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33Music, philosophy, and cognitive scienceIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, RoutledgePhilosophers of music (and also music theorists) have recognized for a long time that research in the sciences, especially psychology, might have import for their own work. (Langer 1941 and Meyer 1956 are good examples.) However, while scientists had been interested in music as a subject of research (e.g., Helmholtz 1912, Seashore 1938), the discipline known as psychology of music, or more broadly cognitive science of music, came into its own only around 1980 with the publication of several land…Read more
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30Deeper into Pictures: An Essay on Pictorial Representation (review)Philosophical Review 98 (4): 576. 1989.
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19Vagueness, Hysteresis, and the Instability of ColorIn Marcos Silva (ed.), How Colours Matter to Philosophy, Springer. 2017.This paper explores the implications of some experimental data for views that identify colors with objective physical properties such as reflectance profiles. Those who reject objectivist views often argue from the existence of intersubjective differences in color categorization ; but objectivists have managed to stand their ground by identifying colors with sets or ranges of reflectances individuated by the ways in which they stimulate the visual system. In the interest of moving the debate for…Read more
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1Similarity spacesIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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Marcus, Ruth BarcanIn Donald M. Borchert (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Supplement, Simon and Schuster Macmillan. pp. 322--323. 1996.
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Aesthetics Naturalized: Cognitivist Reflections on a Traditional Problem in the Philosophy of ArtDissertation, Yale University. 1986.The thesis develops a cognitivist account of the supposed ineffability of musical experience. It is contended that, when the ineffability is viewed as adhering to a certain kind of perceptual knowledge of a musical signal, its nature can be illuminated by the adoption of a recent cognitivist theory of perception in conjunction with a generative grammar for tonal music . On this two-headed view, music perception consists in a rule-governed process of computing a series of increasingly abstract me…Read more
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Vagueness in law: placing the blame where it's dueIn Geert Keil & Ralf Poscher (eds.), Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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Modality, Morality and Belief: Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan MarcusPhilosophy 71 (275): 167-172. 1996.
Yale University
PhD
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |