This page contains links to some of my academic papers (excluding the majority which are on History of Philosophy) that are currently available on the Web. In most cases the printed version will differ slightly from those given here, due to publisher's house style modifications etc. In some, the papers here are to be preferred, either because they contain slight improvements (e.g. addition of more recent references – such improvements always being noted in the text) or, more seriously (e.g. in the case of the 1990 Joint Session paper) because the published paper contained serious misprints introduced after proof stage.
Publications on Hume ...
Publications and talks on Hume and the History of Modern Philosophy are not included here, but are collected together on the website www.davidhume.org
Epistemology
- (1979), 'The Analysis of Knowledge', (undergraduate) Fairbrother Prize Essay, Lincoln College, Oxford
- (1982), 'Mackie's Defence of Induction', Analysis 42 pp. 19-24
- (1982), 'On the Transitivity of Epistemic Preferability', Analysis 42 pp. 88-90 (a response to Roy Sorenson's 'Is Epistemic Preferability Transitive?')
- (1984), 'Probability: Subjective and Mathematical', Analysis 44 pp. 33-37 (a response to Roy Sorenson's 'Subjective Probability and Indifference')
- (1986), 'Natural Necessity and Induction', Philosophy 61 pp. 395-403 (a response to Ralph W. Clark's 'Induction Justified (But Just Barely)')
- (1996), Hume, Induction, and Probability PhD thesis, University of Leeds, pp. 294 + xv
Logic and Language
- (1990), 'Content, Thoughts, and Definite Descriptions', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 64 pp. 167-203, 12,000 words
- (1992), 'Taking Logic for Granted', Inside Out 7 pp. 3-7, 3,500 words
- (1994), 'Statements and Modality: Strawson, Quine and Wolfram', International Journal of Moral and Social Studies 8 pp. 315-326, 4,500 words
Mind and Computers
- (1996), 'Introduction' to Peter Millican and Andy Clark (eds) The Legacy of Alan Turing, volume 1: Machines and Thought, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-9, 3,000 words
- (2012), The Philosophical Significance of the Turing Machine and the Turing Test, to appear in S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen (eds) Alan Turing: His Work and Impact, Elsevier, pp. 39-52, 9,500 words
Philosophy of Religion
- (1989), 'The Devil's Advocate', Cogito 3 pp. 193-207, 9,500 words
- (2000), 'Ontological Argument', in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, eds Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason, and Hugh Pyper, Oxford University Press, pp. 499-500, 1,300 words
- (2004), 'The One Fatal Flaw in Anselm's Argument', Mind 113 pp. 437-76, 13,000 words
- (2007), 'Ontological Arguments and the Superiority of Existence', Mind 116 pp. 1041-53 (a response to Yujin Nagasawa's 'Millican on the Ontological Argument')
Moral Philosophy
- (1983), 'Hare on Moral Thinking', Philosophical Quarterly 33 pp. 207-11
- (1992), 'The Complex Problem of Abortion', in D. Bromham, M. Dalton, J. Jackson & P. Millican (eds), Philosophical Ethics in Reproductive Medicine, Springer Verlag, pp. 161-188, 13,500 words
- (2000), 'Abortion', in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, eds Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason, and Hugh Pyper, Oxford University Press, pp. 3-4, 1,500 words
