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161Understanding, Modality, Logical Operators (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82 (2). 2010.where F is a contradiction (I use his numbering). Tim says about these equivalences: (1) “modulo the implicit recognition of this equivalence, the epistemology of metaphysically modal thinking is a special case of the epistemology of counterfactual thinking. Whoever has what it takes to understand the counterfactual conditional and the elementary logical auxiliaries ~ and F has what it takes to understand possibility and necessity operators.” (158) (2) The idea that we evaluate metaphysically mo…Read more
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The relation between philosophical and psychological theories of conceptsIn Peter Millican & A. Clark (eds.), Machines and Thought, 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144No resting place: A critical notice of the view from nowherePhilosophical Review 98 (1): 65-82. 1989.Among the unpublished writings of Kazimierz Twardowski so far there is an essay in which Twardowski tries to embed the concept of an intentional object' within a theory that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 Andrew Butterfill (eds.), Tool Use and Causal Cognition, Oxford University Press. pp. 148. 2011.
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139Explaining 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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8The 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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128Means and explanation in epistemology (review)Philosophical Quarterly 59 (237): 730-737. 2009.No Abstract
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45Anchoring conceptual content: Scenarios and perceptionIn Jes Ezquerro (ed.), Cognition, Semantics and Philosophy, Norwell: Kluwer. pp. 293--322. 1992.
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117Precis 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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143Interpersonal 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 J. Almog, John Perry & Howard K. 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 & Güven Güzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, Mit Press. pp. 341. 1997.
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34Wittgenstein and ExperienceRemarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. Volume I.Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology. Volume II (review)Philosophical Quarterly 32 (127): 162. 1982.
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102Holistic 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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25Objectivity, 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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34Finiteness and the actual language relationProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75 (n/a): 147--65. 1975.Christopher Peacocke; X*—Finiteness and the Actual Language Relation, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 75, Issue 1, 1 June 1975, Pages 147–166, h.
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108Three principles of rationalismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 10 (3). 2002.It is just over fifty years since the publication of Quine’s ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’. That paper expresses a broad vision of the system of relations between meaning, experience, and the rational formation of belief. The deepest challenges the paper poses come not from the detailed argument of its first four sections – formidable though that is – but from the visionary material in its last two sections.1 It is this visionary material that is likely to force the reader to revise, to deepen, or …Read more
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2Moralischer Rationalismus Eine erste SkizzeDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 49 (2): 197-208. 2001.
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Psychological Theories of ConceptsIn A. Clark & Peter Millican (eds.), Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology, Oxford University Press. pp. 2--115. 1996.
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
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