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64Mind and Body in AristotleClassical Quarterly 28 (01): 105-. 1978.In this paper I hope to show that a particular modern approach to Aristotle's philosophy of mind is untenable and, out of that negative discussion, develop some tentative suggestions concerning the interpretation of two famous and puzzling Aristotelian maxims. These maxims are, first, that the soul is the form of the body and, second, that perception is the reception of form without matter. The fashionable interpretation of Aristotle which I wish to criticize is the attempt to assimilate him to …Read more
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61'Abstract ideas' and immaterialismHistory of European Ideas 7 (6): 617-622. 1986.Berkeley confidently asserts the connection between his attack on abstract ideas and immaterialism, But how the connection works has puzzled modern commentators. I construct an argument resting on the imagist theory of thought which connects anti-ionism and immaterialism and try to show that it is berkeleian. I then suggest that, Without the mistaken imagist theory, A similar and still interesting argument can be constructed to the weaker conclusion that matter is essentially unknowable
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61Materialism in the philosophy of mindIn Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge. 1998.
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55Review of mark C. Baker, Stewart Goetz (eds.), The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations Into the Existence of the Soul (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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53Davidson and nonreductive materialism: A tale of two culturesIn Carl Gillett & Barry Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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37The Primacy of the Subjective (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (3): 384-387. 2006.
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3412 Why Frank Should Not Have Jilted MaryIn Edmond Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia, Mit Press. pp. 223. 2008.
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32Experience and externalism: A reply to Peter SmithProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 221-223. 1992.Howard Robinson; Discussions: Experience and Externalism: A Reply to Peter Smith, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 92, Issue 1, 1 June 1992, Page.
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27The Revival of Substance DualismRoczniki Filozoficzne 69 (1): 33-43. 2021.I argue in this essay that Richard Swinburne’s revised version of Descartes’ argument in chapter 5 of his Are We Bodies or Souls? does not quite get him to the conclusion that he requires, but that a modified version of his treatment of personal identity will do the trick. I will also look critically at his argument against epiphenomenalism, where, once again, I share his conclusion but have reservations about the argument.
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25How to give analytical rigour to 'soupy' metaphysicsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (1). 1997.(1997). How to Give Analytical Rigour to ‘Soupy’ Metaphysics∗. Inquiry: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 95-113.
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24Discussions: Experience and Externalism: A Reply to Peter SmithProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 (1): 221-224. 1992.Howard Robinson; Discussions: Experience and Externalism: A Reply to Peter Smith, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 92, Issue 1, 1 June 1992, Page.
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24Personal Identity, the Self and TimeIn Alexander Batthyany & Avshalom C. Elitzur (eds.), Mind and its place in the world: non-reductionist approaches to the ontology of consciousness, Ontos. pp. 245-268. 2006.
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23Godehard Bruntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla : Panpsychism—Contemporary Perspectives: Oxford University Press, 2016, VIII + 414 pp, £56.00 , ISBN 978-0-19-935994-3 (review)Erkenntnis 84 (1): 235-238. 2019.
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22Perception and Idealism: An Essay on How the World Manifests Itself to Us, and How It (Probably) Is in ItselfOxford University Press. 2022.It is a standard feature of modern philosophy, at least from Locke, to tie together the questions of how we perceive the world and what we have reason to think the world is like in itself. This is a natural connection, because the questions of how we perceive it, and what kind of conception of it we can best form on the basis of that mode of perception, are obviously intimately linked. Part I of this volume defends the sense-datum theory of perception against its opponents, and argues that the s…Read more
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22Vision: Variations on Some Berkeleian ThemesPhilosophical Review 105 (1): 97. 1996.Vision consists of four essays: “Seeing distance,” “Size,” “Perceptual inference,” and “A Gibsonian alternative?” The continuous thread is the Berkeleian treatment of the perception of spatial properties, particularly in connection with what is and is not “immediately perceived.” The first two essays are closely connected with specific Berkeleian arguments and modern responses to them. The second two essays deal more generally with modern discussions by psychologists of whether visual perception…Read more
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17Mind and Body in AristotleClassical Quarterly 28 (1): 105-124. 1978.In this paper I hope to show that a particular modern approach to Aristotle's philosophy of mind is untenable and, out of that negative discussion, develop some tentative suggestions concerning the interpretation of two famous and puzzling Aristotelian maxims. These maxims are, first, that the soul is the form of the body and, second, that perception is the reception of form without matter. The fashionable interpretation of Aristotle which I wish to criticize is the attempt to assimilate him to …Read more
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15The anti-materialist strategy and the "knowledge argument"In Objections to Physicalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 159--83. 1993.
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14Vision (review)Philosophical Review 105 (1): 97-99. 1996.Vision consists of four essays: “Seeing distance,” “Size,” “Perceptual inference,” and “A Gibsonian alternative?” The continuous thread is the Berkeleian treatment of the perception of spatial properties, particularly in connection with what is and is not “immediately perceived.” The first two essays are closely connected with specific Berkeleian arguments and modern responses to them. The second two essays deal more generally with modern discussions by psychologists of whether visual perception…Read more
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13Perception, Knowledge and Belief (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (3): 380-381. 2001.
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13Objectivity: How is it Possible?In Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), The Philosophy of Perception: Proceedings of the 40th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 23-38. 2019.
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11Benacerraf’s Problem, Abstract Objects and IntellectIn Zsolt Novák & András Simonyi (eds.), Truth, reference, and realism, Central European University Press. pp. 235-262. 2010.
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10Semantic direct realismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 57 (1): 51-64. 2020.The most common form of direct realism is Phenomenological Direct Realism. PDR is the theory that direct realism consists in unmediated awareness of the external object in the form of unmediated awareness of its relevant properties. I contrast this with Semantic Direct Realism, the theory that perceptual experience puts you in direct cognitive contact with external objects but does so without the unmediated awareness of the objects’ intrinsic properties invoked by PDR. PDR is what most understan…Read more
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