Alan Millar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Millar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Millar |
| SIGNATURE | MILLAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scepticism, perceptual knowledge, and doxastic responsibility
The Epistemological Significance of Practices
There are countless occasions when we find people’s thought or action intelligible, or anticipate what they will think or do, or are at least unsurprised by what they think or do, despite our having little if any information about their attitudes other than what we can gather from their situation and non-verbal behaviour. This article explores the role of practices, conceived as essentially rule-governed activities, is making this possible. Consi…
The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations
The three parts of the book comprise three distinct investigations under a common theme: enquiry into inter-relationships between issues about the nature of knowledge and issues about the value of knowledge. The first investigation provides an analysis of problems concerning the value of knowledge and a critical examination of responses to these by virtue epistemologists. The book finds virtue-theoretic accounts wanting and argues that there is a…
Social Epistemology
Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in the social dimension of the subject. This volume presents new work by leading philosophers on a wide range of topics in social epistemology, such as the nature of testimony, the epistemology of disagreement, and the social genealogy of the concept of knowledge
What the Disjunctivist is Right About
There is a traditional conception of sensory experience on which the experiences one has looking at, say, a cat could be had by someone merely hallucinating a cat. Disjunctivists take issue with this conception on the grounds that it does not enable us to understand how perceptual knowledge is possible. In particular, they think, it does not explain how it can be that experiences gained in perception enable us to be in ‘cognitive contact’ with ob…
Travis' Sense of Occasion
Journal Article Travis' Sense of Occasion Get access Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 219, April 2005, Pages 337–342, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00403.x Published: 14 July 2005
Linda C. Raeder , John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity (Columbia and London: (University of Missouri Press, 2002), pp. xi + 402
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Logic, Thought and Language
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…
The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes
The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes
Book Review| October 01 2001 THE BODY IN MIND: UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES THE BODY IN MIND: UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES. By Mark Rowlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Pp. x, 270. Alan Millar Alan Millar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 621–623. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-4-621 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Su…
The perceptual system—A philosophical and psychological perspective
The perceptual system—A philosophical and psychological perspective." History of European Ideas, 22(2), pp. 121–122
Reasons and Experience
Reasons and Experience
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Reasons and Experience. By Alan Millar. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. x + 227. Price £27.50.) Bruce Aune Bruce Aune University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 239–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220374 Published: 01 April 1993
Reply to Brinton
Journal Article Reply to Brinton Get access Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 486–491, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220289 Published: 01 October 1992
A Theory of Content and Other Essays
Journal Article Critical Notice Get access A Theory qfConlent and Other Essays. By Jerry A. Fodor. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 270. Price £26.95.) Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 168, July 1992, Pages 367–372, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219687 Published: 01 July 1992
The Logic of God Incarnate
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Logic of God Incarnate. By Thomas V. Morris. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 220. Price $21.95.) Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 245–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219645 Published: 01 April 1989
Following Nature
Journal Article Following Nature Get access Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 151, April 1988, Pages 165–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219922 Published: 01 April 1988
Metaphor and Religious Language
Is it Reasonable to Believe in God
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Is it Reasonable to Believe in God? Edited By J. Houston. (Edinburgh: The Handsel Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 160. Price £6.75) A. Millar A. Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 142, January 1986, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219319 Published: 01 January 1986
Understanding Theism
Much contemporary philosophy of religion is preoccupied with highly general problems about the nature of religious belief and of religious language, rather than with how to interpret, in detail, specific religious beliefs or forms of religious discourse. Among the matters of dispute there seem to be two of overriding importance. The first concerns the relation between religious beliefs and experience and centres on the question, what sorts of exp…
Interpretation: A Theoretical Perspective and Some Applications
Our primary concern in this paper is with the interpretation of what people say on the basis of what they utter. We wish to show how an understanding of the workings of language as they bear on the theory of interpretation can help one to understand religious, and in particular Biblical, texts, unmasking certain confusions and indicating questions which tend to be overlooked. We shall first introduce a number of basic terms, concepts and distinct…
What the Disjunctivist is Right About
There is a traditional conception of sensory experience on which the experiences one has looking at, say, a cat could be had by someone merely hallucinating a cat. Disjunctivists take issue with this conception on the grounds that it does not enable us to understand how perceptual knowledge is possible. In particular, they think, it does not explain how it can be that experiences gained in perception enable us to be in ‘cognitive contact’ with ob…
Interpretation: A Theoretical Perspective and Some Applications
Our primary concern in this paper is with the interpretation of what people say on the basis of what they utter. We wish to show how an understanding of the workings of language as they bear on the theory of interpretation can help one to understand religious, and in particular Biblical, texts, unmasking certain confusions and indicating questions which tend to be overlooked. We shall first introduce a number of basic terms, concepts and distinct…
Understanding Theism
Much contemporary philosophy of religion is preoccupied with highly general problems about the nature of religious belief and of religious language, rather than with how to interpret, in detail, specific religious beliefs or forms of religious discourse. Among the matters of dispute there seem to be two of overriding importance. The first concerns the relation between religious beliefs and experience and centres on the question, what sorts of exp…
Interpretation: A Theoretical Perspective and Some Applications
Our primary concern in this paper is with the interpretation of what people say on the basis of what they utter. We wish to show how an understanding of the workings of language as they bear on the theory of interpretation can help one to understand religious, and in particular Biblical, texts, unmasking certain confusions and indicating questions which tend to be overlooked. We shall first introduce a number of basic terms, concepts and distinct…
Is it Reasonable to Believe in God
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Is it Reasonable to Believe in God? Edited By J. Houston. (Edinburgh: The Handsel Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 160. Price £6.75) A. Millar A. Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 142, January 1986, Pages 103–105, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219319 Published: 01 January 1986
Metaphor and Religious Language
Following Nature
Journal Article Following Nature Get access Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 151, April 1988, Pages 165–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219922 Published: 01 April 1988
The Logic of God Incarnate
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Logic of God Incarnate. By Thomas V. Morris. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986. Pp. 220. Price $21.95.) Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 245–247, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219645 Published: 01 April 1989
Reply to Brinton
Journal Article Reply to Brinton Get access Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 486–491, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220289 Published: 01 October 1992
A Theory of Content and Other Essays
Journal Article Critical Notice Get access A Theory qfConlent and Other Essays. By Jerry A. Fodor. (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 270. Price £26.95.) Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 168, July 1992, Pages 367–372, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219687 Published: 01 July 1992
Reasons and Experience
Reasons and Experience
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Reasons and Experience. By Alan Millar. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. x + 227. Price £27.50.) Bruce Aune Bruce Aune University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 239–242, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220374 Published: 01 April 1993
The perceptual system—A philosophical and psychological perspective
The perceptual system—A philosophical and psychological perspective." History of European Ideas, 22(2), pp. 121–122
The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes
The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes
Book Review| October 01 2001 THE BODY IN MIND: UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES THE BODY IN MIND: UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE PROCESSES. By Mark Rowlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Pp. x, 270. Alan Millar Alan Millar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 621–623. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-4-621 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Su…
Logic, Thought and Language
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…
Linda C. Raeder , John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity (Columbia and London: (University of Missouri Press, 2002), pp. xi + 402
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Travis' Sense of Occasion
Journal Article Travis' Sense of Occasion Get access Alan Millar Alan Millar University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 219, April 2005, Pages 337–342, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2005.00403.x Published: 14 July 2005
What the Disjunctivist is Right About
There is a traditional conception of sensory experience on which the experiences one has looking at, say, a cat could be had by someone merely hallucinating a cat. Disjunctivists take issue with this conception on the grounds that it does not enable us to understand how perceptual knowledge is possible. In particular, they think, it does not explain how it can be that experiences gained in perception enable us to be in ‘cognitive contact’ with ob…
The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations
The three parts of the book comprise three distinct investigations under a common theme: enquiry into inter-relationships between issues about the nature of knowledge and issues about the value of knowledge. The first investigation provides an analysis of problems concerning the value of knowledge and a critical examination of responses to these by virtue epistemologists. The book finds virtue-theoretic accounts wanting and argues that there is a…
Social Epistemology
Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in the social dimension of the subject. This volume presents new work by leading philosophers on a wide range of topics in social epistemology, such as the nature of testimony, the epistemology of disagreement, and the social genealogy of the concept of knowledge
The Epistemological Significance of Practices
There are countless occasions when we find people’s thought or action intelligible, or anticipate what they will think or do, or are at least unsurprised by what they think or do, despite our having little if any information about their attitudes other than what we can gather from their situation and non-verbal behaviour. This article explores the role of practices, conceived as essentially rule-governed activities, is making this possible. Consi…
Scepticism, perceptual knowledge, and doxastic responsibility
Philosophy (21 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Classics (5 works)