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Selected Publications

Books

edited, with Helen Steward, Agency and Action. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
This volume collects the papers given at the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s annual conference in 2002. The topics include the nature of actions; how the concepts of act, agent, cause and event are related to each other; self-knowledge, emotion, autonomy and freedom in human life; and the place of the concept of action in criminal law. The volume concludes with a major essay on ‘the 3.5 billion dollar question’: was the destruction of the World Trade Center one event or two?
The Objective Eye: colour, form and reality in the theory of art. The University of Chicago, 2006.
Book Cover - The Objective EyeThis is the first book-length study of pictorial art by an analytical philosopher which is equally accessible to philosophers and historians of art. It is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with the nature of colours; the second with depiction in general; and the third with the idea of realism in the theory of art. As a whole, the book progresses from pure to applied philosophy, gradually engaging more directly with the history of art.
Further information about the book can be found here. The London Review of Books review, by Stephen Mulhall, can be found here. The book is available from the London Review Bookshop here.
Ed., with H.-J. Glock, Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays in honour of P.M.S. Hacker, OUP, 2009.
Thirteen leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in honour of Peter Hacker. Some essays deal with issues of Wittgenstein scholarship and interpretation, including areas that have attracted an increasing amount of attention, such as ethics and religion. Others deal with central topics from the history of analytic philosophy. Finally there are essays that explore and assess Wittgensteinian ideas in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, or in related areas such as philosophy of action and philosophy of neuroscience.

Articles

Epistemology, metaphysics and philosophy of mind:

  1. How knowledge works, Phil. Quarterly, October 1999. Download in .pdf format.
  2. Knowledge and self-knowledge, in Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, ed. S. Schroeder, Macmillan & St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
  3. -ings and -ers, Ratio Special Issue: Meaning and Representation, December 2001. Download in .pdf format.
  4. Pains and places, Philosophy, January 2003. (I argue here that pace Descartes, James, Russell, Ryle, Wittgenstein, Lewis, Armstrong, Kim and others, pains, itches, tickles — sensations of all kinds — are generally in the places where we say they are.) Download in .pdf format.
  5. The evidence of our senses, in Strawson and Kant, ed. H.-J. Glock, Oxford University Press, 2003. Download in .pdf format. (This is an uncorrected proof.)
  6. What, if anything, are colours relative to?, Philosophy, October 2005. Download in .pdf format
  7. Knowledge and evidence, Mind, October 2006. (This article compares the ‘modest’ theory of knowledge defended in Timothy Williamson’s book Knowledge and its Limits with the theory defended in my articles How knowledge works and Knowledge and self-knowledge.) Download in .pdf format.

Aesthetics and philosophy of art:

  1. Pictorial art and visual experience, British Journal of Aesthetics Special Issue: Aesthetics in Britain, January 2000.
  2. The urn and the chamber-pot, in Wittgenstein, Culture and the Arts, ed. R. Allen, Routledge, 2001. (This article is about the influence on Wittgenstein of the architect and pioneer of modernism, Adolf Loos. A French translation, entitled L’Urne et le pot de chambre, was published in Revue de Synthèse, 2006/1.) Download in .pdf format. (This is a 6MB file including illustrations.)
  3. Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?, Think, issue one, Spring 2002. Download in .pdf format.
  4. Subjectivism in the theory of pictorial art, The Monist: Art and the Mind, September 2003. Download in .pdf format.
  5. Realism and relativism in the theory of art, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2004. Download in .pdf format.
  6. Die Leinwand des Geistes in Bildwissenschaft, ed. K. Sachs-Hombach, Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2005.
  7. Art history and aesthetics, in Art History versus Aesthetics, ed. J. Elkins, Routledge, 2005.
  8. Art and neuroscience, Art and Cognition Workshops, January 2006. (This article examines some ideas about the visual arts recently advanced by V.S. Ramachandran and Semir Zeki.) http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcognition/papers/15.

Wittgenstein:

  1. El evangelio segun Wittgenstein, Revista de filosofia (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid), 1998. (An English translation of this article was published with the title ‘The gospel according to Wittgenstein’ in Wittgenstein and Religious Belief, ed. R. Arrington, Routledge, 2001.) Download the English translation in .pdf format.
  2. ‘Three fallacies about action’, in Proceedings of the 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky Download in .pdf format. See also (2), (4), (9).

Future Publications

  1. The Road to Larissa, forthcoming in Ratio.
  2. The Tree of Knowledge forthcoming in Think. Download in .pdf format
  3. Ed., with H.-J. Glock, A Companion to Wittgenstein (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.