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19Triggering and Structuring CausesIn Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: A Triggering Causal Explanation A Structuring Causal Explanation Further reading.
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235Precis of knowledge and the flow of informationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1): 55-90. 1983.A theory of information is developed in which the informational content of a signal (structure, event) can be specified. This content is expressed by a sentence describing the condition at a source on which the properties of a signal depend in some lawful way. Information, as so defined, though perfectly objective, has the kind of semantic property (intentionality) that seems to be needed for an analysis of cognition. Perceptual knowledge is an information-dependent internal state with a content…Read more
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29Chisholm on perceptual knowledgeGrazer Philosophische Studien 8 (1): 253-269. 1979.Two general approaches to the analysis of knowledge are distinguished: a liberal view that takes the truth of what is known as a condition independent of the justificatory condition, and a conservative view that regards the truth of what is known as implied by the level of justification required for knowledge. Chisholm is classified as a liberal on perceptual knowledge, and his analysis is criticized from a conservative standpoint
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26Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (5). 1999.
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47BAIER, KURT, The Rational and the Moral Order: The Social Roots of Reason and Morality, reviewed by Sarah Stroud.. 577Philosophical Review 106 (4): 589. 1997.
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Perception without awarenessIn Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual experience, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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427If You Can’t Make One, You Don’t Know How It WorksMidwest Studies in Philosophy 19 (1): 468-482. 1994.
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Perception versus conception : the Goldilocks testIn John Zeimbekis & Athanassios Raftopoulos (eds.), The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception: New Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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Conscious experienceIn Josh Weisberg (ed.), Consciousness (Key Concepts in Philosophy), Polity. 2014.
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491Explaining Behavior: Reasons in a World of CausesMIT Press. 1988.In this lucid portrayal of human behavior, Fred Dretske provides an original account of the way reasons function in the causal explanation of behavior.
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793Laws of naturePhilosophy of Science 44 (2): 248-268. 1977.It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise. This view is examined in detail and rejected; it fails to account for a variety of features that laws are acknowledged to have. An alternative view is advanced in which laws are expr…Read more
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3Minimal rationalityIn Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Precis of 'Knowledge and the Flow of Information'In Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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The Epistemology of BeliefIn Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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1Conclusive ReasonsIn Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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2Epistemic OperatorsIn Keith DeRose & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Skepticism: a contemporary reader, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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Roundtable discussionIn Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition, University of British Columbia Press. pp. 198--216. 1990.
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27Observation and Objectivity. Harold I. Brown (review)Philosophy of Science 56 (3): 544-547. 1989.
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733Epistemology and InformationIn Pieter Adriaans & Johan Van Benthem (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 8. Philosophy of Information., Elsevier-north Holland. pp. 29-47. 2008.