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30Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (2): 447-449. 1998.Garrett seeks mainly to show that Hume’s position is internally consistent and to build a portrait of Hume as essentially a cognitive psychologist.
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27Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (3): 740-745. 2008.
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26A Refutation of Rowe’s Critique of Anselm’s Ontological ArgumentFaith and Philosophy 5 (2): 193-202. 1988.In William L. Rowe’s “The Ontological Argument,” an essay that appears in the most recent editions of Feinberg’s Reason and Responsibility and as a chapter in Rowe’s Philosophy of Religion, Rowe reconstructs Anselm’s Proslogium II argument for the existence of God, surveys critically several standard objections to it, and presents an original critique. Although Rowe’s reconstruction is perspicuous and his criticisms of the standard objections are judicious, his own critique, I argue, leaves Anse…Read more
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24John Dewey: Instrumentalism in Social ActionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 7 (4). 1971.
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20Dinesh C. Mathur, 1919-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 81 (2). 2007.
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20Georges Dicker here provides a commentary on John Locke's masterwork, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-the foundational work of classical Empiricism. Dicker's commentary is an accessible guide for students who are reading Locke for the first time; a useful research tool for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students; and a contribution to Locke scholarship for professional scholars. It is designed to be read alongside the Essay, but does not presuppose familiarity with it.
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14European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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11Hume and Induction: Merely Cognitive Psychology?Hume Studies 48 (1): 79-116. 2023.Abstract:The purpose of Hume’s argument about induction, contra “literalist” interpretations that see it merely as psychology, is to show that induction cannot be justified. Hume maintains that the only way to justify induction would be to demonstrate or to produce a good inductive argument for the uniformity principle (UP). His most famous point is that any attempt to justify UP inductively would be circular. One may retort that no inductive argument can be circular, for a circular argument mus…Read more
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10Transcendental Arguments and Temporal Experience1In Heather Dyke & Adrian Bardon (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, Wiley. 2013.In this chapter, the author shows how certain deep points about temporal experience drive both versions of Kant's transcendental deduction of the categories – a transcendental argument that he called a “Deduction” not because of its deductive structure but because in German the term “Deduktion” had a legal meaning signifying establishment of the right or title to something, in this case the right to apply Kant's categorical concepts – and their sequel in the Analogies of Experience. The author a…Read more
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9Kant and Skepticism, by Michael N. Forster (review)European Journal of Philosophy 18 (4): 609-615. 2010.
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4The Problem of Perception, by A. D. Smith (review)European Journal of Philosophy 14 (3): 423-430. 2006.
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3Moltke S. Gram, Direct Realism: A Study of Perception Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (5): 196-198. 1985.
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Gerard Deledalle, L'Idée D'Expérience dans la Philosophie de John Dewey (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 7 (4): 309. 1973.
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Review of Persson, I.: The Primacy of Perception: Towards a Neutral Monism (review)Theoria 51 (3): 190. 1985.
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Leibniz on Necessary and Contingent PropositionsStudia Leibnitiana 14 (n/a): 221. 1982.Dans son Discours de Métaphysique‚ Leibniz maintient que le concept individuel d'une substance comprend et permet la déduction de tous ses prédicats, et certains prédicats d'une substance lui appartiennent néanmoins d'une manière contingente. Arnauld objecta contre Leibniz que implique la fausseté de — ce qui démontre, selon Arnauld, l'absurdité de . En puisant les réponses de Leibniz à Arnauld dans leur Correspondence, l'auteur soutient que la position de Leibniz, pourvu qu'elle soit interprété…Read more
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Horace M. Kallen, Liberty, Laughter, and Tears: Reflections on the Relations of Comedy and Tragedy to Human Freedom (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 5 (4): 315. 1971.
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The Annual Proceedings of the Center for Philosophic Exchange, SUNY Brockport (edited book). forthcoming.
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Knowing and 'Coming-to-Know' in Dewey's Theory of KnowledgeDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1969.
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Tom Burke, "Dewey's New Logic: A Reply to Russell" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (4): 887. 1995.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |