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38Rules and Representations By Noam Chomsky Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980, viii + 299 pp., £7.50 (review)Philosophy 56 (218): 587-. 1981.
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44Belief, knowledge, and the origins of contentDialectica 48 (3-4): 287-305. 1994.Virtually all discussions of the propositional attitudes center around belief. I suggest that, when one takes a broad look at the kinds of constraint which affect our attributions of attitude, this is a mistake. Not only is belief not properly representative of the propositional attitudes generally, but, more seriously, taking it to be representative can be positively distorting. In this paper I offer reasons why we should give knowledge a more central role in discussions of the propositional at…Read more
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359A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (edited book)Blackwell. 1994.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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241The languages of logic: an introduction to formal logicBlackwell. 1997.With the same intellectual goals as the first edition, this innovative introductory logic textbook explores the relationship between natural language and logic, motivating the student to acquire skills and techniques of formal logic. This new and revised edition includes substantial additions which make the text even more useful to students and instructors alike. Central to these changes is an Appendix, 'How to Learn Logic', which takes the student through fourteen compact and sharply directed l…Read more
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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.
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49Analytic Philosophy and Film: On Film Theory and Philosophy , edited by Richard Allen and Murray SmithFilm-Philosophy 2 (1). 1998.
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94The transparency of metaphorMind and Language 21 (3). 2006.In the first section of the paper, I set out a tripartite scheme for classifying philosophical accounts of metaphor. In the second and longest section, I explore a major difficulty for certain of these accounts, namely the need to explain what I describe as the 'transparency' of metaphor. In the third section, I describe two accounts which can overcome the difficulty. The first is loosely based on Davidson's treatment of metaphor, and, finding this to be inadequate for reasons having nothing to …Read more
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43Introduction: Special issue on pragmatics and cognitive scienceMind and Language 17 (1-2). 2002.
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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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82Mind's Landscape: An Introduction to the Philosophy of MindWiley-Blackwell. 2000._Mind's Landscape_ is an engaging introduction to the philosophical study of mind and an elegantly persuasive account of how best to understand the nature of mental phenomena. It serves as both a text and as a contribution to the philosophy of mind. Its engaging narrative style will appeal to students, instructors, and general readers alike
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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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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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The Languages of Logic. An IntroductionRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (3): 381-382. 1988.
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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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34V*—Moral Realism and Moral DilemmasProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 80 (1): 61-80. 1980.Samuel Guttenplan; V*—Moral Realism and Moral Dilemmas, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 80, Issue 1, 1 June 1980, Pages 61–80, https://doi.org/1.
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56Metaphor Without PropertiesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 3. 2007.Virtually all currently discussed accounts advert to a shift or replacement of a property or properties in describing what happens to the ordinary words in metaphors. And the mechanism of this shift tends to involve an overt or sometimes hidden appeal to similarity, or to some notion that is essentially connected to it. In the first part of the paper, I argue that this route is a dead end, and in the second part I offer my own preferred alternative. That alternative is not argued for, or develop…Read more
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