Some Texts From Early Modern Philosophy
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The main ones:

“Meaning and Implication”, Mind 63 (1954), pp. 451-463.

“Iterated Modalities”, Philosophical Quarterly 5 (1955), pp. 45-56.

Analytic-Synthetic”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society n.s. 59 (1958-9), 163-88.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 81kb)

“Some Aspects of Probability and Induction”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 7 (1956 and 1957), pp. 220-30, 316-22.

“On a Recent Account of Entailment”, Mind 68 (1959), pp. 393-5.

Moral Argument”, Mind 69 (1960), pp. 544-9.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 27kb)

A Myth about Logical Necessity”, Analysis 21 (1960-61), pp. 59-63.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 25kb)

On Being Forced to a Conclusion”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supplementary vol. 35 (1961), pp. 15-34.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 64kb)

“The Status of Determinism”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 14 (1963), pp. 106-19.

“‘Whatever the Consequences’”, Analysis 26 (1965-6), pp. 83-102.

‘Real’”, Mind 75 (1966), pp. 501-15.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 54kb)

Entailment”, Philosophical Review 78 (1969), pp. 197-236.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 123kb)

The Difference Between Right and Left”, American Philosophical Quarterly 7 (1970), pp. 175-91.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 112kb)

Shooting, Killing, Dying”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1973), pp. 315-23..(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 62kb)

The Meaning-Nominalist Strategy”, Foundations of Language 10 (1973), pp. 141-68.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 153kb)

The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn”, Philosophy 49 (1974), pp. 123-34. (Downloadable PDF File PDF, 29kb)

“Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1974), pp. 381-402.

Philosophy and Mr Stoppard”, Philosophy 50 (1975), pp. 5-18.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 34kb)

Stimulus, Response, Meaning”, American Philosophical Quarterly monograph no. 9 (1975), pp. 55-88.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 126kb)

On Maximizing Happiness”, in R. Sikora and B. Barry (eds), Obligations to Future Generations (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 1978), pp. 61-73..(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 72kb)

“Some Remarks about Concepts”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (1978), pp. 557-60.

Accountability”, in Z. van Straaten (ed.), Philosophical Subjects (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1980), pp. 14-47.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 98kb)

“Psychology and Semantics”, comments on a paper by Schiffer, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (1982), pp. 258-262.

‘Even If’”, Linguistics and Philosophy 5 (1982), pp. 403-417.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 96kb)

Positive and Negative Relevance”, American Philosophical Quarterly 20 (1983), pp. 185-94.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 99kb)

“Intellectual Codes”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1983), pp. 139-41.

“Cognitive Ethology: Theory or Poetry?”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1983), pp. 356-358.

Counterfactuals and Temporal Direction”, Philosophical Review 93 (1984), pp. 57-91.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 175kb)

Identity and Cardinality: Geach and Frege”(with W.P. Alston), Philosophical Review 93 (1984), pp. 553-67.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 52kb)

“Adverb-Dropping Inferences and the Lemmon Criterion”, Actions and Events, ed. E. LePore and B. McLaughlin, (Blackwell: Oxford, 1985).

Critical notice of Davidson’s Inquiries into Truth and InterpretationMind 94 (1985), pp. 601-26.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 138kb)

Review of The Shorter Pepys, in The NZ Listener 1986.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 14kb)

“In the Tradition of Kantotle” (review of Grice Festschrift), Times Literary Supplement 1986.

Event Causation: the Counterfactual Analysis”, Philosophical Perspectives 1 (1987), pp. 367-386.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 108kb)

Thoughtful Brutes”, APA Eastern Division Presidential Address, APAProceedings 62 (1988), pp. 197-210.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 68kb)

Quotation”, Nous 22 (1988), pp. 399--418.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 70kb)

Two Departures from Consequentialism”, Ethics 100 (1989), pp. 54--66.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 86kb)

How is Cognitive Ethology Possible?”, in Carolyn A. Ristau (ed), Cognitive Ethology: the Minds of Other Animals (Lawrence Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ, 1990), pp. 35-49. .(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 106kb)

Why is Belief Involuntary?”, Analysis 50 (1990), pp. 87-107. (Downloadable PDF File PDF, 70kb)

How to Read Minds in Behaviour: a Suggestion from a Philosopher”, in A. Whiten (ed.), Natural Theories of Mind: Evolution, Development and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), pp. 97-108.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 76kb)

How do Gestures Succeed?”, in E. LePore and R. Van Gulick (eds), Searle and his Critics (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991), pp. 3-15.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 88kb)

Folk-Psychological Explanations”, in John D. Greenwood (ed), The Future of Folk Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 176-95.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 111kb)

Analysis Without Noise”, in Radu Bogdan (ed), Mind and Common Sense (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 15-36. (Downloadable PDF File PDF, 112kb)

The Necessity of Moral Judgments”, Ethics 103 (1993), pp. 458-472.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 98kb)

Negation and Abstention: Two Theories of Allowing”, Ethics 104 (1993), pp. 75-96. (Downloadable PDF File PDF, 130kb)

Comments on Dennett from a Cautious Ally”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (1993), pp. 381-5.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 58kb)

The ‘Namely’ Analysis of the ‘By’-locution”, Linguistics and Philosophy17 (1994), pp. 29-51.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 96kb)

“Classifying Conditionals: The Traditional Way is Right”, Mind 104 (1995), pp. 331-54.

Improving Academic Writing” (with Samuel Gorovitz), Teaching Philosophy 20 (1997), pp. 105-120.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 33kb)

“On Forward and Backward Counterfactual Conditionals”, in Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Frank Siebelt (Rowan and Littlefield, 2001), pp. 177-202.

Conditionals and Explanations”, in Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson, edited by Alex Byrne, Robert Stalnaker, and Ralph Wedgwood (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press), pp. 1-26.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 111kb)

What Events Are”, in The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, edited by Richard M. Gale (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 43-65.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 167kb)

Time in Human Experience”, Philosophy 79 (2004), pp. 165-83.(Downloadable PDF File PDF, 42kb)

Punishment” (2001), unpublished. (The best article I ever wrote; turned down by the journal Ethics.) (Downloadable PDF File PDF, 122kb)

“Looking Back over Forty-Five years of Work”, in Ouyang Kang and S. Fuller (eds), Contemporary British and American Philosophy and Philosophers (Beijing: People’s Press, 201?).

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Berkeley
Boyle
Butler
Constant
Anne Conway
Descartes
Jonathan Edwards
Hobbes
Hume
Hutcheson
Kant
La Mettrie
Leibniz
Locke
Machiavelli
Malebranche
Mendelssohn
Mill
Newton
Richard Price
Reid
Rousseau
Shaftesbury
Sidgwick
Adam Smith
Spinoza
Wollstonecraft