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1TIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.Derived from the Greek word ‘telos’ meaning purpose or goal, ‘teleology’, as it is most often used in the philosophy of mind, is thought of as the study of the purposes, goals or, more broadly, biological functions of various elements of the mental realm. For example, it has been suggested that we can better understand the propositional attitudes when we have discerned their evolutionary function. It has even been suggested that one can begin to understand specific propositional attitude content…Read more
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"Law, Morality and Society: Essays in Honour of H. L. A. Hart." Edited by P. M. S. Hacker and J. Raz (review)Mind 88 (n/a): 466. 1979.
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The Languages of Logic. An IntroductionRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (3): 381-382. 1988.
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EIn A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.Eliminativists believe there to be something fundamentally mistaken about the common‐sense (sometimes called ‘folk psychological’) conception of the mind, and they suggest that the way forward is to drop part or all of this conception in favour of one which does not use notions such as belief, experience, sensation and the like. The rationale for this suggestion is, in the main, because these notions are fraught with conceptual difficulties as well as being recalcitrant to any REDUCTION to natur…Read more
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NotebookPhilosophy 58 (226): 568-568. 1983.//static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS003181910006681X/resource/name/firstPage-S003181910006681Xa.jpg.
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Mind and Language, coll. « Wolfson College Lectures »Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 166 (3): 366-367. 1976.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |