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134Does visual reference depend on sortal classification? Reply to ClarkPhilosophical Studies 127 (2): 221-237. 2006.
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130Does knowledge of material objects depend on spatial perception? Comments on Quassim Cassam's the possibility of knowledgeAnalysis 69 (2): 309-317. 2009.1. The spatial perception requirementCassam surveys arguments for what he calls the ‘Spatial Perception Requirement’ . This is the following principle: " SPR: In order to perceive that something is the case and thereby to know that it is the case one must be capable of spatial perception. " A couple of preliminary glosses. By ‘spatial perception’ Cassam means either perception of location, or perception of specifically spatial properties of an object, such as its size and shape. Second, Cassam t…Read more
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222Suppose your conscious life were surgically excised, but everything else left intact, what would you miss? In this situation you would not have the slightest idea what was going on. You would have no idea what there is in the world around you; what the grounds are of the potentialities and threats are that you are negotiating. Experience of your surroundings provides you with knowledge of what is there: with your initial base of knowledge of what the things are that you are thinking and talking …Read more
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5Ethical Challenges of Research on and Care for Victims of Intimate Partner ViolenceJournal of Clinical Ethics 19 (4): 371-380. 2008.
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290Sensorimotor Knowledge and Naïve Realism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (3). 2008.No Abstract
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62Matching bias on the selection task: It's fast and feels goodThinking and Reasoning 19 (3-4): 431-452. 2013.We tested the hypothesis that choices determined by Type 1 processes are compelling because they are fluent, and for this reason they are less subject to analytic thinking than other answers. A total of 104 participants completed a modified version of Wason's selection task wherein they made decisions about one card at a time using a two-response paradigm. In this paradigm participants gave a fast, intuitive response, rated their feeling of rightness for that response, and were then allowed free…Read more
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30Network Alterations in Comorbid Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction: An Exploratory ApproachFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 13 448994. 2019.The comorbidity of chronic pain and opioid addiction is a serious problem that has been growing with the practice of prescribing opioids for chronic pain. Neuroimaging research has shown that chronic pain and opioid dependence both affect brain structure and function, but this is the first study to evaluate the neurophysiological alterations in patients with comorbid chronic pain and addiction. Eighteen participants with chronic low back pain and opioid addiction were compared with eighteen age-…Read more
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40Family Control, Socioemotional Wealth and Earnings Management in Publicly Traded FirmsJournal of Business Ethics 133 (3): 453-469. 2016.We examine the unique nature of agency problems within publicly traded family firms by investigating the earnings management decision of dominant family owners relative to non-family. To do so, we draw upon literature demonstrating that family owners are loss averse with respect to the family’s socioemotional wealth, or the affective endowment derived from firm ownership and control. Our theory and findings suggest that potential reputational consequences of earnings management lead family princ…Read more
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104More Trouble for Direct Source Incompatibilism: Reply to Yang (review)Acta Analytica 27 (3): 335-344. 2012.Direct source incompatibilism (DSI) is the conjunction of two claims: SI-F: there are genuine Frankfurt-style counterexamples (FSCs); SI-D: there is a sound version of the direct argument (DA). Eric Yang ( 2012 ) responds to a recent criticism of DSI (Campbell 2006 ). We show that Yang misses the mark. One can accept Yang’s criticisms and get the same result: there is a deep tension between FSCs and DA, between SI-F and SI-D. Thus, DSI is untenable. In this essay, we use an important yet overloo…Read more
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200What’s the Role of Spatial Awareness in Visual Perception of Objects?Mind and Language 22 (5). 2007.I set out two theses. The first is Lynn Robertson’s: (a) spatial awareness is a cause of object perception. A natural counterpoint is: (b) spatial awareness is a cause of your ability to make accurate verbal reports about a perceived object. Zenon Pylyshyn has criticized both. I argue that nonetheless, the burden of the evidence supports both (a) and (b). Finally, I argue conscious visual perception of an object has a different causal role to both: (i) non-conscious perception of the object, and…Read more
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289Transparency vs. revelation in color perceptionPhilosophical Topics 33 (1): 105-115. 2005.What knowledge of the colors does perception of the colors provide? My first aim in this essay is to characterize the way in which color experience seems to provide knowledge of colors. This in turn tells us something about what it takes for there to be colors. Color experience provides knowledge of the aspect of the world that is being acted on when we, or some external force, act on the color of an object and thus make a difference to the experiences of people looking at it. It is in this sens…Read more
