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158Attention is cognitive unison: an essay in philosophical psychologyOxford University Press. 2011.Highlights of a difficult history -- The preliminary identification of our topic -- Approaches -- Bradley's protest -- James's disjunctive theory -- The source of Bradley's dissatisfaction -- Behaviourism and after -- Heirs of Bradley in the twentieth century -- The underlying metaphysical issue -- Explanatory tactics -- The basic distinction -- Metaphysical categories and taxonomies -- Adverbialism, multiple realizability, and natural kinds -- Adverbialism and levels of explanation -- Taxonomie…Read more
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79Review of James Stazicker (ed.) The Structure of Perceptual Experience (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1. 2016.NDPR review of James Stazicker (ed.) The Structure of Perceptual Experience.
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75Three Philosophical Lessons for the Analysis of Criminal and Military IntelligenceIntelligence and National Security 27 (4): 441-58. 2012.It has recently been suggested that philosophy – in particular epistemology – has a contribution to make to the analysis of criminal and military intelligence. The present article pursues this suggestion, taking three phenomena that have recently been studied by philosophers, and showing that they have important implications for the gathering and sharing of intelligence, and for the use of intelligence in the determining of military strategy. The phenomena discussed are: (1) Simpson's Paradox, (…Read more
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255Review of Probably Approximately Correct (review)TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 5772 32. 2013.
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703Fiction's ontological commitmentsPhilosophical Forum 40 (4): 473-488. 2009.This article examines one way in which a fiction can carry ontological commitments. The ontological commitments that the article examines arise in cases where there are norms governing discourse about items in a fiction that cannot be accounted for by reference to the contents of the sentences that constitute a canonical telling of that fiction. In such cases, a fiction may depend for its contents on the real-world properties of real-world items, and the fiction may, in that sense, be ontologica…Read more
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