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Admiration: A New Obstacle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

N. M. L. Nathan
N. M. L. Nathan
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University of Liverpool
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Philosophy , Volume 72 , Issue 281 , July 1997 , pp. 453 - 459
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1997

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References

2 McDowell, J., ‘Singular Thought and the Extent of Inner Space’ in Pettit, P. and McDowell, I. (eds), Subject, Thought and Content (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 146.Google Scholar Cf. McCulloch, G., Mind and World (London: Routledge, 1995), 15: ‘it is because the mind, according to Descartes …, is self-contained with respect to the surrounding material world, that sceptical questions immediately seem so urgent.Google Scholar

3 Robinson's version is fuller, but an unhelpful prominence is given to the rather murky principle ‘same cause, same effect’.

4 Valberg, (1992), 106.Google Scholar

5 Valberg, (1992), 111.Google Scholar

6 Robinson makes a similar objection in his (1994), 155-156.Google Scholar

7 I derive these questions from Robinson (1994), 157-158.Google Scholar