1997-2002
Chair of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
1994-present Professor
of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
1988-94
Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Massey University, New Zealand
1979-1988
Lecturer (= Assistant Professor) and Senior Lecturer (=Associate
Professor)
in Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand
Justice, Ethics and New Zealand Society co-edited with R. Perrett (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Likeness to Truth Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986).
Articles
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website.)
“Experiences of Value”, in Pigden, Charles R. (ed.) Hume, Motivation and Virtue, (Rochester NY: Rochester University Press, forthcoming 2005).
“A refutation of Peircian idealism”, in Colin Cheyne (ed) Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (Kluwer series Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science ) (Dordrecht: Kluwer, forthcoming 2005).
"Recombinant Values" Philosophical Studies 106 (2001), 259-292."Scrumptious Functions" Grazer Philosophische Studien 62 (2001), 137-56.
"Hume, the BAD Paradox, and Value Realism" PHILO 4 (2001), 109-22.
"Reduction: varieties of" International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences eds. Niel J.Smelser et al. (Oxford,Elselvier 2001), 12857-64.
"Truth, Verification, Confirmation, Verisimilitude" International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences eds. Niel J.Smelser et al. (Oxford,Elselvier 2001) 15932-7.
"Truthlikeness" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (July, 2001) Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthlikeness/.
"Axiological Atomism" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (2001) 313-332.
"Control, Consequence and Compatibilism", Between Words and Worlds- A Festschrift for Pavel Materna eds. Tim Childers and Jari Palomäki (Filosofia: Prague, 2001), 143-155.
"Permanent possibilities of sensation", Philosophical Studies 98 (2000), 345-359.
"Moral realism, moral relativism and moral rules: a compatibility argument" Synthese 117 (1999), 251-274.
"The moral case for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia", Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 28 (1998), 207-224.
"Conditionalization, cogency and cognitive value" The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (1997), 533-41."Killing and letting-die: from bare differences to clear differences" Philosophical Studies 88, (1997), 267-87.
Reprinted
in What's Wrong edited
by David Boonin and Graham Oddie (New York, Oxford University Press,
2004).
"Truthlikeness" in Borchert Donald. M., ed.The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement (New York: Macmillan, 1997), 574-6.
"Rescuing Reason" Philosophy, 71:445-460, (1996).
"The consequences of actions", Logic and Reality edited by Jack Copeland (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 273-99.
"Moral uncertainty and human embryo experimentation" in Medicine and Moral Reasoning edited by K Fulford. G. Gillett and J. Soskice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
"Harmony, Purity, Truth" Mind, 103: 452-72 (1994).
"What agents can do" (with Pavel Tichy) Record of the Workshop on Logic and Action ed Norman Foo et al (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1994), 13-28.
"Addiction and the value of freedom" Bioethics 7 (5): 373-401 (1993).
Reprinted in The Proceedings of the Russellian Society 18, (1993).
Reprinted in What's Wrong? edited by David Boonin and Graham Oddie (New York, Oxford University Press, 2004).
"An objectivistís guide to subjective value" (with Peter Menzies)Ethics 102 (3): 512-34 (1992).
Reprinted in Consequentialism (International Research Library of Philosophy) edited Philip Petit (Dartmouth: Aldershot, 1993), 327-350.)
"The possibility and value of possibilities for value", From the Logical Point of View 2 (1992)."Is the Treaty of Waitangi a social contract?" (with Jindra Tichy) in Justice, Ethics and New Zealand Society (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1992), 73-90.
"Act and maxim: value discrepancy and two theories of power" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 53: 71-92, (1992).
"Simultaneity and Godís timelessness" (with Roy Perrett) Sophia, 31: 123-9 (1992).
"Act and value: expectations and the representability of moral theories" (with Peter Milne) Theoria, 48: 165-82 (1991).
"Supervenience and higher-order universals", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69: 20-47, (1991).
"Backwards causation and the permanence of the past", Synthese, 85: 71-93 (1990).
Reprinted in Analytical Metaphysics ed. M. Tooley, (Hamden: Garland Pub Co., 2000).
"Creative value", Inquiry, 33: 297-315 (1990)."Verisimilitude by power relations" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 41: 129-35, (1990).
"Resplicing properties in the supervenience base" (with Pavel Tichy) Philosophical Studies, 58: 1-11, (1990).
"The unity of theories" in Freedom and Rationality ed. F. díAgostino and I. Jarvie, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989), 343-69.
"The aesthetic adequacy of copies" (with D. Ward) The British Journal of Aesthetics 29: 258-60, (1989).
"On a dogma concerning realism and incommensurability" in Relativism and Realism in Science, ed. R. Nola (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1988), 169-203.
"Truthlikeness and the convexity of propositions" in What is Closer-to-the-Truth? ed Theo Kuipers (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), 197-217.
"Partial interpretation, meaning-variance, and incommensurability" in Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change ed. Gavroglu, K. et al (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1987), 305-322.
"The picture theory of truthlikeness" in What is Closer-to-the-Truth? ed Theo Kuipers (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), 25-46.
"Is Science Progressive?" (Review-article) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38: 272-6, (1987).
"A decision-theoretic argument against human embryo experimentation" Essays in Honour of Bob Durrant ed. M. Fricke (Dunedin: University of Otago, 1986), 111-27.
"Truthtelling and fatal illness" (with R. Perrett) The New Zealand Medical Journal, 8 October, 759-61 (1986).
Reprinted: Selected by the California Medical Association, 1988, as part of a resource package for physicians involved with dying patients.
"The poverty of the Popperian program for truthlikeness" Philosophy of Science, 53 (2): 163-78, (1986).
Reprinted in Popper: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers ed. Anthony O’Hear (London: Routledge, 2004)..
"Ability and freedom" (with Pavel Tichy) American Philosophical Quarterly, 20: 135-47, (1983).
"The logic of ability, freedom and responsibility" (with Pavel Tichy) Studia Logica 61: 135-56, (1982).
"Armstrong on the eleatic principle and abstract entities", Philosophical Studies, 41: 285-95 (1982).
"Cohen on verisimilitude and natural necessity" Synthese, 51: 355-79 (1982).
"Control" Essays in honour of Gwen Taylor ed. Durrant, R. (Dunedin: University of Otago, 1981), 190-210.
"Changing numbers" (with Gregory Currie) Theoria, 48: 148-64, (1982).
"Verisimilitude reviewed" The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 32: 237-65, (1981).
"Miller's so-called paradox of information" (with Colin Howson) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 30: 253-61, (1979).
"Verisimilitude and distance in logical space" in Acta Philosophica Fennica 30: 2-4 (1978), 227-242.
"The paradox of punishment and the reduction of desert""Redefining functionalism"