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SINCLAIR Robert

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Books etc
No.Title URL, Autour Type, Publisher, Publication date, Range, ISBN 
1
Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction. , Single Work, Lexington Books. American Philosophy Series. Imprint of Rowman and Littlefield., Aug. 2022, ,  
2
Science and Sensibilia: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures by W. V. Quine , , Palgrave-Macmillan, Jun. 2019, ,  
3
Pragmatism, Metaphysics and Culture: Reflections on the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 2 , , Nordic Pragmatism Network, 2015, , 9789526749716 

 

Published Papers
No.Title URL, Journal, Vol( Number), From Page- To Page, Publication date, DOI 
1
“Précis” and “Replies to my Critics,” Symposium on Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction , Asian Journal of Philosophy, TBD,  TBD- , 2023,  
2
Quine’s Structural Holism and the Constitutive A Priori , Quine: Structure and Ontology, Edited by Frederique Janssen-Lauret, Oxford University Press, ,  147- 167, Nov. 2020,  
3
Science, Sense, and Sensibilia: Quine and Austin on Perception , Al-Mukhatabat, 27,   , Jun. 2019,  
4
North American Idealism and the Search for a Practical Philosophy , Journal of Inter-American Philosophy, 9,   , Oct. 2018,  
5
Dewey, Religion, and the New Atheism , CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATISM, 7( 1), 93- 106, Jun. 2010,  
6
WHY QUINE IS NOT AN EXTERNALIST , JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH, 34,  279- 304, 2009, https://doi.org/10.5840/jpr_2009_12 
7
Nielsen's Conception of Philosophy: Its Essential Tension and Deweyan Resolution , Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, Edited by Matthias Fritsch and Michel Seymour, New York: Humanity Books., ,  165- 176, 2007,  
8
When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Kim on the Failures of Quinean Epistemology , Southwest Philosophy Review, 20,  53- 67, 2004,  
9
What is radical interpretation? Davidson, fodor, and the naturalization of philosophy , INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 45( 2), 161- 184, Jun. 2002,  
10
Stimulus Meaning Reconsidered , The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40,  395- 409, 2002,  

 

Conference Activities & Talks
No.Title, Conference, Publication date, Promoter, Venue 
1
“Growth, Education and the Search for a Cosmopolitan Identity: Some Deweyan Reflections”, First International Symposium on Global Citizenship Education, Soka University, Tokyo., Oct. 2022, ,  
2
“Quine, Lewis and Phenomenalism”, The Tenth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP), School of Philosophy and Sociology, Shanxi University, China. (Online), 2022, ,  
3
Kūkai’s Pragmatism, International Society of East Asian Philosophy (ISEAP) Conference, Meiji Institute of Philosophies, Meiji University. (Online), Dec. 6, 2021, ,  
4
An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation and Quine’s ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, The Thirteenth Biennial Congress of the;International;Society for the;History of;Philosophy of;Science (HOPOS;Nanyang Technological University;Singapore, Jun;Cancelled due to COVID;pandemic, 2020, ,  
5
Dewey’s Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy and the Ideology of Technicism, The Third European Pragmatism Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland., 2018, ,  
6
Introducing Quine’s Kant Lectures, Society for the Study of The History of Analytical Philosophy (SSHAP) Symposium on Quine’s Immanuel Kant Lectures Science and Sensibilia, Central APA Meetings, Chicago., 2018, ,  
7
Dewey’s Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy as Ethnoepistemology, John Dewey Society of Japan Meetings, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan., 2017, ,  
8
Quine’s Critical Turn? ‘Truth by Convention’ and Conceptual Pragmatism, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan., 2017, ,  
9
Dewey’s Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy as Ethnoepistemology, International Conference on Ethno-Epistemology - Culture, Language, and Methodology, Kanazawa, Japan, 2016, ,  
10
Quine’s Naturalism and the Constitutive A Priori, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2015, ,  
11
Quine’s Holism and the Constitutive A Priori, Quine: Structuring Understanding and Understanding Structure, University of Glasgow, Scotland., 2015, ,  
12
On Quine’s Debt to Pragmatism: C.I. Lewis and the Pragmatic A Priori, Quine and his Place in History, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2014, ,  
13
Vision and Technique in Pragmatist Philosophy: Some Remarks on Misak’s ‘Peirce and Ramsey on Truth’, Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress: Invigorating Philosophy for the 21st Century, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2014, ,  

 

Research Grants & Projects
No.Offer organization, System name, Title, Fund classification, Date 
1
, , Dewey’s Cultural Conception of Philosophy, competitive_research_funding, 
2
, , Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction, competitive_research_funding, 

 

Works
No.Title, Type, Publication date, Venue 
1
“Pragmatism,” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Edited by James Mattingly, 2023, 748-50, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications., ,  Jun. 2022 - NOW,  
2
Book Review: Quentin Kammer, Jean-Philippe Narboux, and Henri Wagner (editors), C.I. Lewis, The A Priori and the Given, Routledge, HOPOS 12, 2022, 315-319., The Others,  Apr. 2022 - NOW,  
3
“Science and Democracy,” Philosophy World Democracy. Published January 2022. Available at (https://www.philosophy-world-democracy.org/articles-1/science-and-democracy)., Educational Materials,  Jan. 2022 - NOW,  
4
“Team Sports and Epistemic Trust,” Fair Play: Revista de Filosofía, Ética y Derecho del Deporte 18 (2020): 146-157. Available at (https://www.upf.edu/en/web/revistafairplay/numero-actual)., The Others,  2020 - NOW,  
5
Review: Sander Verhaegh;Working from Within;The Nature;Development of;Quine's Naturalism;Oxford University Press;British Journal;for the;History of Philosophy, The Others,  2020 - NOW,  
6
Book Review: Peter Olen and Carl Sachs (Editors), Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C.I. Lewis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Forthcoming in HOPOS., ,  Oct. 2019 - NOW,  
7
"Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism", "Quine's Epistemology Naturalized", "Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation, " In Just the Arguments, Edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, Wiley-Blackwell., ,  2011 - NOW,  
8
"Dewey and the Problem of Religion," In Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy 45: 321-327, Myung-Hyun-Lee (Editor-in-Chief), Charlottesville, Virginia: Philosophy Documentation Center., ,  2010 - NOW,  
9
"Willard Van Orman Quine: Philosophy of Science," In The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, (http://www.iep.utm.edu/quine-sc/), ,  2009 - NOW,  
10
"Philosophy, conceptions of," In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, 586-590, New York: Routledge Press., ,  2008 - NOW,  
11
"Quine in Historical Context," Critical Notice of Peter Hylton's Quine, Routledge, 2007, Philosophical Inquiry 30: 185-192., ,  2008 - NOW,  
12
"A Less Radical Interpretation of Davidson and Quine," Critical Notice of Hans-Johann Glock's Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Dialogue 45: 107-124., ,  2006 - NOW,