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William Lycan

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#708

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#147

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Logic

#556

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#1011

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#217

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According to Wikipedia, William G. Lycan is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was formerly the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since 2011, Lycan is also distinguished visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, where he continues to research, teach, and advise graduate students.

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William Lycan's Published Works

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Published Works

Knowing who (1985) (738)
Form, Function, and Feel (1981) (225)
Mind and cognition : a reader (1990) (187)
Consciousness and Experience (2020) (183)
Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (1999) (170)
The Case for Phenomenal Externalism (2001) (157)
Judgement and justification (1993) (145)
Logical form in natural language (1986) (128)
Judgment and Justification. (1991) (106)
A simple argument for a higher-order representation theory of consciousness (2001) (95)
Consciousness as Internal Monitoring, I (1998) (83)
The Myth of Semantic Presupposition (1976) (82)
Modality and meaning (1994) (81)
“Is” and “ought” in cognitive science (1981) (79)
Giving Dualism its Due (2009) (74)
Explanation and Epistemology (2005) (71)
Moore Against The New Skeptics (2001) (69)
Epistemic value (2004) (67)
The Trouble with Possible Worlds (1994) (57)
Eliminative Materialism (1972) (57)
What is the "Subjectivity" of the Mental (1990) (55)
5. The superiority of HOP to HOT (2004) (54)
Even and even if (1991) (54)
Mind and Cognition: An Anthology (2008) (53)
Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge (1996) (46)
What, exactly, is a paradox? (2010) (43)
Consciousness as Internal Monitoring, I: The Third Philosophical Perspectives Lecture (1995) (42)
MORAL FACTS AND MORAL KNOWLEDGE (1986) (40)
Deflationism, Meaning and Truth-Conditions (2000) (38)
The Paradox of Naming (1985) (37)
A Dedcutive Agrument for the Representational Theory of Thinking (1993) (37)
A performadox in truth-conditional semantics (1980) (34)
Layered Perceptual Representation (1996) (34)
Conversation, politeness, and interruption (1977) (32)
Externalism, naturalism, nominalism, and mathematics (2001) (32)
EXPLANATIONIST REBUTTALS (COHERENTISM DEFENDED AGAIN) (2012) (29)
PHENOMENAL CONSERVATISM AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CREDULITY (2012) (29)
Free Will and the Burden of Proof (2003) (27)
The intentionality of smell (2014) (26)
Is property dualism better off than substance dualism? (2013) (22)
DESIRE CONSIDERED AS A PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDE (2012) (22)
A Syntactically Motivated Theory of Conditionals (1984) (21)
Reply to Baker (1989) (20)
Evidence one does not possess (1977) (19)
On Evidence in Philosophy (2019) (19)
Invited inferences and other unwelcome guests (1973) (17)
In Defense of the Representational Theory of Qualia (Replies to Neander, Rey, and Tye) (1998) (16)
Actuality and Essence (1986) (15)
XII—Two—No, Three—Concepts of Possible Worlds (1991) (15)
Sartwell's minimalist analysis of knowing (1994) (14)
The functionalist reply (Ohio State) (1980) (14)
Kripke and the Materialists (1974) (14)
On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis (1988) (13)
Semantic Competence and Funny Functors (1979) (12)
Psychological Theories (2018) (12)
On Two Main Themes in Gutting's What Philosophers Know (2013) (11)
Davidson on saying that (1973) (11)
Bealer on the possibility of philosophical knowledge (1996) (11)
The Extensionality of Cause, Space and Time (1974) (11)
Gombrich, Wittgenstein, and the Duck-Rabbit (1971) (10)
PHENOMENAL OBJECTS: A BACKHANDED DEFENSE (1987) (10)
We've only just begun (1995) (10)
Philosophy of Language (2018) (10)
Chomsky on the Mind‐Body Problem (2008) (10)
Serious Metaphysics: Frank Jackson's Defense of Conceptual Analysis (2009) (9)
Critique of the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory (1974) (9)
You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager Defended (1988) (9)
Mental states and Putnam's functionalist hypothesis (1974) (9)
Slurs and lexical presumption (2015) (8)
Logical Constants and the Glory of Truth-Conditional Semantics (1989) (8)
Pot bites kettle: a reply to Miller (1991) (8)
Why We Should Care Whether Our Beliefs Are True (1991) (8)
A new lilliputian argument against machine functionalism (1979) (8)
Dretske on the Mind's Awareness of Itself (1999) (8)
Vs. a new a priorist argument for dualism (2003) (7)
Have We Neglected Phenomenal Consciousness (2001) (7)
Direct Arguments for the Truth-Condition Theory of Meaning (2010) (6)
The loneliness of the long‐distance truck driver (2003) (6)
Frege’s Horizontal (1979) (6)
Attention and internal monitoring: : A Farewell to HOP (2014) (6)
The Metaphysics of Possibilia (2007) (5)
What Does Taste Represent? (2018) (5)
A Reconsidered Defence of Haecceitism Regarding Fictional Individuals (2015) (5)
Block and the Representation Theory of Sensory Qualities (2019) (5)
Recent Naturalistic Dualisms (2010) (5)
UnCartesian materialism and Lockean introspection (1992) (5)
Minds and Persons: Free Will and the Burden of Proof (2003) (5)
The Plurality of Consciousness (2004) (5)
Logical atomism and ontological atoms (1981) (4)
Conditional reasoning and conditional logic (1994) (4)
Mental content in linguistic form (1990) (4)
Redressing Substance Dualism (2018) (4)
OCCAM'S RAZOR (1975) (3)
An Irenic Idea about Metaphor (2013) (3)
IT'S IMMATERIAL (A REPLY TO SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG) (1998) (3)
Definition in a Quinean World (1991) (3)
Skinner and the mind–body problem (1984) (3)
Could Propositions Explain Anything? (1974) (3)
Dennett's instrumentalism (1988) (3)
Replies to Tomberlin, Tye, Stalnaker and Block (1996) (3)
Verificationism (2018) (3)
Can the Generalization Argument Be Reinstated (1972) (2)
Epistemology and the Role of Intuitions (2010) (2)
A TRUTH PREDICATE IN THE OBJECT LANGUAGE (2009) (2)
Response to Polger and Flanagan (2001) (2)
Does quotation sometimes permit substitution? (1979) (2)
THE MEANING OF “WATER”: AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM (2006) (2)
The catastrophe of defeat (1975) (2)
Mind , Mathematics and the Ignorabimusstreit (2007) (2)
A Response to Carruthers' Natural Theories of Consciousness (1999) (2)
``Who, Me?" (1980) (2)
Perception and Reason. Bill Brewer (2001) (2)
Psychological Laws in Functionalism and the Philosophy of Mind. (1981) (2)
A Simple Point about an Alleged Objection to Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (2009) (2)
Semantic Competence, Funny Functors, and Truth-Conditions (1994) (2)
Abortion and the Civil Rights of Machines (1985) (2)
Reply to Hilary Kornblith (1994) (2)
Davidson's “Method of Truth” in Metaphysics (2013) (1)
Three Conceptions of Possible Worlds (1994) (1)
Permanent Contributions in Philosophy (2019) (1)
Reality and Semantic Representation (1976) (1)
Materialism, and Leibniz’ Law (1972) (1)
Symbols, subsymbols, neurons (1988) (1)
Proper Names (2018) (1)
Phenomenal information again: It is both real and intrinsically perspectival (1998) (1)
Intuitions and Coherentism (2019) (1)
Review: A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals (2005) (1)
Connectionism and the Mental (1991) (1)
Hare, Singer and Gewirth on Universalizability (1969) (1)
CASTANEDA'S THEORY OF KNOWING (1986) (1)
