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910The obscure object of hallucinationPhilosophical Studies 120 (1-3): 113-83. 2004.Like dreaming, hallucination has been a formative trope for modern philosophy. The vivid, often tragic, breakdown in the mind’s apparent capacity to disclose reality has long served to support a paradoxical philosophical picture of sensory experience. This picture, which of late has shaped the paradigmatic empirical understanding the senses, displays sensory acts as already complete without the external world; complete in that the direct objects even of veridical sensory acts do not transcend wh…Read more
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720Particulars and PersistenceDissertation, Princeton University. 1983.The thesis is concerned with the outline of an ontology which admits only particulars and with the persistence of particulars through time. In Chapter 1 it is argued that a neglected class of particulars--the cases--have to be employed in order to solve the problem of universals, i.e., to give a satisfactory account of properties and kinds. In Chapter 2, two ways in which particulars could persist though time are distinguished. Difficulties are raised for the view that everything perdures throug…Read more
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516Objective Mind and the Objectivity of Our MindsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (2): 233-268. 2007.
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399Concepts, analysis, generics and the canberra planPhilosophical Perspectives 26 (1): 113-171. 2012.
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339Is There a Problem About Persistence?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 61 (1): 107-156. 1987.
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260Subjectivism and unmaskingPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (1): 187-201. 2004.Barry Stroud’s The Quest for Reality is a fine book that requires and repays several re-readings. Among the book’s many virtues is its appropriate skepticism towards the metaphysical ambition to treat some basic physical science as a fundamental ontology, an exhaustive account of what there is and how it hangs together. When Galileo concluded that mathematics was the key to the labyrinth of nature, he was prepared to treat all qualitative aspects of reality as sensational effects produced in us …Read more
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211Are manifest qualities response-dependent?The Monist 81 (1): 3--43. 1998.The world-view to which the long arc of modern philosophy since Descartes bends is Materialism With A Bad Conscience, a Materialism continually bedeviled by the need to deal with apparently irreducible mental items. I believe this world-view to be the offspring of an introjective error; in effect, the mentalization of sensible form, finality and value. Hence the characteristic modernist accusation is that when we take sensible form, finality and value to be genuine features of the manifest we ar…Read more
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179Is affect always mere effect?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (1): 225-228. 2001.Ralph Wedgwood balks at my argument at three significant points. I have some brief, and I hope helpful, reactions to the resistance that he offers.
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95Constitution Is Not IdentityIn Michael C. Rea (ed.), Material Constitution, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 44-62. 1992.
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57The evangelical rhetoric of Ramon Llull: lay learning and piety in the Christian West around 1300Oxford University Press. 1996.Ramon Llull (1232-1316), born on Majorca, was one of the most remarkable lay intellectuals of the thirteenth century. He devoted much of his life to promoting missions among unbelievers, the reform of Western Christian society, and personal spiritual perfection. He wrote over 200 philosophical and theological works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic. Many of these expound on his "Great Universal Art of Finding Truth," an idiosyncratic dialectical system that he thought capable of proving Catholic bel…Read more
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48An experimental assessment of alternative teaching approaches for introducing business ethics to undergraduate business studentsJournal of Business Ethics 10 (7). 1991.This study employs a pretest-posttest experimental design to extend recent research pertaining to the effects of teaching business ethics material. Results on a variety of perceptual and attitudinal measures are compared across three groups of students — one which discussed the ethicality of brief business situations (the business scenario discussion approach), one which was given a more philosophically oriented lecture (the philosophical lecture approach), and a third group which received no sp…Read more
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