THORPE-TAYLOR

CENTRE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES

M. THORPE-TAYLOR

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

AESTHETICS

Grace as an ethical and aesthetic idea C.D.Cordner Aesthetic objects - J.Fitzpatrick

Aesthetic judgment - M.A.McCloskey '

Philosophical and aesthetic orientations on texture M.A.McCloskey Collingwood's goal - W.K.Presa

The use of language in art - J.T.J.Srzednicki The dimensions of a work of art - M.E.Tapper

DECISION AND PREFERENCE THEORY Decision theory - L.J.O'Neill

Decision and preference theory - J.T.J.Srzednicki

EPISTEMOLOGY The epistemology of testimony - C.A.J.Coady

Applications of inductive logic to the philosophy of religion B.N.Langtry

The justification of basic beliefs - B.N.Langtry Sensation and perceptual belief in Plato - K.Lycos Holistic theories of knowledge - L.J.O'Neill

Legal reasoning - L.J.O'Neill.

Ethics of belief - B.F.Scarlett

The logic of philosophical analysis - J.T.J.Srzednicki Proving a theory vs. proving a theorem - J.T.J.Srzednicki

FORMAL LOGIC AND FORMALISATION OF LANGUAGE Phrase structure logic - L.Goddard

Predicativity - A.Hazen

Plato's later dialogues - M.A.McCloskey KANT

Conceptual analysis of Kant's First Critique - J.T.J.Srzednicki

METAPHYSICS The categories of perception - L

Causation - L.Goddard

Ontology and intensional logics Structuralism - A.Hazen

The best of all possible worlds Causality and teleology in Plato Causation - L.J.O'Neill

.Goddard - A.Hazen . - B.N.Langtry

and Aristotle - K.Lycos

FACULTY OF ARTS

MORAL PHILOSOPHY The morality of extrication - C.A.J.Coady Morality and politics - C.A.J.Coady

Aristotelian ethics - C.D.Cordner

The moral relevance of potential - B.F.Scarlett

Objectivity and subjective perceptions in morals - J.T.J.Srzednicki The morality of pornography - M.E.Tapper

MORAL PSYCHOLOGY Sensibility and the emotions - G.D.Marshall Conscience - W.K.Presa

The moral component of the concept of a person - B.F.Scarlett

PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES Business ethics - C.A.J.Coady

Ethical and conceptual problems in the debate about child abuse - C.A.J.Coady

Australian constitutional law - C.J.G.Sampford Coups d'etat - C.J.G.Sampford

Law, ethics and business - C.J.G.Sampford

Retrospectivity and the rule of law - C.J.G.Sampford Rights, justice and taxation - C.J.G.Sampford

PHILOSOPHY OF FEMINISM Equality between the sexes L.Burns

Oppression and discrimination - L.Burns The concept of oppression - M.E.Tapper

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

Precision and vagueness in natural languages - L.Burns Theories of speaker meaning - C.A.J.Coady

Relevance - L.Goddard

Deconstruction and supplementarity in J.Derrida - K.Lycos

Language and representation in 17th and 18thC thought - K.Lycos Paradigmatically transparent expressions - J.T.J.Srzednicki Theories of interpretation - M.E.Tapper

The semantics of natural language - B.M.Taylor

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Theories of propositional attitudes - J.Fitzpatrick 'Soul' in Plato and Aristotle - K.Lycos

Activity and passivity G.D.Marshall

Persons and the concept of unity - G.D.Marshall

Psychoanalytic interpretation - G.D.Marshall Emotion - W.K.Presa

Imagination - W.K.Presa

Seeing and experience - B.F.Scarlett Epiphenomenalism - B.F.Scarlett

Personal identity in medieval and contemporary philosophy - B.F.Scarlett

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION The problem of evil - B.N.Langtry

Unargued belief in God B.N.Langtry Mysticism - W.K.Presa

PROBABILITY THEORY Probability and inductive reasoning - L.J.O'Neill

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY The justification of violence - C.A.J.Coady

The political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes - C.A.J.Coady The political philosophy of Aristotle - C.A.J.Coady Mercenary morality - C.A.J.Coady

Plato and Aristotle on the family - K.Lycos Anarchist political theory - L.J.O'Neill Aquinas and just war theory - B.F.Scarlett The logic of democracy - J.T.J.Srzednicki

The nature of normative objectivity - J.T.J.Srzednicki

Ethical problems with the allocations of scarce medical resources - W.Uren

PUBLISHED WORK Books

GAITA, R. ed. - Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch.

Routledge, London and New York: 288pp. (1990).

GAITA, R. Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception. Macmillan, London:

340pp. (1990).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - The Disorder of Law: a Critique of Legal Theory.

Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 330pp. (1989).

Chapters of Books

COADY, C.A.J. - The Justification of Phil, in The Relevance of the

.Humanities; ed. A.M.Gibbs, The Aust Academy of the Humanities, Canberra : 37-60 (1990).

FACULTY OF ARTS

GAITA, R. - Ethical Individuality, in Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch; ed. R.Gaita, Routledge, London and New York: 118-148 (1990).

GAITA, R. - Language and Conversation: Wittgenstein's Builders, in Wittgenstein: Centenary Lectures; ed. A.Phillips Griffiths, Cambridge

U Press, Cambridge: 101-115 (1990).

GAITA, R, - The Personal in Ethics, in Wittgenstein: Attention to Particulars; ed. D.Z.Phillips and P.Winch, Macmillan, London: 124-150 (1990).

HAZEN, A.P. - The Myth of the Intuitionistic 'Or', in Truth or Consequences: Essays in Honour of Nuel D.Belnap; ed. J.M.Dunn and A.K.Gupta, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht: 177-195 (1990).

