Online articles and book chapters
2009-11 and forthcoming
'Causation is Macroscopic but not Irreducible' (pdf, 164KB) in S. Gibb and E. Lowe (eds) The Ontology of Mental Causation (forthcoming)
"There Are No Norms of Belief" (doc, 75KB) in Chan, T. ed. The Aim of Belief (forthcoming)
"Phenomenal Concepts and the Private Language Argument" (doc, 132KB) American Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
"Realism, Ramsey Sentences and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction" (doc, 160KB) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (forthcoming)
“Kripke’s Proof That We Are All Intuitive Dualists” (forthcoming)
“The Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge” (doc, 121KB) in M. Shaffer and M Veber (eds) New Essays on the A Priori (forthcoming)
"What Exactly is the Explanatory Gap?" (doc, 146KB) Philosophia (2010)
“A Fair Deal for Everettians” (doc, 139KB) in J. Barrett, A. Kent, S. Saunders, and D. Wallace (eds) Many Worlds? (2010)
“Can any Sciences be Special?” (pdf, 186KB) in C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds) Emergence in Mind (2010)
"The Poverty of Analysis" (doc, 132KB) in Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (2009)
“Physicalism and the Human Sciences” (doc, 126KB) in C. Mantzavinos (ed) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice (2009)
2007-8
“Must a Physicalist be a Microphysicalist?” (pdf, 280KB) in J. Hohwy and J. Kallestrup (eds) Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction and Explanation in the Special Sciences (2008)
“Kripke’s Argument is Ad Hominem Not Two-Dimensional” in Philosophical Perspectives (2007)
"Phenomenal Concepts are not Demonstrative" (doc, 116KB) in MM McCabe and M Textor (eds) Perspectives on Perception (2007)
2005-6
“The Cultural Origins of Cognitive Adaptations” in A O’Hear (ed) Biology, Evolution and Culture (2006)
“Phenomenal and Perceptual Concepts” in T. Alter and S. Walter (eds) Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge (2006)
“A Defence of the Via Negativa Argument for Physicalism” (with Barbara Montero) Analysis (2005)
“Physicalism Decomposed” (with Andreas Huttemann) Analysis (2005)
“Social Leaning and the Baldwin Effect” in A Zilhao (ed) Rationality and Evolution (2005)
2003-4
"Rational or Associative? Imitation in Japanese Quail" (with Cecilia Heyes) in M. Nudds & S. Hurley (eds) Rational Animals? Oxford University Press (2004)
"David Lewis and Schrodinger's Cat" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2004)
“Confusions about Consciousness” (doc, 46KB) in Richmond Journal of Philosophy (2003)
"Human Minds" in A. O'Hear (ed) Minds and Persons (2003)
"Why You Don’t Want to Get in the Box with Schrödinger’s Cat" Analysis (2003)
"Could there be a Science of Consciousness?" Philosophical Issues (2003)
"Is Representation Rife?" Ratio (2003)
"Theories of Consciousness" in Q. Smith and A.Jokic (eds) Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (2003)
2001-2
“Scientific Realism Without Reference” (doc, 56KB) (with Pierre Cruse) in M. Marsonet (ed), The Problem of Realism (2002)
"Metaphysics over Methodology—or, Why Infidelity Provides no Grounds to Divorce Causes from Probabilities" in M.-C. Galavotti, P. Suppes, and D. Costantini (eds) Stochastic Causality (2001)
"The Evolution of Means-End Reasoning" (doc, 135KB) in D. Walsh (ed) Naturalism, Evolution and Mind (2001); reprinted in my The Roots of Reason
"The Status of Teleosemantics, or How to Stop Worrying about Swampman" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2001)
"Evidentialism Reconsidered" Nous (2001); an expanded version is reprinted as "Causation as a Guide to Life" in my The Roots of Reason
"The Rise of Physicalism" in J. Wolff (ed) The Proper Ambition of Science (2000) and in B. Loewer (ed) Physicalism and its Discontents (2001)
1999-2000
“How not to Kill Swampman” in J. Botero, J. Ramos and A. Rosas (eds) Mentes Reales: La Ciencia Cognitiva y la Naturalización de la Mente (2000)
"The Evolution of Knowledge" in P. Carruthers (ed) Evolution and the Human Mind (2000); reprinted in my The Roots of Reason
"A Note on the Completeness of Physics" (with David Spurrett) Analysis (1999)
"Normativity and Judgement" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1999); reprinted in my The Roots of Reason
1997-8
"Mind the Gap" Philosophical Perspectives (ed) J. Tomberlin (1998)
"Probability as a Guide to Life" (doc, 105KB) (with Helen Beebee) Journal of Philosophy (1997); reprinted in my The Roots of Reason
"Teleosemantics and Indeterminacy" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1997)
"Rational Decisions and The Many Minds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" (doc, 86KB) Monist (1997); reprinted in my The Roots of Reason
1995-6
"Theory-Dependent Terms" (doc, 148KB) Philosophy of Science (1996)
"The Antipathetic Fallacy and the Limits of Consciounsness" in T. Metzinger (ed) Consciousness (1996)
"Probabilities and the Many Minds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" (doc, 48KB) Analysis (1995)
"Mental Disorder, Illness and Biological Function" in A. Phillips Griffith (ed) Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology (1995)
1993-4
"Arguments for Supervenience and Identity" in E. Savellos and B. Yelcin (eds) Supervenience: New Essays (1994)
"Consciousness, Physicalism and the Antipathetic Fallacy" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1993)
"The Virtues of Randomization" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1993)
1991-2
Science and Truth, Inaugural Lecture, King's College London (1992)
"Can We Reduce Causes to Probabilities?" in D. Hull and K. Okruklik (eds) Philosophy of Science Association1992 vol 2
"Reliabilism, Induction and Scepticism" Philosophical Quarterly (1992)
"Boscovich and the Acceptance of the Newtonian Concept of Force" in P. Bursill-Hall (ed) Procedings of the Rome Boscovich Conference (1992)
"Antirealismus und Skeptizismus hinsichtlich Mathematik, Moral und Modalitat" in W. Kohler (ed) Realismus und Anti-Realismus (1992)
"Teleology and Irreducibility" in D. Charles and K. Lennon (eds) Reduction, Realism and and Explanation Oxford University Press (1992)
"Teleology and Mental States" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1991)
"The Reason Why" Analysis (1991)
1990 and before
"Why Supervenience?" Analysis (1990)
"Truth and Teleology" in D. Knowles (ed) Explanation and its Limits (1990)
"Mixed, Pure and Spurious Probabilities and their Significance for a Reductionist Theory of Causation" in P. Kitcher and W. Salmon (eds) Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol XIII (1990)
"Causation and Mixed Probabilities" International Studies in Philosophy of Science (1990)
"Knowledge of Mathematical Objects" in A. Irvine (ed) Physicalism in Mathematics (1989)
"Has Popper been a Good Thing?" in K. Gavorglou and G. Goudaroulis (eds) Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change (1988)
"Ramsey-Lewis is Better than Mackie" Analysis (1988)
"Mathematical Fictionalism" International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (1988)
"Does the Sociology of Science Discredit Science?" in R. Nola (ed) Relativism and Realism in Science (1988)
"Laws and Accidents" in G. Macdonald and C. Wright (eds) Facts, Science and Morality (1986)
"Causal Factors, Causal Inference, Causal Explanation" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1986)
"Semantic Reduction and Reference" in J. Butterfield (ed) Language, Mind, and Logic (1986)
"Realism and Epistemology" Mind (1985)
"Causal Asymmetry" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1985)
"Social Facts and Psychological Facts" in G. Currie and A. Musgrave (eds) Popper and the Human Sciences (1985)
"Probabilities and Causes" Journal of Philosophy (1985)
"Representation and Explanation" Philosophy of Science (1984)
"Is Epistemology Dead?" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1981-82)
"The Vis Viva controversy: Do Meanings Matter?" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1977). Reprinted in part in R. Woolhouse (ed) Leibniz Oxford Readings in Philosophy (1981)
"Meaning Variance and the Theory of Reference" Methodology and Science (1977)
"Ideal Types and Empirical Theories" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1976)