Mark Silcox
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Silcox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Silcox |
| SIGNATURE | SILCOX M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2271-1431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Stone Soup: Distributional Goods and Principles of Justice
Certain sorts of disputes about principles of distributive justice that have occupied a great deal of attention in recent political philosophy turn out to be fundamentally unresolvable, when they are conducted in ignorance of whether an important subclass of basic social goods exists within any particular society. I employ the folktale ‘Stone Soup’ to illustrate how such distributional goods might come into existence. Using the debate about John …
The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma
“News! Oh! Yes, I always like news.” Throughout Emma , Jane Austen’s eponymous heroine repeatedly betrays her intense love of gossip. Other characters (notably, Miss Bates and Mr. Knightley) also indulge and rejoice in this style of conversation, as does the novel’s own narrator. In this chapter, the authors propose to examine the multifaceted and ambiguous role played by gossip in Emma , in light of the diverse opinions expressed by a number of …
The Subject of Experience
This anthology collects fourteen of Strawson's papers published between 1997 and 2015, all of them in one way or another about the epistemic and metaphysical status of ‘the subject, the I, the self, the “first person”’ (p. xi). His agenda throughout is to defend a realist, but starkly minimal conception of the self. Strawson's ‘subject’ is an infallibly identifiable object of introspection, but one that does not necessarily persist from one momen…
Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds
Against Brain-in-a-Vatism: On the Value of Virtual Reality
Psychological Trauma and the Simulated Self
In the 1980s, there was a significant upsurge in diagnoses of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Ian Hacking suggests that the roots of this tendency lie in the excessive willingness of psychologists past and present to engage in the “psychologization of trauma.” I argue that Hacking makes some philosophically problematic assumptions about the putative threat to human autonomy that is posed by the increasing availability, attractiveness, and plausib…
The Virtuous Parent
Philosophy Through Video Games
How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics? Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness? How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from Zork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization? A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that by 2011 over 30 percent of US households will …
Philosophy Through Video Games
On the Conceivability of an Omniscient Interpreter
I examine the “omniscient interpreter” (OI) argument against scepticism that Donald Davidson published in 1977 only to retract it twenty-two years later. I argue that the argument's persuasiveness has been underestimated. I defend it against the charges that Davidson assumes the actual existence of an OI and that Davidson's other philosophical commitments are incompatible with the very conceivability of an OI. The argument's surface implausibilit…
Computability Theory and Literary Competence
Journal Article Computability Theory and Literary Competence Get access Mark Silcox, Mark Silcox Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jon Cogburn Jon Cogburn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2006, Pages 369–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayl021 Published: 01 October 2006
Semantic holism vs. semantic atomism
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Semantic holism vs. semantic atomism
Computability Theory and Literary Competence
Journal Article Computability Theory and Literary Competence Get access Mark Silcox, Mark Silcox Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jon Cogburn Jon Cogburn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2006, Pages 369–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayl021 Published: 01 October 2006
On the Conceivability of an Omniscient Interpreter
I examine the “omniscient interpreter” (OI) argument against scepticism that Donald Davidson published in 1977 only to retract it twenty-two years later. I argue that the argument's persuasiveness has been underestimated. I defend it against the charges that Davidson assumes the actual existence of an OI and that Davidson's other philosophical commitments are incompatible with the very conceivability of an OI. The argument's surface implausibilit…
Philosophy Through Video Games
Philosophy Through Video Games
How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics? Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness? How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from Zork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization? A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that by 2011 over 30 percent of US households will …
The Virtuous Parent
Against Brain-in-a-Vatism: On the Value of Virtual Reality
Psychological Trauma and the Simulated Self
In the 1980s, there was a significant upsurge in diagnoses of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Ian Hacking suggests that the roots of this tendency lie in the excessive willingness of psychologists past and present to engage in the “psychologization of trauma.” I argue that Hacking makes some philosophically problematic assumptions about the putative threat to human autonomy that is posed by the increasing availability, attractiveness, and plausib…
Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds
The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma
“News! Oh! Yes, I always like news.” Throughout Emma , Jane Austen’s eponymous heroine repeatedly betrays her intense love of gossip. Other characters (notably, Miss Bates and Mr. Knightley) also indulge and rejoice in this style of conversation, as does the novel’s own narrator. In this chapter, the authors propose to examine the multifaceted and ambiguous role played by gossip in Emma , in light of the diverse opinions expressed by a number of …
The Subject of Experience
This anthology collects fourteen of Strawson's papers published between 1997 and 2015, all of them in one way or another about the epistemic and metaphysical status of ‘the subject, the I, the self, the “first person”’ (p. xi). His agenda throughout is to defend a realist, but starkly minimal conception of the self. Strawson's ‘subject’ is an infallibly identifiable object of introspection, but one that does not necessarily persist from one momen…
Stone Soup: Distributional Goods and Principles of Justice
Certain sorts of disputes about principles of distributive justice that have occupied a great deal of attention in recent political philosophy turn out to be fundamentally unresolvable, when they are conducted in ignorance of whether an important subclass of basic social goods exists within any particular society. I employ the folktale ‘Stone Soup’ to illustrate how such distributional goods might come into existence. Using the debate about John …
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Interpreter (2 works)