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Books:

Past, Space and Self (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 1994).

Reference and Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002).


Recent Papers:

"Transparency vs. Revelation in Color Perception", Philosophical Topics (2005), 105-115.

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"Manipulating Colours:  Pounding an Almond", in Tamar Szabo Gendler and John O'Leary Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual Experience (New York:  Oxford University Press 2006), 31-48.

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"Does Visual Reference Depend on Sortal Classification?  Reply to Austen Clark", Philosophical Studies 127 (2006), 221-237.
"What is the Role of Location in the Sense of a Visual Demonstrative?  Reply to Mohan Matthen", Philosophical Studies 127 (2006), 239-254.

"Sortals and the Binding Problem", in Fraser MacBride (ed.), Identity and Modality (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006), 203-218.

"Ordinary Thinking About Time", in Friedrich Stadler and Michael Stoeltzner (eds.), Time and History:  Proceedings of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2005 (Frankfurt:  ontos verlag, 2006), 1-12.

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"An Interventionist Approach to Causation in Psychology", in Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz (eds.), Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy and Computation (Oxford:  Oxford University Press 2007), 58-66.

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"If Truth is Dethroned, What Role is Left For It?", in Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn (eds.), Library of Living PhilosophersThe Philosophy of Michael Dummett  (Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois:  Open Court, 2007), 281-300.

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"The Metaphysics of Perception", in Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva (eds.), The Metaphysics of Epistemology: Philosophical Issues 17 (Boston, MA and Oxford:  Blackwell 2007), 1-15.
"What's the Role of Spatial Awareness in Visual Perception of Objects?", Mind and Language 28 (2007), 548-562.

"Sensorimotor Knowledge and Naïve Realism", Symposium on Alva Noë, Action in Perception, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2008), 666-673.

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"Consciousness and Reference", in Brian McLaughlin and Ansgar Beckermann (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2008).

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"Causation in Psychiatry", in Kenneth Kendler and Josef Parnas (eds.) Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins University Press, in press).

"Psychological Causation Without Physical Causation", in Kenneth Kendler and Josef Parnas (eds.) Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins University Press, in press).
"Consciousness and Language", entry for Patrick Colm Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (Cambridge University Press, in press).
"Interventionism, Control Variables and Causation in the Qualitative World", Philosophical Issues (in press).
"Demonstrative Reference, the Relational View of Experience and the Proximality Principle", in Robin Jeshion (ed.), Essays on Singular Reference (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"The Self", in Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Andrew McGonigal and Ross Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (New York, Routledge, forthcoming).
"What Does Rationality Have To Do With Psychological Causation?  Propositional Attitudes as Control Variables and as Mechanisms", in Matthew R. Broome and Lisa Bortolotti (eds) Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, in press).

"Molyneux's Question", in Timothy Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, and Patrick Wilken (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

"Does Knowledge of Material Objects Depend on Spatial Perception?  Comments on Quassim Cassam's The Possibility of Knowledge" Analysis, forthcoming.