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41Failing to Agree or Failing to Disagree?The Monist 87 (4): 512-536. 2004.I hold a view I call “Personal Identity Quasi-Relativism,” PIQR for short.
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43Explaining social phenomenaTheoretical and Philosophical Psychology 6 (1): 18-22. 1986.Philosophers of science have devoted volumes to the question of explanation; I've devoted some pages to it myself. In this highly contracted essay I shall offer no more than a comment on the problem of explanation, some vagrant but critical assessments of the dominant approaches to it, and a caution lest we take comfort in some of the recent "success"—or alleged success—in Psychology. I begin with this question: What does it mean to explain an occurrence? And then: What is it about any explanati…Read more
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41. defining the subjectIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 1-46. 2002.
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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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128Can amoebae divide without multiplying?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (3). 1985.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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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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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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161Personal Identity: Reid’s Answer to HumeThe 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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Teaching and leading as a principled act: how Ethel T. Overby built foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, 1910-1957In Doris A. Santoro & Lizabeth Cain (eds.), Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas, Harvard Education Press. 2018.
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2Contemporary business ethics asks the question: what moral responsibilities do actors in a market economy have? Specifically, what obligations do corporate managers have? In this paper I consider a new method for answering these questions, Joseph Heath’s market failure model of business ethics. On this view, the market is a staged competition that is normatively justifiable through its tendency to promote Pareto efficiency. Since the market is justified by Pareto efficiency, competitive behaviou…Read more
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6Markov uniqueness of degenerate elliptic operatorsAnnali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa- Classe di Scienze 10 (3): 683-710. 2011.
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Introducing Rousseau: A Graphic GuideIntroducing. 2011.Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied being a philosopher at all.
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1Introducing DescartesDistributed to the trade in the U.S. by National Book Network. 1998.Rene Descartes is the 16th century philosopher who perpetually doubted everything--even his own physical existence!
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51Thomas Reid's critique of Dugald StewartJournal of the History of Philosophy 27 (3): 405-422. 1989.