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Papers

‘Introspection’.  In A. Beckermann and B. McLaughlin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook to Philosophy of Mind.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008.  In Press.

‘Introspection and Authoritative Self-Knowledge’.  Erkenntnis, vol. 67 no. 2, (Sept 2007), pp. 355-372.

‘Beyond Program Explanation’ (with Graham Macdonald).  In Geoffrey Brennan, Robert Goodin, and Michael Smith (eds.), Common Minds: Essays in Honour of Philip Pettit.  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007, pp 1-27.

‘On McDowell’s Identity Conception of Truth’ (with William Fish).  Analysis 67.1 (January, 2007), pp. 36-41.

‘The Metaphysics of Mental Causation’ (with Graham Macdonald).  The Journal of Philosophy 103 (2006), pp. 539-576.

‘Real Metaphysics and the Descriptive/Revisionary Distinction’.  In C. de Waal, ed., Susan Haack: The Philosopher Replies to Critics.  New York: Prometheus Books Publishers, Inc., 2006, pp. 315-342.

‘Self-Knowledge and Inner Space’.  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), McDowell and His Critics, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2006, pp. 73-89.

‘Introduction’ (with Graham Macdonald). In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), McDowell and His Critics.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2006, pp. ix-xix.

‘Mary Meets Molyneux: The Explanatory Gap and the Individuation of Phenomenal Concepts’.  Nous 38, no. 3 (September, 2004): 503-524.

‘Self-Knowledge and the First Person’.  In M. Sie, M. Slors, and B. Van den Brink (eds.), Reasons of One’s Own.  Sussex: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 171-191.

‘Theories of Mind and the “Commonsense View”’.  Mind and Language 17 (2002): 467-488.

‘Shoemaker on Self-Knowledge and Inner Sense’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (1999): 711-738.

‘Externalism and Norms’.  In A. O’Hear (ed.), Current Issues in Philosophy of Mind.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 273-301.

‘Self-Knowledge and the ‘Inner Eye’’.  Philosophical Explorations 1 (1998): 83-106.

‘Externalism and Authoritative Self-Knowledge’.  In C. Wright, B. Smith, and C. Macdonald (eds.), Knowing Our Own Minds.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 123-154.

‘Introduction’ (with Stephen Laurence).  In S. Laurence and C. Macdonald (eds.), Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998, pp. 1-7.

‘Tropes and Other Things’.  In S. Laurence and C. Macdonald (eds.), Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998, pp. 329-350.

‘Connectionism and Eliminativism: Reply to Mills’.  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (1997): 316-322.

‘Mind and Nature’. Inaugural Public Lecture delivered on appointment to the Belle van Zuylen Visiting Professorship in Philosophy.  Utrecht: University of Utrecht Press, 1996, pp 1-17.

‘Anti-individualism and Psychological Explanation’  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume One. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 156-172.

‘Causal Relevance and Explanatory Exclusion’ (with Graham Macdonald).  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume One.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 86- 106.

‘Classicism vs. Connectionism’.  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume Two.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 3-27.

‘Connectionism and Eliminativism’.  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume Two.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 293-310.

‘How to Be Psychologically Relevant’ (with Graham Macdonald).  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume One.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 60- 77.

‘Supervenient Causation’ (with Graham Macdonald).  In C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume One.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 4-27.

‘Externalism and First-Person Authority’.  Synthese 104 (1995): 99- 122.

‘Supervenience, Dependency, and Reduction’.  In U. Yalcin and E. Savellos (eds.), Supervenience: New Essays.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 140-157.

‘Psychophysical Type-Type Reduction Via Disjunction’.  The Southern Journal of Philosophy 30 (1992): 65-69.

‘Weak Externalism and Psychological Reduction’.  In K. Lennon and D. Charles (eds.), Reduction, Explanation, and Realism.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 133-154.

‘Mental Causation and Non-Reductive Monism’ (with Graham Macdonald).  Analysis 51 (1990): 23-32.

‘Nativism, Naturalism, and Evolutionary Theory’.  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 64 (1990): 81-93.

‘Weak Externalism and Mind-Body Identity’.  Mind 99 (1990): 387-405.

‘Mind, Meaning, and Assertion’.  Critical discussion of A. Appiah's Assertion and Conditionals, in Philosophical Books 27 (1987):193-199.

‘Constitutive Properties, Essences, and Events’.  Philosophia 16 (1986): 29-43.

‘Mental Causes and Explanation of Action’ (with Graham Macdonald).  Philosophical Quarterly 36 (1986): 145-158. Awarded joint first in a competition organized by The Philosophical Quarterly, 1985. Reprinted in L. Stevenson, R. Squires, and J. Haldane (eds.), Mind, Causation, and Action (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986).  Translated and reprinted in G Zinmin and C. Zhaohua (eds.), The Philosophy of Mind (China: Shangwu Publishing House, 2003), pp. 983-1004.

‘Mind-Body Identity and the Subjects of Events’.  Philosophical Studies 48 (1985): 73-81.

‘Psychologism and Proper Names: Dummett vs. McDowell’.  Explorations in Knowledge 11 (1984): 13-21.

‘Can Events Change?’.  Philosophia 9 (1981): 317-329.

‘On the Unifier-Multiplier Controversy’.  The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1978): 707-713.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

‘Physicalism, Materialism’, revised and expanded.  In D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement, Second Edition, Vol. 7.  New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan Publishing Company, 2005, pp. 553-556.

‘Shoemaker, Sydney’.  In D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement, Second Edition, Vol. 9.   New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan Publishing Company, 2005, pp. 15-17.

‘Anomalous Monism’.  In D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, supplement.  New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996, pp. 28-29.  Reprinted in D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement, Second Edition, Vol. 1.  New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan Publishing Company, 2005, pp. 211-12.

‘Physicalism, Materialism’.  In D. Borchert  (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, supplement.  New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996, pp. 446-448.

 

Forthcoming Publications

Self-Knowledge: Entitlement, Privilege, and Authority.This is a project that is based on recent work on the topic of authoritative self-knowledge, some of which is in published form (see publications).  Expected completion date mid-2008.  Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship and was an Invited Scholar to the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Residence Centre to work on the manuscript of this book (see Visiting Appointments and Grants/Awards).

Mental Causation and Explanation in the Special Sciences (with Graham Macdonald).  This project is supported by a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant, 2005-2008.

Emergence. This project is the result of an international conference mounted (with Graham Macdonald) at Queen’s University Belfast in Spring 2007, funded by a Major Conference Grant from the Mind Association.  The co-edited volume is expected to be published by Oxford University Press through its Occasional Series.

Papers

‘Grasping: McDowell on Concepts and Conceptualism’ (with William Fish).  Currently under review.

‘Historical Explanation and Reductionism’ (with Graham Macdonald).  Commissioned contribution to Aviezer Tucker (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophies of History and Historiography.  Oxford:Basil Blackwell, forthcoming 2008.

‘Explanation in Historiography’ (with Graham Macdonald).  Commissioned contribution to Aviezer Tucker (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophies of History and Historiography.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, forthcoming 2008.

‘Externalism and Reasons’ (with Graham Macdonald).  Commissioned contribution to a volume on the work of Ruth Millikan, ed. by Dan Ryder and Ken Williford (forthcoming, 2008).

‘Self-Knowledge’.  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming 2007).

‘Phenomenal Access’.  Invited contribution to the 2008 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association (forthcoming 2008).

‘Emergence in Mind’ (with Graham Macdonald).  Contribution to C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds.) Emergence (contributions currently being collected for submission to OUP).