Outputs (44)

The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting (2017)
Journal Article

It is sometimes assumed that justification is factive. A negative implication of this claim is that reasons are not psychological entities such as believings or desirings. Another, positive, implication of this claim is that there is an important con... Read More about The justificandum of the human sciences: Collingwood on reasons for acting.

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter

Unlikely bedfellows?: Collingwood, Carnap and the internal/external distinction (2015)
Journal Article

Idealism is often associated with the kind of metaphysical system building which was successfully disposed of by logical positivism. As Hume’s fork was intended to deliver a serious blow to Leibnizian metaphysics so logical positivism invoked the ver... Read More about Unlikely bedfellows?: Collingwood, Carnap and the internal/external distinction.

The logocentric predicament and the logic of question and answer (2014)
Book Chapter

De la distinction entre actions et événements (2014)
Journal Article

From anti-causalism to causalism and back (2013)
Book Chapter

Reasons and Causes (2013)
Book

Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors), experts in the field re-evaluate the history and current state of the reasons/causes debate.

Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy (2012)
Journal Article

Collingwood has failed to make a significant impact in the history of twentieth century philosophy either because he has been dismissed as a dusty old idealist committed to the very metaphysics the analytical school was trying to leave behind, or bec... Read More about Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy.

Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war (2011)
Journal Article

Since the publication of Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons and Causes” the philosophy of action has been dominated by the view that rational explanations are a species of causal explanations. Although there are dissenting voices, anti-causalism is for the... Read More about Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war.

Reclaiming the ancestors of simulation theory (2009)
Journal Article