Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 1, Metaphysics, 1987
Front Matter (7 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Entities Without Identity, pp. 1-19 Terence Parsons
When Are Objects Parts?, pp. 21-47 Peter van Inwagen
Existence, pp. 49-108 Nathan Salmon
How To Build a Person: The Physical Basis for Mentality, pp. 109-154 John L. Pollock
Subjects Among Other Things, pp. 155-187 Ernest Sosa
Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism, pp. 189-231 Alvin Plantinga
Are Concept-Users World-Makers?, pp. 233-267 Nicholas Wolterstorff
Conceptual Relativism, pp. 269-288 Bruce Aune
The Philosophical Limits of Scientific Essentialism, pp. 289-365 George Bealer
Event Causation: The Counterfactual Analysis, pp. 367-386 Jonathan Bennett
Phenomenological Ontology Revisited: A Bergmannian Retrospective, pp. 387-404 Jay F. Rosenberg
Self-Consciousness, Demonstrative Reference, and the Self-Ascription View of Believing, pp. 405-454 Hector-Neri Castaneda
The `Fido'-Fido Theory of Belief, pp. 455-480 Stephen Schiffer
Objects of Consciousness: The Non-Relational Theory of Sensing, pp. 481-500 Romane Clark
An Argument for a Modified Russellian Principle of Acquaintance, pp. 501-512 Felicia Ackerman
Phenomenal Objects: A Backhanded Defense, pp. 513-526 William G. Lycan
Back Matter (1 p.)
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 2, Epistemology, 1988
Front Matter (7 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function, pp. 1-50 Alvin Plantinga
Strong and Weak Justification, pp. 51-69 Alvin I. Goldman
The Evidence of the Senses, pp. 71-90 Roderick M. Chisholm
How to be a Fallibilist, pp. 91-123 Stewart Cohen
Coherence, Justification, and Chisholm, pp. 125-138 Keith Lehrer
Knowledge in Context, Skepticism in Doubt: The Virtue of Our Faculties, pp. 139-155 Ernest Sosa
Knowledge and Conditionals, pp. 157-182 Risto Hilpinen
On Knowing One's Own Mind, pp. 183-209 Sydney Shoemaker
Knowledge and Epistemic Obligation, pp. 211-233 Hector-Neri Castaneda
Epistemic Obligations, pp. 235-256 Richard Feldman
The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification, pp. 257-299 William P. Alston
On Accepting First Principles, pp. 301-314 Wilfrid Sellars
The Building of Oscar, pp. 315-344 John L. Pollock
Deliberational Dynamics and The Foundations of Bayesian Game Theory, pp. 345-367 Brian Skyrms
Vicious Infinite Regress Arguments, pp. 369-380 Romane Clark
What Is "Naturalized Epistemology?", pp. 381-405 Jaegwon Kim
Foundationalism, Coherentism, and Epistemological Dogmatism, pp. 407-442 Robert Audi
The Internalism/Externalism Controversy, pp. 443-459 Richard Fumerton
Alston's Internalistic Externalism, pp. 461-473 Marshall Swain
Back Matter (1 p.)
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 3, Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory, 1989
Front Matter (6 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Reasons and Causes, pp. 1-15 Fred Dretske
Reasons Explanation of Action: An Incompatibilist Account, pp. 17-46 Carl Ginet
Mental Quausation, pp. 47-76 Terence Horgan
Mechanism, Purpose, and Explanatory Exclusion, pp. 77-108 Jaegwon Kim
Type Epiphenomenalism, Type Dualism, and the Causal Priority of the Physical, pp. 109-135 Brian P. McLaughlin
Functional Explanations and Reasons as Causes, pp. 137-164 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
On a Causal Theory of Content, pp. 165-186 Lynne Rudder Baker
Neo-Fregean Thoughts, pp. 187-224 Steven E. Boer
Folk Psychology and the Explanation of Human Behavior, pp. 225-241 Paul M. Churchland
Illogical Belief, pp. 243-285 Nathan Salmon
On What's In the Head, pp. 287-316 Robert Stalnaker
Turning the Tables on Frege or How is it that "Hesperus is Hesperus" is Trivial?, pp. 317-339 Howard Wettstein
The Reverse Frege Puzzle, pp. 341-367 Takashi Yagisawa
Fission and the Facts, pp. 369-397 Mark Johnston
When is the Will Free?, pp. 399-422 Peter van Inwagen
Proximate Causation of Action, pp. 423-442 Myles Brand
Intention and Personal Policies, pp. 443-469 Michael E. Bratman
Actions by Collectives, pp. 471-496 Raimo Tuomela
Linguistics: What's Wrong with "The Right View", pp. 497-531 Michael Devitt; Kim Sterelny
Biosemantics and the Normative Properties of Thought, pp. 533-547 Graeme Forbes
Semantic Innocence and Psychological Understanding, pp. 549-574 Jennifer Hornsby
Semantics and Semantic Competence, pp. 575-596 Scott Soames
Back Matter (1 p.)
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 4, Action Theory and Philosophy of Mind, 1990 Front Matter (7 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
What Emotions Are About, pp. 1-29 Annette Baier
The Intrinsic Quality of Experience, pp. 31-52 Gilbert Harman
Inverted Earth, pp. 53-79 Ned Block
Phenomenal States, pp. 81-108 Brian Loar
What is the "Subjectivity" of the Mental, pp. 109-130 William G. Lycan
The Appearance of A Material Object, pp. 131-151 Brian O'Shaughnessy
Physicalism, pp. 153-185 Stephen Schiffer
First-Person Access, pp. 187-214 Sydney Shoemaker
Mind--Dust or Magic? Panpsychism Versus Emergence, pp. 215-226 James Van Cleve
An Internalist Conception of Rational Action, pp. 227-245 Robert Audi
Action, Inference, Belief, and Intention, pp. 247-271 Bruce Aune
Practical Thinking, Reasons for Doing, and Intentional Action: The Thinking of Doing and The Doing of Thinking, pp. 273-308 Hector-Neri Castaneda
A Simpler Solution to the Paradoxes of Deontic Logic, pp. 309-341 Fred Feldman
Neural Representation and Neural Computation, pp. 343-382 Patricia Smith Churchland; Terrence J. Sejnowski
The Intentionality All-Stars, pp. 383-427 John Haugeland
Individualism and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 429-459 Bernard W. Kobes
Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 461-498 John Pollock
Connectionism, Eliminativism and The Future of Folk Psychology, pp. 499-533 William Ramsey; Stephen Stich; Joseph Garon
Analysis, Language, and Concepts: The Second Paradox of Analysis, pp. 535-543 Felicia Ackerman
Referring to Things That No Longer Exist, pp. 545-556 Roderick M. Chisholm
Understanding and the Principle of Compositionality, pp. 557-572 Richard E. Grandy
Belief, Nominalism, and Quantification, pp. 573-579 James E. Tomberlin
Back Matter (1 p.)
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 5, Philosophy of Religion, 1991
Front Matter (6 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Sin as Uncleanness, pp. 1-27 Marilyn McCord Adams
The Inductive Argument From Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition, pp. 29-67 William P. Alston
Ruminations About Evil, pp. 69-88 William L. Rowe
The Argument From Evil, pp. 89-134 Michael Tooley
The Problem of Evil, The Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence, pp. 135-165 Peter van Inwagen
On the Simplicity of the Soul, pp. 167-181 Roderick M. Chisholm
Are Souls Unintelligible?, pp. 183-212 Joshua Hoffman; Gary Rosenkrantz
Faith, Belief, and Rationality, pp. 213-239 Robert Audi
Pragmatism Versus Mysticism: The Divided Self of William James, pp. 241-286 Richard M. Gale
The Prospects for Natural Theology, pp. 287-315 Alvin Plantinga
Epistemic Parity and Religious Argument, pp. 317-341 Philip L. Quinn
An Anti-Molinist Argument, pp. 343-353 Robert Merrihew Adams
Shapshot Ockhamism, pp. 355-371 John Martin Fischer
Middle Knowledge and the Doctrine of Infallibility, pp. 373-393 Thomas P. Flint
Prophecy, Past Truth, and Eternity, pp. 395-424 Eleonore Stump; Norman Kretzmann
Prophecy, Freedom, and the Necessity of the Past, pp. 425-445 Edward Wierenga
The Possibility of Power Beyond Possibility, pp. 447-473 Earl Conee
Temporal Actualism and Singular Foreknowledge, pp. 475-507 Christopher Menzel
On the Logic of the Ontological Argument, pp. 509-529 Paul E. Oppenheimer; Edward N. Zalta
Divine Simplicity, pp. 531-552 Nicholas Wolterstorff
God's General Concurrence With Secondary Causes: Why Conservation Is Not Enough, pp. 553-585 Alfred J. Freddoso
The Occasionalist Proselytizer: A Modified Catechism, pp. 587-615 Hugh J. McCann; Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Jephthah's Plight: Moral Dilemmas and Theism, pp. 617-647 William E. Mann
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 6, Ethics, 1992 Front Matter (7 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
A Puzzle About the Rational Authority of Morality, pp. 1-26 David O. Brink
Some Questions About the Justification of Morality, pp. 27-53 Peter Railton
Normative Explanations, pp. 55-71 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Whose Body Is It, Anyway?, pp. 73-96 Holly M. Smith
Nonmoral Explanations, pp. 97-117 Nicholas L. Sturgeon
Ancient Ethics and Modern Morality, pp. 119-136 Julia Annas
Trusting People, pp. 137-153 Annette C. Baier
Internalism and Agency, pp. 155-174 Stephen L. Darwall
The Social Importance of Moral Rights, pp. 175-198 Joel Feinberg
Moral Concepts: Substance and Sentiment, pp. 199-221 Allan Gibbard
The Structure of Normative Ethics, pp. 223-242 Shelly Kagan
Morality and Partiality, pp. 243-259 Susan Wolf
The "Possibility" of a Categorical Imperative: Kant's Groundwork, Part III, pp. 261-284 David Copp
A Kantian Perspective on Moral Rules, pp. 285-304 Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Personal Relations, pp. 305- 332 Christine M. Korsgaard
Hobbes and Ethical Naturalism, pp. 333-353 Jean Hampton
Ethics Naturalized, pp. 355-376 Michael Slote
Prerogatives Without Restrictions, pp. 377-397 Samuel Scheffler
An Argument for Consequentialism, pp. 399-421 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
When the Will Is Free, pp. 423-451 John Martin Fischer; Mark Ravizza
Who Discovered the Will?, pp. 453-473 T. H. Irwin
God's Obligations, pp. 475-491 Eleonore Stump
The Primacy of God's Will in Christian Ethics, pp. 493-513 Philip L. Quinn
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 7, Language and Logic, 1993
Front Matter (7 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Epistemology, Realism, and Truth: The First Philosophical Perspectives Lecture, pp. 1-16 Ernest Sosa
A Solution to Frege's Puzzle, pp. 17-60 George Bealer
The Proper Treatment of Predication in Fine-Grained Intensional Logic, pp. 61-87 Christopher Menzel
Term Limits, pp. 89-123 Stephen Neale
Analyticity and Apriority, pp. 125-133 Nathan Salmon
A Semantic Solution to Frege's Puzzle, pp. 135-154 Takashi Yagisawa
There Is a Word for that Kind of Thing: An Investigation of Two Thought Experiments, pp. 155-171 Keith S. Donnellan
Grammatical Form and Logical Form, pp. 173-196 James Higginbotham
The Source of Intensionality, pp. 197-206 Genoveva Marti
Articulated Terms, pp. 207-230 Mark Richard
Actual-Language Relations, pp. 231-258 Stephen Schiffer
Circles, Finks, Smells and Biconditionals, pp. 259-279 Simon Blackburn
A Critique of the Case for Semantic Holism, pp. 281-306 Michael Devitt
Verificationism as Philosophical Narcissism, pp. 307-330 Mark Johnston
Star and Perp: Two Treatments of Negation, pp. 331-357 J. Michael Dunn
Minimalism, pp. 359-369 Anil Gupta
Hop, Skip and Jump: The Agonistic Conception of Truth, pp. 371-396 Stephen Yablo
"Only-Ifs", pp. 397-410 K. Anthony Appiah
MPP, Rip, pp. 411-428 William G. Lycan
A World of States of Affairs, pp. 429-440 D. M. Armstrong
On Denoting Propositions and Facts, pp. 441-460 Terence Parsons
Non Denoting, pp. 461-486 G. W. Fitch
Proper Names, pp. 487-504 Michael Jubien
Another Look at Proper Names, pp. 505-530 Jay F. Rosenberg
Back Matter (1 p.)
