All Outputs (48)

Understanding others: cultural anthropology with Collingwood and Quine (2013)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2013). Understanding others: cultural anthropology with Collingwood and Quine. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 326 - 345 (20)

On one meaning of the term “historicism” to be a historicist is to be committed to the claim that the human sciences have a methodology of their own that is distinct in kind and not only in degree from that of the natural sciences. In this sense of t... Read More about Understanding others: cultural anthropology with Collingwood and Quine.

Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy (2012)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2012). Between the old metaphysics and the new empiricism: Collingwood's defence of the autonomy of philosophy. Ratio, 34 -50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00514.x

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
D'Oro. (2011). Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 207 -221. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.583930

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
D'Oro. (2009). Reclaiming the ancestors of simulation theory. History and Theory, 129 - 139 (11). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00492.x

The Ontological Backlash: why did mainstream analytic philosophy lose interest in the philosophy of history? (2008)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2008). The Ontological Backlash: why did mainstream analytic philosophy lose interest in the philosophy of history?. Philosophia, 403 -415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-008-9135-7

This paper seeks to explain why mainstream analytic philosophy lost interest in the philosophy of history. It suggests that the reasons why the philosophy of history no longer commands the attention of mainstream analytical philosophy may be explaine... Read More about The Ontological Backlash: why did mainstream analytic philosophy lose interest in the philosophy of history?.

The gap is semantic, not epistemological (2007)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2007). The gap is semantic, not epistemological. Ratio, 168 -178. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00355.x

This paper explores an alternative to the metaphysical challenge to physicalism posed by Jackson and Kripke and to the epistemological one exemplified by the positions of Nagel, Levine and McGinn. On this alternative the mind-body gap is neither onto... Read More about The gap is semantic, not epistemological.

Idealism and the Philosophy of Mind (2005)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2005). Idealism and the Philosophy of Mind. Inquiry, 395 - 412. https://doi.org/10.1080/00201740500241847

This paper defends an idealist form of non-reductivism in the philosophy of mind. I refer to it as a kind of conceptual dualism without substance dualism. I contrast this idealist alternative with the two most widespread forms of non-reductivism: mul... Read More about Idealism and the Philosophy of Mind.

Editors' introduction (2005)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2005). Editors' introduction. In R.G. Collingwood: An Essay on Philosophical Method (13 -117)