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  • “Mach and Husserl,” Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, May 1972.
  • “A Note on the Essence of Natural Kinds,” Analysis, June 1975.
  • “On the Necessity of Origin,” The Journal of  Philosophy, March 1976.
  • “A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, March 1976.
  • “A Note on the Frege Argument,” Mind, July 1976.
  • “Knowledge and Necessity,” (with W.D. Hart) Journal of Philosophical Logic, September 1976.
  • “Charity, Interpretation and Belief,” The Journal of Philosophy, September 1977.
  • “Semantics for Nonindicative Sentences,” Philosophical Studies, October, 1977.
  • “Mental States, Natural Kinds and Psychophysical Laws,” Proceeding of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, 1978.
  • “Reply to Woodfield,” Analysis, March 1978.
  • “On Propositions,” (with W.D. Hart) Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, January 1978.
  • “Single-case Probability and Logical Form,” Mind, April, 1979.
  • “Action and Its Explanation,” in Philosophical Problems in Psychology, ed. N. Bolton, Methuen 1979.
  • “An A Priori Argument for Realism,” The Journal of Philosophy, March, 1979.
  • “Evolution, Animals, and the Basis of Morality,” Inquiry, Summer 1979.
  • “Truth and Use,” in Reference, Truth and Reality, ed. M. Platts, Routledge, 1980.
  • “Operators, Predicates and Truth Theory,” ibid.
  • “Functionalism and Phenomenalism: A Critical Note,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, March 1980.
  • “Philosophical Materialism,” Synthese, June 1980.
  • “Anomalous Monism and Kripke’s Cartesian Intuitions,” Analysis, January 1977. Reprinted in Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology, ed. N. Block, Harvard University Press, 1980.
  • “Modal Reality,” in Reduction, Time and Reality, ed. R. Healey, Cambridge University Press,  1981.
  • “The Structure of Content,” in Thought and Object, ed. A. Woodfield, Oxford University Press, 1981.
  • “The Mechanism of Reference,”  Synthese, 1981.
  • “A Note on Functionalism and Function,” SouthWestern Journal of Philosophy, May 1981.
  • “Reply to Tennant,” Analysis, May 1981.
  • “Rigid Designation and Semantic Value,” Philosophical Quarterly, January 1982.
  • “Realist Semantics and Content Ascription,” Synthese, 1982.
  • “Two Notions of Realism?” Philosophical Topics, 1983.
  • “The Concept of Knowledge,” Midwest Studies, 1984.
  • “What is the Problem of Other Minds?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Supplementary vol. 1984.
  • “Philosophy and Psychology,” Mind and Language, Spring 1986.
  • “Radical Interpretation and Epistemology,” in Truth and Interpretation, ed. E. Lepore, 1986.
  • “Sartre,” article in the Oxford Companion to the Mind ed. R. L. Gregory, 1987.
  • “Could a Machine Be Conscious?” Mind Waves, ed. C. Blakemore and S. Greenfield, Blackwell 1987.
  • “Can We Solve the Mind-Body Problem?” Mind, 1989 (multiply reprinted and translated).
  • “Consciousness and Content,” Annual Lecture to the British Academy, 1988.
  • “Conceptual Causation: Some Elementary Reflections,” Mind, October 1991.
  • “Must I Be Morally Perfect?” Analysis, January 1992.
  • “Consciousness and Cosmology: Hyperdualism Ventilated,” Essays on Consciousness, ed. M. Davies, Blackwell, 1993.
  • “Logic, Mind and Mathematics,” Essays on D. Dennett, ed. B. Dahlbolm, 1993.
  • “Apes, Humans, Aliens, Vampires and Robots,” The Great Ape Project, ed. Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
  • “The Problem of Philosophy,” Philosophical Studies, 76, 1994
  • “Out of Body, Out of Mind,” Lingua Franca, December 1994
  •  “Consciousness and Space,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Fall 95
  • “Animal Minds, Animal Morality,” Journal of Social Research, Fall 95
  • “Another Look at Color”, Journal of Philosophy, November 96
  • “The Moral Case for Lolita,” TLS, 1997 (also translated into German)
  • “Solving the Philosophical Mind-Body Problem,” Festscrift for Dieter Henrich, 1998
  • “Thought”, in Blackwell Companion to the Mind. Ed. S. Guttenplan, 1998
  • “Our Duties to Animals and the Poor,” Singer and His Critics, ed. D. Jamieson, Basil Blackwell, 1999.
  • “The Meaning and Morality of Lolita,” Philosophical Forum, 1999
  • “Secondary Qualities”, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2000
  • “How Not to Solve the Mind-Body Problem,” Physicalism and Its Discontents”, edited by B. Loewer, Cambridge University Press, 2001
  • “What is it Not Like to be a Brain?”, in The Physical Nature of Consciousness, ed. Van Looke, 2001.
  • “Inverted First-Person Authority,” The Monist, 2004
  • Book Symposium on Logical Properties, in Philosophical Studies, April 2004
  • Book Symposium on Mindsight, Philosophical Books, October 2006
  • “Hard Questions” in Consciousness and its Place in Nature, ed.A. Freeman, 2006
  • “Consciousness as Knowingness”, The Monist, ed. U. Kriegel, April 2008
  • “The Rise of the ‘Ordinary Bloke’ (in Twentieth Century Philosophy and Literature)” in The Movement, ed. Zachary Leader, 2008
  • “Matter and Meaning”, in Meaning, ed. R. Shantz, 2011.
  • “The Human and The Fly”, in Philosophical Essays on David Cronenberg, ed. Simon Rich, 2012
  • “Imitation in Sport and Philosophy”, in The Philosopher’s Magazine, 2012
  • “Philosophy of Mind Today”, in The New Statesman, February 2012
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