METAPHYSICS

I am interested in metaphysical questions in the philosophy of mind, theory of identity, the concept of person and freedom of will, and the analysis of space and time. I write extensively on topics in the history of metaphysics, and on the distinction between minds and machines. This work is represented primarily by my book, Philosophy of Mind. I have recently written on Plato on the parts of the soul, and on color realism. I have have recently published a book manuscript on David Hume’s Critique of Infinity in the metaphysics of mathematics. My most comprehensive study of metaphysics thus far is found in my book Ontology, which develops a combinatorial analysis of the concept of being to answer problems of pure philosophical ontology, which is then brought to bear on problems of applied scientific ontology. As a Resident Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) I began further work in the ontology of mathematics, for a projected book on Mathematical Entity. I have been actively involved in philosophical evaluation of the concept of infinity, leaning toward a strict finitism inspired by Berkeley, Hume, and Wittgenstein. I am currently at work on a critical study of Early Wittgenstein on Identity.

Listed here are my publications specifically related to metaphysics:

BOOKS

Philosophy of Mind (Prentice Hall / Foundations of Philosophy Series, 1994) (x + 166 pp.).

Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence (Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1996) (xiii + 297 pp.).

Wittgenstein's Thought in Transition (Purdue University Press, 1998) (xix + 356 pp.).

David Hume's Critique of Infinity (Brill Academic Publishers, 2001) (xvii + 384 pp.).

The School of Alexius Meinong (edited with Liliana Albertazzi and Roberto Poli) (Ashgate Publishing, 2001) (xi + 579 pp.).

Ontology (Acumen Books, McGill-Queen's University Press / Central Problems of Philosophy Series, 2002) (xv + 348 pp.).

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy (edited) (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003) (xiii + 339 pp.).

The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (edited) (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (xxii + 322 pp.).

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Acumen Books, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) (xiv + 305 pp.).

Possible Worlds (edited with Guido Imaguire) (Ontos Verlag), in preparation.

Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Emergent Consciousness (Continuum Books) (2nd revised editionof Philosophy of Mind), in preparation.

Russell versus Meinong (edited with Nicholas Griffin), Routledge, in preparation.

ARTICLES

"Bochenski on Property Identity and the Refutation of Universals", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 35, 2006, 293-316.

"Collingwood Against Metaphysical Realism", Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 12, 2006, 103-114.

"Propositions, Sets, and Worlds", Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, special double issue 'Ways of Worlds' on 40 Years of Possible Worlds Semantics, Vol. 1: On Possible Worlds and Related Notions, edited by Vincent F. Hendricks and Stig Andur Pedersen, 82, 2006, 337-343.

"Applied Mathematics in the Sciences", The Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 6, 2006, 237-267.

"Nonstandard Modal Semantics and the Concept of a Logically Possible World", Philosophia Scientiae, 9, 2005, special issue on 'Aperçus philosophiques en logique et en mathématiques', edited by Gerhard Heinzmann and Manuel Rebuschi, 239-258.

"Thomas Reid on Natural Signs, Natural Principles, and the Existence of the External World", The Review of Metaphysics,, 57, 2003, 279-300.

"Plato on the Parts of the Soul", Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8, 2003, 43-68.

"Meinong on the Phenomenology of Assumption", Studia Phænomenologica, special issue on 'The School of Brentano and Husserlian Phenomenology', 3, 2003, 155-177.

"Hume on Infinite Divisibility and the Negative Idea of a Vacuum", The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 10, 2002, 413-435.

"Truth and Fiction in David Lewis's Critique of Meinongian Semantics", Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics", 2, 2001, 73-106.

"Carl Stumpf on the Ontology of Relations", Brentano Studien, 9, 2000-2001, 279-250.

"Quantum Indeterminacy and Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument", Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action, 2, 1999, 79-95.

"Searle's Antireductionism", Facta Philosophica, 4, 2002, 143-166. "The Devil's Dilemma in Flaubert's Saint Antony", The Heythrop Journal: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 39, 1998, 140-147.

"Reflections on Mally's Heresy", Axiomathes, 8, 1997, 163-180. "Descartes' Lumen naturale and the Cartesian Circle", Philosophy & Theology, 9, 1996, 273-320.

"Color and Armstrong's Color Realism Under the Microscope", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 26, 1995, 389-406.

"Meinong's Concept of Implexive Being and Nonbeing", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 50, 1995, 233-271.

"Zeno of Citium on the Divinity of the Cosmos", Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 24, 1995, 415-431.

"Virtual Relations", Idealistic Studies, 25, 1995, 141-154 (see below).

"Virtual Relations vs. Virtual Universals: Essay, Comments, and Reply" (with William J. Rapaport), Center for Cognitive Science Technical Report 95-10 (Buffalo: State University of New York Technical Report Series, 1995), 1-20.

"Infinite Divisibility in Hume's First Enquiry", Hume Studies, 20, 1994, 219-240.

"Tarski's Quantificational Semantics and Meinongian Object Theory Domains", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 75, 1994, 88-107.

"The Type-Token Distinction in Margolis's Aesthetics", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 52, 1994, 299-307.
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"Meinongian Logic and Anselm's Ontological Proof for the Existence of God", The Philosophical Forum, 25, 1994, 231-240.

"Kant's Second Antinomy and Hume's Theory of Extensionless Indivisibles", Kant-Studien, 84, 1993, 38-50.

"Pollock on Token Physicalism, Agent Materialism, and Strong Artificial Intelligence", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 7, 1993, 127-140.

"Chisholm on Persons as Entia Successiva and the Brain-Microparticle Hypothesis", The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, 70, 1993, 99-113.

"Reconciling Berkeley's Microscopes in God's Infinite Mind", Religious Studies, 29, 1993, 453-463.

"A Dialogue on Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise", Argumentation, 7, 1993, 273-290.

"The Origins of Gegenstandstheorie: Immanent and Transcendent Intentional Objects in Brentano, Twardowski, and Meinong", Brentano Studien, 3, 1990-1991, 277-302.

"Wittgenstein and the Color Incompatibility Problem", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 7, 1990, 353-365.

"Borges' Proof for the Existence of God", The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 4, 1990, 83-88.
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"On the Objects' Independence from Thought", translation of and commentary on Ernst Mally, "Ueber die Unabhaengigkeit der Gegenstaende vom Denken", Man and World, 22, 1989, 215-231.

"Presupposition and Foundational Asymmetry in Metaphysics and Logic", Philosophia Mathematica: International Journal for Philosophy of Mathematics, 4, 1989, 15-22.

"Twardowski on Content and Object", Conceptus: Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie, Oesterreichische Philosophen und ihr Einfluss auf die Analytische Philosophie der Gegenwart, 21, 1987, Band 2, 193-199.

"Margolis on Emergence and Embodiment", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 44, 1986, 257-261.

"Emergence et incorporation selon Margolis", Philosophiques, 13, 1986, 53-63 (French translation).

"The Uniqueness Problem in Kant's Transcendental Doctrine of Method", Man and World, 19, 1986, 425-438.

"Sensation and Intentionality", Philosophical Studies, 47, 1985, 429-440.

"Berkeley's Continuity Argument for the Existence of God", The Journal of Religion, 65, 1985, 1-14.

"Analogical Inference in Hume's Philosophy of Religion", Faith and Philosophy, 2, 1985, 287-294.

"Hume on the Infinite Divisibility of Extension and Exact Geometrical Values", Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Special Issue on the Philosophy of David Hume, edited by Emmanuele Rochetti, Giancarlo Carabelli, and Emilio Mazza.

"Schopenhauer's Proof That Thing-in-Itself is Will", Kantian Review.

"Collingwood Against Metaphysical Realism", Collingwood and British Idealism Studies.

"Supervenience of Qualia and Intentionality", Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers.

"Preface: After Russell, After Meinong", Russell: Journal of the Bertrand Russell Society, special issue on the 100th aniversary of 'On Denoting', guest co-edited with Kenneth Blackwell and Nicholas Griffin.

“Crossroads of Logic and Ontology: A Modal-Combinatorial Analysis of Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing”, Essays in Logic and Ontology, Dedicated to Jerzy Perzanowski, edited by Jacek Malinowski and Andrzej Pietruszczak (Amsterdam: Rodopi, Pozman Studies in Philosophy and the Humanities 91, 2007), 17–46.

“Brentano, Franz”, “Husserl, Edmund”, Europe: Encyclopedia of Industry and Empire 1789-1914, Scribner’s Library of Modern Europe, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Gale/Thomson, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), vol. 1 (Abdul Hamid II to Colonialism), 298–300; vol. 2 (Colonies to Huysmans), 1099-1101.

"Twardowski, Brentano's Dilemma, and the Content-Object Distinction", Actions, Products, and Things: Brentano and Polish Philosophy, Mind and Phenomenology series, edited by Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Dariusz Lukasiewicz (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2006), 9-33.

"Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation", Central Works of Philosophy, 3, The Nineteenth Century, edited by John Shand (Chesham: Acumen Books, 2005), 93-126.

"Kripke on Identity and the Description Theory of Reference", The Logica Yearbook 2002, edited by Timothy Childers and Ondrej Majer (Prague: Filosofia, 2003) (Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), 109-116.

"Introduction: Psychologism the Philosophical Shibboleth", Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003), 1-19; reprinted from Philosophy and Rhetoric (see above).

"Psychologism Revisited in Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology", Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003), 245-262; reprinted from Metaphilosophy (see above).

"Wittgenstein on Thoughts as Pictures of Facts and the Transcendence of the Metaphysical Subject", Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment After 50 Years / Wittgenstein und die Zukunft der Philosophie, Eine Newbewetung nach 50 Jahren, edited by Rudolf Haller and Klaus Puhl (Vienna: Öbv&Hpt, 2002), 160-170.

"Außersein of the Pure Object", The School of Alexius Meinong, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, and Roberto Poli (Ashgate Publishing, 2001), 373-396.

"Nuclear and Extranuclear Properties", The School of Alexius Meinong, edited by Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, and Roberto Poli (Ashgate Publishing, 2001), 397-426.

"Margolis and the Metaphysics of Culture", Interpretation, Relativism, and the Metaphysics of Culture: Themes in the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, edited by Michael Krausz and Richard Shusterman (Amherst: Humanity Books (Prometheus), 1999), 225-261.

"Act-Object Psychology", The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi, second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 9.

"A Priori / A Posteriori Distinction", "Analytic/Synthetic Distinction", "Kant, Immanuel", "Sensationalism", Encyclopedia of Empiricism, edited by Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997), 1-2; 7-10; 197-202; 388-390.

"Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Appearance and Will in the Philosophy of Art", in Schopenhauer, Philosophy, and the Arts, edited by Dale Jacquette (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 1-36.

"Abstract Entity", "Brentano, Franz", "Extensionalism", "Haecceity", "Impredicative Definition", "Meinong, Alexius", "Subject-Object Dichotomy", "Use-Mention Distinction", The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 3-4; 86-87; 258; 308; 363-364; 477-478; 773-774; 823-824.

"Categorical Moral Maxims in Kant's Categorical Imperative", Akten des Siebenten Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, edited by Gerhard Funke (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1991), Vol. II.1, 313-322.

"Definite Descriptions", "Extensionalism", "Lambda Abstraction", "Mally, Ernst", Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith (Munich and Vienna: Philosophia Verlag, 1991), 2 vols., 201-202; 268-269; 435; 485-486.

"Logic for Meinongian Object Theory Semantics", Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods, Volume V: Logic from Russell to Gödel (Elsevier Science).

"Designation", "Knowledge", "Probable", "Scheffler, Israel", "Synthesis", Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse (Routledge).

"Tarski, Alfred", "Fractals", "Modality", Handbook of Mereology, edited by Hans Burkhardt, Guido Imaguire, and Johanna Seibt (Philosophia Verlag).

"Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics", Companion to Schopenhauer, edited by Bart Vandenabeele, (Blackwell Publishing).

"Measure for Measure? Wittgenstein on Language Game Criteria and the Paris Standard Meter Bar", Critical Guide to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, edited by A.M. Ahmed, (Cambridge University Press).

"Preface: After Russell, After Meinong", After "On Denoting': Themes from Russell and Meinong, (edited with Kenneth Blackwell and Nicholas Griffin) (The Bertrand Russell Research Centre).

"Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind", Causality and Motivation, edited by Roberto Poli (Ontos Verlag).

REVIEWS

Review of Hans-Johann Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, Philosophical Investigations, 29, 2006, 97-103.

Review of Paolo Mancosu, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, and Stig Andur Pedersen, editors, Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics, The Mathematical Intelligencer, 28, 2006, 79-81.

Review of Anna Sierzulska, Meinong on Meaning and Truth, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (electronic format); http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.dfm?id=5781; 2006.02.17.

Review of Edmund Husserl, Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychologcial and Logical Investigations with Supplementary Texts from 1887-1901, translated by Dallas Willard, The Review of Metaphysics, 59, 2005, 428-431.

Review of Michael Rea, World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism, Faith and Philosophy, 21, 2004, 125-130.

Mathematical Fiction and Structuralism in Chihara's Constructibility Theory, (Review of Charles S. Chihara, A Structural Account of Mathematics), History and Philosophy of Logic, 25, 2004, 319-324.

Review of Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, Intentionalitätstheorie beim frühen Brentano, The Review of Metaphysics, 46, 2002, 163-167.

Review of Jerry A. Fodor, The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology, The Philosophers' Magazine, 18, 2002. 59.

Review of Katherine Hawley, How Things Persist, International Philosophical Quarterly, 42, 2002, 551-554.

Review of Jacek Pasniczek, The Logic of Intentional Objects: A Meinongian Version of Classical Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 64, 1999, 1847-1849.

Review of P.F. Strawson, Entity and Identity and Other Essays, International Philosophical Quarterly, 38, 1998, 322-323.

Review of Nicholas Rescher, Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus, Philosophical Books, 35, 1994, 264-266.

Review of F.C. White, On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 12, 1992, 370-372.

Review of Edward N. Zalta, Intensional Logic and the Metaphysics of Intentionality, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51, 1991, 439-444.

Review of Peter Simons, Parts: A Study in Ontology, Philosophy of Science, 57, 1990, 540-542.

Review of Anthony Palmer, Content and Object: The Unity of the Proposition in Logic and Psychology, History and Philosophy of Logic, 10, 1989, 113-115.

Review of Carol Rovane, The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus philosophiques.

Review of Nicholas Rescher, Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason, Philosophy and Rhetoric.

Review of Dean W. Zimmerman, editor, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2, Grazer Philosophische Studien.

Review of Liliana Albertazzi, Immanent Realism: An Introduction to Brentano, The Review of Metaphysics.