•  540
    Particular Thoughts & Singular Thought
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 51 173-214. 2002.
    A long-standing theme in discussion of perception and thought has been that our primary cognitive contact with individual objects and events in the world derives from our perceptual contact with them. When I look at a duck in front of me, I am not merely presented with the fact that there is at least one duck in the area, rather I seem to be presented withthisthing (as one might put it from my perspective) in front of me, which looks to me to be a duck. Furthermore, such a perception would seem …Read more
  •  508
    What's in a look?
    In Bence Nanay (ed.), Perceiving the world, Oxford University Press. pp. 160--225. 2010.
  •  481
    13 The Limits of Self-Awareness
    In Alex Byrne & Heather Logue (eds.), Disjunctivism: Contemporary Readings, Mit Press. pp. 271. 2009.
  •  398
    Sounds and Images
    British Journal of Aesthetics 52 (4): 331-351. 2012.
  •  271
    Elusive Objects
    Topoi 36 (2): 247-271. 2017.
    Do we directly perceive physical objects? What is the significance of the qualification ‘directly’ here? Austin famously denied that there was a unique interpretation by which we could make sense of the traditional debate in the philosophy of perception. I look here at Thompson Clarke’s discussion of G. E. Moore and surface perception to answer Austin’s scepticism.
  •  183
    Getting on top of oneself: Comments on self-expression
    Acta Analytica 25 (1): 81-88. 2010.
    This paper is a critical review of Mitchell Green’s Self-Expression . The principal focus is on Green’s contention that all expression is at route, a form of signalling by an agent or by some mechanism of the organism which has been evolutionary selected for signalling. Starting from the idea that in some but not all expression an agent seeks to express his or her self, I question the centrality of communication to the idea of expression.
  •  153
    Setting Things before the Mind: M.G.F. Martin
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 43 157-179. 1998.
    Listening to someone from some distance in a crowded room you may experience the following phenomenon: when looking at them speak, you may both hear and see where the source of the sounds is; but when your eyes are turned elsewhere, you may no longer be able to detect exactly where the voice must be coming from. With your eyes again fixed on the speaker, and the movement of her lips a clear sense of the source of the sound will return. This ‘ventriloquist’ effect reflects the ways in which visua…Read more
  •  96
    In praise of self: Hume's love of fame
    European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 2 (1): 69-100. 2006.
    In this paper I discuss Hume’s theory of pride and the ‘remarkable mechanism’ of sympathy. In the first part of the paper I outline the ways in which Hume’s theory can accommodate the sense in which the passions are directed on things or possess intentionality while still holding to his view that passions are simple feelings. In the second part of the paper I consider a problem internal to Hume’s account of pride which arises in his discussion of the love of fame and the functioning of sympathy;…Read more
  •  64
    Of seeming disagreement
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (2): 536-548. 2024.
  •  56
    Family and Marriage: Institutions and the Need for Social Goods
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 97 (1): 221-247. 2023.
    Institutions, if unjust, ought to be reformed or even abolished. This radical Rawlsian thought leads to the question of whether the family ought to be abolished, given its negative impact on the very possibility of delivering equality of life chances. In this article, we address questions regarding the justice of the family, and of marriage, and reflect on rights, equality, and the provision of social goods by institutions. There is a temptation to justify our social institutions in terms which …Read more
  •  46
    La función del noema en la constitución intencional del objeto
    Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 27 339. 1992.
    Sin resumen
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    Zimmerling, R. y V. RühIe, Alber, Beiträge zur Philosophie aus Spanien
    Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 27 343. 1993.
    Sin resumen
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    Self–Observation
    European Journal of Philosophy 5 (2): 119-140. 2002.
  •  25
    Mariano Álvarez Gómez
    Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 24 12. 2017.
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    Illumination Fading
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 98 (1): 153-184. 2024.
    Bertrand Russell abandoned the notion of acquaintance in July 1918. What changes does this force in his account of the mind? This paper focuses on one puzzle of interpretation about this. In 1913, Russell offered an account of ‘egocentric particulars’, his term for indexicals and demonstratives. He argued that the fundamental objection to neutral monism was that it could not provide an adequate theory of these terms. In 1918, Russell now embraces a form of neutral monism, but he does not return …Read more
  •  18
    Se analiza la producción científica correspondiente a los trabajos de investigación publicados por los investigadores españoles, durante el periodo 1991-1996, en revistas científico-técnicas editadas en España. El objetivo del trabajo es determinar el tipo de investigación que mayoritariamente se publica en las citadas revistas y el papel que éstas juegan en la difusión de los resultados de dicha actividad. Los resultados muestran que estas publicaciones son esenciales en la transferencia de con…Read more
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    In Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), On Being Alienated, Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp. 354-411. 2006.