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2Davidson and nonreductive materialism: A tale of two culturesIn Carl Gillett & Barry Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
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Essays on Berkeley. A Tercentennial CelebrationZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 41 (4): 696-700. 1987.
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Carruthers, P., "Introducing Persons: Theories and Arguments in the Philosophy of Mind" (review)Mind 97 (n/a): 310. 1988.
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Smith, P. and Jones, O. R., "The Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction" (review)Mind 98 (n/a): 311. 1989.
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14SubstanceStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2024.Many of the concepts analysed by philosophers have their origin in ordinary – or at least extra-philosophical – language. Perception, knowledge, causation, and mind are examples. But the concept of substance is a philosophical term of art. Its uses in ordinary language tend to derive, often in a rather distorted way, from the philosophical senses. There is an ordinary concept in play when philosophers discuss “substance”, and this, as we shall see, is the concept of object, or thing when this is…Read more
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The ontology of the mentalIn Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford handbook of metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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Aristotle and the Later Tradition: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 1991 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1991.This volume contains papers by a group of leading experts on Aristotle and the later Aristotelian tradition of Neoplatonism. The discussion ranges from Aristotle's treatment of Parmenides, the most important pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, to Neoplatonic and medieval use of Aristotle, for which Aristotle himself set guidelines in his discussions of his predecessors. Traces of these guidelines can be seen in the work of Plotinus, and that of the later Greek commentators on Aristotle. The study of…Read more
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9Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philosophy of Marx. This edition of Berkeley's two key works has an introduction which examines and in part defends his arguments for idealism, as well as offering a detailed analytical contents list, extensive p…Read more
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The ontology of the mentalIn Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford handbook of metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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4BerkeleyIn Nicholas Bunnin & Eric Tsui-James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 1996.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Berkeley, Common Sense and the ‘New Philosophy’ Abstract Ideas, Relative Ideas and Immaterialism Qualities, Ideas and Sensations Conceivability, Perceivability and Intrinsic Properties From Phenomenalism to Theism.
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9DualismIn Stephen Stich & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Argument for Predicate Dualism Why Predicate Dualism leads to Dualism Proper Is the Talk of “Perspectives” Legitimate? A Surprising Ally The Optionality of Non‐basic Levels and the Unavoidability of Psychology Why Bundle Dualism Will Not Do Two Reflections on this Conclusion An Objection Conclusion.
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34Personal Identity, the Self and TimeIn Alexander Batthyany & Avshalom C. Elitzur (eds.), Mind and its place in the world: non-reductionist approaches to the ontology of consciousness, Ontos. pp. 245-268. 2006.
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28Vision: Variations on Some Berkeleian ThemesPhilosophical Review 105 (1): 97. 1996.Vision consists of four essays: “Seeing distance,” “Size,” “Perceptual inference,” and “A Gibsonian alternative?” The continuous thread is the Berkeleian treatment of the perception of spatial properties, particularly in connection with what is and is not “immediately perceived.” The first two essays are closely connected with specific Berkeleian arguments and modern responses to them. The second two essays deal more generally with modern discussions by psychologists of whether visual perception…Read more
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5V-Vagueness, Realism, Language and ThoughtProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (1pt1): 83-101. 2009.
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81Vagueness, realism, language and thoughtProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (1pt1): 83-101. 2009.The problem of vagueness and the sorites paradox arise because we try to treat natural language as if it were a unitary formal system. In fact, natural language contains a large variety of representational ontologies that serve different purposes and which cannot be united formally, but which can intuitively be taken as ways of seeing a common basic ontology. Using this framework, we can save classical logic from vagueness and avoid the sorites.
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2The Subject of Experience By Galen Strawson Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 315 + xv pp., £35 ISBN: 9780198777885 (review)Philosophy 94 (2): 339-342. 2019.
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28The Revival of Substance DualismRoczniki Filozoficzne 69 (1): 33-43. 2021.I argue in this essay that Richard Swinburne’s revised version of Descartes’ argument in chapter 5 of his Are We Bodies or Souls? does not quite get him to the conclusion that he requires, but that a modified version of his treatment of personal identity will do the trick. I will also look critically at his argument against epiphenomenalism, where, once again, I share his conclusion but have reservations about the argument.
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37The Primacy of the Subjective (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (3): 384-387. 2006.
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16Semantic direct realismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 57 (1): 51-64. 2020.The most common form of direct realism is Phenomenological Direct Realism. PDR is the theory that direct realism consists in unmediated awareness of the external object in the form of unmediated awareness of its relevant properties. I contrast this with Semantic Direct Realism, the theory that perceptual experience puts you in direct cognitive contact with external objects but does so without the unmediated awareness of the objects’ intrinsic properties invoked by PDR. PDR is what most understan…Read more
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16Objectivity: How is it Possible?In Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau & Friedrich Stadler (eds.), The Philosophy of Perception: Proceedings of the 40th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 23-38. 2019.
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