Books:
6 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:01 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 14:58:02 2008
- Big-tent metaphysics.
Abstracta: Revista de Filosofia, 1:8–15, 2008.
Special issue on Eric Olson's The Human Animal.
(PDF, 82561 bytes)
- 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.
(PDF, 328318 bytes)
- First-person externalism.
Modern Schoolman, 84:155–70, 2007.
(PDF, 121796 bytes)
- 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.
(PDF, 50912 bytes)
- 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.
(PDF, 708936 bytes)
- 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.
(PDF, 1089730 bytes)
Chapters:
39 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:02 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.
(PDF, 2661553 bytes)
- 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.
(PDF, 1535651 bytes)
Reviews:
14 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:02 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 14:58:02 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.
Invited lectures and conference presentations:
101 references, last updated Wed Jul 23 14:58:02 2008
- Agency and the first-person
perspective.
Conference on Actions and Persons (Handeln und Personen), Kardinal König
Haus, Vienna (Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutschsprachiger Philosophiedozentinnen
und -dozenten im Studium der Katholischen Theologie), February 22–24 2008.
(PDF, 120291 bytes)
- First-person aspects of agency.
Conference on Normativity and the Causal Theory of Action, Bristol University
(England), July 18 2008.
(PDF, 110257 bytes)
- A metaphysics of ordinary
things and why we need it.
Seminar on Commonsense and Scientific Ontology, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (Trondheim, Norway), April 16 2008.
(PDF, 129986 bytes)
- Our place in nature: Theism and
material persons.
Conference on Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Suffolk County Community
College (Ammerman Campus), May 3 2008.
(PDF, 114624 bytes)
- Persons: Natural, yet
ontologically unique.
Seminar on Commonsense and Scientific Ontology, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (Trondheim, Norway), April 16 2008.
(PDF, 346583 bytes)
- Science and the first-person.
Theory of Science Forum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(Trondheim, Norway), April 15 2008.
(PDF, 128808 bytes)
- Big-tent metaphysics.
Book Symposium on Eric Olson's The Human Person, APA Pacific Division, San
Francisco, April 3–6 2007.
(PDF, 82561 bytes)
- Identity across time: A defense
of three-dimensionalism.
International Conference on Unity and Time as Problems in Metaphysics:
Persistence and Individuality, Humboldt University (Berlin), September 26–28
2007.
- Persons: Natural, yet
ontologically unique.
The Ontology of Persons International Workshop, Università Vita-Salute San
Raffaele, Milan, May 28–29 2007.
(PDF, 346583 bytes)
- The shrinking difference
between artifacts and natural objects.
Society for Philosophy and Technology, APA Central Division, Chicago, April
18–21 2007.
(PDF, 328318 bytes)
- When persons begin and end.
Charles McCracken Distinguished Lecture, Michigan State University, March
29–13 2007.
- Against reductive physicalism:
Causation without reduction.
The GAP.6 Conference (Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie), Workshop
on Physicalism, Berlin, September 10–16 2006.
(PDF, 424825 bytes)
- `But what, then, am i?'
persons and the metaphysics of resurrection.
The Society of Christian Philosophers, Selves, Souls and Survival, San Diego
University, February 16–18 2006.
Plenary Address.
(PDF, 131800 bytes)
- First-person externalism.
The Seventh Henle Conference on Interpersonal Perspectives and Knowledge, Saint
Louis University, March 31–April 1 2006.
(PDF, 121796 bytes)
- The life and death of human
persons.
Symposium on Personhood, Selfhood, and Self-Relatedness, University of
Rotterdam, March 24 2006.
- Naturalism and the first-person
perspective.
The 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Workshop on Naturalism,
Kirchberg, Austria, August 6-12 2006.
Plenary Address.
(PDF, 131828 bytes)
- Social externalism and
first-person authority.
Conference on Mental Causation, Externalism, and Self-Knowledge, University of
Tübingen, October 13–15 2005.
(PDF, 120941 bytes)
- Temporal reality.
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Time and Identity, University of
Idaho and Washington State University, April 1-3 2005.
Read in Absentia.
(PDF, 444003 bytes)
- What is human freedom?
Philosophical Workshop on Free Will, San Raffaele University, Milan (Italy),
June 1 2005.
(PDF, 167762 bytes)
- Comment on William Hasker's
``The goodness of the creator: An open theist perspective''.
Society of Christian Philosophers, December 2004.
(PDF, 47361 bytes)
- Everyday concepts as a guide
to reality.
Philosophy Working Group (Erasmus University, Technical University of Delft,
Technical University of Eindhoven, Nijmegen University, Utrecht University),
October 6 2004.
(PDF, 130961 bytes)
- Everyday concepts as a guide
to reality.
Werkmeister Conference on Folk Concepts, Florida State University, January
2004.
(PDF, 130961 bytes)
- The metaphysics of malfunction.
Conference on Artefacts in Philosophy, Technical University of Delft (Holland),
October 3–4 2004.
(PDF, 105486 bytes)
- Persons and other things.
Conference on Dimensions of Personhood, University of Jyväskylä
(Finland), August 2004.
(PDF, 438675 bytes)
- Persons and other things.
Philosophical Workshop on Individuality and Person, University of Geneva, June
2004.
(PDF, 438675 bytes)
- When does a person begin?
Conference on Personal Identity, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling
Green State University, April 2004.
(PDF, 125247 bytes)
- A constitution view of personal
identity.
Seminar on Persons and Artifacts, Technical University of Delft (Holland),
October 2003.
- Moral responsibility without
libertarianism.
Expert Seminar on Responsibility, Erasmus University (Rotterdam), October 2003.
(PDF, 476861 bytes)
- On seeing yourself coming and
going: The significance of self-consciousness.
Spring Forum 2003, Ohio University, April 10–12 2003.
Three-day symposium on my Persons and Bodies.
- The ontology of artifacts.
Seminar on Persons and Artifacts, Technical University of Delft (Holland),
October 2003.
(PDF, 124546 bytes)
- Sider on ordinary objects.
APA Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 2003, March 2003.
Book Symposium on Theodore Sider's Four-Dimensionalism, Invited Symposiast.
- Attitudes in action: How mental
causation is possible.
Conference on Mental Causation, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (João
Pessoa, Brazil), 3rd International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Mind,
March 2002.
Keynote Speaker.
(PDF, 252345 bytes)
- Collisions in education: A view
from the trenches.
The Kraemer Lectures, University of Arkansas, April 2002.
Public Lecture.
(PDF, 116788 bytes)
- How mental causation is
possible.
The Kraemer Lectures, University of Arkansas, April 2002.
- How mental causation is
possible.
Università del Piemonte Orientale (University of Eastern Piedmont,
Vercelli, Italy), April 2002.
- Comment on `Why explanatory
exclusion is still a problem'.
APA Eastern Division, December 2001.
Commentator.
- First-person knowledge.
The Gifford Lectures, Glasgow University, September 2–7 2001.
(PDF, 2931909 bytes)
- Interpretation in action: A
preliminary inquiry.
Conference on The Explanation of Human Interpretation [Mind and Action III],
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon, Portugal), May 24–27
2001.
(PDF, 107795 bytes)
- Neuroscience and the human
mind.
Seminar on Creating Mind, Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions,
February 23 2001.
(PDF, 47654 bytes)
- On being one's own person.
Conference on Reasons of One's Own, University of Utrecht (Holland), April
25–28 2001.
Opening Lecture.
(PDF, 1937117 bytes)
- On making things up:
Constitution and its critics.
The Chapel Hill Colloquium, October 26–28 2001.
(PDF, 1143618 bytes)
- Our place in nature.
Conference on Human Nature and Human Freedom, Calvin College, March 7–11 2001.
Concluding Lecture.
- Third-person understanding.
The Gifford Lectures, Glasgow University, September 2–7 2001.
(PDF, 3114453 bytes)
- Why a Christian should be a
materialist (of a certain sort).
Conference on Human Nature and Human Freedom, Calvin College, March 7-11 2001.
Opening Lecture.
- Belief ascription and the
illusion of depth.
Conference on Belief Ascription, International Center for Semiotic and
Cognitive Studies, San Marino (Italy), December 13–18 2000.
(PDF, 1054929 bytes)
- The difference that
self-consciousness makes.
Conference on Self-Consciousness, University of Fribourg (Switzerland),
November 23–26 2000.
(PDF, 130898 bytes)
- God and science in the public
schools.
SUNY Brockport, April 2000.
Public Lecture and Seminar.
(PDF, 4621229 bytes)
- Material persons and the
doctrine of resurrection.
Society of Christian Philosophers, Fuller Theological Seminary, March 2000.
Plenary Speaker.
(PDF, 2126044 bytes)
- Material persons and the
doctrine of resurrection.
Society of Christian Philosophers, University of South Carolina, May 2000.
Plenary Speaker.
(PDF, 2126044 bytes)
- The ontological status of
persons.
R. M. Chisholm Memorial Conference, Brown University, November 10–12 2000.
(PDF, 155773 bytes)
- Doing and happening: A reply to
Mikael Karlsson.
Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, Conference on Supervenience,
Causality, Action and Mind, [Mind and Action II], May 1999.
- Philosophy in mediis rebus.
Australasian Association of Philosophers, Annual Meeting, Melbourne AU, July
1999.
Invited paper in ``Beyond Analysis'' stream.
(PDF, 127729 bytes)
- What am I?
Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, August 1998.
(PDF, 197745 bytes)
- What am I?
APA Central Division, May 1998.
(PDF, 197745 bytes)
- What is this thing called
`commonsense psychology'?
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Conference on Metaphysics and Epistemology
of Commonsense Psychology, March 1998.
(PDF, 1264609 bytes)
- Are beliefs brain states?
Conference on my book, Explaining Attitudes, Tilburg University and Nijmegen
University (Holland), (Sponsored by the Dutch Research School of Philosophy),
May 1997.
(PDF, 126084 bytes)
- The first-person perspective:
A test for naturalism.
Conference on my book, Explaining Attitudes, Tilburg University and Nijmegen
University (Holland), (Sponsored by the Dutch Research School of Philosophy),
May 1997.
(PDF, 2785219 bytes)
- The first-person perspective:
A test for naturalism.
Conference on Epistemology and Naturalism, Stirling University (Scotland), May
1997.
(PDF, 2785219 bytes)
- The first-person perspective:
A test for naturalism.
Conference on Naturalism, Humboldt University (Berlin), February 1997.
(PDF, 2785219 bytes)
- Material persons and
Christian doctrine.
Society of Christian Philosophers, Plenary Speaker, Pacific Regional Meeting,
February 1997.
- Reply to critics.
APA Pacific Division, Book Symposium on Explaining Attitudes, April 1996.
Invited Paper.
- What we do: A nonreductive
approach to human action.
Conference on Mind and Action, Indiana University, October 1996.
(PDF, 3379839 bytes)
- What we do: A nonreductive
approach to human action.
Conference on Human Action and Causality, University of Utrecht [Mind and
Action I], April 1996.
(PDF, 3379839 bytes)
- In what sense is folk
psychology empirical?
APA Central Division, 1995.
Commentator.
- Persons: In this life and the
next.
Society of Christian Philosophers, 1995.
Plenary Speaker.
- Attitudes in action.
APA Central Division, 1994.
Invited Paper.
(PDF, 252345 bytes)
- Need a Christian be a
mind-body dualist?
Notre Dame Conference on the Mind-Body Problem, 1994.
(PDF, 1774650 bytes)
- Need a Christian be a
mind-body dualist?
Society of Christian Philosophers, 1994.
Plenary Speaker.
(PDF, 1774650 bytes)
- With science in mind.
Claremont Theological Seminary and Center for Process Studies, Conference on
Consciousness, Plenary Speaker, 1994.
(PDF, 528356 bytes)
- Attitudes as nonentities.
The Oberlin Colloquium, 31st Annual Philosophy Colloquium, 1993.
Main Speaker.
(PDF, 1533738 bytes)
- Belief without reification.
NEH Institute on Naturalism (Robert Audi, Director), Faculty, 1993.
- Belief without reification.
NEH Institute on the Nature of Meaning (Jerry A. Fodor and Ernest LePore,
Directors), Faculty, August 1993.
- Need intentionality be
naturalized?
NEH Institute on Naturalism (Robert Audi, Director), Faculty, 1993.
- Need intentionality be
naturalized?
NEH Institute on the Nature of Meaning (Jerry A. Fodor and Ernest LePore,
Directors), Faculty, August 1993.
- Belief in explanation.
University of Cincinnati, 28th Annual Philosophy Colloquium, 1992.
- Belief in explanation.
CREA, École Polytechnique (Paris), 1991.
- The cognitive status of common
sense.
University of California at Riverside, Distinguished Visitor's Program, 1991.
- Metaphysics and mental
causation.
University of California at Riverside, Distinguished Visitor's Program, 1991.
(PDF, 1107178 bytes)
- Reply to Moser.
APA Central Division, 1991.
Commentator.
- What beliefs are not.
University of California at Riverside, Distinguished Visitor's Program, 1991.
(PDF, 2920112 bytes)
- Dretske on mental causation.
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld (West Germany),
Conference on the Mind/Body Problem, 1990.
Commentator.
- The myth of folk psychology.
The Creighton Club (NY State Philosophical Assn.), 1990.
Keynote Speaker.
- Is decision theory a
descriptive ideal?
The Chapel Hill Colloquium, 1989.
Commentator.
- More on cognitive suicide.
APA Central Division, 1989.
Commentator.
- Silvers on psychosemantics.
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1988.
Commentator.
- Truth in context.
APA Central Division, 1988.
Invited Paper.
(PDF, 648835 bytes)
- What is a mental
representation?
APA Eastern Division, 1988.
Invited Paper.
- Pollock on the language of
thought.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Eleventh Colloquium in Philosophy,
1987.
Commentator.
- Content by courtesy.
The Five-College Cognitive Science Group of Amherst, 1986.
(PDF, 341850 bytes)
- Ersatz intentionality.
APA Central Division, 1986.
- Rollins on mental imagery.
APA Eastern Division, 1986.
Commentator.
- Cognitive suicide.
The Oberlin Colloquium, Twenty-Fifth Annual Colloquium in Philosophy, 1985.
(PDF, 2192150 bytes)
- Just what do we have in mind?
National Humanities Center, 1984.
(PDF, 1535651 bytes)
- A reply to Kraemer's
functionalism and masochism.
APA Eastern Division, 1984.
Commentator.
- Underprivileged excess: A reply
to Thomas McKay.
APA Central Division, 1984.
Commentator.
- What's moral about moral
relativism?
The Chapel Hill Ethics Group, 1983.
- Chisholm on principles of
action.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Herbert Heidelberger Memorial
Conference, 1982.
Commentator.
- De re belief and the explanation
of action.
APA Eastern Division, 1980.
- Why computers can't act.
APA Western Division, 1979.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- Why computers can't act.
The Creighton Club, (New York State Philosophical Association), 1978.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- Temporal becoming: The argument
from physics.
The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1976.
(PDF, 1089730 bytes)
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- A metaphysics of ordinary things
and why we need it.
CUNY Graduate Center (New York), March 7 2007.
(PDF, 129986 bytes)
- A metaphysics of ordinary things
and why we need it.
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), December 1 2006.
- Temporal reality.
Notre Dame University, September 30 2005.
(PDF, 444003 bytes)
- Everyday concepts as a guide to
reality.
Canisius College, April 14 2004.
(PDF, 130961 bytes)
- A new look at mental causation.
SUNY at Buffalo, April 15 2004.
- Persons and other things.
Utrecht University (Holland), October 7 2004.
(PDF, 438675 bytes)
- How mental causation is
possible.
Tilburg University (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant/KUB, Holland), October 16
2003.
- How mental causation is
possible.
Dartmouth University, January 2003.
- The metaphysics of everyday
life.
Erasmus University (Rotterdam), October 13 2003.
(PDF, 175009 bytes)
- The metaphysics of everyday
life.
Connecticut College, September 25 2003.
(PDF, 175009 bytes)
- On seeing yourself coming and
going: The significance of self-consciousness.
SUNY at Buffalo, April 25 2003.
- How mental causation is
possible.
UCLA, November 2002.
- Moral responsibility without
libertarianism.
University of Kentucky, November 2002.
(PDF, 476861 bytes)
- On being one's own person.
Leiden University (Holland), May 2001.
(PDF, 1937117 bytes)
- Material persons and the
doctrine of resurrection.
Hope College, October 1999.
(PDF, 2126044 bytes)
- Materialism with a human face.
Washington University (St. Louis), October 1999.
(PDF, 2661553 bytes)
- Materialism with a human face.
University of Missouri (Columbia), October 1999.
(PDF, 2661553 bytes)
- Materialism with a human face.
University of Toronto, December 1999.
(PDF, 2661553 bytes)
- The very idea of material
constitution.
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, July 1999.
Visiting Fellow, RSSS.
(PDF, 155159 bytes)
- Should the humanities be saved?
Texas Tech, February 1998.
- Unity without identity: A new
look at material constitution.
Texas A&M University, February 1998.
(PDF, 155797 bytes)
- Unity without identity: A new
look at material constitution.
Texas Tech, February 1998.
(PDF, 155797 bytes)
- Unity without identity: A new
look at material constitution.
