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    A Common Sense Approach to the Mind-Body Problem
    Journal of Philosophical Research 17 279-286. 1992.
    In a popular book and a widely anthologized article, Richard Taylor argues for a materialistic account of human nature based on considerations of common sense. While I do not argue against materialism, per se, I offer an extended critique of Taylor’s position that common sense unambiguously supports his version of materialism. I also argue that his account of the nature of psychological processes is of dubious philosophical value.
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    Descartes’ Unsound Argument
    New Scholasticism 52 (1): 41-53. 1978.
  • The Role of Relativity in Berkeley's Philosophy
    Dissertation, University of Southern California. 1970.
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    Spinoza's Super Attribute
    Modern Schoolman 52 (2): 199-206. 1975.
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    Berkeley
    Idealistic Studies 14 (3): 193-199. 1984.
    Berkeley’s passionate devotion to common sense and, hence, opposition to that most odious of doctrines, skepticism regarding the immediate data of experience, requires his acceptance of certain fundamental and common-sensical beliefs in both epistemology and metaphysics which, I shall argue, are together inconsistent. Epistemologically, he is often required to identify and reduce the physical world to the perceptual world. Metaphysically, he must often identify the perceptual world with what we …Read more