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    Skepticism and the Veil of Perception.Gerald Vision - 2002 - Mind 111 (444):866-869.
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    Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and its Critics.Gerald Vision - 2009 - Bradford.
    In Veritas, Gerald Vision defends the correspondence theory of truth -- the theory that truth has a direct relationship to reality -- against recent attacks, and critically examines its most influential alternatives. The correspondence theory, if successful, explains one way in which we are cognitively connected to the world; thus, it is claimed, truth -- while relevant to semantics, epistemology, and other studies -- also has significant metaphysical consequences. Although the correspondence theory is widely held today, Vision points to an (...)
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  3. Problems of Vision: Rethinking the Causal Theory of Perception.Gerald Vision - 1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited subjectivism.
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    I Am Here Now.Gerald Vision - 1985 - Analysis 45 (4):198-199.
    In virtue of its form [‘I am here’] must be true on any occasion on which [it is] asserted, and yet the proposition it expresses on each occasion [is] contingent. Intuitively, [‘I am here now’] is deeply, and in some sense universally, true. One need only understand the meaning of [it] to know that it cannot be uttered falsely. The sentence ‘I am here’ has the peculiar property that whenever I utter it, it is bound to be true. Even if (...)
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  5. Veritas.Gerald Vision - 2006 - Wiley-Blackwell.
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    Modern anti-realism and manufactured truth.Gerald Vision - 1988 - New York: Routledge.
    I INTRODUCTION - THE TOPIC EXPLAINED 1 GENERAL DIFFERENCES From its inception to the present, philosophy may be viewed as a series of struggles between ...
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    Blindsight and philosophy.Gerald Vision - 1998 - Philosophical Psychology 11 (2):137-59.
    The evidence of blindsight is occasionally used to argue that we can see things, and thus have perceptual belief, without the distinctive visual awareness accompanying normal sight; thereby displacing phenomenality as a component of the concept of vision. I maintain that arguments to this end typically rely on misconceptions about blindsight and almost always ignore associated visual (or visuomotor) pathologies relevant to the lessons of such cases. More specifically, I conclude, first, that the phenomena very likely do not result from (...)
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    Fiction and Fictionalist Reductions.Gerald Vision - 1993 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 74 (2):150--74.
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    Deflationary truthmaking.Gerald Vision - 2005 - European Journal of Philosophy 13 (3):364–380.
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    Perceptual content.Gerald Vision - 1998 - Philosophy 73 (3):395-427.
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    Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World.Gerald Vision - 2011 - MIT Press.
    In " Re-Emergence" he explores the question of conscious properties arising from brute, unthinking matter, making the case that there is no equally plausible non-emergent alternative.
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  12. Fixing perceptual belief.Gerald Vision - 2009 - Philosophical Quarterly 59 (235):292-314.
    In specifying the sensory evidence for perceptual belief, thinkers have either chosen a common perceptual idiom or have invented one of their own as a starting-point for their enquiries. It is becoming clearer that the choice harbours crucial, often disputable, assumptions. I compare two sorts of constructions, a variety of propositional ones and an objectual one, and I argue that the objectual idiom is indispensable in order to explain how a perceptual belief can arise out of what is not already (...)
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    Lest we forget 'the correspondence theory of truth'.Gerald Vision - 2003 - Analysis 63 (2):136-142.
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    Referring to What Does Not Exist.Gerald Vision - 1974 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (4):619 - 634.
    Under the title of ‘the axiom of existence’, hereafter, John R. Searle has reduced to compact dictum a view to which many philosophers subscribe: ‘Whatever is referred to must exist’. In this paper I shall offer two major arguments against adopting, at least on certain assumptions. There have been a number of defenses of, among them those arguing that it is fundamental to any systematic philosophy of language or logic. With the exception of discussing some of Searle's remarks in part (...)
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  15. Intensional specifications of truth-conditions: 'Because', 'in virtue of', and 'made true by…'.Gerald Vision - 2010 - Topoi 29 (2):109-123.
    Although a number of truth theorists have claimed that a deflationary theory of ‘is true’ needs nothing more than the uniform implication of instances of the theorem ‘the proposition that p is true if and only if p ’, reflection shows that this is inadequate. If deflationists can’t support the instances when replacing the biconditional with ‘because’, then their view is in peril. Deflationists sometimes acknowledge this by addressing, occasionally attempting to deflate, ‘because’ and ‘in virtue of’ formulas and their (...)
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    (1 other version)Animadversions on the Causal Theory of Perception.Gerald Vision - 1993 - Philosophical Quarterly 43 (172):344-357.
  17. (1 other version)Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth.Gerald Vision - 1989 - Mind 98 (392):639-642.
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    The truth about philosophical investigations I §§134–137.Gerald Vision - 2005 - Philosophical Investigations 28 (2):159–176.
    A broad, though not unanimous, consensus among commentators is that the later Wittgenstein subscribes to a redundancy conception of truth. I reject that interpretation. No doubt much depends on what is meant by a redundancy theory. But once even mildly plausible versions of that view are isolated a review of the relevant texts shows that the evidence for that interpretation collapses. Moreover, the redundancy interpretation is at odds with guiding prescriptions in the post‐1932 corpus. Wittgenstein doesn’t hold that truth can (...)
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    Why Correspondence Truth Will Not Go Away.Gerald Vision - 1997 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 38 (1):104-131.
    From the popular view that the property of truth adds nothing not already inherent in its bearers it has been inferred that classical theories of truth are thereby refuted. Taking as representative a version of deflationism based on a certain way of interpreting the Tarskian schema convention T–and popularly called "disquotational"–I argue that the view is beset by fatal difficulties. These include: an unavoidable awkwardness in handling indexicals; an inability to accept anything more than a too anemic notion of a (...)
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  20. Causal sufficiency.Gerald Vision - 1979 - Mind 88 (349):105-110.
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    Antiphon.Gerald Vision - 1987 - Analysis 47 (2):124 - 128.
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    Existentials and existents.Gerald Vision - 1981 - Theoria 47 (1):1-30.
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    Essentialism and the Senses of Proper Names.Gerald Vision - 1970 - American Philosophical Quarterly 7 (4):321 - 330.
    Some philosophers believe that the doctrine that individuals have (nominal) essences is supported by arguments designed to show that proper names have senses. Three such arguments are extracted from recent pieces of philosophy: one from the absurdity of bare particulars, A second from the necessary conditions for identifying bearers of proper names, And a third from the ability to replace proper names in discourse with the help of sortal terms. All three arguments are rejected upon examination. The bearing this rejection (...)
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    Emergentism.Gerald Vision - 2007 - In Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 337–348.
    Emergentism is generally viewed as a non‐materialist alternative to physicalism, although the exceptionally tolerant may count it as consistent with their physicalism. It disarms the threat of Causal Exclusion. The popular conception of explored emergentism is played off against two forms, including physical states and tokens of conscious states (c‐states). Emergentism competes not only with physicalism, but also with panpsychism. Panpsychism is the view that all matter has a conscious aspect. Panpsychism (and its various forms) suffers from several problems. This (...)
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  25. Searle on the Nature of Universals.Gerald Vision - 1970 - Analysis 30 (5):155 - 160.
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    ‘Call Me Ishmael’: Fiction and Direct Reference.Gerald Vision - 2017 - British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (4):369-378.
    Whereas it appears that direct, or causal, theories dominate philosophy’s theories of reference, and it is widely held that they present an insuperable obstacle for a fictional character’s name to refer, I attempt to show not only that they can be easily made compatible with such theories, but that reference to the fictional fits rather smoothly into the distinctive articles of current theories of direct reference. However, the issues about reference to fictional characters goes well beyond those points, so its (...)
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    Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth ‐ Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter.Gerald Vision - 2007 - Philosophical Books 48 (3):269-272.
  28. Ernest Becker's theory of the denial of death.Tom Pyszczynski & Sally A. Kenel A. Heroic Vision - 1998 - Zygon 33:180.
  29. A Causal Account of Name Reference.Gerald Vision - 1982 - Ratio (Misc.) 24 (2):111.
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    Believing sentences.Gerald Vision - 1996 - Philosophical Studies 85 (1):75-93.
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    Consciousness: Philosophy’s Great White Whale.Gerald Vision - 2021 - In Inês Hipólito, Robert William Clowes & Klaus Gärtner (eds.), The Mind-Technology Problem : Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artefacts. Springer Verlag. pp. 105-122.
    On the assumption that phenomenal consciousness is real, and ruling out Cartesian isolation from the non-mental world, we have two choices for its introduction: either it comes about in the course of the development of the non-conscious realm or it was there from the beginning. The latter comprises versions of panpsychism, a recently trending view in some quarters. In their view the former are broadly taken to be versions of emergentism, embracing even non-eliminatiivist materialisms. After producing what seem to me (...)
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    David Welker, 1938-2003.Gerald Vision - 2004 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 77 (5):176 - 177.
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    Essentialism vis-á-vis identifying procedures.Gerald Vision - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 26 (1):23 - 37.
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    Flash! Fodor splits the atom.G. Vision - 2001 - Analysis 61 (1):5-10.
    Has Fodor demonstrated conceptual atomism?
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    Fictional Objects.Gerald Vision - 1980 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 11 (1):45-59.
    Problems concerning identity in possible worlds and the view that proper names are rigid designators pose no threat to the doctrine that names of fictional characters (fictional names) are referential. Some philosophers, notably Saul Kripke and David Kaplan, have held otherwise; but a close examination of their arguments discovers fatal flaws in them. Furthermore, the most readily available proposals for the alternative functions of fictional names — that is, proposals in which fictional names are not referential — are open to (...)
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    Hume's Attack on Abstract Ideas: Real and Imagined.Gerald Vision - 1979 - Dialogue 18 (4):528-537.
    A very material question has been started concerning abstract or general ideas, whether they be general or particular in the mind's conception of them. A great philosopher [Dr. Berkeley] has disputed the receiv'd opinion in this particular, and has asserted, that all general ideas are nothing but particular ones, annexed to a certain term, which gives them a more extensive signification, and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals, which are similar to them. As I look upon this to be (...)
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    'Indeed,''Really,''In Fact,''Actually'.Gerald Vision - 2008 - Studia Philosophica Estonica 1 (1):43-75.
    Interjections, such as those in the title, together with a few similar devices, when qualifying clauses expressing truth-conditions, or that such conditions have been satisfied, are entitled 'force-amplifiers'. Disputes between deflationary and inflationary truth-theories sometimes are assumed to turn on the supposed pivotal role that these devices are construed as playing in the interpretation of the clauses they qualify. I argue that they are not dispensable add-ons. Moreover, even in their absence the relevant clauses giving truth-conditions permit interpretations that are (...)
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  38. Jose A. Argiielles.Transformative Vision - 1989 - In Richard Kostelanetz (ed.), Esthetics contemporary. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books. pp. 157.
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    John Fisher 1922-1989.Gerald Vision - 1990 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 63 (5):54 - 55.
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    Kripke on “madagascar”.Gerald Vision - 1978 - Philosophia 7 (3-4):639-649.
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    Logic and knowledge.Gerald Vision - 1987 - Philosophia 17 (4):531-536.
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    Linsky on rigid designation and sense.Gerald Vision - 1980 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (3):291 – 297.
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    Language puddles.Gerald Vision - 1995 - Philosophical Books 36 (4):245-252.
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  44. (1 other version)Max Deutscher, Subjecting and Objecting: an Essay on Objectivity Reviewed by.Gerald Vision - 1985 - Philosophy in Review 5 (2):54-56.
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  45. Martine Nida-Rumelin.Pseudonormal Vision - 1999 - In S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak & David Chalmers (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness III: The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press. pp. 3--75.
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    Neurobiology of Higher.What is Higher-Level Vision - 1994 - In Martha J. Farah & Graham Ratcliff (eds.), Neuropsychology of High Level Vision: Collected Tutorial Essays : Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition : Papers. Lawrence Erlbaum.
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    On Physics' Faustian Bargain with Mathematics.G. Vision - 2017 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 24 (9-10):59-71.
    Standard physicalism is repudiated by Susan Schneider on the grounds that the science of physics at physicalism's foundation is individuated by mathematics, revealing that science is abstract rather than concrete. She seeks to remedy the situation for physics, though not for physicalism, with a panprotopsychist variant of panpyschism. Her approach is clever and well-developed, but I believe it suffers from at least two flaws. First, with few exceptions individuation is the wrong tool for the discovery of a thing's nature; second, (...)
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    Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom.Gerald Vision - 1993 - Philosophical Books 34 (3):153-156.
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  49. Perceptual experience and belief.Gerald Vision - 2004 - In Ralph Schumacher (ed.), Perception and Reality: From Descartes to the Present. Mentis. pp. 214.
     
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  50. ‘Putting Metaphysics First: Essays on Metaphysics and Epistemology’, by Michael Devitt.Gerald Vision - 2012 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (2):402 - 405.
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 90, Issue 2, Page 402-405, June 2012.
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