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27An epistemic free-riding problem?In Philip Catton & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, Routledge. 2004.1 August 2003 Karl Popper noted that, when social scientists are members of the society they study, they may affect that society. If the individuals to whom a theory initially applies come to understand that theory, then this understanding may affect their behaviour in such a way that the theory ceases to be applicable. This may be called the problem of reflexivity. In this paper, we identify such a problem in an apparently unlikely area: in the area of Condorcet’s famous jury theorem. Suppose t…Read more
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1639Global ConsequentialismIn Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller, D. W. Haslett, Shelly Kagan, Sanford S. Levy, David Lyons, Phillip Montague, Tim Mulgan, Philip Pettit, Madison Powers, Jonathan Riley, William H. Shaw, Michael Smith & Alan Thomas (eds.), Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.
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Group agency and supervenienceIn Jakob Hohwy & Jesper Kallestrup (eds.), Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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2An epistemic free-riding problem?In Philip Catton & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, Routledge. pp. 128-158. 2004.
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7Verso, 1990, xx, 285, A $32.95 (paper). Atherton, M., Berkeley's Revolution in Vision, Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1990, xii, 249, US $29.95 (cloth) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (2). 1991.
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25Call for Papers for'SORITES'SORITES is a new refereed all-English electronic international quarterly of analytical philosophyAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (2). 1995.
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Is reduction necessary for phenomenology-husserls and pfanders replies-reply to Spiegelberg, HJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 4 (1): 16-19. 1973.
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1623Structural explanation in social theoryIn K. Lennon & D. Charles (eds.), Reduction, Explanation, and Realism, Oxford University Press. pp. 97--131. 1992.
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117External reasonsIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Mcdowell and His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 6--142. 2006.
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10. Evan Selinger and Robert Crease, eds., The Philosophy of Expertise Evan Selinger and Robert Crease, eds., The Philosophy of Expertise (pp. 377-381) (review)In Laurie Dimauro (ed.), Ethics, Greenhaven Press. 2006.
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132Some content is narrowIn Pascal Engel (ed.), Mental causation, Oxford University Press. 1995.ONE way t0 defend narrow content is to produce a sentence 0f the form ‘S believes that P’, and show that this sentence is true 0f S if and 0nly if it is true 0f any duplicate from the skin in, any doppclgangcr, of S. N0toriously, this is hard to d0. Twin Earth examples are pervasivc.1 Another way to defend narrow content; is t0 show that Only 2. narrow notion can play thc causal explanatory r01c we require 0f contcnt in 2. properly scicntiicm psychology 0r cognitive science. Notoriously, this is…Read more
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332Freedom in belief and desireJournal of Philosophy 93 (9): 429-449. 1996.People ordinarily suppose that there are certain things they ought to believe and certain things they ought not to believe. In supposing this to be so, they make corresponding assumptions about their belief-forming capacities. They assume that they are generally responsive to what they think they ought to believe in the things they actually come to believe. In much the same sense, people ordinarily suppose that there are certain things they ought to desire and do and they make corresponding assu…Read more
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16Reason and Value: Themes From the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2004.Reason and Value collects fifteen brand-new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz. The subtlety and power of Raz's reflections on ethical topics - including especially his explorations of the connections between practical reason and the theory of value - make his writings a fertile source for anyone working in this area. The volume honours Raz's accomplishments in the area of ethical theorizing, and will contribute to an enhanced appreciati…Read more
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92Review: Posted 10/5/99 (review)JP argue that expressivists must admit that becoming competent with ethical utterances involves learning to make them only when one believes one has the relevant attitude. For expressivists hold that communicating our attitudes is the function of ethical utterances, in which case sincerity demands that we not utter an ethical sentence unless we believe we have the relevant attitude. So (b) is false, as long as we suppose that this commitment, as reflected in well-entrenched and clear-cut (hencef…Read more
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104An epistemic free-riding problem?In Philip Catton & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, Routledge. pp. 128-158. 2004.One of the hallmark themes of Karl Popper’s approach to the social sciences was the insistence that when social scientists are members of the society they study, then they are liable to affect that society. In particular, they are liable to affect it in such a way that the claims they make lose their validity. “The interaction between the scientist’s pronouncements and social life almost invariably creates situations in which we have not only to consider the truth of such pronouncements, but als…Read more
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815Ethical particularism and patternsIn Brad Hooker & Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Moral particularism, Oxford University Press. pp. 79--99. 2000.
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939The Truth in DeontologyIn R. Jay Wallace (ed.), Reason and value: themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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Freedom and harmonyIn Chenyang Li & Dascha Düring (eds.), The Virtue of Harmony, Oxford University Press. 2022.
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Republican freedom, social justice, and democracyIn James Dominic Rooney & Patrick Zoll (eds.), Beyond Classical Liberalism: Freedom and the Good, Routledge Chapman & Hall. 2024.
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6An epistemic free-riding problem?In Philip Catton & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, Routledge. pp. 128-158. 2004.
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151Social Contract Theory.Political Argument: A Reissue with a New Introduction.Rawls: `A Theory of Justice' and its Critics.Contemporary Political Philosophy: An IntroductionPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (168): 375-378. 1992.
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308Practical unreasonMind 102 (405): 53-79. 1993.Some contemporary theories treat phenomena like weakness of will, compulsion and wantonness as practical failures but not as failures of rationality: say, as failures of autonomy or whatever. Other current theories-the majority see the phenomena as failures of rationality but not as distinctively practical failures. They depict them as always involving a theoretical deficiency: a sort of ignorance, error, inattention or illogic. They represent them as failures which are on a par with breakdowns …Read more
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15Global ConsequentialismIn Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, Dale E. Miller, D. W. Haslett, Shelly Kagan, Sanford S. Levy, David Lyons, Phillip Montague, Tim Mulgan, Philip Pettit, Madison Powers, Jonathan Riley, William H. Shaw, Michael Smith & Alan Thomas (eds.), Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 121--133. 2000.
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