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42Meaning, norms, and use: critical notice of Donald Davidson's Truth, Language, and HistoryPhilosophical Investigations 30 (2): 179-187. 2007.
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35A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief, by Allan Hazlett (review)Mind 125 (499): 918-922. 2016.
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31Metaepistemology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Epistemology, like ethics, is normative. Just as ethics addresses questions about how we ought to act, so epistemology addresses questions about how we ought to believe and enquire. We can also ask metanormative questions. What does it mean to claim that someone ought to do or believe something? Do such claims express beliefs about independently existing facts, or only attitudes of approval and disapproval towards certain pieces of conduct? How do putative facts about what people ought to do or …Read more
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25Duncan Pritchard, Adrian Haddock and Alan Millar's The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations (review)Philosophical Quarterly 61 (244): 645-648. 2011.
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25Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny – Edited by John Cottingham and Peter Hacker (review)Philosophical Investigations 34 (1): 97-101. 2010.
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20Is there such a thing as a language?In William Irwin (ed.), Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, Wiley. 2010.A paper aimed primarily at a non-academic audience in which I suggest that Lewis Carroll's Alice novels can be viewed, in part, as exploring two competing conceptions of language, conceptions that the philosopher Donald Davidson critically examines. According to the Institutional View, language is a system of rules regulating the use of words and words have the meanings that they do in virtue of those rules. According to the Invention View, what words mean is rather a matter of how the speaker i…Read more
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19Wittgenstein: Meaning and judgement (review)Philosophical Investigations 28 (4). 2005.Books reviewed: Michael Luntley, Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement, Blackwell Publishers, 2003, ix + 187, price £16.99 p.b. Reviewed by Daniel Whiting, University of Reading Department of Philosophy University of Reading Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA [email protected].
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12Book Review: Maximilian de Gaynesfordl John McDowell. Polity, 2004 (review)Philosophical Papers 34 (1). 2005.NoAvailable Philosophical Papers Vol.34(1) 2005: 137-142
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4Don't Take my Word for It: On Beliefs, Affects, Reasons, Values, Rationality, and Aesthetic TestimonyIn Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Helen Bradley & Paul Noordhof (eds.), Art and Belief, Oxford University Press. 2017.Aesthetic testimony is not a source of knowledge; it is not even a source of rational belief. If, for example, Holly tells Harry that Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas is good, Harry cannot come to know or rationally believe that the film is good on the basis of Holly’s testimony alone. This chapter outlines a novel argument for this view, one which serves also to explain it. That argument appeals to four principles connecting rationality and reasons, reasons and values, belief and affects, and beliefs …Read more
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3Charles Travis, Thought's Footing: Themes in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 27 (5): 383-385. 2007.
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Eve Gaudet, Quine on Meaning: The Indeterminacy of Translation (review)Philosophy in Review 27 (1): 30. 2007.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Meta-Ethics |
Aesthetics |
17th/18th Century British Philosophy |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
Value Theory |