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Name and Subject IndexIn Sofia Miguens & Gerhard Preyer (eds.), Consciousness and Subjectivity, Ontos Verlag. pp. 357. 2012.
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8The St. Louis Hegelians and the Institutionalization of Democratic EducationPhilosophy of Education 77 (1): 47-64. 2021.
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8American Hegelianism and its Impact Upon Indian Boarding School PolicyHegel Bulletin 45 (1): 65-92. 2024.In early 2021, a Canadian investigation revealed the discovery of over a thousand grave sites of indigenous children on the grounds of Indian residential schools across Canada. These discoveries prompted US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to announce a similar investigation into the ongoing legacy and intergenerational impact of federally sponsored Indian boarding schools in the United States. In addition to documenting the legacy of abuse, neglect and dominance of indigenous peoples, we b…Read more
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Logic beyond the looking glassIn Randall Auxier, Eli Kramer & Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński (eds.), Rorty and Beyond, Lexington Books. 2019.
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20Taking Peirce’s Graphs Seriously (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (4): 438-445. 2022.There is a saying in the energy industry that hydrogen is the fuel of the future … and so it will always remain. The jab might equally be leveled at Peirce’s graphical systems of logic. Though Peir...
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2The Consequences of Falsehood: Comments on Nikolaus Breiner’s “Charles Peirce on AssertionSouthwest Philosophy Review 36 (2): 59-62. 2020.
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11Remarks on Farley and Gould’s “A Rossian Account of the Normativity of Logic”Southwest Philosophy Review 38 (2): 25-28. 2022.
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30Grief and Self-KnowledgeJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 4 (1): 27-33. 2022.In Grief: A Philosophical Guide, Michael Cholbi characterizes grief as a “questioning attitude”; it calls attention to and prompts questions about the significance of the departed specifically to the griever. Accordingly, Cholbi assigns grief a largely self-directed cognitive purpose: grief’s goodness is that it leads—when things go well—to greater self-knowledge. In this paper, I question this claim. Calling upon an ordinary episode of grief, I argue that there are at least a few cases of grief…Read more
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6Affirming DenialProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 37 3-8. 2018.Brandom contends that the classical American pragmatists subscribe to a semantic program that is insufficiently one-sided in that it focuses exclusively on the down-stream consequences of concept application, while neglecting its upstream conditions. Focusing on passages from Peirce’s later work, I show that, while Peirce does unpack meaning in terms of the consequences of concept application, his inclusion of the consequences of denying claims involving a concept allow him to capture the infere…Read more
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31Denial Has Its Consequences: Peirce's Bilateral SemanticsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (4): 361. 2019.In at least a few of his formulations of the pragmatic maxim around 1905—those in which he sought to inoculate his brand of pragmatism against misappropriation by other pragmatists and also to supply a demonstration of its truth—Charles Peirce instructs us to look not only at the consequences of affirming some claim or concept, but also at the consequences of denying it. Referring to himself in the third person as "the author," Peirce writes: Endeavoring, as a man of that type naturally would, t…Read more
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15Emotional Cognitivism without RepresentationalismJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 1 (1): 113-122. 2019.In _Knowing Emotions_, Rick Anthony Furtak seeks an account that does justice to both the cognitive and corporeal dimensions of our emotional lives. Concerning the latter dimension, he holds that emotions serve to represent axiological features of the world. Against such a representationalist picture, I shall suggest an alternative way to understand how our emotions gear in with the rest of our cognitive states.
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163On Peter Olen’s Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of NormativityJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 7 (3). 2019.All contributions included in the present issue were originally prepared for an “Author Meets Critics” session organized by Carl Sachs for the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Savannah, Georgia, on 5th January, 2018.
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725Two-Sided Trees for Sentential Logic, Predicate Logic, and Sentential Modal LogicTeaching Philosophy 42 (1): 41-56. 2019.This paper will present two contributions to teaching introductory logic. The first contribution is an alternative tree proof method that differs from the traditional one-sided tree method. The second contribution combines this tree system with an index system to produce a user-friendly tree method for sentential modal logic.
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61(Re)Motivating Inferentialism Commentary on Mark McCullagh's "Motivating Inferentialism"Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (2): 151-154. 2006.
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237The Importance of Being ErroneousPhilosophical Topics 27 (1): 281-308. 1999.The question of animal belief (or animal intentionality) often degenerates into a frustrating and unproductive exchange. Foes of animal intentionality point out that non-linguistic animals couldn’t possibly possess the kinds of mental states we linguistic beings enjoy. They claim that linguistic ability enables us to become sensitive to intensional contexts or to the states of mind of others in a way that is unavailable to the non-linguistic, and that would be necessary for proper attributions o…Read more
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244Dennett and the Quest for Real MeaningPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 9 (1): 11-18. 2002.In several recent pieces, Daniel Dennett has advanced a line of reasoning purporting to show that we should reject the idea that there is a tenable distinction to be drawn between the manner in which we represent the way things are and the manner in which "blessedly simple" intentional systems like thermostats and frogs represent the way things are. Through a series of thought experiments, Dennett aims to show that philosophers of mind should abandon their preoccupation with "real meaning as opp…Read more
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Recipes for the Simple-Minded: A Constructive Account of Original IntentionalityDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1999.In recent discussions of the concept of original intentionality , Dennett raises an intelligible challenge to intentional realists, one that has not been adequately addressed by naturalistic theories of mental representation how can something be correct or mistaken about the way things are, where the applicable normativity is intelligible as such, without ultimately appealing to the background of purposes for which a subject has been designed or selected? I respond directly and constructively to…Read more
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12Impressions, and the logic of 'what it's like'Consciousness and Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception 1 137. 2005.
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482Phenomenal consciousness, sense impressions, and the logic of 'what it's likeIn Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton (eds.), Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception, John Benjamins. 2005.
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46“From the Grunts and Groans of the Cave….” Presidential AddressSouthwest Philosophy Review 29 (1): 1-11. 2013.
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98Some more thoughts about thought and talk: Davidson and fellows on animal beliefPhilosophy 77 (1): 115-124. 2002.Donald Davidson's argument that non-linguistic creatures lack beliefs rests on two premises: (1) to be a believer, one must have the concept of belief, and (2) to have the concept of belief, one must interpret the utterances of others. However, Davidson's defense of these premises is overly compressed and unconvincing. In a recent issue of Philosophy, Roger Fellows provides new arguments for these premises. In this paper, I explain why I'm not persuaded by Fellows' attempt to bolster Davidson's …Read more
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127Dennett’s Overlooked OriginalityMinds and Machines 16 (1): 43-55. 2006.No philosopher has worked harder than Dan Dennett to set the possibility of machine mentality on firm philosophical footing. Dennett’s defense of this possibility has both a positive and a negative thrust. On the positive side, he has developed an account of mental activity that is tailor-made for the attribution of intentional states to purely mechanical contrivances, while on the negative side, he pillories as mystery mongering and skyhook grasping any attempts to erect barriers to the concept…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of the Americas |