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3Exponential-family random graph models represent the processes that govern the formation of links in networks through the terms selected by the user. The terms specify network statistics that are sufficient to represent the probability distribution over the space of networks of that size. Many classes of statistics can be used. In this article we describe the classes of statistics that are currently available in the ergm package. We also describe means for controlling the Markov chain Monte Carl…Read more
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28The Social Folk Theorist: Insights from Social and Cultural Psychology on theIn Bertram F. Malle, Louis J. Moses & Dare A. Baldwin (eds.), Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition, Mit Press. 2001.
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240The Substance Argument of Wittgenstein’s TractatusJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (7). 2016.In Morris I presented in outline a new interpretation of the famous ‘substance argument’ in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. The account I presented there gave a distinctive view of Wittgenstein’s main concerns in the argument, but did not explain in detail how the argument works: how its steps are to be found in the text, and how it concludes. I remain convinced that the interpretation I proposed correctly identifies the main concerns which lie behind the argument. I return to the argument here in ord…Read more
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13The Place of LanguageAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 67 (1): 153-174. 1993.This paper attempts to raise a question for the everyday view that language is a means of communication, a system of marks or sounds which we use to convey thoughts and describe the world. It first isolates the assumptions behind this everyday view before raising questions about them.
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7Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy, ed. J.L. Zalabardo (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3): 620-623. 2013.
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17Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy, edited by Zalabardo, José L.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. viii + 274, £40Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3). 2013.No abstract
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29Reviews works of music: An essay in ontology . By Julian Dodd. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2007, pp. XI+286, £55Philosophy 85 (3): 419-424. 2010.
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32Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the TractatusRoutledge. 2005.Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein’s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes: Wittgenstein’s life and the background to the _Tractatus_ the ideas and text of the _Tractatus_ the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today, Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-centu…Read more
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38Real Likenesses: Representation in Paintings, Photographs, and NovelsOxford University Press, Usa. 2020.Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art, which counters current dominant theories that make attention to the former inevitably a distraction from attending to the latter. Through close analysis of paintings, photographs, and novels, Michael Morris proposes a new understanding of the real likenesses we encounter in representational art; what they are…Read more
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224How Can There Be Works Of Art?Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 5 (3): 1-18. 2008.Interested in art, we tend to be interested in works of art. We seem to encounter works of art all the time, and—setting aside certain relatively abstruse problems in ontology—we seem to have little difficulty in recognizing them for what they are. That there are works of art seems obvious and unproblematic. Quite so, I think. But reflection on what has to be the case if there are to be works of art shows that some quite demanding conditions have to be met. Some will find those conditions too de…Read more
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114Why there are no mental representationsMinds and Machines 1 (1): 1-30. 1991.I argue that there are no mental representations, in the sense of “representation” used in standard computational theories of the mind. I take Cummins' Meaning and Mental Representation as my stalking-horse, and argue that his view, once properly developed, is self-defeating. The argument implicitly undermines Fodor's view of the mind; I draw that conclusion out explicitly. The idea of mental representations can then only be saved by appeal to a Dennett-like instrumentalism; so I argue against t…Read more
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1The statnet suite of R packages contains a wide range of functionality for the statistical analysis of social networks, including the implementation of exponential-family random graph models. In this paper we illustrate some of the functionality of statnet through a tutorial analysis of a friendship network of 1,461 adolescents.
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22Papers from the 1993 Joint Session: The Place of LanguageProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 (1): 215-228. 1994.Michael Morris, Stephen Neale; Papers from the 1993 Joint Session: The Place of Language, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 19.
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1Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco (review)The Thomist 52 (1): 181-183. 1988.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:BOOK REVIEWS 181 reason that it provides the best arguments available to date against nuclear deterrence, but ultimately the arguments fail because the author takes as an apodictic premise what is actually a prudential judgment that no nuclear weapons could ever be used in a moral and ethical way. Professor Kenny is not only an Absolutist, but also a Determinist. The present reviewers are neither. University of Illinois-Urbana Champa…Read more
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How Simple is the Simple Account?In Andy Clark & Peter Millican (eds.), Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology: The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2, Clarendon Press. 1996.
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22Self and world by Quassim Cassam. Clarendon press: Oxford, 1997, pp. VIII + 208Philosophy 73 (3): 495-523. 1998.
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180In this chapter, the author offers a selective critical history in which he traces the difference between the tendency which Michael Dummett represents and the philosophers among whom Timothy Williamson is naturally placed to a difference in metaphysics which has much longer roots. He suggests that the ultimate source of the kind of role Dummett gives to thought is Hume's skeptical view of necessity, with its famous consequences for metaphysics. The philosophy of language is the key to the most …Read more
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10Empirical versus Epistemological Considerations: A Comment on StemmerMind and Language 4 (3): 222-228. 1989.
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196The Place of LanguageProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94. 19934.This paper attempts to raise a question for the everyday view that language is a means of communication, a system of marks or sounds which we use to convey thoughts and describe the world. It first isolates the assumptions behind this everyday view before raising questions about them.
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1Doing justice to musical worksIn Kathleen Stock (ed.), Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work, Oxford University Press Uk. 2007.
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23Mind, World and ValueRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 43 303-320. 1998.Naturalism is the dominant philosophy of the age. It might be characterized as the view that the only real facts are facts of natural science, or that only statements of natural science are really true. But perhaps this scientistic formulation underestimates the depth and everydayness of the dominance of naturalism. More informally, we might say that naturalism is the view that the world is a world of natural objects and natural phenomena, that the only properties of these objects are natural pr…Read more
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78An Introduction to the Philosophy of LanguageCambridge University Press. 2006.In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained …Read more
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16The Place of LanguageAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 67 (1): 153-174. 1993.This paper attempts to raise a question for the everyday view that language is a means of communication, a system of marks or sounds which we use to convey thoughts and describe the world. It first isolates the assumptions behind this everyday view before raising questions about them.
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Realism beyond correspondenceIn Helen Beebee & Julian Dodd (eds.), Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate, Clarendon Press. 2005.
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53Beyond interpretation: Reply to Cummins' response (review)Minds and Machines 2 (1): 85-95. 1992.In his response to my Why There Are No Mental Representations, Robert Cummins accused me of having misinterpreted his views, and attempted to undermine a crucial premise of my argument, which claimed that one could only define a semantic type non-semantically by stipulating which tokens should receive a uniform interpretation. I respond to the charge and defend the premise
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100The Question of Idealism in McDowellPhilosophical Topics 37 (1): 95-114. 2009.John McDowell has attempted to defend himself against the charge that the view presented in his influential book Mind and World is idealist. This paper argues that in spite of that defence, there is a clear way in which the view does depend on a form of idealism. McDowell is committed to the thought that the world is ‘conceptually organized’. I consider what this means, and argue that, although it does not formally imply idealism, it is only defensible from a broadly idealist view—one which is i…Read more
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