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12From Here to Theology: Response to Joshua FarrisEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 7 (4): 5-13. 2023.Joshua Farris usefully applies my distinction between conditioned and de-conditioned philosophy to some limits of science, and the disclosure of the soul. It is argued that further de-conditioning is conducive to answering the profound philosophical questions: What is it to be now?, and What is it to be? but these answers are only adequate when they entail the existence of God. It follows that physicalism, determinism, and naturalism are false, and that science (knowingly or unknowingly) presupp…Read more
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14God and Some Limits of ScienceEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 7 (3): 4-30. 2023.Some problems are too subjective, too intimate, too proximal, to admit in principle of any scientific solution: Why is anything you? Is there free will? Is death the end? Other problems are too objective, too macroscopic: Why is there a universe? Why is there anything? What is it to be? Why does mathematics exist? Why does anything happen? Scientific explanation is therefore essentially subject to at least two types of limit, subjective and objective, even though other problems prima facie strad…Read more
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10The Identity of the Self, by Geoffrey MadellJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (2): 211-212. 1983.
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13Reality and Existence in AnselmHeythrop Journal 41 (4): 461-462. 2000.It is a premise of a widely endorsed putative refutation of Anselm's ontological argument that ‘exists’ is not a predicate. This Note argues that although ‘exists’ has the superficial grammatical appearance of a predicate in the Proslogion, Anselm does not in fact rely on the premise that ‘exists’ is a logical predicate (or that existing is a property) in his putative proof. It follows that even if some argument for the conclusion that ‘exists’ is not a predicate is sound, that argument is not a…Read more
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Merleau-PontyRoutledge. 2003.Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology is used to address problems of consciousness, perception, the body, space-time, being, and the limits of science. Arguments are deployed for and against Merleau-Ponty's claims.
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37Radical internalismIn Anthony Freeman (ed.), Radical Externalism: Honderich's Theory of Consciousness Discussed, Exeter: Imprint Academic. pp. 147-164. 2006.
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46Radical internalismJournal of Consciousness Studies 13 (7-8): 147-174. 2006.Honderich claims that for a person to be perceptually conscious is for a world to exist. I decide what this means, and whether it could be true, in the opening section Consciousness and Existence. In Honderich's Phenomenology, I show that Honderich's theory is essentially anticipated in the ideas and Ideas of Husserl. In the third section, Radical Interiority, I argue that although phenomenology putatively eschews ontology of mind, and Honderich construes his position as near- physicalism, Honde…Read more
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33Taking Merleau-ponty literally: Reply to Dermot MoranInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 8 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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63Husserl's Concept of Being: From Phenomenology to MetaphysicsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44 209-222. 1999.Western philosophy since Kant has been essentially operating within a Kantian anti-metaphysical paradigm. German-language philosophy, and a fortiori Husserl's phenomenology, is no exception to this. Here I argue that despite his putative eschewal of metaphysics in the phenomenological reduction or epoché Husserl deploys an ontological, even fundamental ontological, vocabulary and may be read as a metaphysician malgre lui. To the extent to which this interpretation is viable, one escape route fro…Read more
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3Subjectivity and Objectivity in Kant and HegelIn Hegel's critique of Kant, Oxford University Press. pp. 103--18. 1987.
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302Descartes, Kant, and self-consciousnessPhilosophical Quarterly 31 (125): 348-351. 1981.Descartes maintained the doctrine attacked by hume and kant that the self is substance. Consciousness does not entail self-Consciousness for kant. The "i think" must be "capable" of accompanying my thoughts but does not constantly do so. What is necessarily true is that if I have an experience then it is mine, Not that I am conscious of it as mine. Pure apperception is a formal condition for experience, Not as a sort of introspection
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18Merleau-PontyRoutledge. 1998.Maurice Merleau-Ponty is known and celebrated as a renowned phenomenologist and is considered a key figure in the existentialist movement. In this wide-ranging and penetrative study, Stephen Priest engages Merleau-Ponty across the full range of his philosophical thought. He considers Merleau-Ponty's writings on the problems of the body, perception, space, time, subjectivity, freedom, language, other minds, physical objects, art and being. Priest addresses Merleau-Ponty's thought in connection wi…Read more
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82Duns scotus on the immaterialPhilosophical Quarterly 48 (192): 370-372. 1998.In _De Spiritualitate et Immortalitate Animae Humanae Scotus distinguishes three senses of 'immaterial': x is immaterial if x depends upon nothing material, x is immaterial if x is unextended, x is immaterial if x is abstract. Pace Scotus: depending on nothing material is neither necessary nor sufficient for being immaterial, being unextended is not necessary but is sufficient for being immaterial, and being abstract is not necessary but is sufficient for being immaterial. The idea of immaterial…Read more
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23_The Subject in Question_ provides a fascinating insight into a debate between two of the twentieth century's most famous philosophers - Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl - over the key notions of conscious experience and the self. Sartre's _The Transcendence of the Ego_, published in 1937, is a major text in the phenomenological tradition and sets the course for much of his later work. _The Subject in Question_ is the first full-length study of this famous work and its influence on twentieth-…Read more
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27Reality and existence in AnselmHeythrop Journal 41 (4). 2000.It is a premise of a widely endorsed putative refutation of Anselm's ontological argument that ‘exists’ is not a predicate. This Note argues that although ‘exists’ has the superficial grammatical appearance of a predicate in the Proslogion, Anselm does not in fact rely on the premise that ‘exists’ is a logical predicate in his putative proof. It follows that even if some argument for the conclusion that ‘exists’ is not a predicate is sound, that argument is not a refutation of Anselm's argument
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22The British EmpiricistsPhilosophical Quarterly 41 (163): 260. 1991.The Empiricists represent the central tradition in British philosophy as well as some of the most important and influential thinkers in human history. Their ideas paved the way for modern thought from politics to science, ethics to religion. The British Empiricists is a wonderfully clear and concise introduction to the lives, careers and views of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Mill, Russell, and Ayer. Stephen Priest examines each philosopher and their views on a wide range of topics including mi…Read more
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23The British EmpiricistsRoutledge. 2005.The Empiricists represent the central tradition in British philosophy as well as some of the most important and influential thinkers in human history. Their ideas paved the way for modern thought from politics to science, ethics to religion. _The British Empiricists_ is a wonderfully clear and concise introduction to the lives, careers and views of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Mill, Russell, and Ayer. Stephen Priest examines each philosopher and their views on a wide range of topics including …Read more
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196Hegel's critique of Kant (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1987.Despite the rapid growth of interest in Hegel among English-speaking philosophers, surprisingly little has been directed at Hegel's relationship toward Kant. This collection of essays by eleven eminent philosophers meets this deficiency by critically examining Hegel's attitude to Kant over a wide range of issues: the nature of space and time; the possibility of metaphysics, categories, and things-in-themselves; dialectic and the self; moral and political philosophy; aesthetics; the philosophy of…Read more
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