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22Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the UnsayableLexington Books. 2022.Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy, showing us something that a theoretical—scientific or philosophical—discourse cannot literally say.
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12Trying Without Willing: An Essay in the Philosophy of MindRoutledge. 1997.Within the context of a critique of volitionism, Trying Without Willing articulates a new philosophy of the mind and its role in intentional action, based on the notion of de re intentionality. This book will be of interest to anyone seriously interested in the philosophy of mind, the nature of intentional action and mental causation, or the influence of Cartesianism in contemporary analytic philosophy.
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Acting, Willing and TryingDissertation, The Johns Hopkins University. 1986.In Brian O'Shaughnessy's recent works, primarily The Will, and Jennifer Hornsby's Actions, the traditional position of volitionism has been revived in a challenging fashion. Focusing on the concept of trying, they have argued that intentional physical actions essentially involve a special volitional element. My thesis is that, without recourse to volitions, an alternative account of physical action and physical trying can be provided in which physical actions and physical tryings are identified …Read more
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34Is Davidson a volitionist in spite of himself?Southern Journal of Philosophy 29 (2): 181-193. 1991.
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128This is a critical review of a book that defends two basic theses about analytic philosophy--that the 'no entity without identity' ontology is basic to the four great analytic philosophers and that they were 'modified realists.' This review calls into question both of these claims. The ontological views of Frege, Russell, Quine, Wittgenstein and others are discussed as well other central issues in analytic philosophy
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88Trying without willingAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (3). 1992.This Article does not have an abstract
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63Natural kinds, physical actions, and psychological essentialismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 27 (2): 207-215. 1989.
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119A refutation of pure conjectureJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (1): 55-81. 1997.The present paper explores three interrelated topics in Popper's theory of science: (1) his view of conjecture, (2) the aim of science, and (3) his (never fully articulated) theory of meaning. Central to Popper's theory of science is the notion of conjecture. Popper writes as if scientists faced with a problem proceed to tackle it by conjecture, that is, by guesses uninformed by inferential considerations. This paper develops a contrast between guesses and educated guesses in an attempt to show …Read more
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69On the very idea of degrees of truthAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (2). 1997.In his book _Paradoxes, Mark Sainsbury suggests that degrees of truth can be justified and explained by analogy with degrees of belief. Considerations of vagueness place theoretical limitations on degrees of belief which require degrees of truth. This paper argues that considerations of vagueness and degrees of belief do nothing to illuminate degrees of truth. An account of vagueness need not postulate degrees of truth
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Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |