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3How To Get AboutRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 95 143-156. 2024.The ‘Only connect!’ that serves as epigraph to Forster's Howards End tolerates a variety of interpretations; but the very idea of a connection, or a relating of one thing with another, is conceptually deep. One form of connection is when something is about a thing, representing or symbolizing that thing. When we think of someone, or discuss something, we connect to them, or to it.In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein asks, ‘What makes my image of him into an image of him? […] Isn't m…Read more
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4Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But until now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.
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9Truth within ReasonMidwest Studies in Philosophy 47 227-236. 2023.It can be seen as a mark against a belief that its causal history be disconnected from the truth. And that idea fits well with the view that discovering that a belief’s causal history is so disconnected itself diminishes its normative status. But this latter view can also be held independently: believing that your belief was influenced by irrelevant factors might be seen as problematic even should it not be seen as in general a mark against a belief that it be caused in one way or another. I pur…Read more
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8Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2 (edited book)Oxford Studies in Philosophy O. 2021.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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8Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Philosophy of language has been at the centre of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.
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6Saul Kripke (1940–)In Aloysius Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A companion to analytic philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.This chapter contains sections titled: Life Modal logic Meaning Necessity, a priority, the mind‐body problem, and essentialism Truth Substitutional quantification Wittgenstein on following a rule.
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6Primacy of Metaphysics, by Christopher PeacockeMind 131 (524): 1364-1375. 2021.Peacocke introduces The Primacy of Metaphysics with the apt observation that ‘[t]here can be few issues as fundamental as the relation between the metaphysics o.
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21A Counter‐ReformationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (1): 250-255. 2022.Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 250-255, January 2022.
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26Belief beyond groupsAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-9. 2023.While groups can do many things, and are subject to important sorts of assessment, persons can exhibit some normative statuses that no group can realize. I defend an anti-realist position about group belief (and group agency, generally) and suggest that it can still, in a way, sympathetically accommodate the range of cases discussed by Lackey in her groundbreaking The Epistemology of Groups. The distinctive normative character of belief—its integration, in consciousness, into a framework of rati…Read more
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What is it like to be a group?In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Utilitarianism: the aggregation question, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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8Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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76Standard BearersEpisteme 14 (3): 329-341. 2017.In both ethics and epistemology an important question is whether justification is a fully internal or a partly external matter. In view of analogies between relevant considerations in each area, I recommend distinguishing, as basic and independent subjects of normative status, (i) people and (ii) what they do. Evaluations of subjects, on one hand, and of their beliefs and actions, on the other, are less intimately related than is presupposed. This helps resolve internalism/externalism controvers…Read more
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Sellars',,Linguistizismus". Ein Kommentar zu BrandomDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (4): 615-620. 2000.
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63Slouching Towards Dualism (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 55 (216): 257-263. 2001.Searle may protest too much his anti-dualism. It may be that what needs reconsideration is not so much the traditional opposition between material and mental as the supposed opposition between property dualism and our contemporary scientific world view. Searle at one points notes that "[w]hen we come to the proposition that reality is physical, we come to what is perhaps the crux of the whole discussion." I agree.
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The inference that leaves something to chanceIn Sanford Goldberg (ed.), Internalism and externalism in semantics and epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 219-234. 2007.
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13T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998) A Big, Good ThingNoûs 38 (2): 359-377. 2004.
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16What is it like to be a group?Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (1): 212-226. 2009.Consequentialist and Kantian theories differ over the ethical relevance of consequences of actions. I investigate how they might differ too over the relevance of what actions are consequence of. Focusing on the case of group action and collective responsibility, I argue that there's a kind of analog to the problem of aggregating the value of consequencesthat Kantian theories will not confront and consequentialist theories will. The issue provides a useful way to characterize a deep difference be…Read more
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3Pathetic ethicsIn Brian Leiter (ed.), Objectivity in Law and Morals, Cambridge University Press. pp. 287--329. 2000.
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15Perception and reasonPhilosophical Review 110 (4): 635-638. 2001.“This book is about the role of conscious perceptual experiences in the acquisition of empirical knowledge”. So begins Bill Brewer’s interesting Perception and Reason, whose introduction usefully sets out the structure of his essay as follows.
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2Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.What makes a word bad? On the one hand, slurs and other derogatory language appear to be meaningful - different slurs can seem to refer to different groups, for example. On the other hand, slurs can seem to be just an arbitrary tool for insulting or enabling harm. How is the meaning of a slur related to its practical uses?