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 8, Logic and Language, 1994
Front Matter (6 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Essence and Modality: The Second Philosophical Perspectives Lecture, pp. 1-16 Kit Fine
Content and Context, pp. 17-32 Lynne Rudder Baker
The Transparency of Mental Content, pp. 33-50 Paul A. Boghossian
Self-Interpretation and the Constitution of Reference, pp. 51-74 Brian Loar
On Unclear and Indistinct Ideas, pp. 75-100 Ruth Garrett Millikan
Is Radical Interpretation Possible?, pp. 101-119 Jerry Fodor; Ernie Lepore
Radical Interpretation Interpreted, pp. 121-128 Donald Davidson
Roots and Consequences of Vagueness, pp. 129-136 Felicia Ackerman
On Van Inwagen's Defense of Vague Identity, pp. 137-158 David Cowles
Robust Vagueness and the Forced-March Sorites Paradox, pp. 159-188 Terence Horgan
Sorites Paradoxes and the Semantics of Vagueness, pp. 189-206 Michael Tye
Composition as Identity, pp. 207-220 Peter van Inwagen
Anaphora and Operators, pp. 221-250 Jeffrey C. King
Attitudes and Anaphora, pp. 251-272 Scott Soames
Exports and Imports: Anaphora in Attitudinal Ascriptions, pp. 273-292 Tomis Kapitan
Names, Causal Chains, and De Re Beliefs, pp. 293-302 Thomas McKay
Individuating Beliefs, pp. 303-330 Michael McKinsey
The Rights and Wrongs of Natural Regularity, pp. 331-364 Jon Barwise; Jerry Seligman
Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line, pp. 365-388 Nuel Belnap; Mitchell Green
Hector Meets 3-D: A Diaphilosophical Epic, pp. 389-414 Marvin Belzer; Barry Loewer
A New Riddle of Existence, pp. 415-430 Graeme Forbes
In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic, pp. 431-458 Bernard Linsky; Edward N. Zalta
Troubles with Actualism, pp. 459-466 James E. Tomberlin; Frank McGuinness
Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 9, AI, Connectionism and Philosophical Psychology, 1995
Front Matter (7 pp.)
Preface (1 p.) James E. Tomberlin
Consciousness as Internal Monitoring, I: The Third Philosophical Perspectives Lecture, pp. 1- 14 William G. Lycan
Practical Reasoning in Oscar, pp. 15-48 John L. Pollock
Understanding Understanding: Syntactic Semantics and Computational Cognition, pp. 49-88 William J. Rapaport
Moving Minds: Situating Content in the Service of Real-Time Success, pp. 89-104 Andy Clark
Connectionism and the Rationale Constraint on Cognitive Explanation, pp. 105-125 Robert Cummins
Connectionism and the Commitments of Folk Psychology, pp. 127-152 Terence Horgan; John Tienson
Two Notions of Implicit Rules, pp. 153-183 Martin Davies
Pushmi-Pullyu Representations, pp. 185-200 Ruth Garrett Millikan
A Not "Merely Empirical" Argument for a Language of Thought, pp. 201-222 Georges Rey
A Representational Theory of Pains and their Phenomenal Character, pp. 223-239 Michael Tye
Consciousness Evaded: Comments on Dennett, pp. 241-249 Colin McGinn
Basic Minds, pp. 251-270 Kim Sterelny
How Should We Understand the Relation between Intentionality and Phenomenal Consciousness?, pp. 271-289 Robert Van Gulick
Telic Higher-Order Thoughts and Moore's Paradox, pp. 291-312 Bernard W. Kobes
Moore's Paradox and Consciousness, pp. 313-333 David M. Rosenthal
The Concept of Manipulativeness, pp. 335-340 Felicia Ackerman
Propositional Attitudes and Compositional Semantics, pp. 341-380 Steven E. Boer
Contextuality, Reflexivity, Iteration, Logic, pp. 381-399 Mark Crimmins
Conceptual Structure and the Individuation of Content, pp. 401-428 Derk Pereboom
Law and Order in Psychology, pp. 429-446 Louise Antony
Causally Relevant Properties, pp. 447-475 David Braun
Singling Out Properties, pp. 477-502 Stephen Yablo
Corrections to "Hop, Skip, and Jump: The Agonistic Conception of Truth:, pp. 503-506 Stephen Yablo
Back Matter (1 p.)