Publications:
Books:
6 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:00 2008
- The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical
Realism.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.
- Persone e Corpi:
Un'alternativa al dualism cartesiano e al riduzionismo animalista.
Bruno Mondadori, Paravia, 2007.
Italian translation of Persons and Bodies. Trans. Carlo Conni.
- Anthonie Meijers, editor.
Explaining Beliefs: Lynne Rudder Baker and her Critics.
CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2001.
(Critical essays by others).
- Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.
- Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
- Saving Belief:
A Critique of Physicalism.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987.
Articles:
56 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:00 2008
- Big-tent metaphysics.
Abstracta: Revista de Filosofia, 1:8–15, 2008.
Special issue on Eric Olson's The Human Animal.
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- The irrelevance of the
consequence argument.
Analysis, 68(1):13–22, 2008.
(PDF, 78979 bytes)
- A metaphysics of ordinary
things and why we need it.
Philosophy, 83:5–24, 2008.
(PDF, 129986 bytes)
- Persons: Natural, yet ontologically
unique.
Encyclopaideia: rivista di fonemenologia, pedagogia, formazione,
23:17–30, 2008.
Proceedings of workshop, Are Persons More Than Social Objects? held at San
Raffaele University, May, 2007.
(PDF, 346583 bytes)
- Response to Eric Olson.
Abstracta: Revista de Filosofia, 1:43–45, 2008.
Special issue on Eric Olson's The Human Animal.
(PDF, 41566 bytes)
- The shrinking difference between artifacts
and natural objects.
American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and
Computers, 7(2), Spring 2008.
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- First-person externalism.
Modern Schoolman, 84:155–70, 2007.
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- Persons and other things.
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14:17–36, 2007.
(PDF, 438675 bytes)
- Persons and the metaphysics of
resurrection.
Religious Studies, 43:333–48, 2007.
(PDF, 131800 bytes)
- Social externalism and
first-person authority.
Erkenntnis, 67:287–300, 2007.
(PDF, 120941 bytes)
- Everyday concepts as a guide to
reality.
Monist, 89:313–30, 2006.
(PDF, 130961 bytes)
- Moral responsibility without
libertarianism.
Noûs, 40:307–30, 2006.
(PDF, 476861 bytes)
- On the twofold nature of
artefacts: A response to Wybo Houkes and Anthonie Meijers.
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 37:132–36,
2006.
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- When does a person begin?
Social Philosophy and Policy, 22:25–48, 2005.
(PDF, 125247 bytes)
- The ontology of artifacts.
Philosophical Explorations, 7:99–111, 2004.
(PDF, 124546 bytes)
- Belief ascription and the
illusion of depth.
Facta Philosophica, 5:183–201, 2003.
(PDF, 1054929 bytes)
- Why Christians should not be
libertarians: An Augustinian challenge.
Faith and Philosophy, 20:460–78, 2003.
(PDF, 2002454 bytes)
- Attitudes in action.
Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, 25:47–78, 2002.
(PDF, 252345 bytes)
- Brief reply to Rosenkrantz's
comments.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65:394–96, 2002.
(PDF, 59510 bytes)
- Comment on Hubert L.
Dreyfus, `Intelligence without representation'.
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 1:411–12, 2002.
(PDF, 108174 bytes)
- On making things up:
Constitution and its critics.
Philosophical Topics: Identity and Individuation, 30:31–52, 2002.
(PDF, 1143618 bytes)
- The ontological status of
persons.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65:370–88, 2002.
(PDF, 155773 bytes)
- Précis of Persons and
Bodies.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64:593–98, 2002.
Book Symposium on Persons and Bodies.
(PDF, 365013 bytes)
- Replies to Derk Pereboom,
Michael Rea, and Dean Zimmerman.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64:623–35, 2002.
Book Symposium on Persons and Bodies.
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- Conscious and unconscious
intentionality in practical realism.
MeQRiMa: Rivista di Analisi del Testo Letterario e Figurativo,
5:130–35, 2002.
Translated into Italian as ``Intenzionalità conscia ed inconscia'' by Rita
Mascialino.
(PDF, 264425 bytes)
- Material persons and the
doctrine of resurrection.
Faith and Philosophy, 18:151–67, 2001.
(PDF, 2126044 bytes)
- Philosophy in mediis rebus.
Metaphilosophy, 32:378–94, 2001.
(PDF, 127729 bytes)
- Reply to Jackson, II.
Philosophical Explorations, 3:196–98, 2000.
(PDF, 653095 bytes)
- What am I?
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59:151–59, 1999.
(PDF, 197745 bytes)
- What is this thing called
`commonsense psychology'?
Philosophical Explorations, 2:3–19, 1999.
(PDF, 1264609 bytes)
- The first-person perspective: A
test for naturalism.
American Philosophical Quarterly, 35:327–48, 1998.
(PDF, 2785219 bytes)
- Why constitution is not
identity.
Journal of Philosophy, 94:599–621, 1997.
(PDF, 668422 bytes)
- Science and the attitudes: A
reply to Sanford.
Behavior and Philosophy, 24:187–89, 1996.
(PDF, 175265 bytes)
- Need a Christian be a
mind-body dualist?
Faith and Philosophy, 12:489–504, 1995.
(PDF, 1774650 bytes)
- Attitudes as nonentities.
Philosophical Studies, 76:175–203, 1994.
Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. 17, Patrick Grim et al., eds.
(Atascadero CA: Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1996): 33-62.
(PDF, 1533738 bytes)
- Content meets consciousness.
Philosophical Topics, 22:1–22, 1994.
(PDF, 1309299 bytes)
- Reply to van Gulick.
Philosophical Studies, 76:217–21, 1994.
(PDF, 241611 bytes)
- Eliminativism and an argument
from science.
Mind and Language, 8:180–88, 1993.
(PDF, 481243 bytes)
- Dretske on the explanatory role
of belief.
Philosophical Studies, 63:99–111, 1991.
(PDF, 622392 bytes)
- Reply to Johnson.
Behavior and Philosophy, 18:67–68, 1990.
- Seeming to see red.
Philosophical Studies, 58:121–28, 1990.
(PDF, 376940 bytes)
- Instrumental intentionality.
Philosophy of Science, 56:303–16, 1989.
(PDF, 310735 bytes)
- Recent work in the philosophy
of mind.
Philosophical Books, 30:1–10, 1989.
(PDF, 1311896 bytes)
- Truth in context.
Philosophical Psychology, 2:85–94, 1989.
(PDF, 648835 bytes)
- Content by courtesy.
The Journal of Philosophy, 84:197–213, 1987.
(PDF, 341850 bytes)
- A farewell to functionalism.
Philosophical Studies, 48:1–13, 1985.
(PDF, 652564 bytes)
- Was Leibniz entitled to
possible worlds?
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 15:57–74, 1985.
(PDF, 737563 bytes)
- On the very idea of a form of
life.
Inquiry, 27:277–89, 1984.
(PDF, 863272 bytes)
- De re belief in action.
The Philosophical Review, 91:363–87, 1982.
(PDF, 428677 bytes)
- Underprivileged access.
Noûs, 16:227–41, 1982.
(PDF, 262481 bytes)
- On making and attributing
demonstrative reference.
Synthese, 49:245–73, 1981.
(PDF, 1338421 bytes)
- Why computers can't act.
American Philosophical Quarterly, 18:157–63, 1981.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- First person aspects of agency.
SISTM Quarterly, 2:10–16, 1979.
Renamed Journal of Cognitive Science.
(PDF, 929600 bytes)
- Indexical reference and de re
belief.
Philosophical Studies, 36:317–27, 1979.
Jan David Wald, co-author.
(PDF, 475522 bytes)
- On the mind-dependence of
temporal becoming.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 39:341–57, 1979.
(PDF, 377407 bytes)
- Temporal becoming: The argument
from physics.
Philosophical Forum, 6:218–36, 1974.
1974–75.
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Chapters:
39 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:01 2008
- Mind and consciousness: 5
questions.
In Patrick Grim, editor, Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions.
2008.
Invited; in preparation.
- Nonreductive materialism.
In Brian McLaughlin and Ansgar Beckermann, editors, The Oxford Handbook
for the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.
Forthcoming.
(PDF, 457432 bytes)
- The second-person account of
the problem of evil.
In Kevin Timpe, editor, Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore
Stump. Routledge, New York, 2008.
Forthcoming.
(PDF, 141097 bytes)
- Temporal reality.
In Michael O'Rourke, Joseph Campbell, and Harry Silverstein, editors,
Time and Identity: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, volume 6.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008.
Forthcoming.
(PDF, 444003 bytes)
- Instrumentalism: Back from the
brink?
In H. Vahid and M. Zakeri, editors, Mind-Body Problem. Academy of
Islamic Sciences and Culture Publications, Qom, Iran, 2007.
Farsi translation of ch. 7 of Saving Belief. Yasser Pouresmail, trans.
- Naturalism and the first-person
perspective.
In Georg Gasser, editor, How Successful is Naturalism? Publications of
the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, pages 203–26. Ontos-Verlag,
Frankfurt, 2007.
(PDF, 131828 bytes)
- Persons and the natural order.
In Dean Zimmerman and Peter van Inwagen, editors, Persons: Human and
Divine, pages 261–78. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007.
(PDF, 139723 bytes)
- Death and the afterlife.
In The Oxford Handbook for the Philosophy of Religion, pages
366–91. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005.
(PDF, 4603763 bytes)
- Interpretação na acção: Uma
análise preliminar.
In Fernando M ao de Ferro, editor, A Explicação da
Interpretação Humana, pages 117–30. Edições Colibri,
Lisboa, 2005.
Translation of Interpretation in Action: A Preliminary Inquiry.
(PDF, 1790602 bytes)
- When does a person begin?
In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, and Jeffrey Paul, editors,
Personal Identity, pages 25–48. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2005.
Reprinted from Social Philosophy and Policy 22 (2005):25-48.
(PDF, 125247 bytes)
- Cognitive suicide.
In John Heil, editor, Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology,
pages 401–13. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.
Reprinted from Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism, Ch. 7.
(PDF, 1160165 bytes)
- On being one's own person.
In Maureen Sie, Bert van Den Brink, and Marc Slors, editors, Reasons of
One's Own, pages 129–49. Ashgate Publishing Limitied, Hampshire,
England, 2004.
(PDF, 1937117 bytes)
- Reply to Zimmerman's
`Should a Christian be a mind/body dualist? — yes'.
In Michael Peterson, editor, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of
Religion, pages 341–43. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2004.
(PDF, 33938 bytes)
- Should a Christian be a
mind-body dualist? — no.
In Michael Peterson, editor, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of
Religion, pages 327–37. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2004.
(PDF, 100325 bytes)
- The difference that
self-consciousness makes.
In Klaus Petrus, editor, On Human Persons, pages 23–39.
Ontos-Verlag, Frankfurt/London, 2003.
(PDF, 130898 bytes)
- First-person knowledge.
In Anthony J. Sanford, editor, The Nature and Limits of Human
Understanding: The Gifford Lectures, pages 165–84. T. and T. Clark,
London, 2003.
(PDF, 2931909 bytes)
- Third-person understanding.
In Anthony J. Sanford, editor, The Nature and Limits of Human
Understanding: The Gifford Lectures, pages 185–208. T. and T. Clark,
London, 2003.
(PDF, 3114453 bytes)
- Are beliefs brain states?
In Anthonie Meijers, editor, Explaining Beliefs: Lynne Rudder Baker and
her Critics, pages 17–38. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2001.
(PDF, 126084 bytes)
- Materialism with a human face.
In Kevin Corcoran, editor, Body, Soul and Survival, pages 159–80.
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2001.
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- Practical realism defended:
Replies to critics.
In Anthonie Meijers, editor, Explaining Beliefs: Lynne Rudder Baker and
her Critics, pages 183–218. CSLI Publications, Stanford, 2001.
(PDF, 230342 bytes)
- Précis
and replies to Brian Garrett, Harold Noonan, Eric Olson.
In Marco Nani, editor, A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind.
University of Rome III, 2001.
Book Symposium on Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View.
- Die perspektive der ersten
person: ein test fuer den naturalismus.
In Geert Keil and Herbert Schnaedelbach, editors, Naturalismus.
Philosophische Beitraege, pages 250–72. Suhrkamp Verlag,
Frankfurt-am-Main, 2000.
(PDF, 2327317 bytes)
- What am I?
In Bernard Elevitch, editor, Philosophy of Mind, pages 185–94.
Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green, 2000.
(PDF, 197745 bytes)
- Folk psychology.
In Rob Wilson and Frank Keil, editors, MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive
Science, pages 319–20. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
(PDF, 29349 bytes)
- Unity without identity: A new
look at material constitution.
In Peter A. French and Howard K. Wettstein, editors, New Directions in
Philosophy: Midwest Studies in Philosophy 23, pages 144–65. Blackwell
Publishers, Malden, MA, 1999.
(PDF, 155797 bytes)
- What we do: A nonreductive
approach to human action.
In Jan Bransen and Stefaan Cuypers, editors, Human Action, Deliberation
and Causation: Philosophical Studies Series 77, pages 249–69. Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland, 1998.
(PDF, 3379839 bytes)
- Persons in metaphysical
perspective.
In Lewis E. Hahn, editor, The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (The
Library of Living Philosophers), pages 433–53. Open Court Publishing
Co., LaSalle, Ill, 1997.
(PDF, 2787213 bytes)
- Functionalism.
In Robert Audi, editor, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995.
(PDF, 193146 bytes)
- Content and context.
In James E. Tomberlin, editor, Philosophical Perspectives 8: Logic and
Language, pages 17–32. Ridgeview Publishing Co, Altacasdero, CA,
1994.
(PDF, 347151 bytes)
- Instrumental intentionality.
In Stephen P. Stich and Ted Warfield, editors, Mental Representations: A
Reader, pages 332–44. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1994.
Reprinted from Philosophy of Science 56 (1989).
(PDF, 310735 bytes)
- Propositional attitudes.
In Samuel Guttenplan, editor, A Companion to the Philosophy of
Mind, pages 488–93. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1994.
(PDF, 539738 bytes)
- Metaphysics and mental
causation.
In John Heil and Albert Mele, editors, Mental Causation, pages
75–95. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993.
(PDF, 1107178 bytes)
- What beliefs are not.
In Stephen Wagner and Richard Warner, editors, Naturalism: A Critical
Appraisal. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1993.
(PDF, 2920112 bytes)
- Has content been naturalized?
In Barry Loewer and Georges Rey, editors, Meaning in Mind: Fodor and his
Critics, pages 17–32. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991.
(PDF, 1302523 bytes)
- On a causal theory of content.
In James E. Tomberlin, editor, Philosophical Perspectives 3: Philosophy
of Mind and Action Theory, pages 166–86. Ridgeview Publishing Co.,
Altascadero, CA, 1989.
(PDF, 375576 bytes)
- Cognitive suicide.
In Robert H.Grimm and Daniel D. Merrill, editors, Contents of Thought
(Proceedings of the 1985 Oberlin Colloquium), pages 1–18. University
of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1988.
(PDF, 2192150 bytes)
- A farewell to functionalism.
In Stuart Silvers, editor, Re-Representations: Readings in the Philosophy
of Mental Representation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
Reprinted from Philosophical Studies 48 (1985).
(PDF, 652564 bytes)
- Reply to Charles Chastain.
In Robert H.Grimm and Daniel D. Merrill, editors, Contents of Thought
(Proceedings of the 1985 Oberlin Colloquium), pages 26–30. University
of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1988.
(PDF, 2192150 bytes)
- Just what do we have in mind?
In Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein,
editors, Studies in the Philosophy of Mind (Midwest Studies in
Philosophy, Vol. 10), pages 25–48. University of Minnesota Press,
Minneapolis, 1986.
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Reviews:
14 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:01 2008
- Review of Bodies and Souls, or
Spirited Bodies? by Nancey Murphy.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.08.03, August 2006.
(PDF, 256444 bytes)
- Review of Anti-Individualism
and Knowledge by Jessica Brown.
Times Literary Supplement, 5336:26, 2005.
(PDF, 18665 bytes)
- Review of A Materialist
Metaphysics of the Human Person by Hud Hudson.
Mind, 112:148–51, 2003.
(PDF, 59603 bytes)
- Review of Objects and Persons,
by Trenton Merricks.
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81:97–98, 2003.
(PDF, 289700 bytes)
- Review of The Emergent Self by
William Hasker.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65:734–36, 2002.
(PDF, 422196 bytes)
- Review of The Body in Mind by
Mark Rowlands.
Mind, 109:434–37, 2000.
(PDF, 247768 bytes)
- Review of Having Thought:
Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind by John Haugeland.
Philosophy of Science, 66:494–95, 1999.
(PDF, 59194 bytes)
- Review of The Nature of True
Minds by John Heil.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 55:475–78, 1995.
(PDF, 92785 bytes)
- Review of A Neurocomputational
Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science by Paul M.
Churchland.
The Philosophical Review, 101:906–08, 1992.
(PDF, 63526 bytes)
- Review of Consciousness
Explained by Daniel C. Dennett.
The Review of Metaphysics, pages 398–99, 1992.
(PDF, 147654 bytes)
- Review of Judgement and
Justification by William G. Lycan.
The Philosophical Review, 100:481–84, 1991.
(PDF, 79012 bytes)
- Review of Understanding
Wittgenstein: Studies of Philosophical Investigations by J.M.F. Hunter.
Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 6:69–71, 1986.
(PDF, 221364 bytes)
- Review of Thought and Object:
Essays on Intentionality, Andrew Woodfield, ed.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, pages 137–42, 1984.
(PDF, 123617 bytes)
- Review of Consciousness and the
Brain: A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry.
Neuropsychologia, 16, 1978.
Michael Woodruff, co-author.
(PDF, 383124 bytes)
Addresses and publications for general audiences:
7 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:01 2008
- When do persons begin and end?
Century Club (Springfield, MA), February 5 2007.
(PDF, 112886 bytes)
- Are embryos persons?
UMass Magazine, Spring 2006.
(PDF, 348608 bytes)
- Persons and the natural order.
UMass Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 10 2005.
- When do persons begin and end?
Distinguished Faculty Lecture, December 5 2005.
(PDF, 112886 bytes)
- Collisions in education: A view
from the trenches.
Kraemer Lecture, University of Arkansas, April 2002.
Unpublished lecture.
(PDF, 116788 bytes)
- God and science in the public
schools.
Journal for Philosophic Exchange, 30:53–69, 2000.
(PDF, 4621229 bytes)
- Should the humanities be saved?
UMass Magazine, Winter 1999.