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A Sample of Publications

Books

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

  • 'Philosophy and the Tide of History: Bertrand Russell's Role in the Rise of Analytic Philosophy', in The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, ed. Erich Reck (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan; forthcoming).

  • 'Reason, Action and the Will: the fall and rise of causalism', in Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, ed. Michael Beaney (Oxford: Oxford University Press; forthcoming). [Co-written with Nic Damnjanovic.]

  • 'British Idealism: theoretical philosophy', in Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, ed. Dean Moyar (London: Routledge; forthcoming 2010).

  • 'A Brief History of Truth', Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Volume 5: Philosophy of Logic, pp. 227-323. Volume editor: Dale Jacquette. Handbook editors: Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods. Elsevier North-Holland, 2007. [Co-written with Nic Damnjanovic.]

  • 'Private Objects and Experimental Psychology', in Wittgenstein Today, ed. Annalisa Coliva and Eva Picardi (Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2004), pp. 297-317.

  • 'Testing Wittgenstein's Dismissal of Experimental Psychology Against Examples' [164 KB pdf download], Noetica 2002 (Queensland: Department of Psychology, University of Queensland).

  • 'Russell and Wittgenstein', in Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy, ed. R. Haller and K. Puhl (Wien: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2002), pp. 21-29.

  • 'The Will', in Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader, ed. H. J. Glock (Oxford: Blackwell 2001), pp. 156-173.

  • 'Grammar, Ontology and Truth in Russell and Bradley', in Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, ed. Richard Gaskin (London: Routledge 2001), pp. 116-141.

  • 'Mental Imagery', in Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, ed. Severin Schroeder (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 107-128.

  • 'Identifying the Identity Theory of Truth', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, XCIC, 1999, pp. 233-240.

  • 'A Prolegomenon to an Identity Theory of Truth', Philosophy, 74, 1999, pp. 199-220.

  • 'Wittgensteins Privatsprachenargumentation', in Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen, ed. Eike von Savigny (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998), pp. 143-165.

  • 'The Wrong Side of History: Relations, the Decline of British Idealism, and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy', in Appearance versus Reality, ed. Guy Stock (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 111-151.

  • Review Article: 'Perspectives on Bradley', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6, 1998, pp. 275-279.

  • 'Wittgenstein and the Doctrine of Kinaesthesis', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74, 1996, pp. 581-597.

  • 'The Unity of the Proposition and Russell's Theories of Judgment', in Bertrand Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy, ed. Ray Monk and Anthony Palmer (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996), pp. 103-133. [Part 1 of a symposium with Mark Sainsbury.]

  • 'Identity and Individuation', in Sprachphilosophie: ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenoessischer Forschung, Volume 2, ed. Marcelo Dascal, Dietfried Gerhardus, Kuno Lorenz and Georg Meggle (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1996; Handbuecher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft), pp. 1210-1227.

  • 'Kinaesthetische Empfindungen und epistemische Phantasie', in Wittgenstein ueber die Seele -- Der 'Teil II' der 'Philosophischen Untersuchungen', ed. Eike von Savigny and Oliver Scholz (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995), pp. 159-193. Reprinted (with corrections) in e-Journal Philosophie der Psychologie no. 2, June 2005.

  • '"Das Wollen ist auch nur eine Erfahrung"', in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Text and Context, ed. Robert Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 203-226; reprinted in Ludwig Wittgenstein Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Second Series, ed. Stuart Shanker and David Kilfoyle (London: Routledge, 2001), Vol. 3.

  • Critical Notice: 'The Coherence Theory of Truth: Realism, anti-realism, idealism. By Ralph C.S. Walker.' Mind, 99, 1990, pp. 487-492.

  • 'The Truth about F. H. Bradley', Mind, 98, 1989, pp. 331-348.

  • 'Moving', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66, 1988, pp. 174-187. [With Robert Wilson]

  • 'Absque Labore Nihil', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 64, 1986, pp. 54-63.

  • 'Scepticism, Ideal Experiment and Priorities in Bradley's Metaphysics', in The Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, ed. Anthony Manser and Guy Stock (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984; reprinted in paperback, 1986), pp. 243-267.

  • 'Inner and Outer Basic Action', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, LXXXIV, 1983-84, pp. 83-102.

  • 'Euthyphro 6D-9B and its Misinterpretations', Apeiron, XVII, 1983, pp. 28-32.

  • 'Necessity and Not Doing Otherwise', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 60, 1982, pp. 76-80. [With Winston Nesbitt]

  • 'The Real Private Language Argument', Philosophy, 55, 1980, pp. 85-94.

  • 'Bradley on My Station and Its Duties', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 56, 1978, pp. 155-170.

  • 'The Incompatibility of Perception and Imagery: A Contemporary Orthodoxy', American Philosophical Quarterly, 13, 1976, pp. 63-68.

  • 'The Origins of Subjectivism', Journal of Moral Education, 4, 1974-75, pp. 191-200.

  • 'On Not Being Able to Do Otherwise', Mind, 82, 1973, pp. 321-330. [With Winston Nesbitt]

  • 'The Inexplicability of Identity', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 49, 1971, pp. 23-37; reprinted as 'Die Unerklaerbarkeit der Identitae;t', in Identitaet und Individuation, ed. Kuno Lorenz (series Problemata, Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart, 1982), vol. 2, pp. 104-123.

  • 'Mind, Brain and Identity', Mind, 79, 1970, pp. 502-518.

  • 'Existence and the Use of Proper Names', Analysis, 28, 1967-68, pp. 152-158; reprinted as 'Existenz und der Gebrauch von Eigennamen' in Sprachhandlung, Existenz, Wahrheit, ed. Matthias Schirn (series Problemata, Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart, 1975).

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Encyclopaedia Articles

  • 'Truth, Identity Theory of', in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy On-line, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge). First posted 2005.

  • 'Bradley, Francis Herbert', in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 10 volumes, 1998), Vol. 1, pp. 857-863. [Now on-line.]

  • 'Mind, Bundle Theory of', in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 10 volumes, 1998), Vol. 6, pp. 382-385. [Now on-line.]

  • 'Private Language Argument', in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 10 volumes, 1998), vol. 7, pp. 693-698. [Now on-line.]

  • 'Truth, Identity Theory of', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Stanford, CA: CSLI, Stanford University). Originally supplied 1996; last revised 2006.

  • 'Bradley, Francis Herbert', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Stanford, CA: CSLI, Stanford University). Originally supplied 1996; last revised 2009.

  • 'Private Language', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Stanford, CA: CSLI, Stanford University). Originally supplied 1996; last revised 2008.

  • 'Cogito Ergo Sum', article and bibliography published in translation in The Marathi Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. D.D. Vadekar, Poona, 1975.

  • 'Knowledge by Acquaintance & Knowledge by Description', article and bibliography published in translation in The Marathi Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. D.D. Vadekar, Poona, 1975.

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Magazine Articles

  • 'If and only if', Australian Book Review, 280, April 2006, pp. 10-11.

  • 'Private Language, Private Objects', The Philosophers' Magazine, 18, Spring 2002, pp. 32-33.

  • 'There Is Nothing Like a Fact: Nothing in the World', The Philosophers' Magazine, 12, Autumn 2000, pp. 17-19.

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