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104Causation and Explanation (edited book)Bradford. 2007.This collection of original essays on the topics of causation and explanation offers readers a state-of-the-art view of current work in these areas. The book is notable for its interdisciplinary character, and the essays, by distinguished authors and important rising scholars, will be of interest to a wide readership, including philosophers, computer scientists, and economists. Students and scholars alike will find the book valuable for its wide-ranging treatment of two difficult philosophical t…Read more
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33Review of Eric T. Olson, What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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100Time and Identity (edited book)Bradford. 2010.The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience -- it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all -- and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of identical entities through change. Indeed, questions ab…Read more
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53In Defense of Common ContentPhilosophical Papers 29 (3): 159-188. 2000.Abstract In this essay, I critically discuss a theory of utterance content and de re communication that Anne Bezuidenhout has recently developed in a series of articles. This theory regards the significance of utterances as more pragmatic in nature than allowed by traditional accounts; further, it downplays logical considerations in explaining de re communication, choosing instead to emphasize its psychological character. Included among the implications of this approach is the rejection of what …Read more
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272Carving nature at its joints: natural kinds in metaphysics and science (edited book)MIT Press. 2011.Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification.
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42Review of Stephen Barker, Renewing Meaning: A Speech-Act Theoretic Approach (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (3). 2005.
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35The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics (edited book)MIT Press. 2012.Philosophical reflections on the environment began with early philosophers' invocation of a cosmology that mixed natural and supernatural phenomena. Today, the central philosophical problem posed by the environment involves not what it can teach us about ourselves and our place in the cosmic order but rather how we can understand its workings in order to make better decisions about our own conduct regarding it. The resulting inquiry spans different areas of contemporary philosophy, many of which…Read more
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68Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry (edited book)MIT Press. 2005.15 Situating Semantics: A Response John Perry Introduction I am very grateful to Michael O'Rourke and Corey Washington for envisaging and putting together ...
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47Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research (edited book)SAGE Publications. 2013.Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research, edited by Michael O'Rourke, Stephen Crowley, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, and J. D. Wulfhorst, is a volume of previously unpublished, state-of-the-art chapters on interdisciplinary communication and collaboration written by leading figures and promising junior scholars in the world of interdisciplinary research, education, and administration. Designed to inform both teaching and research, this innovative book covers the spectrum o…Read more
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297Freedom and Determinism (edited book)Bradford. 2004.This collection of contemporary essays by prominent contemporary thinkers on the topics of determinism and free agency concentrates primarily on two areas: the compatibility problem and the metaphysics of moral responsibility. There are also essays on the related fields of determinism and action theory. The book is unique in that it contains up-to-date summaries of the life-work of five influential philosophers: John Earman, Ted Honderich, Keith Lehrer, Robert Kane, and Peter van Inwagen. There …Read more
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18Review of Wolfram Hinzen, Hans Rott (eds.), Belief and Meaning: Essays at the Interface (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (5). 2003.
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70Action, Ethics, and Responsibility (edited book)Bradford. 2010.Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the "free will" problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives -- metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing introduction by the volume's editors, the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the "free will" problem; the relation between responsibility and know…Read more
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41Out of the fog: Catalyzing integrative capacity in interdisciplinary researchStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 56 84-94. 2016.Social studies of interdisciplinary science investigate how scientific collaborations approach complex challenges that require multiple disciplinary perspectives. In order for collaborators to meet these complex challenges, interdisciplinary collaborations must develop and maintain integrative capacity, understood as the ability to anticipate and weigh tradeoffs in the employment of different disciplinary approaches. Here we provide an account of how one group of interdisciplinary fog scientists…Read more
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