John Perry: Philosophical Essays

Here are some essays, some new, some old. Copyright retained in all cases. You should be able to read them using Acrobat. Make copies for your own purposes (comments always appreciated) or for small seminars and such.

Recent, Forthcoming, or In Preparation

• Are Future Events Unreal?

• Is There Hope for Compatibilism?

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• Is There Hope for Compatibilism?

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• Using Indexicals

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• Using Indexicals

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Published not too long ago

• Frege on Identity, Cognitive Value and Subject Matter.
• Myself and "I"
• Broadening the Mind (Review of Fodor, The Elm and The Expert)
• Russell's Problems of Philosophy
• Indexicals, Contexts and Unarticulated Constituents
• The Self
• Indexicals
• Reflexivity, Indexicality and Names
• Rip Van Winkle and Other Characters
• Situation Semantics
• Possible Worlds Semantics
• Davidson's Sentences and Wittgenstein's Builders
• Evading the Slingshot
• Intentionality and Its Problems
• Indexicals and Demonstratives

Older, published, but worth another look!

• Self-notions
• Individuals in Informational and Intentional Content
• Circumstantial Attitudes and Benevolent Cognition

Papers with David Israel and Syun Tutiya

• What is Information? (with David Israel)
• Information and Architecture (with David Israel)
• Fodor and Psychological Explanations (with David Israel)
• Executions, Motivations and Accomplishments (with David Israel and Syun Tutiya)
• Actions and Movements (with David Israel and Syun Tutiya)
• Where Monsters Dwell (with David Israel)

Papers with on topics related to disabilities

• Disability, Inability and Cyberspace (with E. Macken, N.Scott and J. McKinley).
• Prolegomena to A Theory of Disability (With David Israel and Elizabeth Macken).
• Richly Grounding Symbols in ASL (With Elizabeth Macken)
• Interfacing Situations, (With Elizabeth Macken).

Book News

Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness: the 1999 Jean Nicod Lectures May, 2001, from MIT.

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Reference and Reflexivity now available from CSLI Publications.

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Identity, Personal Identity and the Self

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Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

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Dialogue on Good, Evil and the Existence of God

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The Problem of the Essential Indexical: Enlarged Edition

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Perry and Bratman, editors, Introduction to Philosophy

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Other links

• Light Essays
• CSLI

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John Perry

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