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The humanism debateIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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The humanism debateIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Ch. 13. G.E. Moore and the Cambridge School of AnalysisIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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50Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge (edited book)Oup/British Academy. 2004.Questions about knowledge, and about the relation between logic and language, are at the heart of philosophy. Eleven distinguished philosophers from Britain and America contribute papers on such questions. All the contributions are examples of recent philosophy at its best. The first half of the book constitutes a running debate about knowledge, evidence and doubt. The second half tackles questions about logic and its relation to language.
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40G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.G. E. Moore's fame as a philosopher rests on his ethics of love and beauty, which inspired Bloomsbury, and on his 'common sense' certainties which challenge abstract philosophical theory. Behind this lies his critical engagement with Kant's idealist philosophy, which is published here for the first time. These early writings, Moore's fellowship dissertations of 1897 and 1898, show how he initiated his influential break with idealism. In 1897 his main target was Kant's ethics, but by 1898 it was …Read more
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1MooreIn Nicholas Bunnin & E. P. Tsui‐James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains sections titled: Ethical Theory The Rejection of Idealism Defending Common Sense Philosophical Analysis.
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25Reproductive liberty and elitist contempt: reply to John HarrisJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (5): 288-290. 2005.In “Sex selection and regulated hatred”1 John Harris launches a vehement critique of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s recent report Sex Selection: options for regulation, raising several issues that merit discussion.He begins by complaining about the recommendation that because of the theoretical risk associated with the use of flow cytometry as a method of sperm sorting, its use should be restricted for the moment to cases in which a clear medical benefit is to be gained from …Read more
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Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological critique of natural scienceIn Havi Carel & Darian Meacham (eds.), Phenomenology and Naturalism: Examining the Relationship Between Human Experience and Nature, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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71Studies in the philosophy of logic and knowledge (edited book)Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. 2004.Questions about knowledge, and about the relation between logic and language, are at the heart of philosophy. Eleven distinguished philosophers from Britain and America contribute papers on such questions. All the contributions are examples of recent philosophy at its best. The first half of the book constitutes a running debate about knowledge, evidence and doubt. The second half tackles questions about logic and its relation to language.
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7Wittgenstein and MooreIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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3RawlsIn Christopher Belshaw & Gary Kemp (eds.), 12 Modern Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Life Justice, Fairness, and Reciprocity The Original Position Basic Liberties and the First Principle of Justice Social and Economic Inequalities and the Second Principle of Justice The Rawlsian State Political Liberalism The Law of Peoples References.
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78Rawls and Moral PsychologyIn Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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2Perception and agencyIn Johannes Roessler & Naomi Eilan (eds.), Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2003.
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Oflanguage inIn Barry C. Smith (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 60. 2006.
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1Choosing who: What is wrong with making better children?In John R. Spencer & Antje Du Bois-Pedain (eds.), Freedom and Responsibility in Reproductive Choice, Hart. 2006.
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12The Inaugural Address: Kantian ModalityAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 76 1-24. 2002.Kant's claim that modality is a 'category' provides an approach to modality to be contrasted with Lewis's reductive analysis. Lewis's position is unsatisfactory, since it depends on an inherently modal conception of a world. This suggests that modality is 'primitive'; and the Kantian position is a prima facie plausible position of this kind, which is filled out by considering the relationship between modality and inference. This provides a context for comparing the Kantian position with Wright's…Read more
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133Reading Merleau-Ponty: On Phenomenology of Perception (edited book)Routledge. 2007.Maurice Merleau-Ponty's _Phenomenology of Perception_ is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important contributions to philosophy of the twentieth century. In this volume, leading philosophers from Europe and North America examine the nature and extent of Merleau-Ponty's achievement and consider its importance to contemporary philosophy. The chapters, most of which were specially commissioned for this volume, cover the central aspects of Merleau-Ponty's influential work. These include: Me…Read more
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2The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945 comprises over sixty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period and is designed to be accessible to non-specialists who have little previous familiarity with philosophy. As with the other volumes in the series, much of the emphasis of the essays is thematic, concentrating on developments during the period across a range of philosophical topics, from logic and metaphysics to political philosophy and philosophy of religio…Read more
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5The Material Object in the Work of Marcel ProustPeter Lang. 2005.This book describes the development of Proust's treatment of material objects from his earliest work Les Plaisirs et les jours to his mature novel À la recherche du temps perdu. It examines the literary influences on Proust's way with objects in the light of certain critical texts and reconsiders the significance of Ruskin. As the movement from unreflective and spontaneous representation to a meta-narrative of consciousness is traced, some questions as to the banality of the 'banal object' arise…Read more
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1The Three Phases of IntuitionismIn Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations, Clarendon Press. 2002.
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10Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (edited book)Routledge. 2003.Merleau-Ponty was a pivotal figure in twentieth century French philosophy. He was responsible for bringing the phenomenological methods of the German philosophers - Husserl and Heidegger - to France and instigated a new wave of interest in this approach. His influence extended well beyond the boundaries of philosophy and can be seen in theories of politics, psychology, art and language. This is the first volume to bring together a comprehensive selection of Merleau-Ponty's writing. Sections from…Read more
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88Philosophy of language in the twentieth centuryIn Barry C. Smith & Ernest Lepore (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 60-99. 2006.During the first half of the twentieth century philosophy took a ‘linguistic turn’. The first clear signal of this development was Ludwig Wittgenstein's remark in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus that ‘All philosophy is “Critique of Language”‘ and this work by Wittgenstein remains a classic presentation of the thesis that philosophy can only be undertaken through the critical study of language. Thus during the twentieth century philosophical approaches to language, the kinds of theorizing now …Read more
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1Ethical Analysis and Aesthetic IdealsIn Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg & Bernard N. Schumacher (eds.), The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, Blackwell. pp. 446. 2003.
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4813 From Knowledge by Acquaintance to Knowledge by CausationIn Nicholas Griffin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University Press. pp. 420. 2003.
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University of MelbourneUndergraduate
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |