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20A Common Sense Approach to the Mind-Body ProblemJournal 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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The Role of Relativity in Berkeley's PhilosophyDissertation, University of Southern California. 1970.
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1Ideas and Archetypes: Appearance and Reality in Berkeley's PhilosophyPacific Philosophical Quarterly 54 (1): 42. 1973.
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27BerkeleyIdealistic 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
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Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |