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    How Many Angels can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
    Teaching Philosophy 21 (3): 257-273. 1998.
    There are at least two notable and distinct literatures on the subject of questions: the educational literature, analyzing questions with a pedagogical upshot in mind, and the philosophical literature, analyzing questions with the concerns of philosophy of language and logic. This paper goes some way towards bridging these literatures by taking a philosophical stance on questions and by examining how a basic treatment of questions as a philosophical theme can greatly aid the introduction of stud…Read more
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    Those Who Can, Do
    Teaching Philosophy 19 (3): 275-279. 1996.
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    Those Who Can, Do
    Teaching Philosophy 19 (3): 275-279. 1996.
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    Externalism in the philosophy of mind has been invoked by some philosophers to argue that content‐bearing mental states can’t serve as the explananda in genuinely causal explanations of behaviour. In this paper, I demonstrate that such arguments presuppose that psychological explanations are theory‐based and that, if this theoretical conception of psychological explanation is replaced by the simulation model, we remove the source of the apparent tension between externalism and caus‐ality and are…Read more