MARSHALL, G.D. - Intelligibility and the Imagination, in Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch; ed. R.Gaita, Routledge, London

and New York: 13-31 (1990).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - A Reconciliation of Federalism and Responsible Government, in The Emergence of Aust Law; ed. Ellinghaus, Duggan and Bradbrook, Butterworths, Melb: 355-375 (1989).

Articles

COADY, C.A.J. - "Hobbes and the Beautiful Axiom", in Phil 65: 5-17 (1990).

COADY, C.A.J. "Messy Morality and the Art of the Possible", in Proc of the Aristotelian Society Supp.64: 259-279 (1990).

CORDNER, C.D. - "The Aristotelian Character of Schiller's Ethical Ideal", in International Studies in Phil XXII(1): 21-36 (1990).

FITZPATRICK, J. with David BRADDON-MITCHELL - "Explanation and the Language of Thought", in Synthese 83(1): 3-29 (1990).

GAITA, R. - "Teaching as a Vocation", in Quadrant: 33-41 (1990).

HAZEN, A.P. - "A Variation on a Paradox", in Analysis 50(1): 7-8 (1990).

HAZEN, A.P. - "The Mathematical Philosophy of Contact", in Phil 65(253): 205-211 (1990).

LANGTRY, B.N. - "Properly Unargued Belief in God", in International J for the Phil of Religion 26: 129-154 (1989).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - "Coups d'Etat and Intervention", in Bulletin of the Aust Society of Legal Phil 12: 253-286 (1990).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - "Responsible Government and the Logic of Federalism", in Public Law: 90-115 (1990).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - "Rethinking the Core Curriculum", in Adelaide Law Review 12: 38-62 (1989).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - "Critical Notice of Walker's The Rule of Law", in Melb U Law Review 16: 174-181 (1989).

Reports

COADY, C.A.J. - "Review article of The Catholic Peace Tradition by Ronald G.Musto, Orbis Books (1986); and Peace in a Nuclear Age ed. by Charles J.Reid, Catholic U Press of America (1986)", in Ethics 99:

446-448 (1989).

COADY, C.A.J. - "Review article of Hobbesian Moral and Political

Theory by Gregory S.Kavka, Princeton U Press (1986)", in Philosophical Books III- 19-21 (1989).

COADY, C.A.J. - "The Ethics of Military Intervention". Report for seminar convened by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canberra: 12pp.

(1990).

HAZEL, A.P. "Review article of Computability and Logic, 3rd edition, ed. G.Boolos and R.Jeffrey, Cambridge U Press (1989)", in Australasian J of Phil 68(3): 347 (1990).

SAMPFORD, C.J.G. - "Coups d'Etat and Intervention". Report for seminar convened by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canberra: 14pp.

(1990).

THESES PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES

Doctor of Philosophy

BOZICKOVIC, V.

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The sense of a demonstrative referring to a visually given object

CHAN, H.S.

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Philosophy of inductive reasoning

NORTHROP, J. - Three contemporaneous theories and a theory of a relevant subjunctive conditional

Master of Arts LA CAZE, M.

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Emotional responses to fiction

SALLA, K.E.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein rule-following, certainty and necessity: towards a 'positive' evaluation

THESES IN PROGRESS Doctor of Philosophy

ALEXANDRA, A.

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Public goods

BARKER, S.J. A theory of conditionals

BEATTIE, J.P.W. - Eliminative materialism, folk psychology and cognitive science

BLANKLEY, J.A. - The neoplatonism of Plotinus

BYERS, D.M. Transcendence and intentionality in Husserl's phenomenology

CHAZAN, P. The self in moral theory

CORBO, A

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Compensatory justice and land claims by Australian Aboriginals

COX, D.F.

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Realism and scepticism

EDWARDS, P.

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The state and other forms of social organisation GODFREY, T.B.

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Philosophy, language, metaphysics

LONG, B.P.

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Persons and predicates MILLS, A.

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Violence of language

FACULTY OF ARTS

PAPADOPOULOS, M. -

Causation and interpretation in intentional behaviour

PATAKI, T. -

Wishing, believing and mind

REN KERUO - A

semantic study of the philosophical definitions in Mo Bian

RUSSELL, C.A. -

Transcendental arguments

SCHNABEL, E. -

First person authority

WALSH, A.J. -

A neo-Aristotelian theory of social justice

Master of Arts

BESWICK, B.A. -

Emotional perspectives

CASSIN, R.J. -

Aquinas on the unity of the virtues

CEGLIA, I. -

Moral knowledge: the logic of moral reasoning

CHAPMAN, J. -

Husserl's phenomenology

COADY, D.A. -

Subjective knowledge and objective truth

EUSTACE, M. -

Philosophical problems of Medical Ethics committees

FENNELL, J.G. -

Derrida and Wittgenstein: themes and comparisons

FLEMING, W. -

Intentionality

LAVERTY, M. -

Iris Murdoch and moral realism

LEACH, R.J.M. -

The mysticism of Bertrand Russell

LOMAS, A.J. -

The later Wittgenstein and philosophy of religion

MOSS, J. -

Gender and rationality

SANKEY, N. -

Survival, self-direction and morality

SHARPE, J.N.G. -

Quantum theory and ontology

SHEEN, D.M. -

Self-interest in Derek Parfitt

TAYLOR, C.D. -

Issues in Aristotle's ethics

THORPE-TAYLOR, M.C. -

The morality of taxation

TORCASIO, T. -

Aristotle: a study of the virtues and vices

TORLEY, V.J. -

Laws of nature

TUDOR, S. -

Moral idioms

WHITE, L.F. -

Similarity processing in self-organising neural networks

SUBSTANTIAL GRANTS RECEIVED

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - Compensatory Justice