A selection of work
(Many of these are penultimate drafts; see
final published versions as indicated.)
Research: Philosophy of Psychology and Mind:
- "Active Perception and Perceiving Action: the Shared Circuits Hypothesis", in press in T. Gendler and J.Hawthorne, eds., Perceptual Experience (New York:
Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005).
The most recent version of the shared circuits model is
here: The
Shared Circuits Model:How
Control, Mirroring and Simulation Can Enable Imitation, Deliberation,
and Mindreading
- "Varieties
of Externalism", in press in R. Menary, ed., The Extended Mind
(Ashgate).
- "Neural
Dominance, Neural Deference, and Sensorimotor Dynamics", in press in M.
Velmans, ed., Encyclopedia of Consciousness (Oxford:
Blackwell).
- "Can
Hunter Gatherers Hear Color?", with Alva Noë, in
press in Common Minds: Essays in Honor of Philip
Pettit, eds. G. Brennan, R. Goodin, and M. Smith, Oxford University
Press, forthcoming 2005.
- "Neural Plasticity and Consciousness", with Alva Noë,
2003 Biology and Philosophy 18:131-168.
Reprinted in Persons: An
Interdisciplinary Approach, eds. C. Kanzian, J. Quitterer, E.
Runggaldier. Vienna: oebv-hpt, 2003. Also
to be translated into French by Luc Faucher and reprinted; details under
negotiation. Correspondence
on this article appears in three issues of Trends in Cognitive
Science in 2003, from Jeffrey Gray, Ned Block, and the authors in
reply. See The
deferential brain in action: response
to Jeffrey Gray, with Alva Noë, Trends in Cognitive Science
2003, 7(5): 195-196 (May). Neural plasticity and
consciousness: reply to
Block, with Alva Noë, Trends in Cognitive Science 2003, 7(8):
342 (August).
- "Social
Heuristics that Make Us Smarter", 2005 Philosophical
Psychology 18(5):585-611. This is a
revised and expanded version of "Rational Agency, Cooperation, and
Mind Reading", in N. Gold, ed.,
Teamwork ( Palgrave 2004).
- "Bypassing
Conscious Control",in press in Does
Consciousness Cause Behavior? An
Investigation of the Nature of Volition, ed.
S. Pockett, W. Banks, and S. Gallagher, MIT Press, forthcoming 2005.
This is a revised, updated version of my Philosophical Studies
2003 article,
"Imitation,
Media Violence, and Freedom of Speech", Philosophical
Studies, 2004,
117: 165-218.
- "Making
Sense of Animals", forthcoming in Rational Animals?,
Susan Hurley and Matthew Nudds, eds., OUP, 2006. This combines and
revises two earlier pieces, "Animal Action in the Space of
Reasons", 2003,
Mind and Language 18(3): 231-256, with commentaries by Kim
Sterelny and Peter Godfrey-Smith, and "Making Sense of
Animals: Interpretation vs. Architecture",
2003, Mind and Language, 18(3): 273-280.
- Perspectives
on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science,
co-edited with Nick Chater, 2 volumes. Cambridge: MIT Press,
2005.
- Rational
Animals? co-edited with Matthew Nudds. Forthcoming 2006.
Oxford: OUP. Editors' introduction: "The
questions of animal rationality: Theory and evidence".
- "Action and the Unity of Consciousness, and Vehicle Externalism", in The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration, and Dissociation, Axel Cleeremans, ed.,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 78-91.
- "Perception and Action: Alternative Views", Synthese 129 (2001) 3-40.
- "Active Perception and Vehicle Externalism", a revision of ch. 8 of Consciousness in Action (Harvard University Press, 1998), which resolves an ambiguity in the published text.
- "Reason and Motivation: the Wrong Distinction?", Analysis 61:2 (April 2001) 151-155.
- "Overintellectualizing the Mind", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXIII:2 (2001) 423-431.
- "Consciousness in Action: Clarifications" (response to commentaries), Mind and Language, 15:5 (Nov. 2000) 556-561.
- "Making up Minds", published as "Phantom Worlds of the Mind", review of V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind, and of Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind’s Past, in Times Higher Education Supplement, May 7, 1999, pp. 29-30.
- "Vehicles, Contents, Conceptual Structure, and Externalism", Analysis 1998, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 1-6.
- "Nonconceptual Self-Consciousness and Agency: Perspective and Access", Communication and Cognition, 1997, vol. 30, no. 3/4, pp. 207-48.
- "Wittgenstein on Practice and the Myth of the Giving", Consciousness in Action, ch. 6, which revises my Lindley Lecture, 1995, University of Kansas, pp. 1-28. See Consciousness in Action for bibliography.
- "Self-Consciousness, Spontaneity, and the Myth of the Giving", from my Consciousness in Action, ch. 2. This chapter revises material from "Kant on Spontaneity and the Myth of the Giving", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1993-94, pp. 137-164, and "Myth Upon Myth", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1996, vol. 96, pp. 253-260.
