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2425Recent Work on Naive RealismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 53 (1). 2016.Naïve realism, often overlooked among philosophical theories of perception, has in recent years attracted a surge of interest. Broadly speaking, the central commitment of naïve realism is that mind-independent objects are essential to the fundamental analysis of perceptual experience. Since the claims of naïve realism concern the essential metaphysical structure of conscious perception, its truth or falsity is of central importance to a wide range of topics, including the explanation of semantic…Read more
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1591Appearance and IllusionMind 123 (490): 339-376. 2014.Recent debates between representational and relational theories of perceptual experience sometimes fail to clarify in what respect the two views differ. In this essay, I explain that the relational view rejects two related claims endorsed by most representationalists: the claim that perceptual experiences can be erroneous, and the claim that having the same representational content is what explains the indiscriminability of veridical perceptions and phenomenally matching illusions or hallucinati…Read more
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466Evidential Constraints on Singular ThoughtMind and Language 29 (1): 1-25. 2014.In this article, I argue that in typical cases of singular thought, a thinker stands in an evidential relation to the object of thought suitable for providing knowledge of the object's existence. Furthermore, a thinker may generate representations that purport to refer to particular objects in response to appropriate, though defeasible, evidence of the existence of such an object. I motivate these constraints by considering a number of examples introduced by Robin Jeshion in support of a view sh…Read more
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427Concepts and Imagery in Episodic MemoryAnthropology and Philosophy 7 (1-2): 95-107. 2006.The relationship between perceptual experience and memory can seem to pose a chal- lenge for conceptualism, the thesis that perceptual experiences require the actualization of conceptual capacities. Since subjects can recall features of past experiences for which they lacked corresponding concepts at the time of the original experience, it would seem that a subject’s conceptual capacities do not impose a limit on what he or she can experience perceptually. But this conclusion ignores the fact th…Read more
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399Singular Thought and Mental Files: An IntroductionIn Rachel Goodman, James Genone & Nick Kroll (eds.), Singular Thought and Mental Files, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-17. 2020.
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193Theories of Reference and Experimental PhilosophyPhilosophy Compass 7 (2): 152-163. 2012.In recent years, experimental philosophers have questioned the reliance of philosophical arguments on intuitions elicited by thought experiments. These challenges seek to undermine the use of this methodology for a particular domain of theorizing, and in some cases to raise doubts about the viability of philosophical work in the domain in question. The topic of semantic reference has been an important area for discussion of these issues, one in which critics of the reliance on intuitions have ma…Read more
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100Singular Thought and Mental Files (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the best way to think about the nature of singular thought. Coinciding with recognition of the need for more clarity about the notion, there has been a surge of interest in the concept of a mental file as a way to understand what is distinctive about singular thought. What isn't always clear, however, is what mental files are meant to be, and why we shou…Read more
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Complex systems and effective interactionIn Stephen Michael Kosslyn, Ben Nelson & Robert Kerrey (eds.), Building the intentional university: Minerva and the future of higher education, The Mit Press. 2017.
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Building lesson plans for 21st century active learningIn Stephen Michael Kosslyn, Ben Nelson & Robert Kerrey (eds.), Building the intentional university: Minerva and the future of higher education, The Mit Press. 2017.
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A new look at majors and concentrationsIn Stephen Michael Kosslyn, Ben Nelson & Robert Kerrey (eds.), Building the intentional university: Minerva and the future of higher education, The Mit Press. 2017.
James Genone
Minerva Project
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Minerva ProjectAdministrator
Berkeley, CA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |