Metaphysics

Books

2017

'What is this thing called Metaphysics?' (3rd ed.) Routledge, UK

2012

What is this thing called Metaphysics? (2nd ed.) Routledge, UK

2010

Spanish translation of What is this thing called Metaphysics? Alianza Editorial, Madrid

2008

Metafisica (Portugese translation of What is this thing called Metaphysics?) Artmed Sao Paolo

2006

What is this thing called Metaphysics? (1st ed.) Routledge, UK

1998

Personal Identity and Self Consciousness, Routledge, UK

Edited Books

1993: B. Garrett & K. Mulligan (eds.) Themes from Wittgenstein (RSSS Monograph Series #4)
1992: B. Garrett & P. Menzies (eds.) Proceedings of the ANU Metaphysics Conference (RSSS Monograph Series #2)

Articles, Discussions, Book Reviews

2018

‘Experience and Time’ Acta Analytica (forthcoming)

‘Fatalism – a dialogue’ Think (forthcoming)

‘Dummett on McTaggart’s Proof of the Unreality of Time’ in Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior (Volume 2) Aalborg University Press, 2018.  (Eds.) Patrick Blackburn, Peter Øhrstrøm and Per Hasle.

Critical Notice of Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals & Identity (Eds.) Stephan Blatti & Paul Snowdon (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016) Analysis (forthcoming)

‘Bilking, Filking and Backwards Causation’ (under consideration)

2017

‘Endurantism endures: rejoinder to Barker and Dowe’ Manuscrito Vol 40.3 Campinas July/Sept. 2017

‘The Case of the Working Watch: Reply to Heathcote’ (under consideration)

‘A Dilemma for Eternalists’ (Philosophia, forthcoming)

‘Trolleys, Transplants and Other Dangerous Things’ Prajna Vihara (Jan-Jun 2017) Vol 18.1., pp. 168-72.

‘Agents, knowledge and backwards causation’ Analysis Vol 77.1, pp. 37-43.

‘Space, Time, Dummett and McTaggart’ Metaphysica Vol 18.1, pp. 61-9.


2016

‘Dummett on Bringing about the Past’ Philosophia Vol. 44, pp. 113–115.

‘Tim, Tom, Time and Fate: Lewis on Time Travel’ Analytic Philosophy Vol 57.3, pp. 247-252.

2015

‘Some Remarks on Backwards Causation’ Portuguese Review of Philosophy Vol 71.4, pp. 695-704.

‘On the epistemic bilking argument’ Thought Vol 4.3, pp. 139-40.


2014

‘Black on Backwards Causation’ Thought Vol 3.3, pp. 230-33

‘Some Comments on Evans’s Proof’ in Vague Objects and Vague Identity New Essays on Ontic Vagueness (Springer) Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Vol. 33  Akiba, Ken, Abasnezhad, Ali (Eds.)


2013

‘Personal Identity’ Encyclopedia of the Mind, ed. H Pashler, (Sage Publications)

‘On Behalf of Gaunilo’ Analysis Vol. 73.3, pp. 481-3


2012

‘Response to Goldstein’ Analysis Vol 72.4, pp. 742 - 744

‘A Comment on McCall’ Analysis Vol 72.2, pp. 293 - 5


2004

 ‘Johnston on Fission’ Sorites December, pp. 87 - 93.

‘Some Comments on a Modal Ontological Argument’ Prajna Vihara The Journal of Philosophy and Religion Vol 5, No. 2, pp. 22 – 27.


2003

 "Some Thoughts on Animalism," in Klaus Petrus (ed.), On Human Persons, Ontos-Verlag: Frankfurt / London 2003 (Metaphysical Research, Vol 1), 41-45

‘Bermudez on Self-consciousness’ Philosophical Quarterly


2002

‘Cartesianism and the Private Language Argument’ Sorites, October 2002


2001

‘How to reply to the Sceptic’ Prajna Vihara The Journal of Philosophy and Religion

‘Wittgenstein’s Private Language Arguments’ Proceedings of the 24th International Wittgenstein Symposium, August 2001

Contribution to Symposium on L. Rudder Baker’s book Persons and their Bodies A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind (http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/bakersymp.htm), 2001


1999

‘A sceptical tension’ Analysis, July 1999


1998

'Personal Identity' (7500 words) and 'Persons' (2500 words) in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy  (Ed.) E. Craig (1998)


1997

Review of E. E. Savellos & U. D. Yalcin (eds) Supervenience: New Essays Mind 106 1997, pp. 201 – 3

'Anscombe on 'I'’ Philosophical Quarterly, October 1997, pp. 507 - 512

Review of Carol Rovane’s The Bounds of Agency, Australasian Journal of Philosophy


1996

Entries on Parfit and Nozick (300 words each) in T. Mautner (ed.) The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy Penguin 1996, and 'Personal Identity' (300 words)

'Hamilton's New Look - A Reply' Philosophical Quarterly, April 1996, pp. 220 - 226


1995

'Wittgenstein and the First Person' Australasian Journal of Philosophy September 1995, pp. 347 - 356

'Extrinsic/intrinsic' in J. Kim & E. Sosa (eds.) A Companion to Metaphysics  Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1995

Review of D. Oderberg, The Metaphysics of Identity, Australasian Journal of Philosophy  June, 1995, pp. 306 – 7


1994

'Anscombe and the First Person' Critica 1994

'Vagueness, Identity, and the World' Logique et Analyse 1994, pp. 349 - 358


1993

'Wittgenstein on Solipsism and Avowals' in B. Garrett & K. Mulligan (eds.) Themes from Wittgenstein  (RSSS Monograph Series #4) 1993, pp. 86 - 106


1992

'Keeping Track of Nozick's Trackers' Ratio, June 1992, pp. 91 - 93

'Reductionism and Self-Reference' in B. Garrett & P. Menzies (eds.) Proceedings of the ANU Metaphysics Conference, (RSSS Monograph Series #2) 1992, pp. 23 - 31

'Persons and Values', Philosophical Quarterly Prize Essay, July 1992, pp. 337 - 344

Review of H.W. Noonan, Personal Identity Nous, March 1992, pp. 128 - 130


1991

'Personal Identity and Reductionism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, June 1991, pp. 361 - 373 (Reprinted in J. Skorupski (ed.) International Research Library of Philosophy, Dartmouth Press 1993)

'Vague Identity and Vague Objects', Nous, June 1991, pp. 341- 351 (Reprinted in J. Skorupski (ed.) International Research Library of Philosophy, Dartmouth Press 1993)


1990

'Personal Identity and Extrinsicness', Philosophical Studies, June 1990, pp. 177 - 194  (Reprinted in J. Skorupski (ed.) International Research Library of Philosophy,  Dartmouth Press 1993)

'Persons and Human Beings', Logos, Vol. 11, 1990, pp. 47 - 57 (Proceedings of the Santa Clara Conference on Personal Identity)


1989

'Reply to Savellos', Philosophical Quarterly, April 1989, pp. 228 - 230

Review of Persons and Personality, A. Peacocke & G. Gillett, (eds.) Mind, January 1989, pp. 154 - 160


1988

'Vagueness and Identity', Analysis, June 1988, pp. 130 - 134

'Identity and Extrinsicness', Mind, January 1988, pp. 105 - 109

'Best-Candidate Theories and Identity', Inquiry, March 1988, pp. 79 - 85

''Thank Goodness that's Over' Revisited', Philosophical Quarterly,  April 1988, pp. 201 - 205 (Reprinted in L. N. Oaklander & Q. Smith (eds.) The New Theory of Time, Yale University Press 1994.)

Review of A. Donagan, Choice: The Essential Element in Human Action, Times Literary Supplement, September 1988, p. 948


1987

'A Further Reply to Noonan', Analysis, October 1987, pp. 204 - 207


1986

Critical Notice of G. Forbes, The Metaphysics of Modality, Philosophical Books, April 1986, pp. 65 – 72


1985

'A Note on Substance Concepts', Analysis, June 1985, p. 176

'Noonan, Best-Candidate Theories and the Ship of Theseus', Analysis, October 1985, pp. 212 - 215


1984

'More on Rigidity and Scope', Logique et Analyse, March 1984, pp. 97 - 101

'Nozick on Knowledge - a rejoinder', Analysis, October 1984, pp. 194 - 196

Review of P. van Inwagen, An Essay on Free Will, Philosophical Quarterly, April 1984, pp. 171 - 172

Review of C. McGinn, The Character of Mind, Mind, July 1984, pp. 461 - 463


1983

'Nozick on Knowledge', Analysis, October 1983, pp. 181 - 184

 'Identical Truth Conditions' Analysis Competition Prize Winner, October 1983, pp. 117 - 118

'Grayling on Internal Structure', Analysis, March 1983, pp. 78 - 80

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