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204P. F. Strawson’s Free Will NaturalismInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1): 26-52. 2017._ Source: _Page Count 27 This is an explication and defense of P. F. Strawson’s naturalist theory of free will and moral responsibility. I respond to a set of criticisms of the view by free will skeptics, compatibilists, and libertarians who adopt the _core assumption_: Strawson thinks that our reactive attitudes provide the basis for a rational justification of our blaming and praising practices. My primary aim is to explain and defend Strawson’s naturalism in light of criticisms based on the c…Read more
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172New Essays on the Metaphysics of Moral ResponsibilityThe Journal of Ethics 12 (3-4). 2008.This is the introduction to a volume of new essays in the metaphysics of moral responsibility by John Martin Fischer, Carl Ginet, Ishtiyaque Haji, Alfred R. Mele, Derk Pereboom, Paul Russell, and Peter van Inwagen. I provide some background for the essays, cover the main debates in the metaphysics of moral responsibility, and emphasize some of the authors' contributions to this area of philosophy
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44Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, by Theodore DalrympleThe Chesterton Review 28 (3): 381-387. 2002.
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18Irreducible Freedom in NaturePhilosophy 89 (2): 301-323. 2014.I provide a novel response to scepticism concerning freedom and moral responsibility. This involves my extension to freedom of John McDowell's liberal natural approach to ethics and epistemology. I trace the source of the sceptical problem to an overly restrictive, brute conception of nature, where reality is equated with what figures, directly or indirectly, in natural scientific explanation. I challenge the all encompassing explanatory pretensions of restrictive naturalism, advocating a re-con…Read more
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232Incompatibilism and fatalism: Reply to lossAnalysis 70 (1): 71-76. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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28Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, by Joshua MuravchikThe Chesterton Review 29 (4): 573-580. 2003.
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31"Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism: A Philosophical Dialogue," by John Lemos (review)Teaching Philosophy 37 (2): 260-264. 2014.
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125Farewell to direct source incompatibilismActa Analytica 21 (4). 2006.Traditional theorists about free will and moral responsibility endorse the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP): an agent is morally responsible for an action that she performs only if she can do or could have done otherwise. According to source theorists, PAP is false and an agent is morally responsible for her action only if she is the source of that action. Source incompatibilists accept the source theory but also endorse INC: if determinism is true, then no one is morally responsible…Read more
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49Civilizing Sex: On Chastity and the Common Good, by Patrick RileyThe Chesterton Review 28 (3): 393-397. 2002.
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146Culture Corrupts! A Qualitative Study of Organizational Culture in Corrupt OrganizationsJournal of Business Ethics 120 (3): 291-311. 2014.Although theory refers to organizational culture as an important variable in corrupt organizations, only little empirical research has addressed the characteristics of a corrupt organizational culture. Besides some characteristics that go hand in hand with unethical behavior and other features of corrupt organizations, we are still not able to describe a corrupt organizational culture in terms of its underlying assumptions, values, and norms. With a qualitative approach, we studied similarities …Read more
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Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?In Uta Frith & Elisabeth Hill (eds.), Autism: Mind and Brain, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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Where thought is notIn A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens & Alain Badiou (eds.), Badiou and his interlocutors: lectures, interviews and responses, Bloomsbury Academic, an Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2018.
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564Reference and ConsciousnessOxford University Press. 2002.John Campbell investigates how consciousness of the world explains our ability to think about the world; how our ability to think about objects we can see depends on our capacity for conscious visual attention to those things. He illuminates classical problems about thought, reference, and experience by looking at the underlying psychological mechanisms on which conscious attention depends.
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110Neural Mechanisms of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Network-Based fMRI ApproachFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 15. 2021.Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, which causes more disability than any other medical condition in the United States at a cost of $560–$635 billion per year. Opioid analgesics are frequently used to treat CP. However, long term use of opioids can cause brain changes such as opioid-induced hyperalgesia that, over time, increase pain sensation. Also, opioids fail to treat complex psychological factors that worsen pain-related disability, including beliefs about and emotional res…Read more
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