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10Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of LanguagePhilosophical Quarterly 38 (150): 127-130. 1988.
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9Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for BeginnersWiley-Blackwell. 2002.This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy. Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings. An introductory book which doesn't merely _tell_ th…Read more
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8Work Down the Minds: A Sketch of Contemporary Philosophy of MindCritica 28 (82): 67-107. 1996.In the article, I set out to outline the state of play in contemporary philosophy of mind. Given the wide range of issues and contributions which now make up the subject, the article sketches only some of the main areas of investigation, and their interconnections without attempting to give a complete listing of the positions (and arguments for them) within these areas.
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5NotebookPhilosophy 70 (n/a): 308. 1995.//static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0031819100065499/resource/name/firstPage-S0031819100065499a.jpg.
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4Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation By Donald Davidson Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984, xx+292 pp., £16.00, £5.95 paper (review)Philosophy 60 (233): 408-411. 1985.
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4Truth, Meaning and ContextualismIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 143-170. 2012.
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3A companion to philosophy of mindIn Dennis M. Patterson (ed.), Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie, Blackwell. pp. 778-779. 1996.The philosophy of mind is one of the fastest-growing areas in philosophy, not least because of its connections with related areas of psychology, linguistics and computation. This _Companion_ is an alphabetically arranged reference guide to the subject, firmly rooted in the philosophy of mind, but with a number of entries that survey adjacent fields of interest. The book is introduced by the editor's substantial _Essay on the Philosophy of Mind_ which serves as an overview of the subject, and is …Read more
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3The Elm and the Expert. Mentalese and its Semantics By Jerry A. Fodor MIT Press, 1994, pp. xiv+129, £15.95 (review)Philosophy 70 (272): 293-298. 1995.
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2O, PIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.Ontology is the branch of metaphysics centrally concerned with determining what there is. (The name comes from the present participle of the Greek verb corresponding to the English verb ‘to be’.) Thus, if one asks whether there are numbers and other abstract objects, or whether there are PROPERTIES, one is asking ontological questions. Given the fundamental nature of these questions, ontology plays a part in virtually all areas of philosophical investigation, but it has a specific importance to …Read more
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2Rules and Representations By Noam Chomsky Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980, viii + 299 pp., £7.50 (review)Philosophy 56 (218): 587-589. 1981.
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2RIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.Though not meant as a practical procedure, it can help our thinking about language and the mind if we ask what would be involved in interpreting someone's words and actions. Moreover, if we imagine ourselves beginning this interpretative process without any prior knowledge of what the person means by her words or what propositional attitudes she has, then we are engaged in what is called ‘radical interpretation’, quine originally discussed the idea of radical translation in respect of another's …Read more
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1WIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.The notion of weakness of will or ‘akrasia’(to use its Greek name) figures importantly in moral philosophy. Agents are said to be weak‐willed when they have reached conclusions about their moral duties, but then fail to act on these conclusions. Since it is often difficult to be moral – to live up to one's moral principles – there would seem to be nothing particularly surprising or troubling about this notion, and certainly nothing especially pressing for the philosophy of mind. But this appeara…Read more
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1FIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.Descartes (1596–1650) insisted that the mind was as a special kind of substance, one which contrasts sharply with material substance (see history). Hence, the label ‘Cartesian’ tends to be applied to any view that is DUALIST in thinking of the mind as fundamentally different from matter. Accompanying this Cartesian dualism of substances is a dualism of ways of knowing about minds and about matter. The Cartesian conception has it that we have access to the contents of our own minds in a way denie…Read more
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