University of East Anglia
School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
PhD, 1997
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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    Parfit and the sorites paradox
    Philosophical Studies 83 (2): 113-20. 1996.
    This paper aims to establish that Sorites reasoning, a fundamental part of Parfit's work, is more destructive that he intends. I establish the form that Parfit's arguments take and then substitute premises whose acceptability to Parfit I show. The new argument demonstrates an eliminativism or immaterialism concerning persons which Parfit must find repugnant
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    The achievement of personhood
    Ratio 10 (2): 141-156. 1997.
    The debate on personal identity tends to conflate or ignore two different usages of the word ‘person’. Psychological‐continuity proponents concentrate upon its use to refer to human psychology or personality, while animalist critics prefer its use to refer to individual human beings. I argue that this duality undermines any attempt to see ‘person’ as a genuine sortal term. Instead, adopting suggestions found in Dennett and Sellars, I consider personhood as an ascription rather like an honorific …Read more
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    A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films, science fiction, showing how film and watching it can not only illuminate philosophy but, in an important sense, be doing philosophy. The book is crowned with an interview with Wittgensteinian philosopher Stanley Cavell, discussing his interests in philosophy and in film and how they can come together…Read more
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    Peter Vardy, What Is Truth? Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 21 (3): 224-225. 2001.