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101Kant's thinkerOxford University Press. 2011.Overview -- Locke's internal sense and Kant's changing views -- Personal identity amd its problems -- Rationalist metaphysics of mind -- Consciousness, self-consciousness, and cognition -- Strands of Argument in the Duisburg Nachlass -- A transcendental deduction for a priori concepts -- Synthesis : why and how? -- Arguing for apperception -- The power of apperception -- "I-think" as the destroyer of rational psychology -- Is Kant's theory consistent? -- The normativity objection -- Is Kant's th…Read more
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26Kant on Some Functions of Self ConsciousnessProceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress 1 645-660. 1995.
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70Kant's epistemological problem and its coherent solutionPhilosophical Perspectives 13 415-441. 1999.
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72The Crucial Relation in Personal IdentityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 131-145. 1978.1. What is the Problem of Personal Identity?Locke posed the problem of personal identity in one brief question, “What makes the same person?” This formulation is deceptively simple. My aim is to offer a new interpretation of the problem and to suggest a method for finding a solution.Investigations of personal identity are usually cast in terms of finding the criterion for personal identity. Yet talk of criteria is ambiguous. In one sense of the term, the criterion of personal identity would be s…Read more
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32Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of MindPhilosophical Review 103 (3): 549-551. 1994.
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55Connecting intuitions and concepts at B 160nSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (S1): 137-149. 1987.
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Narrow Taxonomy and Wide FunctionalismIn Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper & J. D. Trout (eds.), The Philosophy of Science, Mit Press. pp. 671--85. 1991.
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16Kant on Constructing Causal RepresentationsIn Hugh Clapin (ed.), Representation in Mind: New Approaches to Mental Representation, Elsevier. pp. 1--217. 2004.
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24Two normative roles for self-consciousness in modern philosophyIn Herbert S. Terrace & Janet Metcalfe (eds.), The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness, Oxford University Press. pp. 174-187. 2005.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |