A.
Books
1 A Guide through the Theory of Knowledge. Dickenson, 1977
1(a) second edition, revised and enlarged, Blackwell 1997
1(b) Przewodnik po teorii poznania (Polish translation of second
edition), Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Spacia, 2002
1(c) third edition, further revised, 2002
2 Frames of Mind: constraints on the commonsense conception of the mental. Oxford University Press, 1980
3 Disasters and Dilemmas: strategies for real-life decision-making. Blackwell, 1990
4 Philosophy in practice: an introduction to the main problems. Blackwell, 1996
4(b) second edition, 2004
4(c) Farsi translation, by Fariborz Majidi, Mazeyer Publications, Tehran, 2004 (5 reprints by 2007)
(d) Turkish Translation, Pratikte Felsefe, Temel Sorulara Giris, 2006, Kesit Basim Yayin A.S.
5 Benacerraf and his critics. (co-edited with Stephen P Stich, including an introduction) Blackwell 1996
6 The importance of being understood: folk psychology as ethics. Routledge 2002
7 On Evil. Routledge 2004
7(b) Turkish translation Kötülük üzerine, 2006, Guncel Publisher, Istanbul,
B.
Articles
The more ambitious items are marked *. Those available on this web site are marked W.
99
What is forgiveness? in Charles Griswold and David Konstan, eds.
Ancient forgiveness. Cambridge U P 2012, 3-16
98 W Accomplishing Accomplishment. Acta Analytica. 27, 1, 2012,1-8
97 Empathy for the devil. in Peter Goldie and Amy Coplan, eds. Empathy:
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives OUP 2011, 318-330
96
Contrastivism. in Duncan Pritchard and Sven Bernecker, eds. The
Routledge Companion to Epistemology. Routledge 2010, 513-522
*95 W Human Bounds: rationality for our species Synthese 176, 1, 2010, 5-21
94
Central and Marginal Forgiveness: Comments on Charles Griswold’s
Forgiveness; a Philosophical Exploration. Philosophia 38.3, 2010,
439-444
93 Imagining Evil. Ateliers de l'éthique
vol 5 no 1, 2010. electronic journal:
http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/spip.php?article1171
*92 W From tracking relations to propositional attitudes European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5, no 2, 2009, 7-18
91
Emotion, virtue, and knowledge. in Peter Goldie, ed. The
Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of the Emotions. OUP 2010
*90
W Good neighbours and moral heroes. in Pedro Tabensky, ed.
The positive function of evil. Palgrave 2009
89 Folk Psychology. in Brian McLaughlin and Ansgar Beckermann, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind 2009
88
Facts versus decisions: comments on Jan Bransen. Journal of
Anthropological Psychology no 20, 2008, available at
http://mit.psy.au.dk/ap/volume20.html
87 W
Contrastivity and indistinguishability (with Antti Karjalainen).
Social Epistemology, Volume 22, Issue 3 July 2008 , pages 271 - 280
86
W Folk psychology does not exist. in Matthew Ratcliffe and Daniel
Hutto, eds. Folk Psychology re-assessed, Kluwer/Springer, 2007, 211-222
85 Great Expectations. in Tim Lewens, ed. Risk: A Philosophical View Routledge, 2007. 84-98
*84
W Moral Incompetence. in Timothy Chappell, ed. Values and
Virtues, Oxford University Press, 2007 118-135
83
W Imagination and Misimagination. in Shaun Nichols, ed. The
Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretense, Possibility,
and Fiction, Oxford University Press 2006, pp. 57-72
*82 W Knowing
what to think about: when epistemology meets the theory of
choice. in Stephen Hetherington, ed. Epistemology Futures, Oxford
University Press 2006, 111-130.
81 But are they right:
prospects for empirical conceptology. Journal of cognition and
culture 6, 1-2, 2006, 193-97.
80 Finding the corkscrew. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37,1, 2006, pp. 114-118.
79 Atrocity, banality, self-deception. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 12, 3. September 2005, 257-9.
*78 W Against the Ramsey test, Analysis 64.4, October 2004, 294-99
Great Expectations. in Tim Lewens, ed. Risk: A Philosophical View Routledge, 2007. 84-98
77 W Indicative versus subjunctive in future conditionals, Analysis 64.4, October 2004, 289-93
*76 W Epistemic virtues, metavirtues, and computational complexity, Nous,38, 3, September 2004, 481-502
75 Inequity/iniquity: Card on balancing justice and evil. Hypatia 19.4, 2004, 199-203
74
“Knowledge” in Philosophy, edited by David Papineau, Duncan Baird
2004. (This is a popular book. I have written a 40 page
chapter on Knowledge, with twenty sub-sections covering major themes
and thinkers in the history of epistemology.)
73 Saving belief from (internalist) epistemology Facta Philosophica 5, no 2, 2003, 277-295
*72 W Contrastive knowledge (with Antti Karjalainen) Philosophical Explorations, 6 (2), 2003, 74-89
71
Reprint of 63 in Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley, eds. Philosophy of
Science Today. Oxford University Press, 2003, pp 39-58.
70
Emotional accuracy. Symposium on ‘Emotional Truth’ with Ronald de
Sousa. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplement. vol 76,
2002, 265-275.
*69 W If you’re so smart why are you ignorant: causal epistemic paradoxes. Analysis 62, 2002, 110-115.
68 W Beware stories: emotions and virtues. in Peter Goldie, ed. Understanding Emotions Ashgate 2002, pp 55-63.
*67
Psychology for Cooperators. in Christopher Morris, ed. Practical
Rationality and Preferences: essays for David Gauthier Cambridge
University Press, 2001, 153-172.
66 Kinds of models (with
Mauricio Suarez) in M Anderson and P Bates, eds. Model validation
: perspectives in hydrological science John Wiley, 2001, 11-22.
65
W Philosophy as Engineering. in Bo Mou, ed. Two Roads to
Wisdom? Chinese and Analytic Philosophical Traditions. Open Court
2001, pp. 45-56.
64 Reprint of 5. in The Philosophy of Quine, vol 3 Dagfinn Follesdal, ed. Garland Publishing, 2001, 91-98
63
W Saving epistemology from the epistemologists: recent work in
the theory of knowledge. British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, 51, December 2000, 685-704
62 Heuristics all
the way up? commentary on Gigerenzer, Todd, and others Behavioral and
Brain Sciences 23, no 5, October 2000, 758-9.
*61 The
evolution of strategic thinking. in Peter Carruthers and Andrew
Chamberlain, eds., Evolution and the human mind: Language, modularity
and meta-cognition. Cambridge U.P. 2000, pp 218-237
60 Orders and procedures, comments on Boltanski and Thévenot. Philosophical Explorations, 4, September 2000, 239-243
59 Fools ape angels electronic festschrift for Peter Gardenfors at http://www.lucs.lu.se/spinning/ [1999]
*
W 58 Where demonstratives meet vagueness: possible
languages Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99,
Autumn 98
57 What is rank? (commentary on Atran). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21:4, 1998, 585
* 56 Hypercomparatives. Synthese 111, 1997, 97-114.
55 Can Edgington Gibbard Counterfactuals? Mind 106, 1997, 101-105
54
Désirs, Besoins, et Préférences. in Dictionnaire de
philosophie morale, Monique Canto-Sperber, ed. Presses Universitaires
de France, 1996
W 53 The disunity of the moral. in
The Problematic Reality of Values edited by Jan Bransen and Marc Slors,
Van Gorcum 1996, 142-155
* 52 Mathematics as language. in Morton and Stich eds Benacerraf and his critics (A5 above), 213-230
51
But what is the intentional schema? (commentary on Barresi and
Moore) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 1, 1996, 133-4
* 50 Folk psychology is not a predictive device. Mind 105, 1996, 1-19
49 Reprint of 44 in Davies & Stone, eds. Mental Simulation, Blackwell 1995
48
Phenomenal and attentional consciousness may be inextricable.
