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6Conducta decente hacia los animales: un enfoque tradicionalTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 18 (3): 61-83. 1999.
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Personal Identity and Identity DisordersIn K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini & Tim Thornton (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. 2013.There are people where two or more personalities seem to have independent-and sometimes mutually forgetful-control of the same bodily individual. This chapter gives a brief account of the history of the diagnosis of "Multiple Personality Disorder" or "Dissociative Identity Disorder", and the conflicting judgment of therapists, lawyers, and philosophers as to whether this is a real syndrome. It is suggested that the diagnosis may be therapeutically helpful for some other disturbances, including a…Read more
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The Consciousness of AnimalsIn Raymond Tallis & Howard Robinson (eds.), The Pursuit of mind, Carcanet. pp. 110. 1992.
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15Metaphors and RealitiesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 32 (1): 30-44. 2023.The notion that metaphorical statements are strictly false suggests that all statements, even those that seemed ‘literal’, are false, as none can ‘literally’ reflect reality. Statements about what we perceive or could perceive rely on evoking sensory images of such ‘visibles’, even though we have no direct access to what others, may perceive. In addition to what is visible, we must also deal with ‘invisibilia’ (both the fantasms that respectable moderns now reject and the realities that lie beyo…Read more
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23Book Review:Primate Politics. Glendon Schubert, Roger D. Masters (review)Ethics 103 (1): 188-. 1992.
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41The Absence of a Gap between Facts and ValuesAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 54 (1). 1980.
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11Plotinus on Intellect – Eyjólfur Kjalar EmilssonPhilosophical Quarterly 59 (235): 357-359. 2009.
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32First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of mindPhilosophical Books 34 (2): 109-112. 1993.
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13Emotion and Peace of Mind: from Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (review)Philosophy 77 (1): 125-141. 2002.
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27Deconstructing the Laws of LogicPhilosophy 83 (1): 25-53. 2008.I consider reasons for questioning ‘the laws of logic’, and suggest that these laws do not accord with everyday reality. Either they are rhetorical tools rather than absolute truths, or else Plato and his successors were right to think that they identify a reality distinct from the ordinary world of experience, and also from the ultimate source of reality.
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17Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social ContextPhilosophical Quarterly 30 (120): 276-278. 1980.
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10God and Greek Philosophy; The Philosophy in Christianity (review)Ancient Philosophy 13 (1): 255-258. 1993.
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10Aristotle's Man: Speculations Upon Aristotelian AnthropologyOxford University Press. 1975.Words have determinable sense only within a complex of unstated assumptions, and all interpretation must therefore go beyond the given material. This book addresses what is man's place in the Aristotelian world. It also describes man's abilities and prospects in managing his life, and considers how far Aristotle's treatment of time and history licenses the sort of dynamic interpretation of his doctrines that have been given. The ontological model that explains much of Aristotle's conclusions and…Read more
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51 platonism and the gods of placeIn Timothy D. J. Chappell & Sophie Grace Chappell (eds.), Philosophy of the Environment, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 19-37. 2020.
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Modern, Postmodern and Archaic Animals: Zoology: on (Post)Modern AnimalsAntwerpen 4 (93): 55-72. 1993.
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Modern Errors, Ancient VirtuesIn , Routledge. 1994.Biotechnology is the art of manipulating living forms as though they were machines. We have been manipulating, and transforming, living forms since we adopted pastoralist ways-by breeding, domestication, training-but it is only recently that anyone has supposed that we could alter outward forms or behaviour by interfering with the inner mechanisms, the mechanical, biochemical and genetic processes that sustain outward shapes and motions. In the past we could do little more than select parents wi…Read more
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156Book Reviews : Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking, by Clare Palmer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 243 pp. hb. £35. ISBN 0-19-826952-8 (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 12 (2): 89-91. 1999.
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2Book Review: Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 18 (3): 151-153. 2005.
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4Book Reviews (review)Journal of Scientific Exploration 22 (3). 2010.415 The Origin, Persistence, and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory, by Henry H. Bauer - Mikel Aickin 419 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. 422 Thinking about Go¨ del and Turing: Essays on Complexity, 1970–2007, by Gregory J. Chaitin - Edward Ordman 428 Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert L. Park - Steven B. Krivit 434 Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians …Read more
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20The Aristotelian Ethics: A Study of the Relationship between the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics of AristotlePhilosophical Quarterly 29 (117): 356-358. 1979.
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University of BristolHonorary Research Fellow
Liverpool, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |