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Reference and Intentions to Refer: An Analysis of the Role of Intentions to Refer in a Theory of ReferenceDissertation, Loyola University of Chicago. 1986.This dissertation challenges the claim that reference is determined by intentions to refer by using a 'divide and conquer' strategy. The claim that reference is determined by intentions to refer is divided into two claims: one is a claim about how reference is disambiguated; the other is about how expressions in a language get their reference potential. By dividing the claims in this way, we can see in what contexts, and to what extent, reference is determined by intentions. ;The first claim, th…Read more
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27Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of PhilosophyIn Saul Traiger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: References Further reading.
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41Being Sure of One's Self: Hume on Personal IdentityHume Studies 17 (2): 107-124. 1991.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Being Sure of One's Self: Hume on Personal Identity1 Corliss Gayda Swain A number of papers recently published on Hume's theory of personal identityhavebeen devoted to the question: Whyin the Appendix to the Treatise did Hume express complete or acute dissatisfaction with his account of personal identity in book 1 of that work?2 In this paper I shall argue that no adequate answer can be given to this question because its presuppositi…Read more
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21On Identity (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (2): 464-465. 1982.Central to Husserl's investigation of the foundations of logic is the notion of the identity of the judgment. Every theoretical enterprise, including logic, presupposes that its judgments are stable and enduring acquisitions which can be understood in the same sense by anyone at any time. In order fully to understand logic and its foundational role for all the other sciences Husserl believed it necessary to examine how this sense of the identical judgment is constituted. It is within this contex…Read more
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26Being Sure of One's Self: Hume on Personal IdentityHume Studies 17 (2): 107-124. 1991.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Being Sure of One's Self: Hume on Personal Identity1 Corliss Gayda Swain A number of papers recently published on Hume's theory of personal identityhavebeen devoted to the question: Whyin the Appendix to the Treatise did Hume express complete or acute dissatisfaction with his account of personal identity in book 1 of that work?2 In this paper I shall argue that no adequate answer can be given to this question because its presuppositi…Read more
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49The New Hume Debate (review)Hume Studies 28 (1): 157-160. 2002.The "New Hume" referred to in the title of this collection of essays is the Hume who is supposed to be a causal realist in Galen Strawson's and John Wright's senses of that term. There are, of course, other "New Humes." There is the "New Hume" who is not an inductive sceptic, the "New Hume" who is a moral realist, and the "New Hume" who is a causal realist of a very different kind, to name but a few. Perhaps the book should have been called A New Hume Debate to acknowledge the many interesting a…Read more
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