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47Non-reductivism and the metaphilosophy of mindInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (5): 477-503. 2019.ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the metaphilosophical assumptions that have dominated analytic philosophy of mind, and how they gave rise to the central question that the best-known forms of non-reductivism available have sought to answer, namely: how can mind fit within nature? Its goal is to make room for forms of non-reductivism that have challenged the fruitfulness of this question, and which have taken a different approach to the so-called “placement” problem. Rather than trying to solve the p…Read more
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35Philosophy, Its Pitfalls, Some Rescue Plans, and Their ComplicationsMetaphilosophy 43 (1-2): 2-19. 2012.This article offers the motivation for organising a conference on philosophy as it is practised across several faculties and departments at the University of Cambridge. It also offers an overview of the main themes that emerge in the essays collected in this issue of Metaphilosophy, which derive from the aforementioned conference. In particular it focuses on the risk of scholasticism and dogmatism that philosophy faces when it divorces itself from its own history, other disciplines, and real lif…Read more
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26Hegel and NaturalismHegel Bulletin 33 (2): 74-90. 2012.In the recent Hegel literature there has been an effort to portray Hegel's philosophy as compatible with naturalism, or even as a form of naturalism (see for example Pippin 2008 and Pinkard 2012). Despite the attractions of such a project, there is, it seems to me, another, and potentially more interesting way of looking at the relationship of Hegel to naturalism. Instead of showing how Hegel's philosophy can be compatible with naturalism, I propose to show how Hegel's philosophy offers a challe…Read more
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11Introductory NoteMetaphilosophy 43 (1-2): 1-1. 2012.This article offers the motivation for organising a conference on philosophy as it is practised across several faculties and departments at the University of Cambridge. It also offers an overview of the main themes that emerge in the essays collected in this issue of Metaphilosophy, which derive from the aforementioned conference. In particular it focuses on the risk of scholasticism and dogmatism that philosophy faces when it divorces itself from its own history, other disciplines, and real lif…Read more
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The Pursuit of Philosophy: Some Cambridge Perspectives (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.Eleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications. Guides a tour through various academic departments—including history, political science, classics, law, and English—to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy’s symbiotic relationship with other fields Provides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the “founding fath…Read more
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Nature, life and spirit: a Hegelian reading of Quinn's vanitas artIn Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers (eds.), Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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Non-reductivism and the Metaphilosophy of MindInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (5): 477-503. 2019.
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Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |