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25Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise LostBritish Journal of Aesthetics 59 (4): 491-494. 2019.Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise LostZamirTzachioup. 2018. pp. 218. £36.49
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25Putnam'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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25Philosophical 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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22Attuning film and philosophy: the space-time continuumIn Craig Fox & Britt Harrison (eds.), Philosophy of Film Without Theory, Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.Ordinarily, what we experience does not jump from one place or time to another—we have to pass through all the intermediate times and places. But in films, what we experience can jump in both dimensions, both separately and together. This phenomenon has been memorably described in film criticism by Rudolph Arnheim and it has been deployed philosophically by Suzanne Langer and Colin McGinn. But discussion of space-time discontinuity remains hampered by the lack of attunement between film critical…Read more
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21Naturalist Semantics and the Appeal to StructureSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (1): 57-74. 2006.We need not accommodate facts about meaning if Quine is right about the indeterminacy of subsentential expressions; there can be no such facts to accommodate. Evans argued that Quine’s approach overlooks the ways speakers use predication to endow their use of subsentential expressions with the necessary determinacy. This paper offers a critical assessment of the debate in relation to current arguments about naturalism and shows how Evans’s response depends on a basic claim that turns out to be f…Read more
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21Scepticism in the sonnetsIn Craig Bourne & Emily Caddick Bourne (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, . 2018.
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21Naturalist Semantics and the Appeal to StructureSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (1): 57-74. 2010.We need not accommodate facts about meaning if Quine is right about the indeterminacy of subsentential expressions; there can be no such facts to accommodate. Evans argued that Quine's approach overlooks the ways speakers use predication to endow their use of subsentential expressions with the necessary determinacy. This paper offers a critical assessment of the debate in relation to current arguments about naturalism and shows how Evans's response depends on a basic claim that turns out to be f…Read more
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18Hilary PutnamRoutledge. 2006.Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline. However, there is a considerable challenge in presenting his work both accurately and accessibly. This is due to the width and diversity of his published writings and to his frequent spells of radical re-thinking. But if we are to understand how and why philosophy is developing as it is, we need to attend to Putnam's whole career. He has had a dramatic influe…Read more
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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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16Pledging my timeIn C. Sandis & G. Browning (eds.), Dylan at 80, Imprint Academic. forthcoming.Prompted by Bob Dylan's song of this title: an essay on the philosophical issues raised by the idea of pledging one's time, and doing so in and by performing a song.
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15Critical noticeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (3). 1996.This Article does not have an abstract
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15Uptake in actionIn Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Interpreting J. L. Austin: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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14The rift in the lute: attuning poetry and philosophyOxford University Press. 2017.What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously? What is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and alive to what it does? These are important questions that call equally on poetry and philosophy. But poetry and philosophy, notoriously, have an ancient quarrel. Maximilian de Gaynesford sets out to understand and convert their mutual antipathy into something mutually enhancing, so that we can begin to answer these and other questions. The key to attun…Read more
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13The sonnets and attunementIn Craig Bourne & Emily Caddick Bourne (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, Routledge. 2018.
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11If 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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9Hilary PutnamRoutledge. 2006.Putnam is one of the most influential philosophers of recent times, and his authority stretches far beyond the confines of the discipline. However, there is a considerable challenge in presenting his work both accurately and accessibly. This is due to the width and diversity of his published writings and to his frequent spells of radical re-thinking. But if we are to understand how and why philosophy is developing as it is, we need to attend to Putnam's whole career. He has had a dramatic influe…Read more
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History of Western Philosophy |
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