University of Oklahoma (Norman), February 1998.
(PDF, 155797 bytes)
- The very idea of material
constitution.
Yale University, November 1998.
(PDF, 155159 bytes)
- The very idea of material
constitution.
University of Notre Dame, September 1998.
(PDF, 155159 bytes)
- What is this thing called
`commonsense psychology'?
University of Richmond, October 1998.
(PDF, 1264609 bytes)
- The first-person perspective: A
test for naturalism.
Whittier College, February 1997.
(PDF, 2785219 bytes)
- Persons and bodies.
University of Utrecht (Holland), May 1997.
- Unity without identity: A new
look at material constitution.
York University (Canada), September 1997.
(PDF, 155797 bytes)
- Unity without identity: A new
look at material constitution.
University of Utrecht (Holland), May 1997.
(PDF, 155797 bytes)
- Why constitution is not
identity.
UC/Santa Barbara, February 1997.
(PDF, 668422 bytes)
- Belief without reification.
Amherst College, 1996.
- Need a Christian be a
mind-body dualist?
Calvin College, 1995.
(PDF, 1774650 bytes)
- Content meets consciousness.
University of Arkansas, 1994.
(PDF, 1309299 bytes)
- Are beliefs brain states?
St. Michael's College, 1993.
(PDF, 126084 bytes)
- Belief without reification.
University of New Hampshire, 1993.
- Intentionality and explanation.
Washington University, 1993.
- Need intentionality be
naturalized?
Harvard University, 1993.
- What is belief?
Virginia Commonwealth University, 1993.
- On standards of explanatory
adequacy.
University of Rochester, 1992.
- Belief in explanation.
Princeton University, 1991.
- Belief in explanation.
University of California at Davis, 1991.
- The cognitive status of common
sense.
Western Michigan University, 1991.
- Metaphysics and mental
causation.
Union College, 1991.
(PDF, 1107178 bytes)
- The cognitive status of common
sense.
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1990.
- The cognitive status of common
sense.
University of California at Davis, 1990.
- Ethical aspects of language.
United States Military Academy, 1990.
- Is there a problem of mental
causation?
Manhattanville College, 1990.
- The myth of folk psychology.
University of Colorado at Boulder, 1990.
- The myth of folk psychology.
McGill University, 1990.
- Has representation been
naturalized?
Duke University, 1989.
- Has representation been
naturalized?
SUNY at Buffalo, 1989.
- The myth of folk psychology.
The Ohio State University, 1989.
- The myth of folk psychology.
The University of Connecticut at Storrs, 1989.
- The myth of folk psychology.
Davidson College, 1989.
- On a causal theory of content.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988.
(PDF, 375576 bytes)
- What is a mental
representation?
Brandeis University, 1988.
- What is a mental
representation?
University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1988.
- Why belief?
Vanderbilt University, 1988.
- Mental misrepresentation.
Vassar College, 1987.
- On a causal theory of content.
Arizona State University, 1987.
(PDF, 375576 bytes)
- Cognitive suicide.
Vanderbilt University, 1985.
(PDF, 2192150 bytes)
- Content by courtesy.
University of Vermont, 1985.
(PDF, 341850 bytes)
- A farewell to functionalism.
Syracuse University, 1985.
(PDF, 652564 bytes)
- Intentional systems: Dennett's
defense of morality.
Williams College, 1984.
- Just what do we have in mind?
University of Rochester, 1984.
(PDF, 1535651 bytes)
- Just what do we have in mind?
University of North Carolin at Chapel Hill, 1984.
(PDF, 1535651 bytes)
- Harman on reasons for moral
action.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1983.
- Reason and moral relativism.
North Carolina State University, 1983.
- What's moral about moral
relativism?
The Chapel Hill Ethics Group, 1983.
- Underprivileged access.
Union College, 1981.
(PDF, 262481 bytes)
- On making and attributing
demonstrative reference.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979.
(PDF, 1338421 bytes)
- Why computers can't act.
Amherst College, 1979.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- Why computers can't act.
University of Rochester, 1979.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- Why computers can't act.
Union College, 1978.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- Why computers can't act.
Middlebury College, 1978.
(PDF, 1082976 bytes)
- On the mind-dependence of
temporal becoming.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1976.
(PDF, 377407 bytes)
- Temporal becoming: The argument
from physics.
University of Pittsburgh, 1975.
(PDF, 1089730 bytes)