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9First communionsIn J. Zlatev, T. Racine, C. Sinha & E. Itkonen (eds.), The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity, John Benjamins. pp. 12--245. 2008.
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6IdealismIn Bayne Tim, Cleeremans Axel & Wilken Patrick (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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3Understanding Reasons Without ReenactmentEmotion Review 4 (1): 66-67. 2012.This comment on Stueber’s article clarifies the nature of the core disagreement between his approach to understanding reasons and mine. The purely philosophical nature of the dispute is highlighted. It is argued that understanding someone’s narrative often suffices for understanding the person’s reasons in ordinary cases. It is observed that Stueber has yet to provide a compelling counter case. There is also a brief clarification of some of the empirical commitments of the narrative practice hyp…Read more
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Prins Autos Herredomme: Psykologi I Naturbidenskabens TidsalderPhilosophia: tidsskrift for filosofi 21 (1-2): 61-80. 1992.
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The postmodern 'dismantling' of the self is often regarded, in sensationalist terms, as threatening to undermine most if not all of our familiar ideas concerning philosophy and morality. This is so because in challenging our 'commonplace' concept of what it is to be a person - a concept with a heavy Cartesian legacy - it also challenges the standard visions of how we stand, or fail to stand, as knowers in relation to reality and causes upset to the grounds for many of our ethico-political practi…Read more
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Foundations of Analytic Philosophy II: Logical Atomism and Logical PositivismPhilosophy Now 9 25-30. 1994.
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Historically, the philosophy of language has held pride of place in the analytical tradition. In fact, it would be safe to say that for a long time it had been unquestioningly regarded as first philosophy. The reason for this is twofold. Firstly, many analytical philosophers held (and many still hold) that we could only get at the underlying nature of our world by understanding the nature of thought. And secondly, they held (and many still hold) that we could only understand the nature of though…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |