Discussion notes etc
2009-10
"What is X-Phi Good For?" (doc, 38K) The Philosophers' Magazine (2010)
“Five Philosophy of Science Answers” (doc, 82KB) in R. Rosenberger (ed) Philosophy of Science: Five Questions (2010)
"Top Universities: Only the Rich Need Apply" op ed article on university fees in the Times 13 August 2009
“The Causal Closure of the Physical and Naturalism” (pdf, 92KB) B. McLaughlin, A. Beckermann and S. Walter (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Mind (2009)
“Naturalism” in C Nimtz (ed) One Hundred Key Concepts in Philosophy (2009)
“Reply to Lewis: Metaphysics versus Epistemology” (doc, 37KB) (withVictor Durà-Vilà) Analysis (2009)
2007-8
"Explanatory Gaps and Dualist Intuitions" (pdf, 169KB) Comment on Martin Davies, in L. Weiskrantz and M. Davies (eds) Frontiers of Consciousness (2008)
“Five Philosophy of Social Science Answers” (pdf, 683KB) in D. Rios and C. Schmidt-Petri (eds) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Five Questions (2008)
“A Thirder and an Everettian: Reply to Lewis’s ‘Quantum Sleeping Beauty’” (with Victor Durà-Vilà) Analysis (2008)
“The Causal Closure of the Physical Domain” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Thompson Gale (2008)
“Naturalism” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007)
“Reuniting (Scene) Phenomenology with (Scene) Access” Comment on N. Block’s “Consciousness, Accessibility, and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience” Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2007)
“Three Scenes and a Moral: My Philosophical Development” (doc, 31KB) The Philosopher’s Magazine (2007)
“Replies to Commentators on Thinking about Consciousness” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2007)
2005-6
Review article (pdf, 214KB) (with Matteo Mameli): Gary Marcus’s The Birth of the Mind, Biology and Philosophy (2006)
“The Tyranny of Common Sense” (doc, 61KB) The Philosopher’s Magazine (2006)
“The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Reply to Griffiths” in P. Carruthers, S. Laurence and S. Stich (eds) The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition (2006)
“Naturalist Theories of Meaning” (doc, 98KB) in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Langauge (2006)
“Comments on Galen Strawson's ‘Realistic Monism’” in A Freeman (ed) Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? (2006)
“The Problem of Probability” The Philosophers’ Magazine (2005)
2003-4
Review article: Kim Sterelny’s Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2004)
Comments on Gerd Gigerenzer’s "Where do new ideas come from? A heuristics of discovery in the social sciences" in M.-C. Galavotti ed Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences (2004)
"Two Kinds of) Concepts of Mind". Entry in R. Gregory (ed) Companion to the Mind, 2nd edition (2004)
Reply to Robert Kirk's and Andrew Melnyk's comments on my Thinking about Consciousness SWIF Online Philosophy Forum (2003)
2002 and before
Preface (doc, 58KB) to a new edition of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook, Routledge (2002)
Review article (with Nicholas Shea): Ruth Millikan's On Clear and Confused Ideas Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2002)
"Teleosemantics" in J. Branquinho and P. Murcho (eds) Enciclopedia de Termos Logico-Filosoficos (1999).
"Evolutionary Psychology" anonymous article in The Economist (1998)
Entry on "Mathematical Fictionalism" in P. Edwards (ed) Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd ed (19980
Entry on "Functionalism" in E. Craig (ed) Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998)
"Doubtful Intuitions" Mind and Language (1996)
"Introduction" to Papineau ed Philosophy of Science (1996)
"Many Minds are No Worse than One: Comment on Lockwood" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1996)
“Replies to Commentators on Philosophical Naturalism” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1996)
Comment on Christopher Peacocke's A Study of Concepts, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1995)
"Methodology: The Elements of Philosophy of Science" in A. Grayling (ed) Philosophy (1995)
"Philosophy of Science" in N. Bunnin and E. James (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (1995)
"Problems of the Philosophy of Science", "Philosophical Problems of Biology", etc. Entries in T. Honderich (ed) The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1994; 2nd edition, revised, 2004).
"Causal Theories of Content". Entry in S. Guttenplan (ed) Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (1994)
Review article: Nancy Cartwright's Nature's Capacities and their Measurement British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1991)
"Probability and Normativity: Comment on Thagard" Brain and Behavioural Sciences (1989)
"Reply to Ehring's 'Papineau on Causal Asymmetry'" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1988)
Review article: C. Peacocke's Thoughts: An Essay on Content, Philosophical Books (1987)
"Theory and Observation" Prometeo Milan (1985)
"Nature and Nurture" Journal of Medical Ethics (1982)
"Salmon, Statistics, and Backwards Causation" in P. Asquith and I. Hacking (eds) Philosophy of Science Association Vol 1 (1978)
"Lessnoff's Critique of Critical Theory" in S.C. Brown (ed) Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences (1978)