and Literature 40 (2): 383-398. 2016.The semantic issues that Saul Kripke addressed in Naming and Necessity overlap substantially with those that were addressed by Michel Foucault in “What Is an Author?”. The present essay examines their area of overlap, with a view to showing that each of these works affords a perspective on the other, from which facets that are usually obscure can be brought into view. It shows that Foucault needs to take some assumptions from Kripke’s theory of naming in order to secure one of his arguments for…Read more
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807Attention, Self, and The Sovereignty of GoodIn Anne Rowe (ed.), Iris Murdoch: A reassessment, . pp. 72-84. 2007.Iris Murdoch held that states of mind and character are of the first moral importance, and that attention to one's states of mind and character are a widespread source of moral failure. Maintaining both of these claims can lead to problems in the account of how one could become good. This paper explains the way in which Murdoch negotiated those problems, focusing, in particular on /The Sovereignty of Good/ and /The Nice and The Good/.
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Aesthetics |
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