• Colour perception
    In Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
  • How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction
    In John Macnamara & Gonzalo E. Reyes (eds.), The Logical Foundations of Cognition, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 325-353. 1994.
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    Passive avoidance during brain-growth spurts and plateaus
    with Maria J. Lavooy, Jacqueline Lavooy, and Edward C. Simmel
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 17 (3): 153-155. 1981.
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    Reflections and Replies: Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge (edited book)
    with Björn T. Ramberg
    MIT Press. 2003.
    Essays by various philosphers on the work of Tyler Burge and Burge's extensive responses.
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    Do metamers matter?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1): 30-31. 2003.
    Metamerism is a rather common feature of objects. The authors see it as problematic because they are concerned with a special case: metamerism in standard conditions. Such metamerism does not, however, pose a problem for color realists. There is an apparent problem in cases of metameric light sources, but to see such metamers as problematic is to fail to answer Berkeley's challenge.
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    The Frege puzzle one more time
    In Petr Kotatko & John Biro (eds.), Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 169--183. 1995.
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    Intentionality, Direct Reference, and Individualism
    Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1990.
    There is a prima facie conflict between the semantical theory of direct reference and an intuitively plausible view often called 'individualism'. Direct reference theory is the view that certain expressions pick out their referent directly, without any intervening semantical mechanism. In order to describe the meaning of a sentence which contain such an expression, we have to mention the referent itself. Individualism is a view that mental states are individuated without reference to the subject…Read more
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    More than Mere Colouring: The Role of Spectral Information in Human Vision
    with Kathleen A. Akins
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65 (1): 125-171. 2014.
    A common view in both philosophy and the vision sciences is that, in human vision, wavelength information is primarily ‘for’ colouring: for seeing surfaces and various media as having colours. In this article we examine this assumption of ‘colour-for-colouring’. To motivate the need for an alternative theory, we begin with three major puzzles from neurophysiology, puzzles that are not explained by the standard theory. We then ask about the role of wavelength information in vision writ large. How…Read more