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5Doubling, distance and identification in the cinemaPalgrave-Macmillan. 2015.The intention of this project is to argue theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. The link between the first two terms (scale and distance) and the latter two (identification and doubling) is implicit in the title, and its unfolding constitutes the project: for instance, the closer one comes, the deeper identification is likely to be, and the greater the likelihood…Read more
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85A world for us: The case for phenomenalistic idealism * by John FosterAnalysis 70 (4): 795-797. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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58Brandom's two-ply errorIn Willem A. DeVries (ed.), Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, Oxford University Press. 2009.Robert Brandom makes several mistakes in his discussion of Sellars's "Two-Ply" account of observation. Brandom does not recognize the difference in "level" between observation reports concerning physical objects and 'looks'-statements. He also denies that 'looks'-statements are reports or even make claims. They then demonstrate a more correct reading of Sellars on 'looks'-statements.
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19Form Without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception By Mark Eli Kalderon Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 216 + xvi, £45 ISBN: 9780198717904 (review)Philosophy 91 (4): 600-605. 2016.
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17Meaning, Mistake and MiscalculationMinds and Machines 7 (2): 171-197. 1997.The issue of what distinguishes systems which have original intentionalityfrom those which do not has been brought into sharp focus by Saul Kripke inhis discussion of the sceptical paradox he attributes to Wittgenstein.In this paper I defend a sophisticated version of the dispositionalistaccount of meaning against the principal objection raised by Kripke in hisattack on dispositional views. I argue that the objection put by the sceptic,to the effect that the dispositionalist cannot give a satisf…Read more
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29Perception naturalised: relocation and the sensible qualitiesSynthese 198 (Suppl 3): 809-829. 2017.This paper offers a partial defence of a Sellarsian-inspired form of scientific realism. It defends the relocation strategy that Sellars adopts in his project of reconciling the manifest and scientific images. It concentrates on defending the causal analysis of perception that is essential to his treatment of sensible qualities. One fundamental metaphysical issue in perception theory concerns the nature of the perceptual relation; it is argued that a philosophical exploration of this issue is co…Read more
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165Wilfrid Sellars, perceptual consciousness, and theory of attentionEssays in Philosophy 5 (1): 1-25. 2004.The problem of the richness of visual experience is that of finding principled grounds for claims about how much of the world a person actually sees at any given moment. It is argued that there are suggestive parallels between the two-component analysis of experience defended by Wilfrid Sellars, and certain recently advanced information processing accounts of visual perception. Sellars' later account of experience is examined in detail, and it is argued that there are good reasons in support of …Read more
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42Perceptual experience – Tamar Gendler and John HawthornePhilosophical Quarterly 59 (234): 173-176. 2009.No Abstract
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8"This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics."--Publisher's website.
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19Philosophy Without Intuitions. By Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 242+xii, £25. ISBN 9780199644865 (review)Philosophy 90 (4): 702-706. 2015.
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166Meaning, mistake, and miscalculationMinds and Machines 7 (2): 171-97. 1997.The issue of what distinguishes systems which have original intentionalityfrom those which do not has been brought into sharp focus by Saul Kripke inhis discussion of the sceptical paradox he attributes to Wittgenstein.In this paper I defend a sophisticated version of the dispositionalistaccount of meaning against the principal objection raised by Kripke in hisattack on dispositional views. I argue that the objection put by the sceptic,to the effect that the dispositionalist cannot give a satisf…Read more
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23Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucinations: A Problem for the Anti-causalistPhilosophical Quarterly 50 (200): 321-331. 2000.
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38The inaugural address: Perception and metaphysical scepticismAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 72 (1). 1998.
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Perception, imagination and demonstrative reference : a sellarsian accountIn Willem A. DeVries (ed.), Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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John Sutton: Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to ConnectionismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (3): 559-560. 2000.
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90Chess, Imagination, and Perceptual UnderstandingRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 73 211-242. 2013.Chess is sometimes referred to as a ‘mind-sport’. Yet, in obvious ways, chess is very unlike physical sports such as tennis and soccer; it doesn't require the levels of fitness and athleticism necessary for such sports. Nor does it involve the sensory-governed, skilled behaviour required in activities such as juggling or snooker. Nevertheless, I suggest, chess is closer than it may at first seem to some of these sporting activities. In particular, there are interesting connections between the wa…Read more
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11This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics
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68Review of Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (review)Human Nature Review 3 176-182. 2003.A cluster of experiments on “Change Blindness”, “Inattentional Blindness” and associated phenomena appear to demonstrate extremely counter intuitive results. According to one plausible characterisation, these results show that we consciously take in far less of the visual world than it seems we are aware of. It is worth briefly summarising the results of two recent sets of experiments, in order to give a flavour of this work. In ‘Gorillas in our Midst’ (Simons, D. and Chabris, C., Perception, 19…Read more
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32Perception and Metaphysical ScepticismAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 72 (1): 1-28. 1998.In this paper I introduce and critically examine a paradox about perceiving that is in some ways analogous to the paradox about meaning which Kripke puts forward in his exegesis of Wittgenstein's views on Rule-following. When applied to vision, the paradox of perceiving raises a metaphysical scepticism about which object a person is seeing if he looks, for example, at an apple on a tree directly in front of him. Physical objects can be seen when their appearance is distorted in various ways by i…Read more
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107Experience, action and representations: Critical realism and the enactive theory of vision (review)Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 6 (4): 445-462. 2007.This paper defends a dynamic model of the way in which perception is integrated with action, a model I refer to as ‘the navigational account’. According to this account, employing vision and other forms of distance perception, a creature acquires information about its surroundings via the senses, information that enables it to select and navigate routes through its environment, so as to attain objects that satisfy its needs. This form of perceptually guided activity should be distinguished from …Read more
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15The Inaugural Address: Perception and Metaphysical ScepticismSupplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 72 (1): 1-28. 1998.
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37Phenomenal Qualities: Sense, Perception, and Consciousness (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.What are phenomenal qualities, the qualities of conscious experiences? Are phenomenal qualities subjective, belonging to inner mental episodes of some kind, or should they be seen as objective, belonging in some way to the physical things in the world around us? Are they physical properties at all? And to what extent do experiences represent the things around us, or the states of our own bodies? Fourteen original papers, written by a team of distinguished philosophers and psychologists, explore …Read more
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22Current Issues in Idealism (edited book)Bristol: Thoemmes. 1996.In the fields of metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and political thought, idealism can generate controversy and disagreement. This title is part of the Idealism series, which finds in idealism new features of interest and a perspective which is germane to our own philosophical concerns.
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24Tractarian Semantics: Finding Sense in Wittgenstein's TractatusPhilosophical Books 31 (4): 211-213. 1992.
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169Sense-data.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2007.Experiences of all kinds have a distinctive character, which marks them out as intrinsically different from states of consciousness such as thinking. A plausible view is that the difference should be accounted for by the fact that, in having an experience, the subject is somehow immediately aware of a range of phenomenal qualities. For example, in seeing, grasping and tasting an apple, the subject may be aware of a red and green spherical shape, a certain feeling of smoothness to touch, and a sw…Read more
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