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313Beyond program explanationIn Geoffrey Brennan (ed.), Common minds: themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--27. 2007.
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246Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic (edited book)Blackwell. 1987.
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148Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays (edited book)Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2006.Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate
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14Probability and EvidenceCambridge University Press. 1972.A. J. Ayer was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the twentieth century, and was known as a brilliant and engaging speaker. In essays based on his influential Dewey Lectures, Ayer addresses some of the most critical and controversial questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science, examining the nature of inductive reasoning and grappling with the issues that most concerned him as a philosopher. This edition contains revised and expanded versions of the lectures and two addit…Read more
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6The Two Natures: Another Dogma?In Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), McDowell and His Critics, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Nature Divided A Non‐Reductive Naturalism Norms and Function Functions, Reason, and History Only an Analogy? Concluding Thoughts.
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1Reductionism: Historiography and PsychologyIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 4 5 Bibliography.
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6Explanation in HistoriographyIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 Acknowledgment Bibliography.
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474The Epistemology of MeaningIn Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Millikan and her critics, Wiley. pp. 221--240. 2013.This chapter contains section titles: Introduction Section 1 Section 2 Conclusion.
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295The metaphysics of mental causationJournal of Philosophy 103 (11): 539-576. 2006.A debate has been raging in the philosophy of mind for at least the past two decades. It concerns whether the mental can make a causal difference to the world. Suppose that I am reading the newspaper and it is getting dark. I switch on the light, and continue with my reading. One explanation of why my switching on of the light occurred is that a desiring with a particular content (that I continue reading), a noticing with a particular content (that it is getting dark), and a believing with a par…Read more
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12Modified Methodological IndividualismProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 86. 1986.Graham Macdonald; XI*—Modified Methodological Individualism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 86, Issue 1, 1 June 1986, Pages 199–212, https://do.
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10Semantics and social scienceRoutledge & Kegan Paul. 1981.Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a cross-cultural conception of human beings, the authors defend humanism and individualism, and reject the notion that social inquiry is necessarily vitiated by an adherence to values.
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732Emergence and Downward CausationIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in Mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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IntroductionIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in Mind, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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96Emergence in mind (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would ...
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183Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation (edited book)Blackwell. 1991.This volume provides an introduction to and review of key contemporary debates concerning connectionism, and the nature of explanation and methodology in cognitive psychology. The first debate centers on the question of whether human cognition is best modeled by classical or by connectionist architectures. The second centres on the question of the compatibility between folk, or commonsense, psychological explanation and explanations based on connectionist models of cognition. Each of the two sec…Read more
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19Representations, Targets, and Attitudes (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1): 175-180. 1998.
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43Emergence and Non-reductive PhysicalismIn Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry & Tom Lancaster (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Emergence, Routledge. pp. 195-205. 2018.
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The biological turnIn C. Macdonald (ed.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. 1995.
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40Alfred Jules AyerRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 2008.Alfred Jules Ayer was born in London and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He attended sessions of the logical positivist ‘Vienna Circle’ in 1932, and taught at Oxford from 1933 until joining the Army in 1940. His Language, Truth and Logic was published in 1936, and The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge in 1940. After war service he returned to Oxford in 1945, and became Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London, the following year. The Problem …Read more
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