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83Berkeley on the Impossibility of Abstracting Primary from Secondary Qualities: Lockean RejoindersSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (1): 23-45. 2001.
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Perceptual Knowledge — Philosophical studies n° 22Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 90 (1): 128-129. 1985.
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92Anti-BerkeleyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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76Knowing and Coming-to-Know in John Dewey’s Theory of KnowledgeThe Monist 57 (2): 191-219. 1973.Anyone familiar with some of Dewey’s major works knows that they are highly critical of nearly all that has traditionally passed under the name of “epistemology” or “theory of knowledge”. Even a casual reading of a few chapters of Reconstruction in Philosophy, The Quest for Certainty or Experience and Nature reveals Dewey’s iconoclasm toward “that species of confirmed intellectual lock-jaw called epistemology”. The source of this attitude is Dewey’s belief that all theories of knowledge previous…Read more
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Hume's Epistemology and Metaphysics: An IntroductionTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 61 (2): 406-407. 1998.
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32Warranted Assertibility and the Uniformity of NatureTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 9 (2). 1973.Dewey defines knowledge as the outcome of competent inquiry. but knowledge is for dewey fundamentally predictive. this gives rise to a difficulty: should the course of nature change, a man might both know something (having carried out the relevant inquiry) and not know it (his relevant predictions being false). this difficulty is set out formally, and a solution is proposed in terms of dewey's concept of warranted assertibility
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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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Review: Stephen H. Daniel, ed. Reexamining Berkeley’s Philosophy (review)Berkeley Studies 19 56-78. 2008.
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32Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism, by Samuel C. Rickless.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 122 (488): 1183-1187. 2013.
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Moltke S. Gram, Direct Realism: A Study of Perception (review)Philosophy in Review 5 196-198. 1985.
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107Kant's refutation of idealism: A reply to ChignellPhilosophical Quarterly 61 (242): 175-183. 2011.I reply to the most important criticisms made by Chignell of my ‘Kant's Refutation of Idealism’. I also introduce a new consideration which brings out more fully the power of Kant's argument
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24John Dewey: Instrumentalism in Social ActionTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 7 (4). 1971.
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54Berkeley on the Impossibility of Abstracting Primary from Secondary Qualities: Lockean RejoindersSouthern Journal of Philosophy 39 (1): 23-45. 2001.
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61Regularity, Conditionality, and Asymmetry in CausationThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 7 129-138. 2000.In this paper I explore the relationship between the “Humean” regularity view of causation, the view that a cause is a necessary condition of its effect, and the asymmetry of causation—the principle that if an event e1 causes e2, then it is false that e2 causes e1. I argue that the regularity view, in combination with the view that a cause is a necessary condition of its effect, is inconsistent with the asymmetry of causation, and that the inconsistency can be removed by a modification of the vi…Read more
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27Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (3): 740-745. 2008.
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19Dinesh C. Mathur, 1919-2006Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 81 (2). 2007.
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90Descartes: an analytical and historical introductionOxford University Press. 1993.A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth century philosopher Rene Descartes is an essential tool towards understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of the empiricists and Immanuel Kant, and to the study of contemporary epistemology and philosophy of mind. Clear and accessible, this book serves as an introduction to Descartes's ideas for undergraduates and as a sophisticated companion to his Meditations for more advanced readers. After a thorough dis…Read more
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202Berkeley's idealism: a critical examinationOxford University Press. 2011.Berkeley's Idealism both advances Berkeley scholarship and serves as a useful guide for teachers and students.
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95Primary and Secondary Qualities: A Proposed Modification of the Lockean AccountSouthern Journal of Philosophy 15 (4): 457-471. 1977.
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85Kant's Refutation of Idealism: Once More Unto the BreachKantian Review 17 (2): 191-195. 2012.In ‘Kant's Refutation of Idealism’ (Noûs, 47), I defend a version of the Refutation, pioneered by Paul Guyer inKant and the Claims of Knowledge, whose core idea is that the only way that one can know the order of one's own past experiences, except in certain rare cases, is by correlating them with the successive states of perceived external objects that caused the experiences. Andrew Chignell has offered a probing critique of my reconstruction of Kant's argument (Philosophical Quarterly, 60), an…Read more
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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.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |