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152The presidential address: Truth: The identity theoryProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (1). 1997.I want to promote what I shall call ‘the identity theory of truth’. I suggest that other accounts put forward as theories of truth are genuine rivals to it, but are unacceptable. A certain conception of thinkables belongs with the identity theory’s conception of truth. I introduce these conceptions in Part I, by reference to John McDowell’s Mind and World; and I show why they have a place in an identity theory, which I introduce by reference to Frege. In Part II, I elaborate on the conception of…Read more
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35Davidson and Dummett on the social character ofIn Maria Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation: On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Ontos Verlag. pp. 14--107. 2008.
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113Simple Mindedness: In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of MindHarvard University Press. 1996.These questions provide the impetus for the detailed discussions of ontology, human agency, and everyday psychological explanation presented in this book.
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59Reply to Jackson, IPhilosophical Explorations 3 (2): 193-195. 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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232Truth without truthmaking entitiesIn Helen Beebee & Julian Dodd (eds.), Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate, Clarendon Press. pp. 33. 2005.This chapter replies to arguments, advanced by Gonzalo Rodriguez–Pereyra, for thinking that the intuitions that have inspired theories of truthmaking cannot be accommodated without commitment to truth-making entities. It contains a suggestion about why, even if there are no entities that make propositions true, we should nonetheless be apt to think of truth as grounded. The advocates of truthmakers engage sometimes in a specifically ontological enquiry of a wide-ranging sort, sometimes in the pr…Read more
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522ActionsRoutledge and Kegan Paul. 1980.This book presents an events-based view of human action somewhat different from that of what is known as "standard story". A thesis about trying-to-do-something is distinguished from various volitionist theses. It is argued then that given a correct conception of action's antecedents, actions will be identified not with bodily movements but with causes of such movements.
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142Know How, by Jason Stanley,(Oxford University Press), $45/£ 25The Philosophers' Magazine 57 (57): 120-121. 2012.
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15Children's Action Control and Awareness: Comment on Frye and ZelazoIn Johannes Roessler & Naomi Eilan (eds.), Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Clarendon Press. 2003.Book synopsis: Seventeen brand-new essays by leading philosophers and psychologists Genuinely interdisciplinary work, at the forefront of both fields Includes a valuable introduction, uniting common threads.
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12Acts and Other Events By Judith Jarvis Thomson Cornell University Press, 1977, 274 pp., £10.50 (review)Philosophy 54 (208): 253-. 1979.
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438Agency and ActionsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 55 1-23. 2004.Among philosophical questions about human agency, one can distinguish in a rough and ready way between those that arise in philosophy of mind and those that arise in ethics. In philosophy of mind, one central aim has been to account for the place of agents in a world whose operations are supposedly ‘physical’. In ethics, one central aim has been to account for the connexion between ethical species of normativity and the distinctive deliberative and practical capacities of human beings. Ethics th…Read more
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