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56Self-deceivers' intentions and possessionsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1): 121-122. 1997.Although Mele's four sufficient conditions for self-deception are on track insofar as they avoid the requirement that self-deception involves contradictory beliefs, they are too weak, because they are broad enough to include cases of bias or prejudice that are not typical cases of self-deception. I discuss what distinguishes self-deception from other forms of bias.
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28Philosophy and the ecological problem, a special issue of filozoficky casopisEnvironmental Ethics 13 (1): 87-93. 1991.
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55Locke and Leibniz on Religious FaithBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (4). 2012.In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke maintains that ?Reason must be our last Judge and Guide in every Thing,? including matters of religious faith, and this commitment to the primacy of reason is not abandoned in his later religious writings. This essay argues that with regard to the relation between reason and religious faith, Locke is primarily concerned not with evidence, but with consistency, meaning, and how human beings ought to respond to their inclinations, including their …Read more
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76Aristotle on artifacts: A metaphysical puzzle (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (3): 445. 2001.Book Information Aristotle on Artifacts: A Metaphysical Puzzle. By Errol G. Katayama. State University of New York Press. Albany. 1999. Pp. xiii + 202. Paperback.
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37Zeit der Ernte (review)Idealistic Studies 16 (1): 94-95. 1986.This is the fourth Festschrift for Arthur Hübscher, testifying to the respect and influence he enjoys. Hübscher edited the critical edition of Schopenhauer’s complete works and has been president of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft since 1936. This Festschrift is supposed to “document the state of international Schopenhauer scholarship for years to come”.
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Alvin I. Goldman, ed., Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science (review)Minds and Machines 7 306-312. 1997.
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63John Locke on passion, will and beliefBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (2). 1996.No abstract
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62Enlightenment and Action From Descartes to Kant: Passionate ThoughtCambridge University Press. 2001.Kant believed that true enlightenment is the use of reason freely in public. This book systematicaaly traces the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity. Michael Losonsky focuses on seventeenth-century discussions of the problem of irresolution and the closely connected theme of the role of volition in human belief formation. This involves a discussion of the work of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza and Leibniz. Chal…Read more
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213What God Could Have MadeSouthern Journal of Philosophy 43 (3): 355-376. 2005.Plantinga grants that there are possible worlds with freedom and no moral evil, but he argues that it is possible that although God is omnipotent, it is not within God’s power to actualize a world containing freedom and no moral evil. Plantinga believes that the atheologian assumes that it is necessary that it is within an omnipotent God’s power to actualize these better worlds, but in fact, Plantinga argues, this is demonstrably not the case. Since so many philosophers have regarded Plantinga’s…Read more
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1The cognitive unity of external and internal statesIn Roberto Casati & Graham White (eds.), Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 313--318. 1993.
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12Philosophy and the Ecological Problem, a Special Issue of Filozoficky CasopisEnvironmental Ethics 13 (1): 87-93. 1991.
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Language, meaning, and mind in Locke's EssayIn Lex Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke's Essay, Cambridge University Press. pp. 286-312. 2007.This paper reconsiders and defends the view that Locke's theory of signification is a theory of meaning.
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108Individuation and the bundle theoryPhilosophical Studies 52 (2). 1987.It has been suggested that distinct individuals can have exactly the same properties; thus individuals cannot be individuated by their properties, And so the bundle theory appears to be false. One way to shore up the bundle theory is to introduce impure properties, And I defend this move against some objections by d m armstrong, M loux, And j van cleve
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50An Ontological Argument for Modal RealismGrazer Philosophische Studien 31 (1): 165-177. 1988.I argue for modal realism from the following principles:(R1) p just in case there are truth-makers for the proposition that p.(R2) If there are truth-makers for the proposition that p and the proposition that p relevantly entails the proposition that q, then there are truthrmakers for the proposition that q.(M) The proposition that p relevantly entails the proposition that possibly p.(R3) I f there are truth-makers for the proposition that q, then necessarily, if q, there are truth-makers for th…Read more
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76The Nature of ArtifactsPhilosophy 65 (251). 1990.In Book II, Chapter 1 of the Physics Aristotle attempts to distinguish natural objects from artifacts. He begins by stating that a natural object ‘has in itself a source of change and staying unchanged, whether in respect of place, or growth and decay, or alteration’. But this is not sufficient to distinguish natural objects from artifacts. As he points out later, a wooden bed, for example, can rot or burn, and this is surely a change whose source is, in part, internal to the bed. To make his di…Read more
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Alvin I. Goldman, Liaisons: Philosophy Meets the Cognitive and Social Sciences (review)Minds and Machines 7 306-312. 1997.
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91Linguistic Turns in Modern PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2006.This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to Wittgenstein. It examines the contributions of canonical figures such as Leibniz, Mill, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Davidson, as well as those of Condillac, Humboldt, Chomsky, and Derrida. Michael Losonsky argues that the philosophy of language begins with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. He shows how the history of the philos…Read more
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47Roger Woolhouse, Locke: A Biography (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (1): 175-176. 2008."A man of versatile mind"—a remark from a letter to Locke by a life-long friend—is the subtitle of the first chapter of this biography. It could also be the book's subtitle. Relying on Locke's correspondence, manuscripts, and mostly unpublished journals, Woolhouse pieces together a detailed quilt that exhibits the tremendous variety of Locke's interests and activities. Locke, who admitted to wandering interests , wrote about medicine, horticulture, religion, education, economics, government, and…Read more
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108Emdedded systems vs. individualismMinds and Machines 5 (3): 357-71. 1995.The dispute between individualism and anti-individualism is about the individuation of psychological states, and individualism, on some accounts, is committed to the claim that psychological subjects together with their environments do not constitute integrated computational systems. Hence on this view the computational states that explain psychological states in computational accounts of mind will not involve the subject''s natural and social environment. Moreover, the explanation of a system''…Read more
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