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48The Objects of Thought by Tim Crane Oxford University Press2014, pp. 208, £27.50 ISBN: 978-0-19-968274-4 (review)Philosophy 90 (1): 146-151. 2015.
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36Knowing, knowing perspicuously, and knowing how one knowsGrazer Philosophische Studien 98 (4): 530-543. 2021.In Knowing and Seeing, Michael Ayers presents a view of what he calls primary knowledge according to which one who knows in that way both knows perspicuously and knows how they know. Here, I use some general considerations about seeing, knowing, and knowing how one knows in order to raise some questions about this view. More specifically, I consider some putative limits on one’s capacity to know how one knows. The main question I pursue concerns whether perspicuity should be thought of either (i…Read more
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35Grice and Marty on ExpressionIn Hamid Taieb & Guillaume Fréchette (eds.), Mind and Language – On the Philosophy of Anton Marty, De Gruyter. pp. 263-284. 2017.
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34Corresponding reasons: on Richard Moran’s The Exchange of WordsPhilosophical Explorations 23 (3): 271-280. 2020.Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2020, Page 271-280.
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32The various themes explored in this superb collection of essays are organised around one thinker, John McDowell, and one central idea
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28Vindicating ReasonsThe Monist 105 (4): 558-573. 2022.What is the philosophical role of an historical account of how someone, or some people, came to believe or value as they do? I consider some proposals, due to Bernard Williams and David Wiggins, according to which such an account might either vindicate or subvert our believing or valuing as we do. I suggest some reasons for scepticism about those proposals, at least when construed as providing a fundamental means of assessing cases of believing or valuing. The main problem raised for the proposa…Read more
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27Trust in the darkForum for European Philosophy Blog. 2016.Guy Longworth asks whether we can gain knowledge from others.
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25Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality by David Wiggins (Harvard University Press, 2006)Philosophy 97 (3): 402-407. 2022.
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20J. L. Austin: philosopher and D-Day intelligence officer J. L. Austin: philosopher and D-Day intelligence officer, by M. W. Rowe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, 688 pp., £30.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198707585 (review)History of European Ideas 50 (3): 569-571. 2024.M. W. Rowe’s outstanding book is the first full-dress biography of the philosopher J. L. (John Langshaw) Austin, who died in 1960 aged 48. During his comparatively short life, Austin made significa...
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18Illocution and understandingInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.What are the connections between the successful performance of illocutionary acts and audience understanding or uptake of their performance? According to one class of proposals, audience understanding suffices for successful performance. I explain how those proposals emerge from earlier work and seek to clarify some of their interrelations.
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8Prospects for a Truth-conditional Account of Standing MeaningIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 195-222. 2012.
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7Semantics and PragmaticsIn Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.Contemporary recognition of the importance of divisions amongst pragmatic and semantic phenomena has its roots in earlier recognition of the importance of pragmatic phenomena. This chapter begins with the idea that semantics concerns the stable meanings of words and expressions while pragmatics concerns language use, or things done with words. It provides some grounds for rejecting, a defense of orthodoxy that sought to treat the variations that Charles Travis highlights as occurring only with r…Read more
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A plea for understandingIn Sarah Sawyer (ed.), New waves in philosophy of language, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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