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16Ayer's anti-phenomenalismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 36 (2). 1958.This Article does not have an abstract
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PEARS, D. F. : "Freedom and the will" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 41 (n/a): 277. 1963.
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21McTaggart's Paradox: Two ParodiesPhilosophy 56 (217): 333-348. 1981.To be truly provocative and outrageous the superior philosophical sophistry will commonly possess four somewhat adventitious features. I shall rate it as classic if it has all four. First, and least adventitiously, the argument will be crisp and initially seductive. Second, by the standard the sophistry sets direct rebuttal will be laborious and diffuse. Third, the recipe for the latter will prescribe that we pick out some hitherto unarticulated logical principle such that if the principle be tr…Read more
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11Wittgenstein on Meaning, Understanding, and IntendingAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1). 1966.
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29Can and MightCanadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (1). 1971.Against Richard Taylor's position (Action and Purpose,Prentice Hall,1966) that there is some further factor in agency that in one of its roles supplements the contingency of an action that is freely performed
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22The role of imagination, rule-operations, and atmosphere in Wittgenstein's language-gamesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 10 (1-4). 1967.Wittgenstein argues that understanding a language consists of mastery of techniques for playing language?games rather than some sort of mental state or episode such as mental imagery, rule invocation, or atmosphere investing our experience of words. His elimination of the three mentalistic alternatives presupposes the peculiar distinction, or its virtual lack, between speaker and listener presupposed by his positive claim, instead of establishing the latter. This paper vindicates the episodic na…Read more
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1Alan Donagan, Choice: The Essential Element in Human Action Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (1): 4-6. 1989.
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125Karl Pfeifer, Actions and Other Events: The Unifier-Multiplier Controversy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (2): 133-135. 1992.
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24Image-Talk: The Myth in the MirrorPhilosophy 67 (260). 1992.A mirror image is not an image of a thing seen, but that thing seen in a different perspective.
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25On bringing mrs. Foot out of Coventry: A tribute to D. Nolan KaiserMind 80 (320): 612-613. 1971.
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22McTaggart, Mereology, Substance and ChangeDialogue 21 (1): 57-78. 1982.McTaggart maintained that, without the kind of change which events undergo in passing from the future through the present into the past, how things are would be fundamentally different from how they appear. More particularly Without A-change there could be no change at all. Without any change there could be no time. Without A-change there could be no time.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |