Books Authored
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience Oxford University Press 2021
Knowing the Score Little Brown UK and Basic Books US 2017
Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities and Sets Oxford University Press 2012
The Roots of Reason: Philosophical Essays on Rationality, Evolution and Probability Oxford University Press 2003
Thinking about Consciousness Oxford University Press 2002
Introducing Consciousness Icon Books 2000
Philosophical Naturalism Basil Blackwell 1993
Reality and Representation Basil Blackwell 1987
Theory and Meaning Oxford University Press 1979
For Science in the Social Sciences Macmillan 1978
Books Edited
Essays on Teleosemantics (with Graham Macdonald) Oxford University Press 2006
Philosophy Duncan Baird 2004
The Philosophy of Science Oxford University Press 1996
Articles
"Everett, Lotteries and Fairness" (with Thomas Rowe) Thought 2022
"The Statistical Nature of Causation" Monist 2022
"The Causal Structure of Reality" PhilSci-Archiv 2021
"Messing About in Small Boats" in R Casati (ed) Sailing Mind 2021
"The Problem of Consciousness" in U Kriegel ed The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness 2020
"Essential Properties are Super-Explanatory: Taming Metaphysical Modality" (with Marion Godman and Antonella Mallozzi) Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2020
"The Nature and Value of Sport" in T Hurka (ed) Games, Sports and Play 2019
"Teleosemantics, Selection and Novel Contents" (with Justin Garson) Biology and Philosophy2019
"Species have Historical not Intrinsic Essences" (with Marion Godman) in A Bianchi (ed) Language and Reality: Themes from Michael Devitt 2019
"The Disvalue of Knowledge" Synthese 2019
"Response to Chalmers' 'The Meta-Problem of Consciousness'" Journal of Consciousness Studies 2019
"Teleosemantics" in D L Smith ed How Biology Shapes Philosophy 2016
"Naturalism and Physicalism" (with Barbara Montero) in K Clark ed The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism 2016
"The Foundations of Narrative" in J Dodd ed Essays for Peter Goldie 2016
"Against Representationalism (about Sensory Experience)" International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2016
"Normal and Addictive Desires" (with Patrick Butlin) in N Heather and G Segal eds Addiction and Choice 2015
"Choking and the Yips" Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2015
"A Priori Philosophical Intuitions: Analytic or Synthetic?" in E Fischer and J Collins eds Philosophical Insights 2015
“Can We Really See a Million Colours?” in P. Coates (ed) Phenomenal Qualities Oxford University Press forthcoming
“Recanati On Mental Files” Disputatio 2014
"Sensory Experience and Representational Properties" Procedings of the Aristotelian Society 2013
“What Is Wrong With Strong Necessities?” (with Philip Goff) Philosophical Studies 2013
“In The Zone” in A. O’Hear (ed) The Philosophy of Sport Cambridge University Press 2013
“Causation is Macroscopic but not Irreducible” in S. Gibb, R. Ingthorsson and E. Lowe (eds) Mental Causation and Ontology Oxford University Press 2013
“There Are No Norms of Belief” in Chan, T. (ed) The Aim of Belief Oxford University Press 2013
"Phenomenal Concepts and the Private Language Argument" American Philosophical Quarterly 2011
"Realism, Ramsey Sentences and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 2011
“The Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge” in M. Shaffer and M. Veber (eds) What Place for the A Priori? Open Court 2011
"What Exactly is the Explanatory Gap?" Philosophia 2010
“A Fair Deal for Everettians” in J. Barrett, A. Kent, S. Saunders, and D. Wallace (eds) Many Worlds? Oxford University Press 2010
“Can any Sciences be Special?” in C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald (eds) Emergence in Mind Oxford University Press 2010
"The Poverty of Analysis" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 2009; a revised version will be published as “The Poverty of Conceptual Analysis” in M. Haug (ed) Philosophical Methods Routledge (forthcoming)
“Physicalism and the Human Sciences” in C. Mantzavinos (ed) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice Cambridge University Press 2009
“Must a Physicalist be a Microphysicalist?” in J. Hohwy and J. Kallestrup (eds) Being Reduced Oxford University Press 2008
"Phenomenal Concepts are not Demonstrative" in M. M. McCabe and M. Textor (eds) Perspectives on Perception Ontos Verlag 2007
“Kripke’s Argument is Ad Hominem Not Two-Dimensional” Philosophical Perspectives 2007
“Phenomenal and Perceptual Concepts” in T. Alter and S. Walter (eds) Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge Oxford University Press 2006
“Physicalism Decomposed” (with Andreas Hüttemann) Analysis 2005
“The Cultural Origins of Cognitive Adaptations” in A O’Hear (ed) Philosophy, Biology, and Life Cambridge University Press 2005
“Social Learning and the Baldwin Effect” in A Zilhao (ed) Rationality and Evolution Routledge 2005
“A Defence of the Via Negativa Argument for Physicalism” (with Barbara Montero)
Analysis 2005
"David Lewis and Schrödinger's Cat" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2004
"Rational or Associative?" (with Cecilia Heyes) in M. Nudds & S. Hurley (eds) Rational Animals? Oxford University Press 2004
"Is Representation Rife?" Ratio 2003
"Could there be a Science of Consciousness?" Philosophical Issues 2003
"Why You Don’t Want to Get in the Box with Schrödinger’s Cat" Analysis 2003
"Theories of Consciousness" in Q. Smith and A.Jokic (eds) Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays 2003
"Human Minds" in A. O'Hear (ed) Minds and Persons Cambridge University Press 2003
“Scientific Realism without Reference” (with Pierre Cruse) in M. Marsonet (ed) The Problem of Realism Ashgate 2002
"The Rise of Physicalism" in J. Wolff (ed) The Proper Ambition of Science Routledge 2000 and in B. Loewer and C. Gillett (eds) Physicalism and its Discontents Cambridge University Press 2001
"Evidentialism Reconsidered" Nous 2001
"The Status of Teleosemantics, or How to Stop Worrying about Swampman" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2001
"The Evolution of Means-End Reasoning" in D. Walsh (ed) Naturalism, Evolution and Mind Cambridge University Press 2001
"Metaphysics over Methodology—or, Why Infidelity Provides no Grounds to Divorce Causes from Probabilities" in M.-C. Galavotti, P. Suppes, and D. Costantini (eds) Stochastic Causality CSLI Publications, Stanford 2001
"The Evolution of Knowledge" in P. Carruthers (ed) Evolution and the Human Mind Oxford University Press 2000
“How not to Kill Swampman” in J. Botero, J. Ramos and A. Rosas (eds) Mentes Reales: La Ciencia Cognitiva y la Naturalización de la Mente 2000
"Normativity and Judgement" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 1999
"A Note on the Completeness of Physics" (with David Spurrett) Analysis 1999
"Mind the Gap" Philosophical Perspectives 1998
"Rational Decisions and the Many Minds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" Monist 1997
"Teleosemantics and Indeterminacy" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1997
"Probability as a Guide to Life" (with Helen Beebee) Journal of Philosophy 1997
"The Antipathetic Fallacy and the Limits of Consciounsness" in T. Metzinger (ed) Consciousness Imprint Academic 1996
"Theory-Dependent Terms" Philosophy of Science 1996
"Mental Disorder, Illness and Biological Function" in A. Phillips Griffith (ed) Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology Cambridge University Press 1995
"Probabilities and the Many Minds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" Analysis 1995
"Arguments for Supervenience and Identity" in E. Savellos and B. Yelcin (eds) Supervenience: New Essays Cambridge University Press1994
"The Virtues of Randomization" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1993
"Consciousness, Physicalism and the Antipathetic Fallacy" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1993
"Teleology and Irreducibility" in D. Charles and K. Lennon (eds) Reduction, Realism and Explanation Oxford University Press 1992
"Reliabilism, Induction and Scepticism" Philosophical Quarterly 1992
"Can We Reduce Causes to Probabilities?" in D. Hull and K. Okruklik (eds) Philosophy of Science Association 1992 vol 2
"The Reason Why" Analysis 1991
"Teleology and Mental States" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 1991
"Causation and Mixed Probabilities" International Studies in Philosophy of Science 1990
"Pure, Mixed and Spurious Probabilities and their Significance for a Reductionist Theory of Causation" in P. Kitcher and W. Salmon (eds) Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol XIII University of Minneapolis Press1990
"Truth and Teleology" in D. Knowles (ed) Explanation and its Limits Cambridge University Press1990
"Why Supervenience?" Analysis 1990
"Knowledge of Mathematical Objects" in A. Irvine (ed) Physicalism in Mathematics Kluwer 1989
"Mathematical Fictionalism" International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1988
"Ramsey-Lewis is Better than Mackie" Analysis 1988
"Semantic Reduction and Reference" in J. Butterfield (ed) Language, Mind, and Logic Cambridge University Press1986
"Causal Factors, Causal Inference, Causal Explanation" Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 1986
"Laws and Accidents" in G. Macdonald and C. Wright (eds) Facts, Science and Morality Basil Blackwell 1986
"Probabilities and Causes" Journal of Philosophy 1985
"Social Facts and Psychological Facts" in G. Currie and A. Musgrave (eds) Popper and the Human Sciences Nijhoff 1985
"Causal Asymmetry" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1985
"Realism and Epistemology" Mind 1985
"Representation and Explanation" Philosophy of Science 1984
"Is Epistemology Dead?" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1981-82
"Salmon, Statistics, and Backwards Causation" in P. Asquith and I. Hacking (eds) Philosophy of Science Association Vol 1 1978
"Meaning Variance and the Theory of Reference" Methodology and Science 1977
"The Vis Viva Controversy: Do Meanings Matter?" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 1977
"Ideal Types and Empirical Theories" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1976
Discussion Notes, Review Articles and Contributions to Reference Works
“Naturalism” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2020
"The Power of Team Reasoning" New Statesman 2020
"We Must Shed Our Metaphysical Assumptions about Consciousness" IAITV News 2020
"Knowledge is Crude" Aeon Magazine 2019
"Do Patients always Know what Medical Experiments They're In?" New Statesman 2019
"Mesut Özil and the Crisis of Citizenship" IAI News 2018
"Thomas Bayes and the Crisis in Science" Times Literary Supplement 2018
"What the Olympics can Teach Us" Vox.com 2018
"Exchange with Dan Dennett about my review of his From Bacteria to Bach and Back" Times Literary Supplement 2017
"Is Philosophy Harder than Science?" Times Literary Supplement 2017
"Interview about writing Knowing the Score" Deborah Kalb website 2017
"Interview about my favourite reading" The Reading Lists 2017
"Are Chess and Bridge Games?" Aeon Magazine 2016
"Five Philosophical Books about Sport" FiveBooks.Com 2015
"Runs in the Family" Aeon Magazine 2014
"Interview" 3:AM Magazine 2013
“Can We Be Harmed After We Are Dead?” Journal for the Evaluation of Clinical Practice 2012
"What is X-Phi Good For?" The Philosophers' Magazine Oct 2010
“Five Philosophy of Science Answers” in R. Rosenberger (ed) Philosophy of Science: Five Questions 2010
"Top Universities: Only the Rich Need Apply" op ed article on university fees in The Times 13 August 2009
“The Causal Closure of the Physical and Naturalism” in B. McLaughlin, A. Beckermann and S. Walter (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Mind 2009
“Naturalism” in C Nimtz (ed) One Hundred Key Concepts in Philosophy 2009
“Reply to Lewis: Metaphysics versus Epistemology” (withVictor Durà-Vilà) Analysis 2009
"Explanatory Gaps and Dualist Intuitions" comment on Martin Davies, in L. Weiskrantz and M. Davies (eds) Frontiers of Consciousness 2008
“Five Philosophy of Social Science Answers” in D. Rios and C. Schmidt-Petri (eds) Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Five Questions 2008
“A Thirder and an Everettian: Reply to Lewis’s ‘Quantum Sleeping Beauty’” (with Victor Durà-Vilà) Analysis 2008
“The Causal Closure of the Physical Domain” Encyclopedia of Philosophy Thompson Gale (2008)
“Naturalism” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2007
“Reuniting (Scene) Phenomenology with (Scene) Access” Comment on N. Block’s “Consciousness, Accessibility, and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2007
“Three Scenes and a Moral: My Philosophical Development” The Philosopher’s Magazine June 2007
Review article (with Matteo Mameli): Gary Marcus’s The Birth of the Mind Biology and Philosophy 2006
“The Tyranny of Common Sense” The Philosopher’s Magazine June 2006
“The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Reply to Griffiths” in P. Carruthers, S. Laurence and S. Stich (eds) The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition 2006
“Naturalist Theories of Meaning” in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Language 2007
“Comments on Galen Strawson's ‘Realistic Monism’” in A Freeman (ed) Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? 2006
“Replies to Crane’s, Hill’s and Raffman’s Comments on my Thinking about Consciousness” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2004
“Friendly Thoughts on the Evolution of Cognition: Commentary on Kim Sterelny’s Thought in a Hostile World” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2004
"Two (Kinds of) Concepts of Mind" in R. Gregory (ed) Companion to the Mind Oxford University Press 2004
“Replies to Kirk's and Melnyk's Comments on my Thinking about Consciousness” SWIF Philosophy Forum http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/forums/papineau.htm 2003
“Preface” to a new edition of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook Routledge 2002
“Review Article of Ruth Millikan's On Clear and Confused Ideas” (with N. Shea) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2002
"Evolutionary Psychology" Economist 1998
"Functionalism" in E. Craig (ed) Encyclopedia of Philosophy Routledge 1998
“Replies to Godfrey-Smith’s, Steward’s and Tye’s Comments on my Philosophical Naturalism” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1996
"Many Minds are No Worse than One: Comment on Lockwood" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1996
"Doubtful Intuitions: Symposium on Swampman" Mind and Language 1996
“Comments on Christopher Peacocke's A Study of Concepts” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1995
"Methodology: The Elements of Philosophy of Science" in A. Grayling (ed) Philosophy 1995
"Philosophy of Science" in N. Bunnin and E. James (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy Basil Blackwell 1995
"Causal Theories of Content" in S. Guttenplan (ed) Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mind Basil Blackwell 1994
“Review article of Nancy Cartwright's Nature's Capacities and their Measurement” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1991
"Reply to Ehring" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1988
"Review Article of Christopher Peacocke's Thoughts: An Essay on Content" Philosophical Books 1987
"Nature and Nurture" Journal of Medical Ethics 1982
Reviews
I have reviewed books on philosophy and other subjects for Biology and Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Cambridge Review, Economist, Guardian, Independent, Literary Review, Mind, Nature, New Scientist, New Society, New Statesman, New York Times Book Review, Observer, Philosophical Books, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Prospect, Spectator, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Sunday Independent, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and the Toronto Globe and Mail.
