Dr P.M.S. Hacker - Publications: A Selection of published papers of the last decade

  1. ‘Agential Reasons and the Explanation of Human Behaviour’, in C. Sandis ed. New Essays on Action Explanation (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008), pp. 75-93
  2. ‘Human Beings – the Mind and the Body: Wittgensteinian-Aristotelian reflections’, Proceedings of the 29 International Wittgenstein Symposium 2006 (Ontos Verlag, Heusenstamm, 2007), pp. 67-86
  3. ‘Analytic Philosophy: Beyond the linguistic turn and back again’, in M. Beaney ed. The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (Routledge, London, 2007), pp. 125-41.
  4. ‘Language and cortical function: conceptual developments’, Progress in Neurobiology 76 (2006), co-authored with M. R. Bennett.
  5. ‘Passing by the Naturalistic Turn: On Quine’s Cul-de-sac’, Philosophy 81 (2006), pp. 231-53.
  6. ‘Scott Soames’s Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century’, critical notice, Philosophical Quarterly 2006
  7. ‘Goodbye to Qualia and All What? – A reply to David Hodgson’, Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 12, No. 11 (2005), pp. 61-6.
  8. ‘Thought and Action: A Tribute to Stuart Hampshire’, Philosophy vol. 80 (2005), pp. 175-197.
  9. ‘Emotion and cortical-subcortical function: conceptual developments’, Progress in Neurobiology 75 (2005), pp. 29-52 (co-authored with M.R. Bennett).
  10. ‘Of knowledge and of knowing that someone is in pain’, in A. Pichler and S. Säätelä eds., Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works ((The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Bergen, 2005), pp. 203-235.
  11. ‘The conceptual framework for the investigation of the emotions’, International Review of Psychiatry, Vol.16, No. 3 (August 2004), pp. 199-208
  12. Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography: J.L. Austin; N.A. Malcolm; L. Wittgenstein (2004)
  13. ‘Turning the examination around: the recantation of a metaphysician’, in E. Ammereller and Eugen Fischer (eds.), Wittgenstein at Work (Routledge,London, 2004), pp. 3-21.
  14. ‘Substance: Things and Stuffs’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2004, pp. 41-63.
  15. ‘Of the ontology of belief’, in Mark Siebel and Mark Textor ed. Semantik und Ontologie (Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2004), pp. 185-222.
  16. On Strawson’s Rehabilitation of Metaphysics’ in H.J. Glock ed., Strawson and Kant (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003), pp. 43 - 66.
    Repr. in Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, 375 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001). pb. ed. 2004 Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  17. ‘Functions in Begriffsschrift’ , co-authored with G.P. Baker, Synthese 135 (2003), pp. 273-297.
  18. ‘Wittgenstein, Carnap and the New American Wittgensteinians’, Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003), pp. 1 -23.
  19. ‘The motor system in neuroscience: a history and analysis of conceptual developments’, Progress in Neurobiology 67 (2002), 1 - 52 (co-authored with M.R. Bennett).
  20. ‘Strawson’s Concept of a Person’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society  vol. CII, 2002, pp. 21-40.
  21. ‘Is there anything it is like to be a bat?’, Philosophy 77, 2002, pp. 157-74.
  22. ‘Perception and memory in neuroscience: a conceptual analysis’, Progress in Neurobiology 2001, pp. 499 - 543 (co-authored with M.R. Bennett).
  23. ‘When the Whistling had to Stop’, in D.O.M. Charles and T.W. Child eds. Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays in Honour of David Pears (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001).
    Repr. in Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, 375 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001). pb. ed. 2004 Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  24. ‘Wittgenstein and the Autonomy of Humanistic Understanding’, in R. Allen and M.  Turvey eds., Wittgenstein: Theory and the Arts (Routledge. London, 2001), pp. 39-74.
    Repr. in Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, 375 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001). pb. ed. 2004 Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  25. ‘An Orrery of Intentionality’, in Language and Communication, 21(2001), pp.119-141.
  26. ‘Eliminative Materialism’ in S. Schroeder ed. Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave, London, 2001), pp. 60-84.
  27. ‘Carnap’s “Überwindung der Metaphysik’ in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (2000) 3, pp. 469-86.
    Repr. in Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, 375 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001). pb. ed. 2004 Clarendon Press, Oxford.as ‘On Carnap’s Elimination of Metaphysics through the Logical Analysis of Language’
  28. ‘Was he Trying to Whistle it?’ in A. Crary and R. Read eds. The New Wittgenstein  (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 353-88.
    Repr. in Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, 375 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001). pb. ed. 2004 Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  29. ‘Frege and the Later Wittgenstein’, in A. O’Hear ed. German Philosophy since Kant, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44 (1999), pp. 223-47
    Repr. in Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, 375 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2001). pb. ed. 2004 Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  30. ‘Analytic Philosophy – What, Whence and Whither?’ in A. Matar and A. Biletsky ed. The Story of Analytic Philosophy -- Plot and Heroes (Routledge, London, 1998), pp. 1 - 32.
  31. ‘Davidson on the Ontology and Logical Form of Belief ’ – Philosophy 73 (1998), pp. 81 - 96.
  32. ‘Davidson on First Person Authority’, The Philosophical Quarterly 47, 1997, pp.285-304.
    Reprinted in trans. in Silva Filho, W. (ed.), Donald Davidson (DP&A, Rio de Janeiro, 2004).
  33. 'The Rise of Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy', Ratio IX (1996), pp.243 - 68.
    Reprinted in H.-J. Glock ed. The Rise of Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, Oxford, 1997), pp. 51 -76.
  34. ‘Wittgenstein and Quine: Proximity at Great Distance’ in R. Arrington and H.-J. Glock eds. Wittgenstein and Quine. (Routledge, London, 1996), pp. 1-38.
  35. ‘Reference and the First-person Pronoun’, co-authored with H.-J. Glock, in Language and Communication 16 (1996), pp. 95-105.
  36. ‘On Davidson’s Idea of a Conceptual Scheme’,  The Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1996), pp.289-307.
    Reprinted in translation in Revue de Mauss 17, 2001, pp. 311-331.

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