- "Intelligibility, Imperialism and Conceptual Scheme", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1992, volume XVII, The Wittgenstein Legacy, pp.
89-108.
- "Public Ecology of Responsibility": commissioned by the Institute for Public Policy Resesarch (forthcoming); also forthcoming in: Reponsibility and Justice, eds. Zofia Stemplowska and Carl Knight (publication negotiations in progress).
- Book
Symposium on Justice, Luck, and Knowledge: summary of
the book, and replies to commentaries by Philip Pettit, Kasper
Lippert-Rasmussen, and Marc Fleurbaey. This is a preprint of an article
in press in Philosophical Books © 2005.
- Book
Symposium on Justice, Luck, and Knowledge: summary of the
book, and replies to commentaries by Gary Watson, Peter Vallentyne, and
Gerald Cohen. This is a draft of an article forthcoming in Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research.
- "Choice
and Incentive Inequality", in press in The Egalitarian
Conscience: Festschrift for Gerald
Cohen, ed. Christine Sypnowich, forthcoming OUP 2005.
- "The
'what' and the 'how' of distributive justice and health", forthcoming,
in Egalitarianism, eds. Nils Holug and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen,
OUP.
- "Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology: Can they be Reconciled?",
for collection of essays to be edited by Jude Brown, forthcoming.
- "Roemer on Responsibility and Equality", Law and Philosophy 21 (2002) 39-64.
- "Luck, Responsibility, and the ‘Natural Lottery’", The Journal of Political Philosophy 10:1 (2002) 79-94.
- "Luck and Equality", with response by Richard Arneson, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Volume LXXV (2001), pp. 51-72. Shorter version in Chinese translation, forthcoming in Political Philosophy, Nicholas Bunnin, Qiu Renzong and Jiang Yi, eds. (Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Press).
- "Is Responsibility Essentially Impossible?", Philosophical Studies vol. 99 (2000), pp. 229-268.
- "Responsibility, Reason, and Irrelevant Alternatives", Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 28 (2000), pp. 205-241.
- "Cognitivism in Political Philosophy", in Morality and Well-Being: Essays in honour of James Griffin, edited by Roger Crisp and Brad Hooker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.) Greek translation by Nicos Stavropoulos, Isopoliteia 1998.
- "Rationality, Democracy, and Leaky Boundaries: Vertical vs. Horizontal Modularity", Journal of Political Philosophy (1999), vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 126-146. A slightly different version appears in Democracy’s Edges, Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds., Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- "Troubles with Responsibility", The Boston Review, vol. 20, no. 2, May/June 1995, pp. 12-13.
- "A new take from Nozick on Newcomb's Problem and Prisoners' Dilemma", Analysis, 1994, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 65-72.
- "Objectivity and Forms of Life: Reply to Martha Nussbaum", in Quality of Life, edited by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993).
- "Newcomb's Problem, Prisoners' Dilemma, and Collective Action", Synthese, 1991, pp. 173-196.
- "Coherence, Hypothetical Cases and Precedent", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1990, pp. 221-251. Reprinted in Common Law, Michael Arnheim, ed., International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory: Legal Cultures, vol. 6 (Dartmouth, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1994).
- "Supervenience and the Possibility of Coherence", (on intrapersonal analogues of Arrow’s Theorem), Mind, 1985, pp. 501 525. A revised version appears in my Natural Reasons,
ch. 12.
- "Conflict, Akrasia and Cognitivism", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1985 86, pp. 23 49. A revised version appears in my Natural Reasons, ch. 7-9 (Oxford University Press 1989).
- "The Unit of Taxation under an Ideal Progressive Income Tax", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1984, pp. 157 197.
- "Frege, the Proliferation of Force, and Non Cognitivism", Mind, 1984, pp. 570 576.A revised version appears in my Natural Reasons, ch. 9 (Oxford University Press 1989).
Curriculum Vitae
- Graduate/Post-Doc Conference in Philosophy of Psychology,
Neuroscience and Biology: schedule of papers with
abstracts. 30 April 2005, All Souls College,
Oxford. Guest speakers: Andy Clark and Peter
Hobson. The next PPNB Graduate/Post-doc conference is
planned for Bristol, spring/summer 2007.
- Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology (PPNB): list
of contacts with other researchers in this area.
- Conference: Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science, Royaumont Abbey, France 23-26 May 2002: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/Psychology/imitation. Website includes conference program with abstracts of talks and virtual poster session with texts of posters.
- Workshop: Rational Animals? Oxford, 3-4 October 2002: Conference program with abstracts of talks.
- Archived Interdisciplines (ESF/Jean Nicod) web forum
(posted February 2005) on my piece "The shared circuits model:
how control, mirroring and simulation can enable imitation and
mind reading", at: http://www.interdisciplines.org/mirror/papers/5.