(commentary on Block) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18:2,
1995, 263-4
47 Motor Simulation (commentary on Jeannerod). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17, no 2, 1994, 215
*
46 Two places good, four places better (Symposium with John
Broome on 'The value of a person'). Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society, supp. vol. 68, 1994, 187-198
45 Does consequentialism pay? (commentary on Baron). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17, no 1, 1994, 24
* 44 Game theory and knowledge by simulation. Ratio, 7, 1994, 14-25
43 Heuristics and counterfactual self-knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, no 1, 1993, 63-4
*
42 Mathematical models: questions of trustworthiness.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 44 no 4, 659-674, 1993
41 Suppose, Suppose. Analysis, 53 No 1, 1993, 61-64
40 reprint of 39 in Language, Culture, and Education, M. C. Beveridge, G Reddiford eds. Multilingual matters 1993
39 Stories and Lives. Language and Education, 6 No 2, 1992 243-249
38 Fractals and Chaos. Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Philosophia Verlag, 1991
* 37 The inevitability of folk psychology. in R Bogdan, ed. Mind and Common Sense, C.U.P. 1991, 93-122
36 Can't Kant. in J Tiles, ed., Evolving Knowledge. London: Pitman, 1990
35 Double Conditionals. Analysis, 50, 1990, 75-79
34 Mathematical modelling and contrastive explanation. Canadian J. Phil., supplementary vol. 16, 1990, 251-270
33
Semantics and Subroutines. in W H Newton-Smith and K V
Wilkes, eds. Modelling the Mind, Oxford University Press, 1990, 27-42
*
32 Why there is no concept of a person. In C. Gill,
ed. The Person and the Human Mind: Issues in Ancient and Modern
Philosophy, Oxford U.P. 1989
31 (with Andrew Woodfield) The
reality of the symbolic and subsymbolic systems (comment on
Smolensky). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11, no 1, July
1988
* 30 The Chaology of Mind. Analysis, 48, June 1988, 135-142.
29 A note on comparing pain and death. Bioethics, 2 No 2, April 1988, 127-135
28
Colour words and colour experience. in A. Harrison, ed.
Philosophy and the visual arts, Reidel, 1987, 235-254
27
Who Started it? Remarks about cause. in D.Watson and S.
Walrond-Skinner, eds. Ethical Issues in family therapy, Routledge, 1987
26 The explanatory depth of propositional
attitudes. in James Russell, ed. Philosophical Perspectives
on Developmental Psychology, Blackwell, 1987. 67-80
25
Partizanship. in Brian MacLaughlin and Amelie Rorty, eds.
The Forms of Self-Deception, University of California Press, 1987,
170-182
24 Domains of discourse and commonsense
metaphysics. in Charles Travis, ed. Meaning and
Interpretation, Blackwell, 1986, 105-124
* 23 The Variety of Rationality. Proc. Aristotelian Soc., supp vol 59, 1985, 139-162
22
Reductionism in Psychology. in Arthur Peacocke, ed.
Reductionism in Academic Disciplines, SRHE & NFER-Nelson, 1985
21 Comment on Rorty. in A.J.Holland, ed. Philosophy, its History and Historiography, Reidel, 1985
* 20 Comparatives and Degrees. Analysis 44,1, 1984, 16-20
19 Scotomas and the visual field. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6,3,1983, 456-7
18 Consciousness. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychology, Blackwell 1983
17 Psychobiology needs cognitive psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5, 1982
*
16 Freudian Commonsense. in J. Hopkins and R.
Wollheim, eds. Philosophical Essays on Freud, Cambridge U.P., 1982
15 Would Cause. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 81, 1980/81, 139-51
14 There are many modular theories of mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, 1980
13 What to look for in comparing species. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1,4, 1979
12 Reprint of 10, in M. Loux, ed., Modality and Possible Worlds, Cornell University Press, 1981
11 Character and the Emotions. in A. Rorty, ed., Explaining Emotion, University of California Press, 1980
* 10 Modal Realism: the Poisoned Pawn (with F. Mondadori). Phil. Review 85,1, 1976, 3-20
* 9 Complex Individuals and Multigrade Relations. Nous 9, 1975, 309-318
* 8 Because He Thought He Had Insulted Him. J.Phil. 72,1, 1975
7 Reply to Willing. Dialogue 13,3, 1974, p 579
6 Comments on Tooley's 'Abortion and Infanticide'. Philosophy and Public Affairs 2, 1973
5 Denying the Doctrine and Changing the Subject. J. Phil. 70, 1973, 503-510
* 4 The Possible in the Actual. Nous 7, 1973, 394-407
3 If I were a Dry Well-Made Match. Dialogue 12,2, 1973, 322-324
2 Adam's Thesis, microfilm of Ph.D. thesis, Princeton 1971, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan
* 1 Extensional and Non-Truth-Functional Contexts. J. Phil., 66, 1969, 159-163
to appear
Contrastive knowledge. in Martijn Blauuw, ed. Contrastivity in Philosophy Routledge 2012.
W review of de Sousa Emotional Truth. Philosophical Quarterly
Bounded
Thinking: Intellectual Virtues for Limited Agents Oxford
University Press. a book on virtues of managing one’s cognitive
limitations
Emotion and the Imagination. Polity Press. a
book on emotion and imagination, in particular morally important
emotions involving several points of view.
