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SINCLAIR Robert

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Books etc
No.Title URL, Autour Type, Publisher, Publication date, Range, ISBN 
1
Book Symposium on Alan Richardson’s Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2023. Asian Journal of Philosophy 3, Co-edited with Masashi Kasaki, 2025. Includes author’s precis, comments by Elisabeth Nemeth, James Pearson, and Audrey Yap with replies by the author. Available at (https://link.springer.com/collections/gebcgjijig). , , , 2025, ,  
2
Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction. , Single Work, Lexington Books. American Philosophy Series. Imprint of Rowman and Littlefield., Aug. 2022, ,  
3
Science and Sensibilia: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures by W. V. Quine , , Palgrave-Macmillan, Jun. 2019, ,  
4
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
Quine and Lewis on the Indeterminacy and Objectivity of Meaning , Forthcoming in Quine’s Word and Object at 65, Edited by Daniel Nagase Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries. Cambridge University Press, ,   , 2027,  
2
“Dewey, Naturalism and Moral Inquiry,” Available at (https://www.ppipress.com/journal/JHC/9/1/10.47297/wspjhcWSP2515-469904.20250901). , Journal of Human Cognition, 9,  42- 47, 2025,  
3
From ‘A Coherence Theory’ to Triangulation: The Stanford Conversations and Davidson’s Externalism , Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. Special issue on the 1986 Stanford Conversations between Davidson, Dreben, Quine and Føllesdal., ,   , 2025,  
4
“Précis” and “Replies to my critics,” , Asian Journal of Philosophy Asian Journal of Philosophy 2: Articles 63 and 55. Book Symposium on Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction. Available at (https://link.springer.com/collections/jachgefchc)., ,   , 2023,  
5
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,  
6
Science, Sense, and Sensibilia: Quine and Austin on Perception , Al-Mukhatabat, 27,   , Jun. 2019,  
7
North American Idealism and the Search for a Practical Philosophy , Journal of Inter-American Philosophy, 9,   , Oct. 2018,  
8
Dewey, Religion, and the New Atheism , CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATISM, 7( 1), 93- 106, Jun. 2010,  
9
WHY QUINE IS NOT AN EXTERNALIST , JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH, 34,  279- 304, 2009, https://doi.org/10.5840/jpr_2009_12 
10
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,  
11
When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Kim on the Failures of Quinean Epistemology , Southwest Philosophy Review, 20,  53- 67, 2004,  
12
What is radical interpretation? Davidson, fodor, and the naturalization of philosophy , INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, 45( 2), 161- 184, Jun. 2002,  
13
Stimulus Meaning Reconsidered , The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 40,  395- 409, 2002,  

 

Conference Activities & Talks
No.Title, Conference, Publication date, Promoter, Venue 
1
Habits, Growth, and the Search for a Cosmopolitan Identity: Some Deweyan Reflections, Waseda Philosophy Research Seminar, Waseda University, Tokyo., May. 2024, ,  
2
“Growth, Education and the Search for a Cosmopolitan Identity: Some Deweyan Reflections”, First International Symposium on Global Citizenship Education, Soka University, Tokyo., Oct. 2022, ,  
3
“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, ,  
4
Kūkai’s Pragmatism, International Society of East Asian Philosophy (ISEAP) Conference, Meiji Institute of Philosophies, Meiji University. (Online), Dec. 6, 2021, ,  
5
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, ,  
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 and the Ideology of Technicism, The Third European Pragmatism Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland., 2018, ,  
8
Dewey's Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy as Ethnoepistemology, John Dewey Society of Japan Meetings, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan., 2017, ,  
9
Quine' s Holism and the Constitutive A Priori, Quine: Structuring Understanding and Understanding Structure, University of Glasgow, Scotland., 2015, ,  

 

Awards Honors
No.Publication date, Association, Prize, Subtitle 
1
Apr. 2024, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid (C) for Scientific Research, Project 24K03434: Knowledge, Thought and Action: An Examination of C. I. Lewis's Contributions to Moral Philosophy 

 

Research Grants & Projects
No.Offer organization, System name, Title, Fund classification, Date 
1
, , Knowledge, Thought and Action: An Examination of C. I. Lewis's Contributions to Moral Philosophy, ,  2024 - NOW 
2
, , Dewey’s Cultural Conception of Philosophy, competitive_research_funding, 
3
, , Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction, competitive_research_funding, 

 

Works
No.Title, Type, Publication date, Venue 
1
Book Review: Martin Ejsing Christensen, Analytic Philosophy and the Critical Reception of John Dewey’s Pragmatic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Forthcoming in HOPOS, 2026., Educational Materials,  2026 - NOW,  
2
“Epistemic Injustice,” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden. Forthcoming in 2025., ,  2025 - NOW,  
3
Book Review: Paul Fairfield, Introducing Dewey, Bloomsbury Publications, 2024, Philosophy in Review 44 (2024): 4-6., ,  2024 - NOW,  
4
“Pragmatism and Scientific Philosophy in Carnap and Quine,” Critical Review of Sean Morris (editor), The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine, Cambridge University Press, 2023, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (2024): 895-902., ,  2024 - NOW,  
5
“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,  
6
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,  
7
“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,  
8
“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,  
9
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,  
10
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,  
11
Dewey, Nagel, and the Challenges of American Naturalism, Avello Publishing Journal 5 (2015): 1–15. Available at (https://avellopublishing.wordpress.com/journal/volume-5-issue-1/contents/)., ,  2015 - NOW,