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Department of Philosophy

Staff

 

Academic Staff

Alan Millar

Selected Publications

Books

Reasons and Experience (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).

Edited with José Luis Bermúdez, Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002).

Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004hb, 2008pb; available on Oxford Scholarship Online).

Edited with Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Value (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009).

Edited with Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard, Social Epistemology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming).

Co-authored with Adrian Haddock and Duncan Pritchard, The Nature and Value of Knowledge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming, 2010).

 

Articles


‘The Scope of Perceptual Knowledge’, Philosophy, 75, 2000, 73-88.

‘Rationality and Higher-Order Intentionality’, in Denis M. Walsh (ed.) Naturalism, Evolution and the Mind  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 179-98.

‘The Normativity of Meaning’, in Anthony O'Hear (ed.) Logic, Thought and Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 57-73.

‘Reasons for Action and Instrumental Reasoning’, in José Bermúdez and Alan Millar (eds.) Reason in Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002), 113-32.

‘Travis’s Sense of Occasion’, Philosophical Quarterly, 55, 2005, 337-42.

'What the Disjunctivist is Right About' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 74, 2007, 176-198.

'The State of Knowing', Philosophical Issues, 17, The Metaphysics of Epistemology, 2007, 179-96.

‘Precis of Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation’ and ‘Replies to Authors’, in Patrizia Pedrini (ed.) Symposium on Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation by Alan Millar, SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review, (http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/forums.htm), 6, 2007, 14-23 and 72-90.

‘Perceptual-Recognitional Abilities and Perceptual Knowledge’ in Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson (eds.) Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

‘Disjunctivism and Skepticism’ in John Greco (ed.) The Oxford Handbook to Skepticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 581-604).

Reprint of ‘The Idea of Experience’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 97, 1996, 75-90, in Alex Byrne and Heather Logue (eds.) Disjunctivism: Contemporary Readings (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2009).

‘Reasons for Action and Reasons for Belief’ in Simon Robertson (ed.), Spheres of Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

'What is it that Cognitive Abilities are Abilities to Do?', Acta Analytica, 24, 2009, 223-36.