Acting to know. in a collection on virtue epistemology and philosophy of science, edited by Abrol Fairweather
In preparation
Searching
for Logic [working title] an introductory logic textbook,
emphasizing skill with databases, and exploring some of the ideas in
the philosophy of language project below. (Should be available
soon as an e-book on my site.)
C. Reviews and journalism 90 items, some recent items are:
92
review of Ernest Sosa Knowing Full Well Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews 2011.26.23
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=24129
91 with Bruce Hunter,
review of Ernest Sosa Reflective Knowledge: Apt Belief and
Reflective Knowledge, Volume II. Mind (2010) 119 (475)
90 review of Matthew Ratcliffe Feelings of being the Philosophical Quarterly 60, 240, July 2010, 661-662
89
review of Ernest Sosa A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and
Reflective Knowledge, Volume 1, . Mind 118 (472) 2010 :1180-1183.
87
review of Karsten Stueber Rediscovering empathy The Philosophical
Quarterly 59, 2009, 754-75685 review of John Pollock Thinking about
acting Mind 117(467), 2008:716-719
86 review of John Kekes The Roots of Evil. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76, 2, 2008, 495 - 496
85 of Millar Understanding People Mind.115, 2006 777-780
84 of Brian Leiter, ed. The Future for Philosophy. Philosophical Books 47, 4, 2006, 366-368.
83 of David Rosenthal Consciousness and Mind. TLS 5391, July 28, 2006, 11-12.
82
of Evans & Over Ifs. Mind 115 (458), 2006, 409-412. available
at:
http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/115/458/409?ijkey=OtOXOo9mOBRWo0B&keytype=ref
81 of McGinn Mindsight TLS 5371, 10 March 2006, 6.
80
Do great political minds think alike? Not really. The Globe
and Mail Friday 16 December 2005, page A7 (by line Joan Ramsey,
citing me, but the text is mine.)
79 of Weirich Realistic decision theory Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005: http://ndpr.nd.edu
78 of Glimcher Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain Mind 114, 445, 2005, 737-9.
77 of Hawthorne Knowledge and lotteries The Philosophical Quarterly 55, 2005, 353-356
76 What would Plato say? The Globe and Mail? Jan 1, 2005, page F6
75 of Rubinstein Economics and language, Economica 71, 2004, 172-173
74
of of Kornblith Knowledge and its place in nature and Adler Belief’s
own ethics The Philosophical Quarterly 54,2004
73 review of McMahon Collective rationality and collective reasoning Philosophical Review, Jan 2004
72
of Christopher Falzon Philosophy goes to the movies: an introduction to
philosophy. British Journal of Aesthetics 43, 3, 2003,
332-334.
71 of Bert Dreyfus On the internet
Times Literary Supplement, 5207, 17 January 2003, 27. [title
'engine trouble']
70 of Audi The architecture of reason Philosophy vol 77, 2002, 454-6
69 untitled poem. blink July-August 2002, vol 2 no 1.
68 of Amelie Rorty The many faces of evil. The Monist Evil issue (April 2002).
67
of José Bermudez The paradox of self-consciousness
Philosophy and phenomenological research 63, no 3, 2001, 272-30.
66
Lore-abiding people: essay-review of Martin Kusch Psychological
knowledge: a social history and philosophy, Studies in the history and
philosophy of science 32, 3, 2001, 601-606.
65 of Badiou Ethics, Blackburn Being Good, Foot Natural goodness Times Literary Supplement July 6 2001, 2-4
64 of Ken Binmore Game theory and the social contract, vol 2: just playing Mind 110, 2001, 168-171
63 of Mero Moral Calculations: game theory, logic, and human frailty, Studia Logica 66, 2000, 434-437
62 of Alain Finkielkraut In the name of humanity TLS January 19, 2001, 30.
61 of Mark Kaplan Decision theory as philosophy Brit.J.Phil.Sci. 50, 1999, 505-507.
60 of Alison Gopnik and Andrew Meltzoff Words, thoughts, and theories Mind 108. 1999, 395-8
59 of Colin McGinn Ethics, Evil, and Fiction TLS Jan 30, 1998, 28-29 [title 'ugly is as ugly does']
58 of F M Kamm Morality, Mortality, vol II Phil. Books 39, 1998, 132-135
57 of Peter Singer Rethinking life and death. Phil. Quarterly 48, 1998, 105-7
W
52 Felosophy. Somali Cat Club Journal Autumn 1995,
32-3, reprinted in Cogito 11, 1997, 129-131, reprinted in
Thinking 14, 1998
further back:
17. of Russell's Philosophical Issues in Psychology, the Times Higher Education Supplement [henceforth THES], December 1984.
