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5Concepts and Possession ConditionsIn Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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1Thoughts : An Essay on Content, Aristotelian Society Series, vol. 4Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (3): 393-393. 1988.
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22Handlungen, Gründe und EmotionenIn Verena Mayer & Sabine A. Döring (eds.), Die Moralität der Gefühle, De Gruyter. pp. 81-104. 2002.
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475Phenomenology and nonconceptual contentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (3): 609-615. 2001.This note aims to clarify which arguments do, and which arguments do not, tell against Conceptualism, the thesis that the representational content of experience is exclusively conceptual. Contrary to Sean Kelly’s position, conceptualism has no difficulty accommodating the phenomena of color constancy and of situation-dependence. Acknowledgment of nonconceptual content is also consistent with holding that experiences have nonrepresentational subjective features. The crucial arguments against conc…Read more
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424A Study of ConceptsMIT Press. 1992.Philosophers from Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein to the recent realists and antirealists have sought to answer the question, What are concepts? This book provides a detailed, systematic, and accessible introduction to an original philosophical theory of concepts that Christopher Peacocke has developed in recent years to explain facts about the nature of thought, including its systematic character, its relations to truth and reference, and its normative dimension. Particular concepts are also treat…Read more
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326Sense and Content: Experience, Thought and Their RelationsOxford University Press. 1983.Introduction This book is about the nature of the content of psychological states. Examples of psychological states with content are: believing today is a ...
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The relation between philosophical and psychological theories of conceptsIn Peter Millican & Andy Clark (eds.), Machines and Thought: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Oxford University Press. 1996.
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144No resting place: A critical notice of the view from nowherePhilosophical Review 98 (1): 65-82. 1989.Among the unpublished writings of Kazimierz Twardowski so far there is an essay in which Twardowski tries to embed the concept of an intentional object' within a theory that comprises at the same time psychological, logical and grammatical aspects. This theory of actions' and products' is presented here and several applications of the theory are discussed. The central question thereby is whether the distinction between actions and products enables Twardowski to counter the objection of psycholog…Read more
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21Representing, reasoningIn Teresa McCormack, Christoph Hoerl & Stephen Butterfill (eds.), Tool Use and Causal Cognition, Oxford University Press. pp. 148. 2011.
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142Explaining perceptual entitlementIn Richard Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge, De Gruyter. pp. 441--80. 2004.material that was later incorporated into The Realm of Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), and into a paper of the same title in The Challenge of Externalism, ed. R. Schantz (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004)
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11The Principle‐Based Account of Modality: Elucidations and ResourcesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 663-679. 2002.In their searching contributions to this Symposium, Gideon Rosen, Timothy Williamson and Crispin Wright identify a set of issues crucial for assessing the principle-based treatment of modality I presented in Chapter Four of Being Known. I thank them for such focused and thoughtful discussions. This response is organized as a series of questions and proposed answers that aim to address the issues they raise. I hope their contributions will be as helpful to the reader as they have been to me in un…Read more
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131Means and explanation in epistemology (review)Philosophical Quarterly 59 (237): 730-737. 2009.No Abstract
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45Anchoring conceptual content: Scenarios and perceptionIn Cognition, Semantics and Philosophy, Norwell: Kluwer. pp. 293--322. 1992.
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132Understanding logical constants: A realist's accountIn T. J. Smiley & Thomas Baldwin (eds.), Studies in the philosophy of logic and knowledge, Published For the British Academy By Oxford University Press. pp. 163. 2004.
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120Precis of a study of concepts (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (2): 407-52. 1996.The principal thesis of A Study of Concepts is that a concept is individuated by its possession condition. Concepts are here understood to be sliced as finely as epistemic possibility. So now and 6 o’clock are different concepts, even if, in context, they pick out the same time; likewise for the observational concept circular and the complex concept locus of coplanar points equidistant from a given point. In the simplest cases, a possession condition is stated by giving a true, individuating sta…Read more
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17The modality of freedomRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 43 349-375. 1998.The classical problem of free will is one instance of the Integration Challenge. The Integration Challenge in its general form is that of reconciling our metaphysics of any given area with our epistemology for that same area. In the case of free will, the challenge is that of reconciling our seeming first-person knowledge of our exercise of free thought, deliberation, choice and action with a description of what is really going on in the world as characterized in terms of causation, determinatio…Read more
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144Interpersonal self-consciousnessPhilosophical Studies 170 (1): 1-24. 2014.If one were to write a book titled TheVarieties of Self-Consciousness, one would start off with some distinctions. It will help to locate my topic in relation to those distinctions.The first distinction concerns that kind of self-consciousness which involves only the minimal ability on the part of a subject to self-represent, to be in mental states with first person content, be it conceptual or nonconceptual. This minimal ability involves very little as compared with the more sophisticated state…Read more
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44Rationality, Norms and the Primitively Compelling: A Reply to Kirk LudwigMind and Language 9 (4): 492-498. 1994.
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35The concept of a natural numberAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1). 1998.This Article does not have an abstract
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11Perceptual contentIn Joseph Almog, John Perry & Howard Wettstein (eds.), Themes From Kaplan, Oxford University Press. 1989.
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129Sensation and the Content of Experience: A DistinctionIn Ned Block, Owen Flanagan & Guven Guzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, Mit Press. pp. 341. 1997.
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105Holistic Explanation: Action, Space, InterpretationClarendon Press. 1979.INTRODUCTION The philosophy of action and the philosophy of space and time may well seem to be unconnected areas. I will argue that in each of these areas ...
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26Objectivity, Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness: Current Issues in the Philosophy of MindPhilosophy 70 (273): 469-472. 1995.Notes on Contributors • Preface • Christopher Peacocke, Introduction: The Issues and their Further Development I OBJECTIVE THOUGHT • John Campbell, Objects and Objectivity Commentaries • Bill Brewer, Thoughts about Objects, Places and Times • John O'Keefe, Cognitive Maps, Time and Causality II OBJECTIVITY AND THE UNITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS • Susan Hurley, Unity and Objectivity Commentaries • Anthony Marcel, What is Relevant to the Unity of Consciousness? • Michael Lockwood, Issues of Unity and Objec…Read more
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Christopher Peacocke
Columbia University
Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of LondonOther (Part-time)
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
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