-
3On the Nature of Genocidal IntentLexington Books. 2012.This book is a logical analysis of genocidal intent, which analyzes the necessary theoretical framework needed to understand its complex structure
-
24Carving nature at its joints: natural kinds in metaphysics and science (edited book)MIT Press. 2011.Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification.
-
49Sortals and the binding problemIn Fraser MacBride (ed.), Identity and modality, Oxford University Press. pp. 203--18. 2006.
-
4Ordinary Thinking about TimeIn Friedrich Stadler & Michael Stöltzner (eds.), Time and History: Proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg Am Wechsel, Austria 2005, De Gruyter. pp. 1-12. 2006.I will describe two non-standard ways of thinking about time. The first is ubiquitous in animal cognition. I will call it ‘phase time’. Suppose for example you consider a hibernating animal. This animal might have representation of the various seasons of the year, and modulate its actions dependent on the season. But it need have no distinction between the winter of one year and the winter of another; it thinks of time only in terms of repeatable phases.
-
6Compatibilist AlternativesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (3): 387-406. 2005.This paper is a defense of traditional compatibilism. Traditional compatibilism is, roughly, the view that free will is essential to moral responsibility, free will requires alternative possibilities of action, or alternatives for short, and moral responsibility is compatible with determinism. Traditional compatibilism is a version of the traditional theory of free will. According to the traditional theory, a person S performed an action a freely only if S could have done otherwise, that is, onl…Read more
-
4Numerical abstractness and elementary arithmeticBehavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (3-4). 2009.Like number representation, basic arithmetic seems to be a natural candidate for abstract instantiation in the brain. To investigate this, researchers have examined effects of numeral format on elementary arithmetic (e.g., 4+5 vs. four+five). Different numeral formats often recruit distinct processes for arithmetic, reinforcing the conclusion that number processing is not necessarily abstracted away from numeral format
-
5Deciding on ViolencePhilosophy of Management 2 (1): 23-32. 2002.If we were to believe the popular press, it would seem that violence at work is an increasingly pressing concern for employees, employers and legislative bodies. In this paper we offer a set of philosophical reflections on violence, in order to clarify and destabilise some of the assumptions which run through many discussions of, and practical interventions into, violence in the workplace. Rather than focusing on violence ‘as such’, we consider various ways in which actions have been, and could …Read more
-
5Ethics in a time of crisis: editorial introduction to special focusBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 22 (1): 64-67. 2012.
-
7For business ethicsRoutledge. 2005.Taking a fundamentally critical approach to the subject of business ethics, this book deals with the traditional material of ethics in business, as well as introducing and surveying some of the most interesting developments in critical ethical theory which have not yet been introduced to the mainstream. Including chapters on different philosophical approaches to ethics, this is a highly structured and clearly written textbook, the first book of its kind on this often neglected aspect of business
-
11Editorial introduction: Derrida, business, ethicsBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 19 (3): 235-237. 2010.This special issue contains papers first presented at a conference that was held 14–16 May 2008 at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the University of Leicester. Each of the papers takes up ideas from the works of Jacques Derrida and seeks to apply these to questions of business, ethics and business ethics. The papers take up quite different parts of Derrida's works, from his work on the animal, narrative and story, the violence of codification and the limits of responsibility t…Read more
-
5Philosophy and organization (edited book)Routledge. 2007.Divided into 'how', 'what' and 'why', this book examines philosophy and its relationship to organizations. It aims to encourage the reader to reflect on the relations between philosophy and organization. It ends with a 'how to' guide for philosophy and organization.
-
7Sociality and moneyBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 16 (3): 203-207. 2007.This is a translation of "Socialite et argent", a text by Emmanuel Levinas originally published in 1987. Levinas describes the emergence of money out of inter-human relations of exchange and the social relations - sociality - that result. While elsewhere he has presented sociality as "non-indifference to alterity" it appears here as "proximity of the stranger" and points to the tension between an economic system based on money and the basic human disposition to respond to the face of the other p…Read more
-
11Editorial introductionBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 16 (3). 2007.This special issue contains papers first presented at a conference that was held 14–16 May 2008 at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the University of Leicester. Each of the papers takes up ideas from the works of Jacques Derrida and seeks to apply these to questions of business, ethics and business ethics. The papers take up quite different parts of Derrida's works, from his work on the animal, narrative and story, the violence of codification and the limits of responsibility t…Read more
-
2in Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn (eds.), Library of Living Philosophers: The Philosophy of Michael Dummett.
-
7My project in this paper is to extend the interventionist analysis of causation to give an account of causation in psychology. Many aspects of empirical investigation into psychological causation fit straightforwardly into the interventionist framework. I address three problems. First, the problem of explaining what it is for a causal relation to be properly psychological rather than merely biological. Second, the problem of rational causation: how it is that reasons can be causes. Finally, I lo…Read more
-
15An interventionist approach to causation in psychologyIn Alison Gopnik & Laura Schulz (eds.), Causal learning: psychology, philosophy, and computation, Oxford University Press. pp. 58--66. 2007.
-
1Joint attention and simulationIn Jérôme Dokic & Joëlle Proust (eds.), Simulation and Knowledge of Action, John Benjamins. 2002.
Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mathematics |