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30Visual reaction time and the human alpha rhythm: The effects of stimulus luminance, area, and durationJournal of Experimental Psychology 71 (1): 16. 1966.
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30Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (4): 864-865. 2004.With this volume, the third in what will be a total of ten, the scholarly debt to Knud Haakonssen and Penn State University Press continues, as they provide authoritative editions of the works of Thomas Reid. The current volume is based on the one edition of this work that appeared in Reid’s lifetime, and it differs from that edition solely in the correction of typographical errors in the original. Appended to the Essays is Reid’s “Three Lectures on the Nature and Duration of the Soul,” in which…Read more
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27Mental Reality (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (4): 949-951. 1996.In his preface to Mental Reality the author cautions that much of what appears in the book has surely been said before, noting that he has probably forgotten some of his own debts. However, the pages that follow turn out to be paradoxically original and unsurprising; original, against the contemporary background of all too many thick-but-thin disquisitions on the same subject, and unsurprising owing to the author's respect for such authority as mind might claim in the matter of self-understandin…Read more
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24The Great Ideas of PhilosophyTeaching Co.. 1993.From the Upanishads to Homer -- Philosophy, did the Greeks invent it -- Pythagoras and the divinity of number -- What is there? -- The Greek tragedians on man's fate -- Herodotus and the lamp of history -- Socrates on the examined life -- Plato's search for truth -- Can virtue be taught? -- Plato's Republic, man writ large -- Hippocrates and the science of life -- Aristotle on the knowable -- Aristotle on friendship -- Aristotle on the perfect life -- Rome, the Stoics, and the rule of law -- The…Read more
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24Prehension: The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity (review)Review of Metaphysics 69 (4): 825-826. 2016.
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23Neurometaphorology: The new faculty psychologyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (1): 112-113. 1981.
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22Philosophy of psychologyColumbia University Press. 1985.This is the story of the clattering of elevated subways and the cacophony of crowded neighborhoods, the heady optimism of industrial progress and the despair of economic recession, and the vibrancy of ethnic cultures and the resilience of ...
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21Personal IdentityThe Monist 61 (2): 326-339. 1978.In the third of his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of‘identity’, and the sixth chapter to Locke’s theory of ‘personal identity’. This latter chapter is widely regarded as a definitive refutation of the thesis that personal identity is no more than memories of a certain sort. It is interesting that the terms ‘identity’ and ‘personal identity’ do not appear as chapter or section titles elsewhere in any of Reid’s works; and Hume is neither m…Read more
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19On Logic, Rhetoric And The Fine Arts (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 672-673. 2006.The sources for this volume are the unpublished papers of Reid contained in the Birkwood Colletion. As the title of the volume indicates, Reid’s teaching as a Regent included Logic, Rhetoric, and the Fine Arts. The regenting system assigned cadres of students to a specific teacher who would pace them through the entire curriculum of study. Broadie cites Reid’s own defenses of this system and the important educational and civic aims achieved by it, at the relatively slight cost of unavoidable sup…Read more
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18The Correspondence of Thomas Reid (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (2): 445-446. 2003.Contrary to the estimation of Reid’s close friend and admiring biographer, Dugald Stewart, the correspondence of Thomas Reid is of great interest. Not only do the letters offer more than a hint of the extraordinary breadth of Reid’s interests, but they reinforce conclusions reached by his readers as to the intellectual integrity, the fairness, and the modesty of this central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Credit is due to Paul Wood for including all of the known letters to and from Reid, …Read more
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182. constitutive luck: On being determinedIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 47-107. 2002.
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17Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (review)Faith and Philosophy 26 (4): 478-480. 2009.
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17Reply To CommentariesJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 23 (1): 50-61. 2003.Commentators' criticisms are considered in relation to the aims of the book as well as in relation to the commentators' own understanding of major issues. Neither reliance on social construcitonist alternatives nor on 'de gustibus' arguments reaches the principal arguments of Praise and Blame. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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15The Sensus Fidelium with Special Reference to the Thought of Blessed John Henry Newman. By Kathleen Kirk. Pp. vi, 164, Leominster, Gracewing, 2010, $14.42 (review)Heythrop Journal 53 (6): 1036-1038. 2012.
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15What sort of persons are hemispheres? Another look at ‘split-brain’ manBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (1): 73-78. 1976.
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15The story of Scottish philosophyExposition Press. 1961.This book collects several excerpts from the work of each of nine 18th and 19th century Scottish thinkers: Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, Sir William Hamilton, James Frederick Foster, and James McCosh. A brief account of each man's life and work accompanies the selections.
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15Toward a Science of Human Nature (edited book)Columbia University Press. 1982.Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko Dis…Read more
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14The Wonder of Being Human: Our Brain and Our MindFree Press. 1984.Traces the development of the human consciousness and argues that many scientific theories of human nature denigrate the value of humanity.
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14The mind (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it might seem that questions about the nature of the mind are best left to scientists rather than philosophers. How could the views of Aristotle or Descartes or Kant possibly contribute anything to debates about these issues, when the relevant neurophysiological facts and principles were completely unknown to them? This Oxford Reader shows that the arguments of philosophers throughout history still provide essential insights into contemporary questio…Read more
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12Neuroscience and the SoulPhilosophia Christi 15 (1): 11-19. 2013.The constant threats to scientific progress are complacency and the diminished capacity for self-criticism. There have been great advances in our understanding of the functional anatomy of the nervous system, advances that stand in vivid contrast to our understanding of the moral, aesthetic and political dimensions of human life. The contrast is so great as to encourage the belief that these dimensions are found beyond the ambit of scientific explanation. How pathetic, then, to witness strident …Read more
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12Review of The cultural psychology of the self (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2): 225-230. 2000.Reviews the book, The cultural psychology of the self by Ciaran Benson . This is a book rich in insight, deep in significance and, inevitably, marked by assumptions and interpretations subject to gentle disagreement. It is precisely because of its manifest assets that points of disagreement need to be highlighted. In this review I will address criticism only to the first half of the book, the criticism being more by way of an introduction to the issue than the suggestion of a settled position on…Read more