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Book reviews

The Promise of Artificial Intelligence by Brian Cantwell Smith, TLS 2020

Thinking about Things
by Mark Sainsbury, NDPR 2019
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Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray, Wall Street Journal 2018

Being Human, by Rowan Williams, TLS 2018

'Aristotle Returns' critical notice of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Robert Koons, Nicholas Teh and William Simpson, First Things 2018

Sex and Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott, Tocqueville21, 2018. Scott's response, and my response to it, is here.

Portraits of Wittgenstein ed. Ian Ground and F.A. Flowers, TLS 2016

Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirtsleeves by David Ellis, NDPR 2016

A Dictionary of Untranslatables ed. Barbara Cassin, TLS 2015

Truth: Philosophy in Transit by John D Caputo, TLS 2014

The Reference Book by John Hawthorne and David Manley, TLS 2012

Soul Dust: the Magic of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey TLS 2011

I Drink therefore I am by Roger Scruton, Philosophy 2011

LOT2 by Jerry A. Fodor, TLS September 2009

Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, edited by Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson, and Disjunctivism: Contemporary Readings, edited by Alex Byrne and Heather Logue, TLS July 2009

The Really Hard Problem by Owen Flanagan, TLS 5521 January 23 2009, 24

In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars, and Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg, London Review of Books 30 no. 12, 19 June 2008: 33-35 [NB This is longer than the published version]

All the Power in the World, by Peter Unger, TLS May 2007

Mind Time by Benjamin Libet, TLS January 2005

Intentionality: Past and Future, edited by Gábor Forrai & George Kampis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews  

The Mind’s Provisions by Vincent Descombes, European Journal of Philosophy 12: 2004, 399-424

Hume Variations by Jerry Fodor, TLS May 2004

In Defence of Pure Reason by Laurence BonJour, Mind 112: July 2003, 502-506

Purple Haze by Joseph Levine, Phenomenal Consciousness by Peter Carruthers, and The Nature of Consciousness by Mark Rowlands TLS No 5176, June 14 2002: 9-10

A Survey of Metaphysics by E.J. Lowe and Metaphysics edited by Michael J. Loux, THES May 2002

The Paradox of Self-Consciousness by José Luis Bermúdez, Philosophical Review 2001

Perception and Reason by Bill Brewer & The Nature of Perception by John Foster, THES December 2001

Knowledge and its Limits by Timothy Williamson, The Economist August 2001

Mind in a Natural World by Jaegwon Kim, TLS August 2000

Bertrand Russell 1921-1970: The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk The Economist October 2000

‘How to Define your (Mental) Terms: a Critical Notice of Deconstructing the Mind by Stephen P. Stich’, Inquiry 41, 1998, 341-354

What Minds Can Do by Pierre Jacob, European Journal of Philosophy 1999

The Nature of Consciousness edited by N. Block et al, THES January 1999

Mental Reality by Galen Strawson, Ratio 10, April 1997, 82-90

The Mystery of Consciousness by John Searle, The Economist December 13 1997, 11-12

Causes and Coincidences  by David Owens, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1996, 146-148

Soul-Searching by Nicholas Humphrey, Nature 6567, March 1996, 685

Physicalism: the Philosophical Foundations  by Jeffrey Poland TLS 4831  November 1995, 28

A Study of Concepts by Christopher Peacocke, European Journal of Philosophy  2, December 1994, 352-356

Representation, Meaning and Thought  by Grant Gillett, Philosophical Books 35, 1994, 122-124

The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1, October 1993, 313-324

Sensory Qualities by Austen Clark, TLS 4714, July 1993, 28

The Imagery Debate by Michael Tye, Mind 102, July 1993, 535-538

Dretske & his Critics edited by Brian McLaughlin, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1, October 1993, 379-381
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