18. of Armstrong and Malcolm Consciousness and Causality, Brit. J. Phil. Sci.,36, 1985.
19. of Unger's Philosophical Relativity, the Times Literary Supplement [henceforth TLS] February 1985.
20. of Grunbaum's The Foundations of Psychoanalysis, London Review of Books, 7, 18, April 1985.
21. of Wollheim's The Thread of Life, the TLS, 21 June 1985,
22. of Taylor's Pride, Shame, and Guilt, TLS 30 May 1986, p. 596.
23. of O'Shaughnessy's The Will, Philosophical Review, 95, 3, 1986, 451-455.
24. of Hacking's Representing and Intervening, Phil. Rev.,95,4, 1986, 606-611.
25. 'Did Lewis Carroll write Genesis?', Cogito, Spring 1988.
26. of Warnock's Memory, TLS May 1988.
27. of de Sousa's The Rationality of Emotion, TLS August 1988.
28.
'Making Arguments Explicit: the Theoretical Interest of Practical
Difficulties', in Critical Thinking (Proceedings of the First British
Conference on Informal Logic and Critical Thinking), Alec Fisher, ed.,
University of East Anglia, 1988.
29. of Real People by
Kathleen Wilkes and Jonathan Glover Creators of Ourselves. The Times
Literary Supplement , January 27, 1989; pg. 77; Issue 4478of Wilkes'
Real People and Glover's I, TLS March 1989.
30. of Tooley's Causation: A Realist Approach, Phil. Books, 30, 1989, 157-161.
31. of Philosophy and Psychology (first 3 issues): Philosophical Books, 31, 2, 1990.
32.
"Doing without good leaders." review of Stuart Hampshire Innocence and
Experience Times Literary Supplement 16 Feb. 1990: 164.
33. of Hamlyn's In and Out of the Black Box, THES April 1990.
34. 'Who am I?' Cogito 4, no3, 1990, 186-191.
35. of MacIntyre's Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, TLS 4598, March 15, 1991, 24.
36. of Hart's The Engines of the Soul, Philosophical Review, 100, October 1991, 645-647.
37 of Horwich’s Truth Philosophical Books 32, 1991, 231-233
38. of Rorty's Mind in Action, Ethics, 102, July 1992, 844-846.
39. of Vallentyne (ed) Contractarianism and Rational Choice, Philosophical Books, 34 No 3, 1993, 177-9
40 of Ayer and O'Grady, eds A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations, TLS, 1993..
41. of Dennett Consciousness Explained and McGinn's The Problem of Consciousness, Cogito 7, 1993, 159-161.
42 of van Fraassen Laws and Symmetry, Philosophical Review 102, 1993, 408-410.
43 of Pettit The Common Mind, TLS, 4737, January 1994, 28.
44 'Teaching philosophy: some new tricks' Cogito 8, 1994, 73-79
45 'The Party-Goer's guide to philosophy: part II' Cogito 8, 1994, 103-46
46 of Schick Understanding Actions The Economic Journal , 102 (415), 1992, 1563-1565
47 of Crimmins Talk about beliefs, Philosophical Books 35 no 1, 1994, 47-49.
48 of Maher Betting on theories, Philosophical Books 35, 1994, 213-215
49 of Bicchieri and Dalla Chiara, eds. Knowledge, belief, and Strategic Interaction, Political Studies 42, 1994, 350-1
50
of Sen and Nussbaum The quality of life and Elster and Roemer
Interpersonal comparisons of well-being Philosophy and Economics 12,
1996, 350-1
51 'Alan Turing', 'animal soul', 'open and closed
thought', 'mind', ‘spirit’, ‘stories and explanations’, 'Turing
machine' 'voting paradox'. in Ted Honderich, ed. The Oxford
Companion to Philosophy, OUP 1995.
53 of Timothy Williamson Vagueness. Philosophical Books 36, no 4, 1995, 272-276
54 of Stephen Clark How to live forever. Brit.J.Phil.Sci. 48, 1997, 310-312
55 of F M Kamm Morality, Mortality, vol I. Phil. Quarterly 47, 1997, 128-130
56 of Dan Sperber Explaining Culture: a naturalistic approach. Philosophical Books 38, no 4, 1997, 235-9