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    Colour-dispositionalism and its recent critics
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (1): 137-156. 2000.
    Dispositionalist accounts of colour concepts are now largely discarded. But a number of recent and influential objections to this type of theory can be readily answered providing the dispositionalist account contains the key elements it should---which actual versions in the literature do not. I explicate some of the conceptual components needed in such an account once we correctly understand the anthropocentricity of the colour concepts involved. When these components are incorporated into dispo…Read more
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    Challenging the obvious: The logic of color concepts
    Philosophia 21 (3-4): 277-94. 1992.
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    Neutral Monism and the Social Character of Consciousness
    Philosophy Today 51 (1): 52-59. 2007.
    After thousands of years of work, the mind-body problem endures as one of the most tantalizing issues in metaphysics. For my purposes I formulate the question as: What is the relation between consciousness and matter? The solution to the mind-body problem that I offer is a version of neutral monism, the view that mental and physical events are both to be derived from some stuff that in itself is neither physical nor mental. This paper specifies the conditions under which consciousness and mat…Read more