E. J. LOWE
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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Main research interests: problems of identity and substance; the logic of sortal terms; the logic of conditionals; problems of causation and natural law; induction and scientific method; problems of space and time; the philosophy of perception; the philosophy of action; the problem of free will; the mind-body problem; philosophical and psychological problems of human rationality; the philosophical thought of John Locke
Books
1. Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms (Aristotelian Monograph Series, No. 10), Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989, pp. vi + 210. Reviews: P. F. Snowdon, Philosophical Books 32, 1991, 37-9; H. W. Noonan, Philosophy 66, 1991, 248-9; G. Engelbretsen, Iyyun 40, 1991, 100-105; P. Simons, Mind 101, 1992, 581-2; M. Baur, Review of Metaphysics 46, 1992, 166-8; F. J. Pelletier, History and Philosophy of Logic 13, 1992, 125-8
2. Locke on Human Understanding, London & New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. x + 203. Reviews: A. Miller, Locke Newsletter 26, 1995, 141-55; P. Snowdon, Mind 105, 1996, 348-51; B. Maund, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 1996, 528-30; N. Unwin, Philosophical Books 38, 1997, 97-8; E. Barbanell, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 15, 1995, 410-12; D. W. Hamlyn, Philosophical Investigations 20, 1997, 155-9; D. Doering, Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung 8, 1996, 251-2; A. Nelson & L. Nolan, Philosophia 27, 1999, 665-8
3. Subjects of Experience, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. x + 209. Reviews: K. Sutherland, Times Higher Education Supplement, Oct. 11, 1996, 21; J. Heil, Times Literary Supplement, Jan. 10, 1997, 27; G. Madell, Philosophy 72, 1997, 147-50; J. Brown, Philosophical Books 39, 1998, 56-8; K. Paprzycka, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 17, 1997, 45-7; J. L. Bermudez, Philosophical Quarterly 49, 1999, 272-5; U. Uus, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6, 1999, 90-1; C. Macdonald, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60, 2000, 224-8; C. J. L. Talmage, Dialogue 37, 1998, 631-3
4. The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity and Time, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. viii + 275. Reviews: F.Jackson, Times Literary Supplement, Apr. 9, 1999, 33; K. Hawley, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50, 1999, 478-82; S. McLeod, History and Philosophy of Logic 20, 1999, 141-3; E. Olson, Mind 109, 2000, 967-9; M. D. Gossiaux, Review of Metaphysics 54, 2000, 159-60; S. Shalkowski, Philosophical Books 41 (2000), 275-8; J. Heil, Philosophical Review 110, 2001, 91-4; G. Rosenkrantz, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, 2002, 728-36; R. Le Poidevin, International Philosophical Quarterly 42, 2002, 546-7
5. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xiii + 318. Reviews: M. di Francesco, Il Sole 24 Ore, 292, Oct. 29, 2000, 34; B. Benham, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Oct. 11, 2000; St.E. Cuypers, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 63, 2001; J. Gosling, International Philosophical Quarterly 4, 2001, 253-5; H. Langsam, Philosophical Books 42 (2001), 229-31; S. Crawford, Times Literary Supplement, 5167, Apr. 12, 2002, 29; B. Majors, Review of Metaphysics 56, 2002, 438-9; D. Heider, Filosoficky-Casopis 51, 2003, 1035-44. Spanish language version: Filosofia de la Mente, trans. O. Fernandez Prat, Idea Books, 2000, pp. 281. Estonian version: Sissejuhatus Vaimufilosoofiasse, trans. T. Hallap, Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2008, pp. 331.
6. A Survey of Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. xiii + 402. Reviews: T. Crane, Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002; G. Keil, Zeitschrift fur Philosophische Forschung 57, 2003, 320-4; H. Clement, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 67, 2005, 347-8; A. M. Nguyen, Teaching Philosophy 29, 2006, 384-7
7. Locke, London & New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. xiii + 220. Reviews: J. Hill, Locke Studies 6, 2006, 211-18; M. Stuart, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13/6/06
8. The Four-Category Ontology: A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. xiv + 222. Reviews: I. Johannson, Dialectica 60, 2006, 513-18; R. Wasserman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 11/4/06; P. van Inwagen, Times Literary Supplement, 5415, Jan. 12, 2007; S. Bostock, Philosophical Books 48, 2007, 274-7; J. Westerhoff, Mind 116, 2007, 759-62
9. Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008
10. More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2009
11. Dualism, forthcoming
Edited volumes
1. Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism, ed. A. Corradini, S. Galvan & E. J. Lowe, London & New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. xiii + 266
2. Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. A. Antonietti, A. Corradini & E. J. Lowe, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), forthcoming 2008
3. Truth and Truth-Making, ed. A. Rami & E. J. Lowe, Stocksfield: Acumen, forthcoming 2008
Articles in journals and contributions to edited volumes
1. Neither intentional nor unintentional, Analysis 38, 1978, 117-18
2. Indicative and counterfactual conditionals, Analysis 39, 1979, 139-41
3. For want of a nail, Analysis 40, 1980, 50-2
4. Peacocke and Kraemer on Butler’s Problem, Analysis 40, 1980,113-18
5. Active and passive euthanasia: an objection, Philosophy 55, 1980, 550-1
6. Reply to Davis, Analysis 40, 1980, 187-90
7. Sortal terms and natural laws, American Philosophical Quarterly 17, 1980, 253-60 [Prize Essay]
8. An analysis of intentionality, Philosophical Quarterly 30, 1980, 294-304
9. Against an argument for token identity, Mind 90, 1981, 120-1
10. “All actions occur inside the body”, Analysis 41, 1981, 126-9
11. Indirect perception and sense data, Philosophical Quarterly 31, 1981, 330-42
12. Laws, dispositions and sortal logic, American Philosophical Quarterly 19, 1982, 41-50
13. The paradox of the 1,001 cats, Analysis 42, 1982, 27-30
14. Reply to Geach, Analysis 42, 1982, 31
15. Intentionality and intuition: a reply to Davies, Analysis 42, 1982, 85
16. On being a cat, Analysis 42, 1982, 174-7
17. Intentionality: a reply to Stiffler, Philosophical Quarterly 32, 1982, 354-7
18. On the alleged necessity of true identity statements, Mind 91, 1982, 579-84
19. Instantiation, identity and constitution, Philosophical Studies 44, 1983, 45-59
20. A simplification of the logic of conditionals, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 24, 1983, 357-66
21. On the identity of artifacts, Journal of Philosophy 80, 1983, 220-32
22. Reply to Hornsby on actions, Analysis 43, 1983, 140-1
23. A note on a response of Hornsby’s, Analysis 44, 1984, 196-7
24. Wright versus Lewis on the transitivity of counterfactuals, Analysis 44, 1984, 180-3
25. Reply to Baldwin on de re modalities, Mind 94, 1985, 101-3
26. “If A and B, then A”, Analysis 45, 1985, 93-8
27. Sortal terms and absolute identity, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64, 1986, 64-71
28. Necessity and the will in Locke’s theory of action, History of Philosophy Quarterly 3, 1986, 149-63 [reprinted in U. Thiel (ed.), Locke: Metaphysics, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002, 247-61]
29. Reply to Wright on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis 45, 1985, 200-2
30. What do we see directly?, American Philosophical Quarterly 23, 1986, 277-85
31. The topology of visual appearance, Erkenntnis 25, 1986, 271-4
32. Miracles and laws of nature, Religious Studies 23, 1987, 263-78
33. Reply to Dale, Analysis 46, 1986, 83-5
34. Substance, An Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. G. H. R. Parkinson, London: Routledge, 1988, 255-78
35. Noonan on naming and predicating, Analysis 46, 1986, 159
36. The indexical fallacy in McTaggart’s proof of the unreality of time, Mind 96, 1987, 62-70
37. Not a counterexample to modus ponens, Analysis 47, 1987, 44-7
38. On a supposed temporal/modal parallel, Analysis 46, 1986, 195-7
39. Reply to Over, Analysis 46, 1986, 200
40. What is the “problem of induction”?, Philosophy 62, 1987, 325-40
41. Lewis on perdurance versus endurance, Analysis 47, 1987, 152-4 [reprinted in H. Noonan (ed.), Identity, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993, 311-13]
42. Reply to Noonan, Analysis 47, 1987, 201-3
43. Reply to Le Poidevin and Mellor, Mind 96, 1987, 539-42
44. Substance, identity and time, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 62, 1988, 61-78
45. What is a criterion of identity?, Philosophical Quarterly 39, 1989, 1-21 [reprinted in H. Noonan (ed.), Identity, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1993, 435-55]
46. The problems of intrinsic change: rejoinder to Lewis, Analysis 48, 1988, 72-7
47. David Lewis, Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, ed. H. Burkhardt & B. Smith, Munich: Philosophia, 1991, 453-4
48. Impredicative identity criteria and Davidson’s criterion of event identity, Analysis 49, 1989, 178-81
49. Conditionals, context and transitivity, Analysis 50, 1990, 80-7
50. Real selves: persons as a substantial kind, Human Beings, ed. D. Cockburn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 87-107 [Review: C. Gill, Philosophical Quarterly 42, 1992, 502-4]
51. Objects and criteria of identity, A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, ed. R. Hale & C. Wright, Oxford & Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1997, 613-33
52. Experience and its objects, The Contents of Experience, ed. T. Crane, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 [Reviews: T. Sorell, New Scientist, 14 Nov. 1992, 45-6; A.Millar, Mind 102, 1993, 362-6]
53. Contributions to Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. R. E. Asher et al., Oxford & Aberdeen: Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press, 1993: a priori; abstract ideas; epistemology; natural kinds; sortal terms [reprinted in Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Language, ed. P. V. Lamarque, Oxford: Elsevier Science, 1997]
54. Jackson on classifying conditionals, Analysis 51, 1991, 126-30
55. Substance and selfhood, Philosophy 66, 1991, 81-99
56. One-level versus two-level identity criteria, Analysis 51, 1991, 192-4
57. Noun phrases, quantifiers, and generic names, Philosophical Quarterly 41, 1991, 287-300
58. Rationality, deduction and mental models, Rationality, ed. K. Manktelow & D. Over, London: Routledge, 1993, 211-30
59. Primitive substances, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54, 1994, 531-52
60. The problem of psychophysical causation, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70, 1992, 263-76 [reprinted in T. O’Connor & D. Robb (eds), Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings, London: Routledge, 2003, 49-64]
61. McTaggart’s paradox revisited, Mind 101, 1992, 323-6
62. Reply to Ramachandran on conditionals and transitivity, Analysis 52, 1992, 77-80
63. Perception: a causal representative theory, New Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception, ed. E. Wright, Aldershot: Avebury, 1993, 136-52
64. Comment on Le Poidevin, Mind 102, 1993, 171-3
65. Contributions to The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. T. Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995: a priori and a posteriori; A-series and B-series; affirmative and negative propositions; analytic and synthetic statements; axiom; being; Bennett; capacity; Carnap; cat, Schroedinger’s; class; contingent and necessary statements; Dummett; existence; existential proposition; fact; generalization; identity, criterion of; Jackson; kind, natural; Kripke; Mellor; mereology; mode; monism and pluralism; names; necessary and sufficient conditions; necessity, epistemic; necessity, logical; necessity, metaphysical; nominalism; ontology; particulars and non-particulars; philosophical logic; potentiality; propensity; Ramsey; realization; recursion, definition by; redundancy theory of truth; reflective equilibrium; rigid designator; self; semantic theory of truth; specious present; Stalnaker; Strawson; things; thought experiments; time; time preference; time travel; truth; universals; Wiggins
66. Self, reference and self-reference, Philosophy 68, 1993, 15-33
67. Are the natural numbers individuals or sorts?, Analysis 53,1993, 142-6
68. Vague identity and quantum indeterminacy, Analysis 54, 1994, 110-14
69. The causal autonomy of the mental, Mind 102, 1993, 629-44
70. Ontological dependency, Philosophical Papers 23, 1994, 31-48
71. Die Metaphysik und ihre Möglichkeit, Metaphysik—Neue Zugänge zu alten Fragen, ed. J. Brandl, A. Hieke & P. Simons, St. Augustin: Academia Verlag, 1995, 11-32
72. The truth about counterfactuals, Philosophical Quarterly 45,1995, 41-59
73. The problem of the many and the vagueness of constitution, Analysis 55, 1995, 179-82
74. Coinciding objects: in defence of the “standard account”, Analysis 55, 1995, 171-8
75. Tense and persistence, Questions of Time and Tense, ed. R. Le Poidevin, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, 43-59
76. The metaphysics of abstract objects, Journal of Philosophy 92, 1995, 509-24
77. There are no easy problems of consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies 2, 1995, 266-71 [reprinted in Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, ed. J. Shear, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997, 117-23]
78. Why is there anything at all?, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 70, 1996, 111-20
79. John Locke; Identity, Encyclopedia of Empiricism, ed. D.Garrett & E. Barbanell, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, 172-7, 206-15
80. Reply to Noonan on vague identity, Analysis 57, 1997, 88-91
81. John Locke, Companion to the Philosophers, ed. R. L. Arrington, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, 369-75 [reprinted in The World’s Great Philosophers, ed. R. L. Arrington, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 195-202]
82. Ontological categories and natural kinds, Philosophical Papers 26, 1997, 29-46
83. Philosophical logic, The Map of Contemporary British and American Philosophy, ed. Ouyang Kang, People’s Press [China], 2005, 479-519 [in Chinese]
84. Conditional probability and conditional beliefs, Mind 105, 1996, 603-15
85. Why there are no easy problems of consciousness [abstract], History and Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter 22, Spring 1996, 17-18
86. Concreta: substance—introduction, Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, ed. S. D. Hales, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999, 371-6
87. Personal experience and belief: the significance of external symbolic storage for the emergence of modern human cognition, Cognition and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Symbolic Storage, ed. C. Scarre & C. Renfrew, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1998, 89-96
88. Whose rationality? Logical theory and the problem of deductive competence, Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition 16, 1997, 140-6
89. Entity, Identity and Unity, Erkenntnis 48, 1998, 191-208
90. Form without Matter, Ratio 11, 1998, 214-34 [reprinted in Form and Matter: Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics, ed. D. S. Oderberg, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999]
91. Contributions to The Fontana/Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought, ed. A. Bullock and S. Trombley, 3rd edn, London: Harper Collins, 1999: behaviourism; conventionalism; meaning; nominalism; realism; relativism
92. Self, agency and mental causation, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6, 1999, 225-39 [reprinted in The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will, ed. B. Libet, A. Freeman & K. Sutherland, Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 1999]
93. Contributions to The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. R. Audi, 2nd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999: Armstrong, Dummett
94. Abstraction, properties and immanent realism, Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 2: Metaphysics, ed. T. Rockmore, Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999, 195-205
95. Commentary on A. J. Hamilton’s ‘False Memory Syndrome and the Authority of Personal Memory Claims’, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 5, 1998, 309-10
96. Vague identity and quantum indeterminacy: further reflections, Analysis 59, 1999, 328-30
97. In defence of the simplicity argument, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78, 2000, 105-12
98. Individuation, Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, ed. M. J. Loux & D. W. Zimmerman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 75-95
99. Causal closure principles and emergentism, Philosophy 75, 2000, 571-85
100. Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the self, Soul, Body and Survival, ed. K. J. Corcoran, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, 139-58
101. Locke, Martin and substance, Philosophical Quarterly 50, 2000, 499-514 [reprinted in John Locke: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers, 2nd Series, Volume III: Metaphysics, ed. P. Anstey, London & New York: Routledge, 2006]
102. Event causation and agent causation, Grazer Philosophische Studien 61, 2001, 1-20
103. Properties, modes and universals, The Modern Schoolman 74, 2002, 137-50
104. Ontic indeterminacy of identity unscathed, Analysis 61, 2001, 241-5
105. Dispositions and laws, Metaphysica 2, 2001, 5-23
106. Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument, Analysis 62, 2002, 62-73
107. Kinds, essence and natural necessity, Individuals, Essence and Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics, ed. A. Bottani, M. Carrara & P. Giaretta, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002, 189-206
108. A defence of the four-category ontology, Argument und Analyse, ed. C. U. Moulines & K. G. Niebergall, Paderborn: Mentis, 2002, 225-40
109. Is knowing a state of mind? Critical notice of T. Williamson’s Knowledge and its Limits, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 10, 2002, 483-9
110. Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence, Ratio 16, 2003, 140-60
111. The rational and the real: some doubts about the programme of ‘rational analysis’, Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality, ed. J. L. Bermudez & A. Millar, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, 175-85
112. Recent advances in metaphysics [abstract], Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Collected Papers from the Second International Conference, New York: ACM Press, 2001, 1
113. Material coincidence and the cinematographic fallacy: a response to Olson, Philosophical Quarterly 52, 2002, 369-72
114. Locke: compatibilist event-causalist or libertarian substance-causalist? Critical study of G. Yaffe’s Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68, 2004, 688-701
115. La connaissance metaphysique, Revue de metaphysique et morale, 2002, 453-71
116. A serious look at serious naturalism: review essay on W. L. Craig & J. P. Moreland (eds), Naturalism: A Critical Analysis, Philosophia Christi 4, 2002, 197-2002
117. In defense of medium-sized specimens of dry goods, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68, 2003, 704-10
118. Personal agency, Minds and Persons, ed. A. O’Hear, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 211-27
119. 3D/4D equivalence, the twins paradox, and absolute time, Analysis 63, 2003, 114-23 [co-author Storrs McCall]
120. Substance causation, persons, and free will, Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. C. Kanzian, J. Quitterer & E. Runggaldier, Vienna, 2003, 76-88
121. Metaphysical realism and the unity of truth, Monism, ed. A. Bachli & K. Petrus, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2003, 109-23
122. Recent advances in metaphysics, Facta Philosophica 5, 2003, 3-24
123. Some formal ontological relations, Dialectica 58 (2004), 297-316
124. Physical causal closure and the invisibility of mental causation, Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, ed. S. Walter & H.-D. Heckmann, Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003, 137-54
125. Identity, Individuality and Unity, Philosophy 78, 2003, 321-36
126. Entries in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn, ed. T. Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005: animalism in personal identity; causal asymmetry or direction; counterpart theory; disquotation; emergence; essentialism; frame problem; modal realism; modality and metaphysics; presentism; probabilistic causality; reasoning, psychology of; slingshot arguments; tense; time’s arrow; truth (revised); zombies
127. Indeterminist free will, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70, 2005, 681-90 [co-author Storrs McCall]
128. The four-category ontology: reply to Kistler, Analysis 64, 2004, 152-7
129. Non-Cartesian dualism, Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology, ed. J. Heil, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 851-65
130. Powerful particulars: review essay on J. Heil’s From an Ontological Point of View, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72, 2006, 466-79
131. Lois et dispositions, La structure du monde: objets, proprietes, etats de chose: Renouveau de la metaphysique dans l’ecole australienne de philosophie, ed. J.-M. Monnoyer, Paris: J. Vrin, 2004, 299-313
132. Vagueness and endurance, Analysis 65, 2005, 104-112
133. Is conceptualist realism a stable position? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71, 2006, 456-61
134. How are ordinary objects possible? The Monist 88 (2005), 510-33
135. Ideational theories of meaning, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, volume 5, ed. K. Brown, Oxford: Elsevier, 2006, 483-5
136. Syntax and ontology: reflections on three logical systems, The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers, ed. D. S. Oderberg, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, 49-65
137. Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology, and disunities of consciousness, Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person, ed. J. Hughes, S. Louw & S. Sabat, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 89-103
138. The particular–universal distinction: a reply to MacBride, Dialectica 58, 2005, 335-40
139. Could volitions be epiphenomenal? Forthcoming [now appearing as Chapter 4 of Personal Agency]
140. Dualism, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind, ed. B. McLaughlin & A. Beckermann, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
141. Obituary of W. von Leyden, Locke Studies 5, 2005, 17-18
142. Dualism, Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience, ed. U. Windhorst, M. Binder & N. Hirokawa, Berlin: Springer, forthcoming
143. Identity, vagueness and modality, Thought, Reference, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans, ed. J. L. Bermudez, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 290-310
144. Agent causation/Jonathan Bennett, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edn, ed. D. M. Borchert, New York: Macmillan, forthcoming
145. Rational selves and freedom of action, Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism, ed. A. Corradini, S. Galvan & E. J. Lowe, London & New York: Routledge, 2006, 163-77
146. Endurance versus perdurance and the nature of time, Philosophical Writings 10, 2005, 45-58
147. The 3D/4D controversy: a storm in a teacup, Nous 40, 2006, 570-8 [co-author Storrs McCall]
148. Ontological dependence, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. N. Zalta, 2005, http://plato.stanford.edu
149. Substance and identity, Substanz: Neue Überlegungen zu einer klassischen Kategorie des Seienden, ed. K. Trettin, Frankfurt: Klostermann Verlag, 2005, 33-51
150. Metaphysics, Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Moran, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2008, 438-68
151. Needs, facts, goodness and truth, The Philosophy of Need, ed. S. Reader, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 161-73
152. Truthmaking as essential dependence, Metaphysics and Truthmakers, ed. J.-M. Monnoyer, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007, 237-59
153. How real is substantial change? The Monist 89 (2006), 275-93
154. Interview with Jonathan Lowe, Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 5, 2005, 17-28
155. Radical externalism or Berkeley revisited?, Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, 2006, 78-87 [reprinted in A. Freeman (ed.), Radical Externalism: Honderich’s Theory of Consciousness Discussed, Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2006, 78-87]
156. Non-Cartesian dualism and the problem of mental causation, Erkenntnis 65, 2006, 5-23
157. In defence of the autonomous mind, SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review 5, 3, 2006, 31-8, http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/mind/swifpmr/0520063.pdf
158. Does the descriptivist/anti-descriptivist debate have any philosophical significance? Philosophical Books 48, 2007, 27-33
159. Endurantism versus perdurantism and the nature of time, Revista di Filosofia Neoscolastica 4, 2006, 713-727 [revised and expanded version of 146]
160. Illusions and hallucinations as evidence for sense data, The Case for Qualia, ed. E. Wright, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, 59-72
161. A problem for a posteriori essentialism concerning natural kinds, Analysis 67, 2007, 286-92
162. Between agent causationism and volitionism: a middle path, Agency and Causation in the Human Sciences, ed. F. Castellani & J. Quitterer, Paderborn: Mentis, 2007, 77-88
163. A defence of anti-conceptualist realism, Belief and Metaphysics, ed. C. Cunningham & P. Candler, London: SCM-Canterbury Press, 2007, 291-322
164. Sortals and the individuation of objects, Mind and Language 22, 5, 2007, 514-33
165. Coincidence, The Handbook of Mereology, ed. H. Burkhardt, J. Seibt & G. Imaguire, München: Philosophia Verlag, forthcoming
166. Essentialism, metaphysical realism, and the errors of conceptualism, Philosophia Scientiae 12, 2008, 9-33
167. How are identity conditions grounded?, Persistence, ed. C. Kanzian, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, 73-89
168. Two notions of being: entity and essence, Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics, ed. R. Le Poidevin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
169. Modes of exemplification, The Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann, ed. J.-M. Monnoyer, forthcoming
170. Against disjunctivism, Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, ed. A. Haddock & F. Macpherson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008, 95-111
171. The ontological argument, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. C. Meister & P. Copan, London & New York: Routledge, 2007, 331-40
172. Critical notice of Fabrice Correia’s Existential Dependence and Cognate Notions, Grazer Philosophische Studien 73, 2006, 255-8
173. A defence of non-Cartesian substance dualism, Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. A. Antonietti, A. Corradini & E. J. Lowe, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books), forthcoming 2008
174. Immanent Universals, Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18, 2007, 623-36
175. Formal ontology and the revival of metaphysics, Metaphysics Today: Problems and Prospects, ed. M. Lutz-Bachmann & T. Schmidt, Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 2007, 76-93
176. Substance dualism, The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, ed. R. C. Koons & G. Bealer, Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming
177. Individuation, A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd edn, ed. J. Kim, E. Sosa & G. Rosenkrantz, Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming
178. David Wiggins, A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd edn, ed. J. Kim, E. Sosa & G. Rosenkrantz, Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming
179. Critical notice of Peter Unger’s All the Power in the World, Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming
180. Vagueness and metaphysics, The Vagueness Handbook, ed. G. Ronzitti, Berlin: Springer, forthcoming
181. The rationality of metaphysics, Stance and Rationality, ed. O. Bueno & D. P. Rowbottom, special issue of Synthese, forthcoming
182. Tropes and perception, Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind: Essays at the Boundary of Ontology and Philosophical Psychology, ed. S. Gozzano & F. Orilia, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, 175-92
183. Philosophy of Mind, Efrydiau Athronyddol, ed. G. Matthews, forthcoming [in Welsh]
184. Locke on language and meaning, A Companion to Locke, ed. M. Stuart, Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming
185. Locke, The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, ed. D. Pritchard, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, forthcoming
186. ‘If 2 = 3, then 2 + 1 = 3 + 1’: Reply to Heylen and Horsten. Philosophical Quarterly 58, 2008, 528-31
187. What is ‘conditional probability’?, Analysis 63, 2008, 218-23
188. La métaphysique comme science de l’essence, Métaphysique contemporaine: propriétés, mondes possibles, et personnes, ed. E. Garcia & F. Nef, Paris: J. Vrin, 2007, 85-117
189. Reply to Bird on a posteriori essentialism, Analysis, forthcoming
190. The metaphysical foundations of natural science, Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 43, 2008, 6-22
191. Dualismo delle sostanze non cartesiano, L’uomo a due dimensioni: il dualismo mente-corpo oggi, ed. A. Lavazza, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2008, 185-207
192. New directions in metaphysics and ontology, Axiomathes, forthcoming
193. The definition of endurance, Analysis, forthcoming [co-author Storrs McCall]
Book reviews
1. J. O. Urmson’s Berkeley and G. J. Warnock’s Berkeley, British Journal of 18th Century Studies 6, 1983, 89-90
2. P. Jones’s Hume’s Sentiments, British Journal of 18th Century Studies 7, 1984, 139-40
3. T. V. Morris’s Understanding Identity Statements, Philosophical Books 26, 1985, 252-4
4. J. Bennett’s A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics, British Journal of 18th Century Studies 9, 1986, 116-17
5. R. C. Stalnaker’s Inquiry, Philosophical Books 27, 1986, 101-3
6. R. J. Delahunty’s Spinoza, Durham University Journal 78, 1986, 392-3
7. G. Forbes’ The Metaphysics of Mind, Mind 95, 1986, 135-8
8. G. Schlesinger’s The Intelligibility of Nature, Philosophical Books 27, 1986, 234-6
9. K. Konyndyk’s Introductory Modal Logic, Philosophical Books 28, 1987, 165-6
10. D. Berman (ed.), George Berkeley: Essays and Replies, Durham University Journal 80, 1987, 164-5
11. S. G. Shanker (ed.), Philosophy in Britain Today, History of the Human Sciences 1, 1988, 132-4
12. W. Garnett’s The Springs of Consciousness, Durham University Journal 80, 1988, 366
13. D. Lewis’s Philosophical Papers Volume II, Mind 97, 1988, 484-7
14. A. Brennan’s Conditions of Identity, Philosophical Books 30, 1989, 103-6
15. D. Berman’s A History of Atheism in Britain, Durham University Journal 81, 1989, 333-4
16. F. L. Will’s Beyond Deduction, Philosophy 64, 1989, 424-5
17. S. Wolfram’s Philosophical Logic: An Introduction, Philosophical Books 31, 1990, 34-5
18. H. Noonan’s Personal Identity, Mind 99, 1990, 477-9
19. K. Campbell’s Abstract Particulars, Philosophical Quarterly 41, 1991, 104-6
20. D. H. Sanford’s If P then Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning, Philosophical Books 32, 1991, 31-2
21. G. Strawson’s The Secret Connexion, M. Tooley’s Causation, and E. Fales’ Causation and Universals, Philosophical Quarterly 41, 1991, 494-8
22. M. A. Box’s The Suasive Art of David Hume, Durham University Journal 83, 1991, 316-17
23. P. Humphreys’ The Chances of Explanation, Isis 82, 1991, 783-4
24. M. C. Banner’s The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief, Religious Studies 27, 1991, 421-2
25. R. Coburn’s The Strangeness of the Ordinary, Mind 101, 1992, 151-3
26. S. Stich’s The Fragmentation of Reason, Philosophical Quarterly 42, 1992, 98-101
27. K. Lambert (ed.), Philosophical Applications of Free Logic, History and Philosophy of logic 13, 1992, 246-7
28. D. Hodgson’s The Mind Matters: Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World, Philosophical Books 34, 1993, 33-4
29. D. H. Mellor’s Matters of Metaphysics, Philosophy 67, 1992, 268-70
30. W. Spohn et al. (eds), Existence and Explanation, History and Philosophy of Logic 14, 1993, 130-1
31. A. Phillips Griffiths (ed.), A. J. Ayer: Memorial Essays, Philosophy 69, 1993, 107-8
32. P. Bailhache’s Essai de Logique Deontique, History and Philosophy of Logic 14, 1993, 249-50
33. T. Williamson’s Identity and Discrimination, Mind 102, 1993, 210-12
34. C. A. J. Coady’s Testimony: A Philosophical Study, Philosophy 68, 1993, 413-15
35. A. Newman’s The Physical Basis of Predication, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55, 1995, 490-2
36. J. Heil’s The Nature of True Minds, Philosophical Books 35, 1994, 56-7
37. D. Braine’s The Human Person, Philosophy 69, 1994, 244-6
38. M. Dummett’s Origins of Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy 69, 1994, 246-8
39. R. Nozick’s The Nature of Rationality, Philosophical Quarterly 45, 1995, 397-9
40. R. I. G. Hughes (ed.), A Philosophical Companion to First-Order Logic, History and Philosophy of Logic 15, 1994, 255-6
41. G. Rosenkrantz’s Haecceity, Mind 104, 1995, 202-5
42. T. C. Potts’ Structures and Categories for the Representation of Meaning, History and Philosophy of Logic 16, 1995, 140-1
43. H. Robinson’s Perception, Philosophy 70, 1995, 463-6
44. H. Harris (ed.), Identity, Philosophical Quarterly 47, 1997, 395-7
45. Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vols 1 & 2, Philosophical Books 38, 1997, 30-1
46. F. P. Ramsey’s Notes on Philosophy, Probability and Mathematics, ed. M. C. Galavotti, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48, 1997, 300-1
47. R. A. Wilson’s Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds, History and Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter 26, 1998, 19-20
48. T. Pink’s The Psychology of Freedom, Philosophy 73, 1998, 305-7
49. J. Copeland (ed.), Logic and Reality, History and Philosophy of Logic 19, 1998, 179-81
50. M. Tooley’s Time, Tense, and Causation, Philosophical Books 40, 1999, 45-7
51. M. Jubien’s Contemporary Metaphysics and M. J. Loux’s Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, European Journal of Philosophy 6, 1998, 365-8
52. A. Biletzki and A. Matar (eds), The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes, History and Philosophy of Logic 20, 1999, 64-5
53. U. Meixner’s Axiomatic Formal Ontology, Studia Logica 64, 2000, 137-40
54. A. Gallois’s Occasions of Identity, Mind 109, 2000, 354-7
55. I. Harris’s The Mind of John Locke, The Seventeenth Century, forthcoming
56. D. Lewis’s Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Logic 20, 1999, 138-9
57. E. Castellani (ed.), Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51, 2000, 353-5
58. N. Jolley’s Locke: His Philosophical Thought, Locke Newsletter 30, 1999, 145-8
59. F. Jackson’s Mind, Method and Conditionals: Selected Essays, Mind 110, 2001, 211-15
60. J. Etchemendy’s The Concept of Logical Consequence, History and Philosophy of Logic 21, 2000, 236-7
61. J. Kim’s Mind in a Physical World, American Journal of Psychology 114, 2001, 303-08
62. J. Foster’s The Nature of Perception, Times Literary Supplement 5151, Dec. 21, 2001, 24
63. R. Mason’s Before Logic, Philosophical Books 43, 2002, 41-3
64. D. Owens’s Reason without Freedom, Ratio 15, 2002, 309-11
65. A Pyle (ed.), The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century Philosophers, The Seventeenth Century, forthcoming
66. R. L. Epstein’s Five Ways of Saying ‘Therefore’, History and Philosophy of Logic 23, 2002, 147-8
67. B. O’Shaughnessy’s Consciousness and the World, Philosophy 77, 2002, 283-7
68. D. Cockburn’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, T. Crane’s Elements of Mind and K. T. Maslin’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Times Higher Education Supplement, May 31, 2002, iv
69. D. Davidson’s Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, Philosophy 78, 2003, 555-8
70. W. G. Lycan’s Real Conditionals, Philosophical Books 44, 2003, 177-8
71. K. Hawley’s How Things Persist, Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2003, 613-16
72. D. Wiggins’s Sameness and Substance Renewed, Mind 112, 2003, 816-20
73. J. Baggini & P. Fosl’s The Philosopher’s Toolkit, Times Higher Education Supplement, Oct. 24, 2003, 31
74. J. C. Beall & B. C. van Fraassen’s Possibilities and Paradox: An Introduction to Modal and Many-Valued Logic, History and Philosophy of Logic 25, 2004, 329-30
75. G. Molnar’s Powers: A Study in Metaphysics, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 2004, 817-22
76. J. Bennett’s A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, Philosophical Books 46 (2005), 158-60
77. H. Lillehammer & G. Rodriguez-Pereyra (eds), Real Metaphysics, European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming
78. C. H. Conn’s Locke on Essence and Identity, Locke Studies 4, 2004, 243-53
79. U. Meixner’s The Two Sides of Being, Erkenntnis 62, 2005, 290-4
80. J. W. Yolton’s The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke, Locke Studies 5, 2005, 223-6
81. T. Crane & K. Farkas (eds), Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology, Times Higher Education Supplement, May 27, 2005, xi
82. U. Meixner’s The Two Sides of Being, Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, 2006, 115-18
83. D. Davidson’s Truth, Language, and History and Truth and Predication, Times Higher Education Supplement, April 7, 2006, 26
84. J. C. Beall & B. Armour-Garb (eds), Deflationism and Paradox, History and Philosophy of Logic, forthcoming
85. P. Mackie’s How Things Might Have Been, Mind 116, 2007, 762-6
86. R. Martin & J. Barresi’s The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self, Journal of Consciousness Studies 14, 2007, 125-7
87. J. Hawthorne’s Metaphysical Essays, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 15/1/07
88. B. Greetham’s Philosophy, Times Higher Education Supplement, May 25, 2007, xix
89. L. Newman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, Locke Studies 7, 2007, 213-23
90. E. Olson’s What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Analysis Reviews, forthcoming
91. R. Sorensen’s Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows, Times Higher Education magazine, March 20, 2008, 46-7
92. R. Sorensen’s Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows, Philosophy, forthcoming
93. D. Oderberg’s Real Essentialism, Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming
94. C. B. Martin’s The Mind in Nature, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, forthcoming