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14The mysterious grand properties of ForrestAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1). 1997.This Article does not have an abstract
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13Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind, edited by Simone Gozzano and Francesco OriliaMind 123 (491): 913-916. 2014.
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10Book Reviews (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 (1): 127-138. 2008.Book reviewed in this article: Not Just Deserts John Braithwaite & Philip Pettit Justifying Legal Punishment Igor Primoratz, 1989 New Jersey Liberty and Justice J. P. Day Justice and Modern Philosophy Jeffrey Reiman, 1990 New Haven The Information Game: ethical issues in a microchip world Geoffrey Brown Powermatics: a discursive critique of new communications technology Marike Finlay Scientists and their Responsibility(ies) William R. Shea & Beat Sitter AIDS and the Good Society Patricia Illingw…Read more
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8In a state of painIn Murat Aydede (ed.), Pain: New Essays on its Nature and the Methodology of its Study, Bradford Book/mit Press. 2005.Michael Tye and I are both Representationalists. Nevertheless, we have managed to disagree about the semantic character of ‘in’ in ‘There is a pain in my fingertip’ (see Noordhof (2001); Tye (2002); Noordhof (2002)). The first section of my commentary will focus on this disagreement. I will then turn to the location of pain. Here, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, there seems to be much more agreement between Tye and me. I restrict myself to three points. First, I argue that Tye has not succeeded i…Read more
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7Not Old... But Not That New EitherIn Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation, Imprint Academic. pp. 85. 2003.
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6The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value‐ by Robert Audi (review)Philosophical Books 49 (2): 175-178. 2008.
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5IntroductionIn Phil Dowe & Paul Noordhof (eds.), Cause and chance : Causation in an indeterministic world, Routledge. pp. 1-11. 2004.
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2Prospects for a counterfactual theory of causationIn Phil Dowe & Paul Noordhof (eds.), Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World, Routledge. 2003.
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1Not old... But not that new either: Explicability, emergence, and the characterisation of materialismIn Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation, Imprint Academic. 2003.
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Evaluative Perception as Response Dependent RepresentationIn Anna Bergqvist & Robert Cowan (eds.), Evaluative Perception, Oxford University Press. pp. 80-108. 2018.One dimension of the controversy over whether evaluative properties are presented in perceptual content has general roots in the debate over whether perceptual content, in general, is rich or austere. I argue that we need to recognise a level of rich non-sensory perceptual content, drawing on experiences of chicken sexing and speech perception, to capture what our experience is like and our epistemic entitlements. In both cases (and many others), we are not conscious of the precise perceptual cu…Read more
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Sensory Substitution and the Challenge from AcclimatisationIn Fiona Macpherson (ed.), Sensory Substitution and Augmentation. pp. 73-93. 2019.A refined characterisation of sensory substitution has, as a consequence, that the substituting sense plus sensory substitution device is not always appropriately classified as the substituted sense. As a result, I argue, acclimatisation to a sensory substitution device is plausibly thought of as providing presentations of properties. Externalist accounts of experience together with objectivist characterisations of such properties have the upshot that properties putatively proprietary to a sens…Read more
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Wading in the ShallowsIn Heather Logue and Louise Richardson (ed.), Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception. pp. 191-214. 2021.One understanding of naturalism about perception allows that results in the sciences bearing on the senses may have an impact upon philosophical theorising on perception. Its opponents reject or, at least, are much more wary about this possibility. I consider two cases: the implications of prediction error theories for naïve realism and the latest empirical research on cross modal illusions, and taste, for the traditional division of the senses into five. Although in neither case are the implica…Read more
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DependenceIn Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry & Tom Lancaster (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emergence, Routledge. pp. 36-54. 2019.Dependence is the most general notion under which a host of familiar metaphysical relations between entities – causation, supervenience, grounding, realisation etc. – fall. In the first section of this chapter, I offer offer some preliminary clarifications to outline the territory in a little more detail. Some years back this would have primarily involved differentiating kinds of dependence in terms of the strength of the modal operators used, and the other details of an analysis deploying them…Read more
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Mental causation : ontology and patterns of variationIn Sophie C. Gibb & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Mental Causation and Ontology, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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Imaginative ContentIn Fiona Macpherson & Fabian Dorsch (eds.), Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory, Oxford University Press. pp. 96-129. 2018.Sensuous imaginative content presents a problem for unitary accounts of phenomenal character (or content) such as relationism, representationalism or qualia theory. Four features of imaginative content are at the heat of the issue: its perspectival nature, the similarity with corresponding perceptual experiences, the multiple use thesis, and its non-presentational character. I reject appeals to the dependency thesis to account for these features and explain how a representationalist approach ca…Read more
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Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World (review)Philosophical Quarterly 55 (218): 131-133. 2005.
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