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19Do I really feel it? The contributions of subjective fluency and compatibility in low-level effects on aesthetic appreciationFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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10Back to the future: A methodology for comparing old A-level and new AS standardsEducational Studies 28 (2): 163-180. 2002.Curriculum 2000 has meant significant change for the post-16 sector. New qualifications have been introduced (e.g. the new Advanced Subsidiary examination) and the number of students involved in education and training post-16 has increased. In this scenario how can the standards of new qualifications, particularly the new Advanced Subsidiary examinations, be compared with those of previous qualifications? One method is to use the prior achievement of candidates (i.e. GCSE results) as a basis for…Read more
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21Eine Revolution in der Philosophie der Sprache, der Linguistik, der Hermeneutik und der Übersetzungstheorie im späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert: deutsche und französische Beiträge (review)In Adriana Serban & Larisa Cercel (eds.), Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Question of Translation, De Gruyter. pp. 23-40. 2015.
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11Chapter Seven. Defenses against Humean SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 40-43. 2009.
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73. The Sense in Which Grammar Is Non-ArbitraryIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 66-81. 2004.
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59Nietzsche on morality as a “sign language of the affects”Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (1-2): 165-188. 2017.This article argues that Nietzsche’s meta-ethics is basically a form of sentimentalism, but a form of sentimentalism that includes cognitive components in the sentiments that are involved. The article also ascribes to Nietzsche the more original position that the moral sentiments in question vary dramatically between historical periods, cultures, and even individuals, sometimes indeed to the point of becoming inverted between one case and another. Finally, the article also attributes to Nietzsch…Read more
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6AcknowledgmentsIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. 2004.
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80This paper concerns a surprisingly sharp disagreement about the nature of ancient Pyrrhonism which first emerges clearly in Kant and Hegel, but which continues in contemporary interpretations. The paper begins by explaining the character of this disagreement, then attempts to adjudicate it in the light of the ancient texts.
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90Herder has been sufficiently neglected in recent times, especially among philosophers, to need a few words of introduction. He lived 1744-1803; he was a favorite student of Kant's, and a student and friend of Hamann's; he became a mentor to the young Goethe, on whose development he exercised a profound influence; and he worked, among other things, as a philosopher, literary critic, Bible scholar, and translator. As I mentioned, Herder has been especially neglected by philosophers. This.
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8Chapter Twelve. The Pyrrhonist’s RevengeIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 76-92. 2009.
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7Chapter Four. Kant’s Pyrrhonian CrisisIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 16-20. 2009.
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150Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics: Some Problems and SolutionsThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (1): 100-122. 2005.The purpose of this paper is to explore some central aspects of Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics and to suggest how they should be interpreted and assessed. My general strategy will involve pointing up rather than playing down certain inconsistencies and other problems in his position, in part simply because I believe that they are there and that exegesis therefore ought to recognize them, but also in part because reflecting on them seems to me philosophically fruitful. The interpretive and philoso…Read more
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60After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German TraditionOxford University Press. 2010.In the course of developing these historical points, this book also shows that Herder and his tradition are in many ways superior to dominant trends in more ...
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9Hat jede wahre Philosophie eine skeptische Seite?In Markus Gabriel (ed.), Skeptizismus Und Metaphysik, Akademie Verlag. pp. 261-294. 2011.
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52Gods, animals, and artists: Some problem cases in Herder's philosophy of languageInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 46 (1). 2003.Herder already very early in his career, in the 1760s, established two vitally important and epoch-making principles in the philosophy of language: that thought is essentially dependent on and bounded by language; and that meanings or concepts should be identified - not with such items as the referents involved, Platonic forms, or empiricist 'ideas' - but with word-usages. What did Herder do for an encore? His Treatise on the Origin of Language from 1772 might seem the natural place to look for …Read more
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15Chapter Six. Kant’s Reformed MetaphysicsIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 33-39. 2009.
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191. Wittgenstein’s Conception of GrammarIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 7-20. 2004.
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14Chapter Eight. Defenses Against Pyrrhonian SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 44-52. 2009.
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132On the very idea of denying the existence of radically different conceptual schemesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 41 (2). 1998.It has become very popular among philosophers to attempt to discredit, or at least set severe limits to, the thesis that there exist conceptual schemes radically different from ours. This fashion is misconceived. Philosophers have attempted to justify it in two main ways: by means of arguments which are a priorist relative to the relevant linguistic and textual evidence (and either independent of or based upon positive theories of meaning, understanding, and interpretation); and by means of argu…Read more
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75. Alternative Grammars? The Case of Formal LogicIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 107-128. 2004.
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9IntroductionIn Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-4. 2004.
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58Hegel’s Idea of a ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’University of Chicago Press. 1998.In Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit, Michael N. Forster advances an original reading of the work.
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6Chapter Two. “Veil of Perception” SkepticismIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 6-12. 2009.
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7Chapter Nine. Some Relatively Easy ProblemsIn Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 55-57. 2009.
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