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Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotionCognition and Emotion 17 (2): 297-314. 2003.In this paper we present a prototype approach to awe. We suggest that two appraisals are central and are present in all clear cases of awe: perceived vastness, and a need for accommodation, defined as an inability to assimilate an experience into current mental structures. Five additional appraisals account for variation in the hedonic tone of awe experiences: threat, beauty, exceptional ability, virtue, and the supernatural. We derive this perspective from a review of what has been written abou…Read more
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The Evidence Of The Senses: A Realist Theory Of PerceptionBaton Rouge: Louisiana St University Press. 1986.
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Duns Scotus on the Formal DistinctionDissertation, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick. 1984.This dissertation examines the doctrine of the formal distinction as it was developed in the writings of Duns Scotus. After an initial examination of some influential predecessors of Scotus, a study is made of the formal distinction in Scotus' works. Through a careful study of Scotus' language, and the examples he uses to illustrate the formal distinction, the conclusion is reached that Scotus' work on the formal distinction constitutes a continual process of linguistic revision and refinement w…Read more
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How to speak of the colorsPhilosophical Studies 68 (3): 221-263. 1992.
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Locke's distinctions between primary and secondary qualitiesIn Lex Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding", Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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Locke’s Resemblance ThesesPhilosophical Review 108 (4): 461-496. 1999.Locke asserts that “the Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; But the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all.”1 On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent and ideas of secondary qualities are unlike the qualities they represent.2 I will show that if we take his assertions in this u…Read more
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What Mary Didn't KnowJournal of Philosophy 83 (5): 291-295. 1986.
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Epiphenomenal QualiaIn John Heil (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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The Theory of Signs in St. Augustine's De doctrina christianaRevue d' Etudes Augustiniennes Et Patristiques 15 (1-2): 9-50. 1969.
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Truth, rationality, and pragmatism: themes from Peirce (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.
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Panpsychism, physicalism, neutral monism and the Russellian theory of mindJournal of Consciousness Studies 15 (5): 48-67. 2008.As some see it, an impasse has been reached on the mind- body problem between mainstream physicalism and mainstream dualism. So lately another view has been gaining popularity, a view that might be called the 'Russellian theory of mind' (RTM) since it is inspired by some ideas once put forth by Bertrand Russell. Most versions of RTM are panpsychist, but there is at least one version that rejects panpsychism and styles itself as physicalism, and neutral monism is also a possibility. In this paper…Read more
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There Are Fewer Things in Reality Than Are Dreamt of in Chalmers’s Philosophy (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (2): 445-454. 1999.
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Symbol grounding and the origin of languageIn Matthias Scheutz (ed.), Computationalism: New Directions, Mit Press. 2002.What language allows us to do is to "steal" categories quickly and effortlessly through hearsay instead of having to earn them the hard way, through risky and time-consuming sensorimotor "toil" (trial-and-error learning, guided by corrective feedback from the consequences of miscategorisation). To make such linguistic "theft" possible, however, some, at least, of the denoting symbols of language must first be grounded in categories that have been earned through sensorimotor toil (or else in cate…Read more
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Consciousness and Fundamental RealityOup Usa. 2017.
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Peirce’s ‘Prescision’ as a Transcendental MethodInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 19 (2): 231-253. 2011.In this Paper I interpret Charles S. Peirce’s method of prescision as a transcendental method. In order to do so, I argue that Peirce’s pragmatism can be interpreted in a transcendental light only if we use a non‐justificatory understanding of transcendental philosophy. I show how Peirce’s prescision is similar to some abstracting procedure that Immanuel Kant used in his Critique of Pure Reason. Prescision abstracts from experience and thought in general those elements without which such experie…Read more
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How the Body Shapes the MindOxford University Press UK. 2005.How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience, studies of pathologies, and developmental psychology. There is a growing consensus across these disciplines that the contribution of embodiment to cognition is inescapable. Because this insight has been developed across a variety of disciplines, however, there is still a need to develop a common vocabulary that is capable of int…Read more
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Special sciences (or: The disunity of science as a working hypothesis)Synthese 28 (2): 97-115. 1974.
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Just How General Is Peirce's General Theory of Signs?American Journal of Semiotics 2 (1/2): 55-60. 1983.
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Consciousness ReconsideredMIT Press. 1992.
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Introduction to Peirce's Philosophy, interpreted as a SystemLes Etudes Philosophiques 4 (2): 213-214. 1949.
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Knowledge and the flow of informationTrans/Form/Ação 12 133-139. 1989.
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Naturalizing the MindMIT Press. 1995.
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A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human ConsciousnessW.W. Norton. 2001.
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The Reflex Arc Concept in PsychologyPhilosophical Review 5 (n/a): 649. 1896.
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The Intentional StanceMIT Press. 1981.
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Are we explaining consciousness yet?Cognition 79 (1): 221-37. 2001.Theorists are converging from quite different quarters on a version of the global neuronal workspace model of consciousness, but there are residual confusions to be dissolved. In particular, theorists must resist the temptation to see global accessibility as the cause of consciousness (as if consciousness were some other, further condition); rather, it is consciousness. A useful metaphor for keeping this elusive idea in focus is that consciousness is rather like fame in the brain. It is not a pr…Read more
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Consciousness ExplainedPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (4): 905-910. 1993.
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Real PatternsJournal of Philosophy 88 (1): 27-51. 1991.
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Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs: Essays in Comparative SemioticsIndiana University Press. 2000.[Note: Picture of Peirce available] Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs Essays in Comparative Semiotics Gérard Deledalle Peirce’s semiotics and metaphysics compared to the thought of other leading philosophers. "This is essential reading for anyone who wants to find common ground between the best of American semiotics and better-known European theories. Deledalle has done more than anyone else to introduce Peirce to European audiences, and now he sends Peirce home with some new flare."—Natha…Read more
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