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8Les tremblements de terre aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: La naissance d'un risque (review)Isis 100 164-165. 2009.
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A Little Sensitivity goes a Long WayIn Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (eds.), Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics, Oxford University Press Uk. 2007.
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11À L'aube De La Géologie Moderne: Henri Gautier By François Ellenberger (review)Isis 70 619-619. 1979.
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109De Re And De Dicto: Against The Conventional WisdomNoûs 36 (s16): 225-265. 2002.Conventional wisdom has it that there is a class of attitude ascriptions such that in making an ascription of that sort, the ascriber undertakes a commitment to specify the contents of the ascribee’s head in what might be called a notionally sensitive, ascribee-centered way. In making such an ascription, the ascriber is supposed to undertake a commitment to specify the modes of presentation, concepts or notions under which the ascribee cognizes the objects (and properties) that her beliefs are a…Read more
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33Rampant moral relativism is widely decried as the leading source of the degeneracy of modern life.1 Though I proudly count myself a relativist, I rather doubt that relativism has anything like the cultural influence that its most ardent critics fearfully attribute to it. Much of what gets criticized under the rubric of relativism is often really no such thing. Relativists need not be hedonists, egoists, nihilists or even moral skeptics. Moreover, when it comes to the upper reaches of our intelle…Read more
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33Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of LanguagePhilosophical Review 99 (2): 260. 1990.
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33Applying continuous modelling to consciousnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 8 (2): 45-60. 2001.Much of neuroscience is currently dominated by an information processing metaphor which is largely conceptualized in discrete terms. An alternative metaphor conceptualizes information flow as continuous. A qualitative set of hypotheses based on this metaphor, the energy model, is described here. This model considers information transfer in terms of the flow of an abstract variable, energy, between points in a field comprising the extent of the nervous system. Although extremely simple, it genera…Read more
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55Sign, sign, everywhere a sign! (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3). 2007.For Millikan, purpose pervades the biological order, including the genes and genetically encoded traits of every living thing, the unconditioned reflexes and conditioned behavior of every animal, artifacts produced by humans or non-humans. There are also the conscious, explicit purposes and intentions of human beings. These are purposes in “a quite univocal sense,” Millikan insists. “In all cases,” she says, “the thing’s purpose is … what it was selected for doing.” Moreover, “…the purposes we a…Read more
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23On the pragmatics of mode of reference selectionCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 26 (1): 97-127. 1993.
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97How not to refute eliminative materialismPhilosophical Psychology 7 (1): 101-125. 1994.This paper examines and rejects some purported refutations of eliminative materialism in the philosophy of mind: a quasi-transcendental argument due to Jackson and Pettit (1990) to the effect that folk psychology is “peculiarly unlikely” to be radically revised or eliminated in light of the developments of cognitive science and neuroscience; and (b) certain straight-out transcendental arguments to the effect that eliminativism is somehow incoherent (Baker, 1987; Boghossian, 1990). It begins by c…Read more
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