The moral of the new lilliputian argument (1983) (1)
Postscript to 'Deflationism, Meaning and Truth-Conditions' (2005) (1)
Logical form in natural language: A precis (1989) (1)
MOST GENERALIZATIONS ARE FALSE (1984) (1)
Hintikka and Moore's paradox (1970) (1)
Explanationism, ECHO, and the connectionist paradigm (1989) (1)
Reply to Morick on Intentionality (1975) (1)
Armstrong’s Theory of Knowing (1984) (1)
Berger on Fictional Names (2006) (1)
Two Concepts of Reduction: Modal Realism at Risk (1986) (1)
COMPATIBILISM NOW AND FOREVER: A REPLY TO TOMBERLIN (1988) (1)
The Mind-Body Problem (2007) (1)
Eternal sentences again (1974) (1)
Ersatzing for Fun and Profit (1994) (0)
Stalnaker on zombies (2007) (0)
The Evidential Status of Intuitions (2019) (0)
Analogy and Lexical Semantics (1994) (0)
Truth-Condition Theories (2018) (0)
Eternal existence and necessary existence (1976) (0)
On Sosa's "Fregean Reference Defended" (1995) (0)
Goldman on Consciousness (2001) (0)
Expressive Language (2018) (0)
Reply to McCarthy (1989) (0)
Stipulative Definition and Logical Truth (1994) (0)
Philosophical Theories of Consciousness (2022) (0)
I Am Indebted To (2006) (0)
Traditional Theories of Meaning (2012) (0)
Connection ism and the Meental (2016) (0)
Problem um - tijelo (2008) (0)
Book Review:Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem Michael E. Levin (1982) (0)
Books received (1986) (0)
Implicative Relations (2018) (0)
Précis of On evidence in philosophy (2022) (0)
The Myth of the “Projection Problem for Presupposition” (1987) (0)
Fiction and Essence (1994) (0)
METAPHYSICS AND THE PARONYMY OF NAMES (2018) (0)
Hearing As (2020) (0)
Speech Acts and Illocutionary Force (2018) (0)
Devitt and the Case for Narrow Meaning (2020) (0)
A Version of Moore’s Method (2019) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR AND THE RUSSELL‐STRAWSON DISPUTE (1970) (0)
Semantic Pragmatics (2018) (0)
How Far is there a Fact of the Matter? (As Regards Split Brains, Mind, Agency, and Personhood) (2022) (0)
Replies to Bergmann and Conee (2022) (0)
Phenomenality without access? (2007) (0)
The Mind – Body Problem 47 Chapter 2 The Mind – Body Problem (2014) (0)
Comprar Mind and Cognition: An Anthology | William G. Lycan | 9781405157858 | Wiley (2008) (0)
“Use” Theories (2018) (0)
David Papineau, Thinking About Consciousness, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, pp. 280, £25 (cloth). (2003) (0)
Propositions and Analyticity (1994) (0)
Introduction : Meaning and Reference (2018) (0)
Dangerous Information Technology of the Future. What Impact can Artificial Consciousness have on the Consciousness and Subconscious of Individuals and Groups? The Experience of Psychological and Psychiatric Examination of Artificial Consciousness (2021) (0)
Armstrong on Conation (2021) (0)
Critical Study: Joseph Levine's Purple Haze (2005) (0)
The Paradox of Naming Resolved, by a Kinder, Gentler Theory of Direct Reference (1994) (0)
Quine's materialism (1976) (0)
Definite Descriptions (2018) (0)
A Novel Refutation of Eliminative Materialism (2019) (0)
The Poverty of Philosophical Method (2019) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1991) (0)
Metaphor (2018) (0)
Is property dualism better off than substance dualism? (2012) (0)
Sadock and the Performadox (2011) (0)
Flew on Mind/Brain Identity and the Cartesian Framework (1974) (0)
. What Is Metaphor?: a Tentative Characterization (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science: Consciousness (2012) (0)
A Debate on the Concept of Mind. (1986) (0)
Reply to Lakoff (1989) (0)
Hartshorne and Findlay on ‘Necessity’ in the Ontological Argument (1968) (0)
ON RESPECTING PUZZLES ABOUT BELIEF ASCRIPTION [A REPLY TO DEVITT] (1990) (0)
Williams and stroud on shoemaker's sceptic (1971) (0)
“Yes, who?” Reply to Yagisawa (1987) (0)

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