Selected Papers


Christopher Peacocke



How Are A Priori Truths Possible?

Explaining the A Priori: The Programme of Moderate Rationalism from New Essays on the A Priori ed. P. Boghossian and C. Peacocke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Three Principles of Rationalism

The A Priori from The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy ed. F. Jackson and M. Smith (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Interrelations: Concepts, Knowledge, Reference and Structure

Rationale and Maxims in the Study of Concepts

Explaining Perceptual Entitlement

Joint Attention: Its Nature, Reflexivity, and Relation to Common Knowledge in Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds ed. N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, J. Roessler (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Moral Rationalism

'Another I': Representing Conscious States, Perception and Others

Justification, Realism and the Past, Mind 114 (2005) 639-70

Mental Action and Self-Awareness (I) in Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Mind ed. J. Cohen and B. McLaughlin (Blackwell, 2007)

Mental Action and Self-Awareness (II) in Mental Action ed. L. O'Brien and M. Soteriou (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Sensational Properties: Theses to Accept and Theses to Reject in a special issue on the Philosophy of Mind, edited by J. Proust, of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie 62 (2008) 7-24.

Conceiving of Conscious States in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind ed. J. Ellis and D. Guevara (Oxford University Press, 2012)

The Perception of Music: Sources of Significance, British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2009) 257-275

Perception, Content and Rationality in a Symposium on Anil Gupta's Empiricism and Experience in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (2009) 475-481

Understanding, Modality, Logical Operators in a Symposium on Timothy Williamson's The Philosophy of Philosophy in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Objectivity, Mind 118 (2009) 739-769

Relation-Based Thought, Objectivity and Disagreement, in a Special Issue on Concepts, ed. E. Lalumera, Dialectica 64 (2010) 35-56.

Subjects and Consciousness, in Self and Self-Knowledge, ed. A. Coliva (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Self-Consciousness, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale Oct-Dec (issue 4) 2010, 521-551, issue entitled “Le Moi/The Self/Le Soi” ed. B. Longuenesse.

Representing Causality, in Tool Use and Causal Cognition ed. T. McCormack, C. Hoerl, and S. Butterfill (Oxford: OUP, 2011).

Explaining De Se Phenomena, in Immunity to Error through Misidentification: New Essays, ed. S. Prosser and F. Recanati (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Perception and the First Person, in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, ed. M. Matthen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Musical Style and the Philosophy of Mind, in The Philosophy of Creativity, ed. E. Paul and S. Kaufman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Descartes Defended, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volume 86 (2012) 109-125.

First Person Illusions: Are They Descartes’, or Kant’s?, Philosophical Perspectives 26 (2012) 247-275.

Perception, Biology, Action, and Knowledge, Contribution to a Symposium on T. Burge’s Origins of Objectivity, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXXXVIII (March 2014) 477-484

David Pears (1921-2009), Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy XII (2013) 325-338

Interpersonal Self-Consciousness, Philosophical Studies 170 (2014) 1-24; paper from the 40th Oberlin Philosophy Colloquium, May 2012; published online July 2013

Magnitudes: Metaphysics, Explanation, and Perception, in Mind, Language, Action: Proceedings of the 2013 Kirchberg Symposium ed. D. Moyal-Sharrock, V. Munz (Berlin: de Gruyter 2015).

Temporal Magnitudes, Perception, and Phenomenal Externalism, forthcoming in The Routledge Handbook of Temporal Experience, ed. I. Phillips (London: Routledge, expected 2016-7).

The Nature and Role of First and Second Person Content, Analysis Reviews 76 (July 2016) 345-354.

Philosophical Reflections on the First Person, the Body, and Agency, forthcoming in a collection provisionally entitled The Body and the Self, Revisited ed. F. de Vignemont and A. Alsmith (Cambridge MA: MIT Press), expected 2017.

© Christopher Peacocke 2016