Eric Marcus
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Marcus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcus |
| SIGNATURE | MARCUS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6241-9486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Space of Reasons as Self-Consciousness
The premises of a valid argument don’t get you to a conclusion unless you have put them together. But what is it for thoughts to be together? I argue that the togetherness of our mental states is constituted by consciousness of ourselves as their common subject. I describe a special sort of necessity—rational necessity—that links the beliefs p and q, when someone infers q from p. It is a modal connection between beliefs that is grounded in our un…
Belief” and Belief
Our interest in understanding belief stems partly from our being creatures who think. However, the term ‘belief’ is used to refer to many states: from the fully conscious rational state that partly constitutes knowledge to the fanciful states of alarm clocks. Which of the many ‘belief’ states must a theory of belief be answerable to? This is the scope question . I begin my answer with a reply to a recent argument that belief is invariably weak , …
Replies to Leite, Shaw, and Campbell
Precis of belief, inference, and the self‐conscious mind
Aesthetic knowledge
Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience: The Meaning of Treatment
Wanting and willing
How homogenous are the sources of human motivation? Textbook Humeans hold that every human action is motivated by desire, thus any heterogeneity derives from differing objects of desire. Textbook Kantians hold that although some human actions are motivated by desire, others are motivated by reason. One question in this vicinity concerns whether there are states such that to be in one is at once take the world to be a certain way and to be motivat…
Rational Causation
We explain what people think and do by citing their reasons, but how do such explanations work, and what do they tell us about the nature of reality? Contemporary efforts to address these questions are often motivated by the worry that our ordinary conception of rationality contains a kernel of supernaturalism—a ghostly presence that meditates on sensory messages and orchestrates behavior on the basis of its ethereal calculations. In shunning thi…
Rational causation
Why suicide: Questions and Answers About Suicide, Suicide Prevention, and Coping With the Suicide of Someone You Know
Events, Sortals, and the Mind–Body Problem
Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum
Journal Article Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum Get access Eric Marcus Eric Marcus Auburn University, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 224, July 2006, Pages 321–339, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2006.00445.x Published: 16 June 2006
Mental Causation: Unnaturalized but Not Unnatural
The central problem for a realist about mental causation is to show that mental causation is compatible with the causal completeness of physical systems. This problem has seemed intractable in large part because of a widely held view that any sort of systematic overdetermination of events by their causes is unacceptable. I account for the popularity of this view, but argue that we ought to reject it. In doing so. I show how we thereby undermine t…
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990. An Oral History
Status of Foreign Language Study in Connecticut
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990. An Oral History
Wanting and willing
How homogenous are the sources of human motivation? Textbook Humeans hold that every human action is motivated by desire, thus any heterogeneity derives from differing objects of desire. Textbook Kantians hold that although some human actions are motivated by desire, others are motivated by reason. One question in this vicinity concerns whether there are states such that to be in one is at once take the world to be a certain way and to be motivat…
Events, Sortals, and the Mind–Body Problem
Belief” and Belief
Our interest in understanding belief stems partly from our being creatures who think. However, the term ‘belief’ is used to refer to many states: from the fully conscious rational state that partly constitutes knowledge to the fanciful states of alarm clocks. Which of the many ‘belief’ states must a theory of belief be answerable to? This is the scope question . I begin my answer with a reply to a recent argument that belief is invariably weak , …
Status of Foreign Language Study in Connecticut
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990. An Oral History
Mental Causation: Unnaturalized but Not Unnatural
The central problem for a realist about mental causation is to show that mental causation is compatible with the causal completeness of physical systems. This problem has seemed intractable in large part because of a widely held view that any sort of systematic overdetermination of events by their causes is unacceptable. I account for the popularity of this view, but argue that we ought to reject it. In doing so. I show how we thereby undermine t…
Events, Sortals, and the Mind–Body Problem
Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum
Journal Article Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum Get access Eric Marcus Eric Marcus Auburn University, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 224, July 2006, Pages 321–339, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2006.00445.x Published: 16 June 2006
Why suicide: Questions and Answers About Suicide, Suicide Prevention, and Coping With the Suicide of Someone You Know
Rational Causation
We explain what people think and do by citing their reasons, but how do such explanations work, and what do they tell us about the nature of reality? Contemporary efforts to address these questions are often motivated by the worry that our ordinary conception of rationality contains a kernel of supernaturalism—a ghostly presence that meditates on sensory messages and orchestrates behavior on the basis of its ethereal calculations. In shunning thi…
Rational causation
Wanting and willing
How homogenous are the sources of human motivation? Textbook Humeans hold that every human action is motivated by desire, thus any heterogeneity derives from differing objects of desire. Textbook Kantians hold that although some human actions are motivated by desire, others are motivated by reason. One question in this vicinity concerns whether there are states such that to be in one is at once take the world to be a certain way and to be motivat…
Aesthetic knowledge
Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience: The Meaning of Treatment
Replies to Leite, Shaw, and Campbell
Precis of belief, inference, and the self‐conscious mind
Belief” and Belief
Our interest in understanding belief stems partly from our being creatures who think. However, the term ‘belief’ is used to refer to many states: from the fully conscious rational state that partly constitutes knowledge to the fanciful states of alarm clocks. Which of the many ‘belief’ states must a theory of belief be answerable to? This is the scope question . I begin my answer with a reply to a recent argument that belief is invariably weak , …
The Space of Reasons as Self-Consciousness
The premises of a valid argument don’t get you to a conclusion unless you have put them together. But what is it for thoughts to be together? I argue that the togetherness of our mental states is constituted by consciousness of ourselves as their common subject. I describe a special sort of necessity—rational necessity—that links the beliefs p and q, when someone infers q from p. It is a modal connection between beliefs that is grounded in our un…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (6 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy of mind (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Causation (3 works)