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7Mathematics, science, and epistemologyCambridge University Press. 1978.Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political …Read more
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6To do aestheticsIIn Matthew C. Haug (ed.), Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?, Routledge. pp. 435. 2013.
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4Review of M. SCHIRN: Studies on Frege (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (4): 418-422. 1979.
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4Imagination and make-believeIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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4Review of H. Hermes, F. Kambartel, F. Kaulbach, Peter Long and Roger White: Gottlob Frege. Posthumous Writings (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (2): 197-200. 1981.
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3Why Irony is PretenceIn Shaun Nichols (ed.), The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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1The capacities that enable us to produce and consume artIn Matthew Kieran & Dominic Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, Routledge. pp. 293--304. 2003.
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1Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy, and Cognitive SciencePhilosophical Quarterly 48 (190): 127-129. 1998.
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Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1980.Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics, together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.
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Interpretation in artIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. pp. 291--306. 2003.
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Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art: Volume 75 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.Musical listening, looking at paintings and literary creation are activities that involve perceptual and cognitive activity and so are of interest to psychologists and other scientists of the mind. What sorts of interest should philosophers of the arts take in scientific approaches to such issues? Opinion currently ranges across a spectrum, with 'take no notice' at one end and 'abandon traditional philosophical methods' at the other. This collection of essays, originating in a Royal Institute of…Read more
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Visual conceptual artIn Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens (eds.), Philosophy and conceptual art, Oxford University Press. pp. 33. 2007.
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Methodological IndividualismIn N. J. Smelser & B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, . pp. 9755--60. 2001.
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Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in nonhuman animalsIn Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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The ontology of conceptual artIn Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens (eds.), Philosophy and conceptual art, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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One way creatures of fiction seem to differ from real things is in their essential properties. While you and I might not have done many of the things we did do, Anna Karenina could not, surely, have been other than a lover of Vronsky. Is that right? Not straightforwardly: while it is true that “Necessarily, someone who was not a lover of Vronsky would not be Anna”, it is also true that “Someone who was necessarily a lover of Vronsky would not be Anna”. I use a framework developed by Stalnaker to…Read more