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1034An Intuitionist Response to Moral Scepticism: A critique of Mackie's scepticism, and an alternative proposal combining Ross's intuitionism with a Kantian epistemologyDissertation, University of Edinburgh. 2001.This thesis sets out an argument in defence of moral objectivism. It takes Mackie as the critic of objectivism and it ends by proposing that the best defence of objectivism may be found in what I shall call Kantian intuitionism, which brings together elements of the intuitionism of Ross and a Kantian epistemology. The argument is fundamentally transcendental in form and it proceeds by first setting out what we intuitively believe, rejecting the sceptical attacks on those beliefs, and by then pro…Read more
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747The difference between science and philosophy: the Spinoza-Boyle controversy revisitedParagraph 29 (2): 115-138. 2006.This article examines the seventeenth-century debate between the Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza and the British scientist Robert Boyle, with a view to explicating what the twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze considers to be the difference between science and philosophy. The two main themes that are usually drawn from the correspondence of Boyle and Spinoza, and used to polarize the exchange, are the different views on scientific methodology and on the nature of matter that…Read more
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BibliographyIn Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 262-270. 2012.
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IndexIn Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 271-276. 2012.
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The transformation of relations in Spinoza's metaphysicsIn Charles Ramond & Jack Stetter (eds.), Spinoza in 21st-Century American and French Philosophy, . 2019.
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Deleuze, Leibniz and mathematics in the FoldIn Sjoerd van Tuinen & Niamh McDonnell (eds.), Deleuze and The fold: a critical reader, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 89--111. 2010.
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