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57What are we? A study in personal ontology – Eric T. OlsonPhilosophical Quarterly 60 (238): 208-211. 2010.No Abstract
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108Self-knowing agents • by Lucy O'BrienAnalysis 69 (1): 187-188. 2009.How is it that we think and refer in the first-person way? For most philosophers in the analytic tradition, the problem is essentially this: how two apparently conflicting kinds of properties can be reconciled and united as properties of the same entity. What is special about the first person has to be reconciled with what is ordinary about it . The range of responses reduces to four basic options. The orthodox view is optimistic: there really is a way of reconciling these apparently contradicto…Read more
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7Being at home : human beings and human bodiesIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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60Blue book ways of telling: Criteria, openness and other mindsPhilosophical Investigations 25 (4). 2002.
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46Corporeal objects and the interdependence of perception and actionRatio 15 (4): 335-353. 2002.This paper is about how action and perception are related in self–awareness. The main positive claim is that bodily awareness may consist in perceptual experiences that are sufficient to provide corporeal objects with introspective self–awareness. The short–term goal is to examine the grounds and motivations for strong versions of the claim that the self–awareness of corporeal objects is dependent on the exercise of their agency. As examples of ‘patient perceivers’ show, we should not underestim…Read more
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27How Wrong Can One Be?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96 (1): 387-394. 1996.Max de Gaynesford; How Wrong Can One Be?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 96, Issue 1, 1 June 1996, Pages 387–394, https://doi.org/10.1093/arist.
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16Review: Jose Luis Bermudez: Thought, Reference, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans (review)Mind 117 (466): 462-468. 2008.
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WV Quine, From Stimulus to Science Paolo Crivelli and Marco Santambrogio, eds, On Quine: New EssaysRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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50Speech acts and poetryAnalysis 70 (4): 644-646. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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24Philosophical works as objects of aesthetic judgmentRatio 11 (1). 1998.This paper draws attention to the fact that works of philosophy are often judged by aesthetic criteria. This raises the question of whether philosophical writings may properly be regarded as suitable objects of aesthetic judgement in a strong sense; namely, that judging their worth qua works of philosophy is an aesthetic endeavour. The paper argues in the affirmative with the aid of a Kantian account of aesthetic judgement. Judging a work of philosophy by the means chosen may be regarded as subj…Read more
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23Putnam's Model‐Theoretic ArgumentIn Steven D. Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract The Model ‐ Theoretic Argument Difficulties and Differences Putnam's Progress Implications Objections and Replies References.
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78Incense and insensibility: Austin on the ‘non-seriousness’ of poetryRatio 22 (4): 464-485. 2009.What is at stake when J. L. Austin calls poetry ‘non-serious’, and sidelines it in his speech act theory?. Standard explanations polarize sharply along party lines: poets and critics are incensed, while philosophers deny cause. Neither line is consistent with Austin's remarks, whose allusions to Plato, Aristotle and Frege are insufficiently noted. What Austin thinks is at stake is confusion, which he corrects apparently to the advantage of poets. But what is actually at stake is the possibility …Read more
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9If philosophy and poetry are to illuminate each other, we should first understand their tendencies to mutual antipathy. Examining mutual misapprehension is part of this task. J. L. Austin's remarks on poetry offer one such point of entry: they are often cited by poets and critics as an example of philosophy's blindness to poetry. These remarks are complex and their purpose obscure—more so than those who take exception to them usually allow or admit. But it is reasonable to think that, for all hi…Read more
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