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30Maria van der Schaar, G. F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy (review)Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (3). 2016.
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Yours Fraternally: Bertrand Russell and G. E. MooreIn Fraser MacBride, Graham Stevens & Samuel Lebens (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Bertrand Russell, Oxford. forthcoming.
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Moore on the Nature of JudgmentIn Mark Textor (ed.), Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, Palgrave. 2013.
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Moore's Alleged Revolt From IdealismIn L. M. Verburgt (ed.), A History of Cambridge Idealism: Reception, Influence, and Legacy, Bloomsbury. forthcoming.
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19Some Main Problems of Moore InterpretationIn Aaron Preston (ed.), Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History, Routledge. 2017.Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation shaped the analytic tradition, from Frege to Dummet. It offers readers 17 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international cast of leading scholars. Some chapters are devoted to large, thematic issues like the relationship between analytic philosophy and other philosophical traditions such as British Idealism and phenomenology, while other chapters are tied to more fine-grained topics or to individual p…Read more
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"What Russell Meant When He Called Moore a Logician"In Sandra Lapointe (ed.), Logic from Kant to Russell, Routledge. 2018.
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26Early analytic philosophy: an inclusive reader with commentary (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.Introducing analytic philosophy -- F.H. Bradley and monistic idealism -- G.E. Moore on idealism, the good, and common sense -- Gottlob Frege : logic and the philosophy of language -- Bertrand Russell on relations, descriptions, and knowledge -- E.E. Constance Jones on language and logic -- Ludwig Wittgenstein on language and philosophy -- Logical empiricism : meaning, metaphysics, and mathematics -- Susan Stebbing on logic, language, and analysis -- W.V.O Quine on analyticity and ontology -- Ana…Read more
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The context and origin of Moore's formulation of the naturalistic fallacy in Principia EthicaIn Neil Sinclair (ed.), The Naturalistic Fallacy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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16The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics: G.E. Moore and the Origins of Analytic PhilosophyPalgrave Macmillan Uk. 2021.This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore’s philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russell. Moore’s early views are examined in detail through unpublished archival material, including surviving letters, diaries, notes of lectures attended, papers for Cambridge societies, and drafts of early work, in order to revis…Read more
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40G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.G. E. Moore's fame as a philosopher rests on his ethics of love and beauty, which inspired Bloomsbury, and on his 'common sense' certainties which challenge abstract philosophical theory. Behind this lies his critical engagement with Kant's idealist philosophy, which is published here for the first time. These early writings, Moore's fellowship dissertations of 1897 and 1898, show how he initiated his influential break with idealism. In 1897 his main target was Kant's ethics, but by 1898 it was …Read more
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374Review: Stephen Boulter: The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy (review)Mind 118 (470): 445-448. 2009.
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97Externalism and analyticityPhilosophical Studies 79 (3). 1995.Semantic externalism is the view that meaning is at least partly determined by reference. This suggests that the classic philosophical distinction between truth in virtue of meaning alone and truth in virtue of the world may need reconsideration. If all sentences are true in virtue of reference it is difficult to see how we can distinguish some sentences from others as true in virtue of the world-independent, purely semantic entities that their truth-conditions involve. I argue, to the contrary,…Read more
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32The Origin and Influence of GE Moore's 'The Nature of Judgment'In Mark Textor (ed.), Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, Palgrave. pp. 183. 2013.
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4On FodorCengage Learning. 2001.This brief text assists students in understanding Fodor's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON FODOR is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this conc…Read more
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Some Consequences of Semantic ExternalismDissertation, City University of New York. 1994.Semantic externalism is the view that meaning and mental content are determined by relations to the world of objects and properties outside the physical boundaries of the subject of mental states. What you mean by your words--what you're thinking when you're thinking about something--is essentially constituted by the world at large. It has become customary to formulate externalism in terms of so-called twin earth cases--cases where content do not supervene on inner states, but this formulation c…Read more
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665“He Was in Those Days Beautiful and Slim”: Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore, 1894–1901Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 28 (2): 101-126. 2008.Moore and Russell’s philosophical and personal paths through the early years of the twentieth century make a fascinating chronicle. Some of this story is familiar; but material from the unpublished Moore papers adds new and forceful detail to the account. It is a commonplace by now that Russell and Moore were not friends, although they maintained a long professional association. Their most intellectually intimate phase came early on, reaching a peak in 1897–99. But I show that during this period…Read more
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7On KripkeWadsworth Publishing Company. 2003.ON KRIPKE, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions.…Read more
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1372How to Read Moore's "Proof of an External World"Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (1). 2015.We develop a reading of Moore’s “Proof of an External World” that emphasizes the connections between this paper and Moore’s earlier concerns and strategies. Our reading has the benefit of explaining why the claims that Moore advances in “Proof of an External World” would have been of interest to him, and avoids attributing to him arguments that are either trivial or wildly unsuccessful. Part of the evidence for our view comes from unpublished drafts which, we believe, contain important clues con…Read more
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37Terry Horgan and mark Timmons, eds. Metaethics after Moore (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 44 (4): 557-560. 2010.
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468Normativity and meaning: Kripke's skeptical paradox reconsideredPhilosophical Forum 33 (1): 39-62. 2002.
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773On the origins of the contemporary notion of propositional content: anti-psychologism in nineteenth-century psychology and G.E. Moore’s early theory of judgmentStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (2): 176-185. 2008.I argue that the familiar picture of the rise of analytic philosophy through the early work of G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell is incomplete and to some degree erroneous. Archival evidence suggests that a considerable influence on Moore, especially evident in his 1899 paper ‘The nature of judgment,’ comes from the literature in nineteenth-century empirical psychology rather than nineteenth-century neo-Hegelianism, as is widely believed. I argue that the conceptual influences of Moore’s paper ar…Read more
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16Belief and desire under the ElmsProtoSociology 14 270-284. 2000.This paper begins with an exposition the apparent tension between externalist theories of content and common-sense belief/desire psychology, with a view to resolving the conflict between these two views. The second part of the paper is a criticism of Fodor’s reformulation of Twin Earth type cases.I argue that this attempt to mitigate the damage such cases do to the tenability of folk psychological explanation cannot work, because Twin Earth cases pose a metaphysical problem for content and expla…Read more
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318The irrelevance of supervenienceProtoSociology 11 160-172. 1998.Externalistic theses about the nature of content appear to have untoward consequences for the role of content in folk pscyhological causal explanation. Given the predominance of Twin Earth formulations of externalism, however, the explanatory role problem is often construed as the problem of content's failure to supervene on intrinsic states of the head. In this paper I argue that this is misleading. The most general formulation of externalsim is shown to be independent of any supervenience clai…Read more
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427Opacity, belief and analyticityPhilosophical Studies 66 (3). 1992.Contrary to appearances, semantic innocence can be claimed for a Fregean account of the semantics of expressions in indirect discourse. Given externalism about meaning, an expression that refers to its ordinary sense in an opaque context refers, ultimately, to its "references"; for, on this view, the reference of an expression directly determines its meaning. Externalism seems to have similar consequences for the truth-conditions of analytic sentences. If reference determines meaning, how can we…Read more
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20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |