Christopher Peacocke

Biographic Data

ID1007703
NAMEChristopher Peacocke
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEPeacocke
SIGNATUREPEACOCKE C
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
ORCID0000-0002-8372-7373
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS99
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX6

  • The Soul in Sound: The Nature of Musical Consciousness / Norms and Realism

    Christopher PeacockeARTICLEL’annuaire du Collège de France2024

    The Soul in Sound: The Nature of Musical ConsciousnessConférence 1 − What Can be Heard in the Music: What, Why, and HowThis non-technical lecture applied the resources of philosophy in order to explain various phenomena of musical perception. I distinguished three ways in which emotions and modalities of action can be involved in the perception of music. The proper characterization of each of these leads to a general principle concerning the dist…

  • David Wiggins: A Personal Philosophical Memoir

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophy2022

    My first encounter with David Wiggins’ thought occurred a few weeks before I took my undergraduate final examinations in Oxford in 1971. In Blackwell's Bookshop I came across a slim blue volume Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity . I purchased it and read it cover-to-cover the same day. It was immediately clear that this was contemporary writing in a different league from anything I had previously read on the topic

  • Précis of The Primacy of Metaphysics

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2021

  • What is involved in the primacy of metaphysics

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2021

  • The Distinctive Character of Musical Experience

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2020Cited by: 1

    The goal of this paper is to use the dual resources of the contemporary theory of intentional content and the notion of experiencing something metaphorically as something else, which I have defended in my earlier work, to explain the distinctive character of musical experience. These resources are used to explain Felix Mendelssohn's point that emotional content in music can be more specific than anything capturable in language; to give an account…

  • The Primacy of Metaphysics

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKPrimacy of Metaphysics2019

    Is the metaphysics of a domain prior in the order of philosophical explanation to a theory of intentional contents and meanings about that domain? Or is the opposite true? This book argues from the nature of meaning and intentional content to the conclusion that content and meaning are never prior to the metaphysics. For every domain, either a metaphysics-first view or a no-priority view is correct. Metaphysics-first views are developed for sever…

  • Is Kant's I think Unique

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2019References: 1

  • Primacy of Metaphysics

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKPrimacy of Metaphysics2019

  • Perception, Biology, Action, and Knowledge

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2014Cited by: 1

  • The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKMirror of the World2014Cited by: 14

    Christopher Peacocke presents a new theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation. He identifies three sorts of self-consciousness - perspectival, reflective, and interpersonal - and argues that they are key to explaining features of our knowledge, social relations, and emotional lives

  • Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKMirror of the World2014

    Christopher Peacocke presents a philosophical theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation of such a subject of consciousness. He develops a new treatment of subjects, distinct from previous theories, under which subjects were regarded either as constructs from mental events, or fundamentally embodied, or Cartesian egos. In contrast, his theory of the first person integrates with the pos…

  • First Person Illusions: Are They Descartes’, or Kant's

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives2012References: 5

  • Understanding, Modality, Logical Operators

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2010Cited by: 1

  • Music and Experiencing Metaphorically-As: Further Delineation

    Christopher PeacockeARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2010Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Music and Experiencing Metaphorically-As: Further Delineation Get access Christopher Peacocke Christopher Peacocke Columbia University, New York, and University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 189–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayq005 Published: 01 April 2010

  • Means and Explanation in Epistemology

    Christopher PeacockeARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article Means and Explanation in Epistemology Get access The Possibility of Knowledge. Quassim Cassam, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 234. Price £32.00.) Christopher Peacocke Christopher Peacocke Columbia University, New York, & University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 237, October 2009, Pages 730–737, https://doi.org/…

  • Perception, Content and Rationality

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2009Cited by: 1

    Anil Gupta’s Empiricism and Experience is a stylish and stimulating contribution to our subject. My expectation is that those who disagree with some of its central theses will, like me, learn greatly from thinking through where and why they part company with Gupta’s lucidly presented position. For the purposes of a Symposium, I select three points of disagreement. Each point in one way or another concerns the epistemic role of the content of expe…

  • Experiencing Metaphorically-As in Music Perception: Clarifications and Commitments

    Christopher PeacockeARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2009

    I will organize my response to these welcome and very incisive commentaries around the series of questions they raise. Paul Snowdon very reasonably asks for more explanation of what experiencing metaphorically-as amounts to. As he surmises, I would not want to say that some general notion of metaphor enters the content of any experience in which something is perceived metaphorically-as something else. To experience something metaphorically-as som…

  • The Perception of Music: Sources of Significance

    Christopher PeacockeARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2009Cited by: 4

    Representing one thing metaphorically-as something else is something that can occur in thought, imagination or perception. When a piece of music is heard as expressing some property F, some feature of the music is heard metaphorically-as F. The metaphor is exploited in the perception, rather than being represented. This account is developed and deployed to address some classical issues about music, including Wagner's point that the emotions expre…

  • Truly understood

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKTruly understood2008

  • Rationale and Maxims in the Study of Concepts

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLENoûs2005

  • Interrelations: Concepts, Knowledge, Reference and Structure

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEMind & Language2004

    This paper has five theses, which are intended to address the claims in Jerry Fodor's paper. (1) The question arises of the relation between the philosophical theory of concepts and epistemology. Neither is explanatorily prior to the other. Rather, each relies implicitly on distinctions drawn from the other. To explain what makes something knowledge, we need distinctions drawn from the theory of concepts. To explain the attitudes mentioned in a t…

  • Realm of Reason

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKREALM OF REASON.2004

  • The Realm of Reason

    Christopher PeacockeBOOKREALM OF REASON.2003

    In his The Realm of Reason, the author proposes a theory that states the conditions under which a thinker can be said to be entitled to form a given belief. The author's ‘Generalised Rationalism’ is based on three principles of rationalism, each framed as a claim about the relation of entitlement. The theory is rationalist in that it holds, against empiricism, that some entitlements are a priori, i.e. justified independently of experience; it is …

  • Logic, Thought and Language

    Open AccessR M Sainsbury, Gregory Mcculloch et al.BOOKLogic, Thought and Language2002

    Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between these topics. This collection of articles is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2000–2001. Its contributors include a number of those working at the forefront of the field, and in their papers they reflect their own current pre-occupations. As such, the volume will be of interest to all ph…

  • Précis of Being Known

    Open AccessChristopher PeacockeARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2002