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2Toward the World and Wisdom of Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’Philosophical Quarterly 25 (98): 84-85. 1975.
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15Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore.Philosophical GrammarPhilosophical Quarterly 25 (100): 279. 1975.
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49III A Unified Solution to Some ParadoxesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (n/a): 53-74. 2000.The Russell class does not exist because the conditions purporting to specify that class are contradictory, and hence fail to specify any class. Equally, the conditions purporting to specify the Liar statement are contradictory and hence, although the Liar sentence is grammatically in order, it fails to yield a statement. Thus the common source of these and related paradoxes is contradictory (or tautologous) specifying conditions-for such conditions fail to specify. This is the diagnosis. The cu…Read more
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71Spandrels of Truth * By JC BEALLAnalysis 70 (3): 586-589. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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The Barber, Russell's Paradox, Catch-22, God, Contradiction, and MoreIn Graham Priest, J. C. Beall & Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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2Gardner-Inspired Design of Teaching MaterialsDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 10 (1): 173-202. 2010.
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12The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and ExtensionsPhilosophical Quarterly 30 (119): 153-155. 1980.
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8The Imagination as Glory: The Poetry of James DickeyJournal of Aesthetic Education 22 (2): 118. 1988.
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13The general aim of this project is to fundamentally re-think the design of teaching materials in view of what is now known about cognitive deficits and about what Howard Gardner has termed ‘multiple intelligences’. The applicant has implemented this strategy in two distinct areas, the first involving the writing of an English language programme for Chinese speakers, the second involving the construction of specialized equipment for teaching elementary logic to blind students. The next phase is t…Read more
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98IntroductionThe Monist 88 (1): 3-10. 2005.According to some commentators, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is all one big joke: we plough through the text trying to extract the sense out of each spare and heroic proposition, only to be told at the end, that anyone who understands the author will realize that all of his propositions are nonsensical and so are not even propositions. The whole work is a kind of hoax; the readers are ridiculed, but, with luck, will eventually have to laugh when they come to recognize that what they had taken for de…Read more
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43The Form of The Third Man ArgumentApeiron 12 (2). 1978.Our interpretation of the "parmenides" 132a1 - 132b2 has the following features. (i) it stresses that the third man argument is an infinite regress and (ii) notes its epistemological thrust. (iii) a faithful translation of the last line of the argument reads "and no longer will each of the forms be for you one but each is infinite in multitude." parmenides' point is that each form, which socrates believed to be complete (one), turns out to be an unbounded, incompletable series of subforms useles…Read more
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32Strengthened paradoxesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (3). 1980.This Article does not have an abstract
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100A non-theistic cosmology and natural historyAnalysis 66 (3): 256-260. 2006.The plausibility of the theory of evolution depends on abandoning the assumption of a unique 'big bang' ex nihilo marking the beginning of the universe.
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34Kripke, Pierre and ConstantinescuThe Reasoner 1 (5): 4-5. 2007.Refutes Cristian Constantinescu's proposed solution of Kripke's puzzle about belief.
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University of KentRegular Faculty
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 1977