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3Actions in their circumstancesIn Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby & Frederick Stoutland (eds.), Essays on Anscombe's Intention, Harvard University Press. 2011.
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125On functionalism, and on Jackson, Pargetter, and prior on functionalismPhilosophical Studies 46 (July): 75-96. 1984.
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249Agency and AlienationIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism In Question, Harvard University Press. pp. 173-87. 2004.It is argued that the standard story of human action, as it is standardly naturalistically understood, should be rejected. Rather than seeking an agent amidst the workings of the mind (as in Velleman's "What Happens When Someone Acts"), we need to recognize an agent’s place in the world she inhabits. And in order to do so we have to resist the naturalistic assumptions of the standard causal story.
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195Causality and “the mental”Humana Mente 8 (29). 2015.Many analytic philosophers of mind take for granted a certain conception of causality. Assumptions deriving from that conception are in place when they problematize what they call mental causation or argue for physicalism in respect of the mental. I claim that a different conception of causality is needed for understanding many ordinary causal truths about things which act, including truths about human, minded beings — sc. rational beings who lead lives.
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2Physics, biology, and common-sense psychologyIn David Charles & Kathleen Lennon (eds.), Reduction, Explanation and Realism, Oxford University Press. 1992.
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75Bodily Movements, Actions, and Mental EpistemologyMidwest Studies in Philosophy 10 (1): 275-286. 1986.
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135Truth: the identity theoryIn , . 1997.Book synopsis: "What is truth?" has long been the philosophical question par excellence. The Nature of Truth collects in one volume the twentieth century's most influential philosophical work on the subject. The coverage strikes a balance between classic works and the leading edge of current philosophical research. The essays center around two questions: Does truth have an underlying nature? And if so, what sort of nature does it have? Thus the book discusses both traditional and deflationary th…Read more
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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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139Dealing with factsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2001.This is a contribution to a symposium on Stephen Neale's Facing Facts. I bring to the discussion a different theory of facts from any Neale considers, and argue that it avoids flaws in Russell’s theory.
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8B. Vermazen and M. B. Hintikka, "Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events" (review)Philosophical Quarterly 36 (43): 296. 1986.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Language |