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29Reason is normative, and should be studied accordinglyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (5): 267-268. 2011.Reason aims at truth, so normative considerations are a proper part of the study of reasoning. Excluding them means neglecting some of what we know or can discover about reasoning. Also, the normativist position we are asked to reject by Elqayam & Evans (E&E) is defined in attenuated and self-contradictory ways
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22Lyotard and the Postmodern Misunderstanding of PhysicsTheoria 46 29-52. 1999.This paper is a critical, and fairly detailed, engagement with Lyotard's account of 'postmodern' science as it is found in his _The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge_.
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28Cui bono? Selfish goals need to pay their wayBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 155-156. 2014.
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300What physical properties arePacific Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2): 201-225. 2001.This paper concerns the question of how to specify what is to count as physical for the purposes of debates concerning either physicalism or the completeness of physics. I argue that what is needed from an account of the physical depends primarily on the particular issue at stake, and that the demand for a general a priori specification of the physical is misplaced. A number of attempts to say what should be counted as physical are defended from recent attacks by Chris Daly, and a specific propo…Read more
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31Evolutionary psychology and functionally empty metaphorsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (2): 192-193. 2006.Lea & Webley's (L&W's) non-exclusive distinction between tool-like and drug-like motivators is insufficiently discriminating to say much about money that is useful, as the distinction's equivocal application to sex, food, and drugs shows. Further, it appears as though the motivations of problem gamblers are non-metaphorically like those of drug addicts. (Published Online April 5 2006).
University Of Natal, Durban
Alumnus, 2000
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
| Philosophy of Biology |
Areas of Interest
| Epistemology |
| Metaphysics |
| Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
PhilPapers Editorships
| Causal Closure of the Physical |