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5On What’s Intentionally DoneIn Stephen Shute, John Gardner & Jeremy Horder (eds.), Action and value in criminal law, Oxford University Press. 1993.This chapter raises the question of how far some recent philosophy of action assists in explicating the moral psychological notions that are of concern in jurisprudence. The focus of the overall argument is on a distinction used by Antony Duff in his Intention, Agency and Criminal Liability — a distinction, Duff says, between ‘a broader and a narrower conception of intention’. It is doubtful that the distinction can do the work that Duff wants it to. Duff rests as much upon it as he does only be…Read more
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308Reading Philosophy of Language: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.Designed for readers new to the subject,_ Reading Philosophy of Language_ presents key texts in the philosophy of language together with helpful editorial guidance. A concise collection of key texts in the philosophy of language Ideal for readers new to the subject. Features seminal texts by leading figures in the field, such as Austin, Chomsky, Davidson, Dummett and Searle. Presents three texts on each of five key topics: speech and performance; meaning and truth; knowledge of language; meaning…Read more
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780Free speech and illocutionLegal Theory 4 (1): 21-37. 1998.We defend the view of some feminist writers that the notion of silencing has to be taken seriously in discussions of free speech. We assume that what ought to be meant by ‘speech’, in the context ‘free speech’, is whatever it is that a correct justification of the right to free speech justifies one in protecting. And we argue that what one ought to mean includes illocution, in the sense of J.L. Austin.
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298Subordination, Silencing, and Two Ideas of Illocution (review)Jurisprudence 2 (2): 379-440. 2011.This section gathers together five reviews of Rae Langton?s book Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification followed by a response from the author.
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3Knowledge and Abilities in ActionIn Christian Kanzian (ed.), Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue: Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 165-180. 2007.
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3Davidson and Dummett on the Social Character of LanguageIn Maria Cristina Amoretti & Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation: On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Ontos Verlag. pp. 107-122. 2008.
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1Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic InterdependenceIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 383-398. 2012.
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212Causing ActionsMind 111 (441): 159-161. 2002.Some of the claims of Paul Petroski's _Causing Actions_ are discussed in this review of the book.
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52On Action.Explaining Human Action.The Philosophy of Action: An IntroductionPhilosophical Quarterly 41 (165): 498. 1991.
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574Hornsby on the phenomenology of speechAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1). 2005.The central claim is that the semantic knowledge exercised by people when they speak is practical knowledge. The relevant idea of practical knowledge is explicated, applied to the case of speaking, and connected with an idea of agents’ knowledge. Some defence of the claim is provided.
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43Ethics: a feminist reader (edited book)Blackwell. 1992.Book synopsis: The feminist movement has challenged many of the unstated assumptions on which ethics as a branch of philosophy has always rested - assumptions about human nature, moral agency, citizenship and kinship. The twenty-six readings in this book express the discontent of a succession of fiercely articulate women writers, from Mary Wollstonecraft to the present day, with the masculine bias of `morality'. The editors have contributed an overall introduction, which discusses ethics, femini…Read more
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Agency and causal explanationIn Alfred R. Mele (ed.), The philosophy of action, Oxford University Press. 1997.
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11Acts and Other Events by Judith Jarvis Thomson (review)Journal of Philosophy 78 (4): 234-243. 1981.
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316. Naturalism in the Philosophy of ActionIn Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 171-190. 2022.
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169 Agency and AlienationIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism in Question, Harvard University Press. pp. 173-187. 2004.
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35Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts With a Method for Beginners, 2nd editionWiley-Blackwell. 2021.Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about as she reads. It serves as starting points for both classroom discussion and independent study. The texts cover a wide range of topics drawn from diverse areas of philosophical investigation, ranging ov…Read more
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602Simple Mindedness: In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind.</article-title>< cont (review)Philosophical Review 108 (4): 562-565. 1999.Hornsby is a defender of a position in the philosophy of mind she calls “naïve naturalism”. She argues that current discussions of the mind-body problem have been informed by an overly scientistic view of nature and a futile attempt by scientific naturalists to see mental processes as part of the physical universe. In her view, if naïve naturalism were adopted, the mind-body problem would disappear. I argue that her brand of anti-physicalist naturalism runs into difficulties with the problem of …Read more
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120Agency time and naturalismProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 91 137-153. 2017.I look critically at accounts of human action which help themselves to a certain conception of the causal order when they treat actions as effects of mental states. Donald Davidson introduced such accounts in the shape of the “belief-desire theory.” By way of examining Davidson’s ideas about events, I undertake to show what conceptions of time and of causality are needed for understanding agency, and for a viable naturalism.
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87Acts According to HymanPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 97 (1): 238-242. 2018.I take issue with whether Hyman's conception of acts is compatible with a good account of the progressive tense
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7Singular terms in contexts of propositional attitudeIn , . 2001.Book synopsis: These five volumes contain the most essential of the more than 2000 articles which have been written about Quine's work. Chosen for their clarity and brevity, they cover both basic ideas as well as objections to Quine's work. The collection is an ideal resource for students and scholars, containing difficult-to-find material as well as several articles written expressly for this set.
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46Physicalism, events and part-whole relationsIn , . 1988.Book synopsis: Donald Davidson is among the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. This volume includes some 30 essays which variously criticize, comment on and develop Davidson's philosophy as represented in his collected papers "Essays on Actions and Events", in addition to three further essays by Davidson himself. The essays divide into three sections, each opening with an editorial introduction and corresponding to the three major sections of "Actions and Events". The first secti…Read more
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89Things done with wordsIn , . 1988.Book synopsis: The essays in this volume explore current work in central areas of philosophy, work unified by attention to salient questions of human action and human agency. They ask what it is for humans to act knowledgeably, to use language, to be friends, to act heroically, to be mortally fortunate, and to produce as well as to appreciate art.
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