Works by Graham MacDonald
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- Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays.Graham Macdonald &David Papineau (eds.) -2006 - New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press.Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate.
- Mental causes and explanation of action.Cynthia MacDonald &Graham MacDonald -1986 -Philosophical Quarterly 36 (143):145-58.
- Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation.Cynthia MacDonald &Graham MacDonald (eds.) -1994 - Blackwell.
- The metaphysics of mental causation.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -2006 -Journal of Philosophy 103 (11):539-576.A debate has been raging in the philosophy of mind for at least the past two decades. It concerns whether the mental can make a causal difference to the world. Suppose that I am reading the newspaper and it is getting dark. I switch on the light, and continue with my reading. One explanation of why my switching on of the light occurred is that a desiring with a particular content (that I continue reading), a noticing with a particular content (...) (that it is getting dark), and a believing with a particular content (that by switching on the light I could continue reading) occurred in me, and these events caused my switching on of the light. This explanation works by citing the intentional contents of mental phenomena as causes of that action. It is because the intentional causes have the contents that they do, and because those contents play a causal role in bringing about my action, that my action is causally explained. (shrink)
- Emergence in mind.Graham Macdonald &Cynthia Macdonald (eds.) -2010 - New York: Oxford University Press.The volume also extends the debate about emergence by considering the independence of chemical properties from physical properties, and investigating what would ...
- Introduction: Prospects and problems for teleosemantics.Graham Macdonald &David Papineau -2006 - In Graham Macdonald & David Papineau,Teleosemantics: New Philo-sophical Essays. New York: Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 1--22.
- Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation.Cynthia MacDonald &Graham MacDonald (eds.) -1991 - Blackwell.This volume provides an introduction to and review of key contemporary debates concerning connectionism, and the nature of explanation and methodology in cognitive psychology. The first debate centers on the question of whether human cognition is best modeled by classical or by connectionist architectures. The second centres on the question of the compatibility between folk, or commonsense, psychological explanation and explanations based on connectionist models of cognition. Each of the two sections includes a classic reading along with important responses, and (...) concludes with a specially commissioned reply by the main contributor. The editorial introductions provide a comprehensive survey and map through the debates. (shrink)
- Semantics and social science.Graham Macdonald -1981 - Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Edited by Philip Pettit.Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a cross-cultural conception of human beings, the authors defend humanism and individualism, and reject the notion that social inquiry is necessarily vitiated by an adherence to values.
- Semantics and Social Science.Graham Macdonald &Philip Pettit -1984 -Mind 93 (369):140-144.No categories
- Emergence and Downward Causation.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -2010 - In Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald,Emergence in mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Untangling the role of social relationships for overcoming challenges in local food systems: a case study of farmers in Québec, Canada.Kerstin Schreiber,Bernard Soubry,Carley Dove-McFalls &Graham K. MacDonald -2023 -Agriculture and Human Values 40 (1):141-156.Advocates for re-localizing food systems often encourage consumers to support local farmers and strengthen local food economies. Yet, local food systems hinge not only on consumers’ willingness to buy local food but also on whether farmers have the social support networks to address diverse challenges during food production and distribution. This study characterizes the challenges and support systems of farmers selling to local markets in Québec, Canada, across multiple growing seasons using a mixed-methods research design. We sent an online questionnaire (...) to 1046 farmers and conducted follow-up interviews with 15 of the 133 respondents. Our findings show that farmers relied on an average of four support actor groups, particularly employees, customers, and other farmers. Actors played distinct roles in terms of the importance, frequency, and formality of interactions, providing immediate and long-term support through formal and informal relationships across multiple spatial scales (farm, local community, and regional/international). Our thematic analysis showed that support actors helped farmers in four key domains: (1) Knowledge sharing and emotional support; (2) Labour and workforce; (3) Material and financial aid; and (4) Consumer education and business promotion. Farmer associations provided resources to tackle various challenges, acting as bridges across multiple support actor groups. Yet, our results suggest that political desires to encourage local food systems are in some cases poorly matched with resources to address specific types of challenges farmers face. Specifically, overlooking the role of diverse social support actors in helping farmers build food production and distribution capacity could undermine efforts to foster localization. (shrink)
- How to be Psychologically Relevant.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham F. Macdonald -1994 - In Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald,Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation. Blackwell.How did I raise my arm? The simple answer is that I raised it as a consequence of intending to raise it. A slightly more complicated response would mention the absence of any factors which would inhibit the execution of the intention- and a more complicated one still would specify the intention in terms of a goal (say, drinking a beer) which requires arm-raising as a means towards that end. Whatever the complications, the simple answer appears to be on the (...) right track. (shrink)
- The Nature of Naturalism.Graham Macdonald &Philip Pettit -1992 -Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 66 (1):225-266.
- Probability and Evidence.A. J. Ayer &Graham MacDonald -1972 - [London]: Cambridge University Press.A. J. Ayer was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the twentieth century, and was known as a brilliant and engaging speaker. In essays based on his influential Dewey Lectures, Ayer addresses some of the most critical and controversial questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science, examining the nature of inductive reasoning and grappling with the issues that most concerned him as a philosopher. This edition contains revised and expanded versions of the lectures and two additional essays. Ayer (...) begins by considering Hume's formulation of the problem of induction and then explores the inferences on which we base our beliefs in factual matters. In other essays, he defines the three kinds of probability that inform inductive reasoning and examines the various criteria for verifiability and falsifiability. In his extensive introduction, Graham Macdonald discusses the arguments in _Probability and Evidence_, how they relate to Ayer's other works, and their influence in contemporary philosophy. He also provides a brief biographical sketch of Ayer, and includes a bibliography of works about and in response to _Probability and Evidence_. (shrink)
- (1 other version)The two natures: Another dogma?Graham Macdonald -2006 - In Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald,Mcdowell and His Critics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 6--222.No categories
- Emergence and causal powers.Graham Macdonald -2007 -Erkenntnis 67 (2):239 - 253.This paper argues that the non-reductive monist need not be concerned about the ‘problem’ of mental causation; one can accept both the irreducibility of mental properties to physical properties and the causal closure of the physical. More precisely, it is argued that instances of mental properties can be causally efficacious, and that there is no special barrier to seeing mental properties whose instances are causally efficacious as being causally relevant to the effects they help to bring about. It is then (...) shown that the causal relevance of mental properties is consistent with there being no downward causation, so the dilemma of ‘epiphenomenalism or reduction’ can be avoided. Non-reductive monism lives on as a viable position in the philosophy of mind. (shrink)
- Review. Representations, Targets and Attitudes. R Cummins.Graham Macdonald -1996 -British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1):175-180.
- Mcdowell and His Critics.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald (eds.) -2006 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Beyond program explanation.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -2007 - In Geoffrey Brennan,Common minds: themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1--27.
- Growing pains: Small-scale farmer responses to an urban rooftop farming and online marketplace enterprise in Montréal, Canada.Monica Allaby,Graham K. MacDonald &Sarah Turner -2020 -Agriculture and Human Values 38 (3):677-692.There is growing interest in the role of new urban agriculture models to increase local food production capacity in cities of the Global North. Urban rooftop greenhouses and hydroponics are examples of such models receiving increasing attention as a technological approach to year-round local food production in cities. Yet, little research has addressed the unintended consequences of new modes of urban farming and food distribution, such as increased competition with existing peri-urban and rural farmers. We examine how small-scale farmers perceive (...) and have responded to a recently established rooftop greenhouse and online marketplace enterprise in Montréal, Canada. Drawing on interviews with key informants and small-scale farmers, we find that peri-urban and rural producers have been affected in three key ways that represent tensions, adaptations, and synergies arising from this new urban agriculture and food distribution enterprise. First, many farmers are concerned about increased competition and value conflation with the ideals of community supported agriculture and organic farming. Second, some farmers have adapted by developing novel marketing strategies and working with local bridge organizations to collectively market their produce to urban consumers. Third, a few farmers have decided to wholesale their produce to this new enterprise, allowing them to specialize production and avoid marketing their produce directly to urban consumers. Our study suggests that the emergence of a new form of alternative food network in Montréal has created both positive and negative disruptions for existing small-scale producers. Advocates for the expansion of new urban food production and distribution models should therefore give greater consideration to the effects on other actors in the local food system. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)Fact, science and morality.Graham Macdonald &Crispin Wright -1988 -Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (3):390-390.
- Biology and representation.Graham Macdonald -1989 -Mind and Language 4 (3):186-200.
- Introduction.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -2010 - In Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald,Emergence in mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals.Philip Catton &Graham Macdonald (eds.) -2004 - New York: Routledge.One of the most original thinkers of the century, Karl Popper has inspired generations of philosophers, historians, and politicians. This collection of papers, specially written for this volume, offers fresh philosophical examination of key themes in Popper's philosophy, including philosophy of knowledge, science and political philosophy. Drawing from some of Popper's most important works, contributors address his solution to the problem of induction, his views on conventionalism and criticism in an open society, and his unique position in 20th century philosophy. (...) They also examine the current relevance of Popper to understanding liberal democracy, his critique of tribalism and his relationship with analytic philosophy in general - and with Wittgenstein in particular - as well as drawing on the studies of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein to assess Popper's conception of science. (shrink)
- Philosophy of Psychology. Debates on Psychological Explanation.Graham Macdonald &Cynthia Macdonald -1997 -Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 187 (1):110-111.
- Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences.Graham Macdonald -1989 -Journal of Philosophy 86 (8):442-446.
- Mental causation and nonreductive monism.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -1991 -Analysis 51 (1):23-32.
- Perception and identity: essays presented to A. J. Ayer, with his replies.A. J. Ayer &Graham Macdonald (eds.) -1979 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press."The philosophical works of A. J. Ayer": p. [334]-341. Bibliography: p. [343]-346. Includes indexes.
- Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic.Graham Macdonald &Crispin Wright (eds.) -1986 - Blackwell.
- John Searle and his Critics.Graham MacDonald -1994 -Philosophical Quarterly 44 (175):261-264.No categories
- XI*—Modified Methodological Individualism.Graham Macdonald -1986 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 86 (1):199-212.Graham Macdonald; XI*—Modified Methodological Individualism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 86, Issue 1, 1 June 1986, Pages 199–212, https://do.
- Causal relevance and explanatory exclusion.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham F. Macdonald -1994 - In Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald,Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation. Blackwell.
- Emergence and Non-reductive Physicalism.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Frank Macdonald -2018 - In Sophie Gibb, Robin Findlay Hendry & Tom Lancaster,The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Emergence. New York: Routledge. pp. 195-205.
- The Epistemology of Meaning.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -2012 - In Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury & Kenneth Williford,Millikan and her critics. Malden, MA: Wiley. pp. 221--240.This chapter contains section titles: Introduction Section 1 Section 2 Conclusion.
- Explanation in Historiography.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham Macdonald -2008 - In Aviezer Tucker,A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 131–141.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 Acknowledgment Bibliography.
- Beyond Program Explanation. Cynthia &Graham Macdonald -2007 - In Geoffrey Brennan,Common minds: themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit. New York: Oxford University Press.
- The Grounds for Anti-Historicism.Graham Macdonald -1995 -Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 39:241-257.In his seminal The Poverty of Historicism Sir Karl Popper deployed a number of arguments to prick the pretensions of those who thought that they were, or could come to be, in possession of knowledge of the future. These ‘historicists’ assumed that they could lay bare the law of evolution of a society, and that their possession of knowledge of such a law justified political action which had the aim of removing obstacles to the progress of history. In arguing against (...) historicism Popper was clearly motivated by his interest in removing the intellectual backing for such revolutionary political practice. My first reading of PH was in the company of people who were extremely dismissive of the anti-revolutionary message, and who tended to argue that if that was the conclusion of Popper's theoretical argument, then obviously the argument was flawed. Within their context, that of the implementation of apartheid policy in South Africa, there was much to be said for this attitude. There is no doubt that Popper's message was insufficiently contextualised, or rather that he did not signpost very clearly whether he intended the anti-revolutionary political prescription to have limited or universal application. In this paper I want to reconsider some of these issues, particularly whether the truth of anti-historicism, in the sense intended by Popper, has such conservative consequences for political action. (shrink)
- An epistemic free-riding problem?Philip Catton &Graham Macdonald -2004 - In Philip Catton & Graham Macdonald,Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals. New York: Routledge. pp. 128-158.No categories
- Ayer, AJ.Graham Macdonald -2013 - In Hugh LaFollette,The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.Export citation
Bookmark - Causation, supervenience, and special sciences.Graham Macdonald -2004 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):631-631.Ross & Spurrett (R&S) argue that Kim's reductionism rests on a restricted account of supervenience and a misunderstanding about causality. I contend that broadening supervenience does nothing to avoid Kim's argument and that it is difficult to see how employing different notions of causality helps to avoid the problem. I end by sketching a different solution.
- Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx.Graham Macdonald -1986 -Philosophical Books 27 (2):93-95.
- Folk-psychology, psychopathology, and the unconscious.Graham Macdonald -1999 -Philosophical Explorations 2 (3):206-224.There is a 'philosophers' assumption that there is a problem with the very notion of an unconscious mental state.The paper begins by outlining how the problem is generated, and proceeds to argue that certain conditions need to be fulfilled if the unconscious is to qualify as mental. An explanation is required as to why we would ever expect these conditions to be fulfilled, and it is suggested that the Freudian concept of repression has an essential role to play in such (...) an explanation. Notoriously this concept brings with it a further puzzle: it looks as though repression serves a purpose, and so requires an agent to execute this purpose, a repressor. Paradox is avoided only if repression is viewed in biologicalfunctional terms.The result is that the notion of the unconscious is saved from the a priori objections often levelled at it by philosophers.This still leaves considerable theoretical work to be done by psychological science. (shrink)
- John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law: An Intellectual Biography.Graham A. MacDonald -2018 - Springer Verlag.This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskin’s political thought. Graham A. MacDonald traces the influence of late medieval and pre-Enlightenment thought in Ruskin’s writing, reintroducing readers to Ruskin’s politics as shaped through his engagement with concepts of natural law, legal rights, labour and welfare organization. From Ruskin’s youthful studies of geology and chemistry to his back-to-the-land project, the Guild of St. George, he emerges as a complex political thinker, a reformer—and what we would recognize (...) today as an environmentalist. John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law is a nuanced reappraisal of neglected areas of Ruskin’s thought. (shrink)No categories
- Psychology and physical science.Graham F. Macdonald -1980 -Philosophical Papers 9 (May):32-35.
- Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends.Graham Macdonald -1988 -Philosophical Books 29 (3):137-141.
- Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology.Cynthia MacDonald &Graham MacDonald -2008 - In Aviezer Tucker,A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 342–352.This chapter contains sections titled: 1 2 3 4 5 Bibliography.
- Supervenient causation.Cynthia Macdonald &Graham F. Macdonald -1994 - In Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald,Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation. Blackwell. pp. 4-28.
- Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought.Graham Macdonald -1992 -Philosophical Books 31 (4):254-256.
- The biological turn.Graham F. Macdonald -1994 - In Cynthia MacDonald & Graham MacDonald,Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation. Blackwell.
- The role of experience in Popper's philosophy of science and political philosophy.Graham MacDonald -2004 - In Philip Catton & Graham Macdonald,Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals. New York: Routledge.
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