Steve Schwartz

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books:

 

Fundamentals of Reasoning, Prentice-Hall, 1993.

 

Edited Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds, Cornell University Press, 1977, and contributed the introduction, pp. 13-41.

 

Articles:


"The Essence of Essence" forthcoming in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

 

"Soritic Thinking, Vagueness, and Weakness of Will," New Ideas in Psychology, Vol. 27., Issue 1, April, 2009, pp. 18-31.

 

Reference: General Terms and Mass Terms," invited contribution to Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, ed. by Michael Devitt and Richard Hanley.

 

"Kinds, General Terms, and Rigidity: A Reply to LaPorte," Philosophical Studies (109), 2002, pp. 265-277.

 

"Reply to Objections to 'Open Debate: Why It is Impossible to be Moral,'" The Philosophers'Magazine (London, England; Autumn 2000), pp. 23-26.

 

"Open Debate: Why It is Impossible to be Moral," The Philosophers' Magazine (London, England; Spring 2000), pp. 23-26.

 

"Discussion of 'Causal Inference without Counterfactuals' by A.P. David," with George Casella, Journal of the American Statistical Association, v 95 (June 2000), published with Dawid’s article and other comments, pp. 407-449.

  

"Why it is Impossible to be Moral," American Philosophical Quarterly (October 1999), pp. 351-359.

 

"Nietzsche's Doctrine of the Will to Power," Beiträge zur Nietzsche Forschung, Traude Junghans Verlag, 1998. Also published in German, 1999.

 

"The Status of Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to Power in the Light of Contemporary Philosophy of Science," International Studies in Philosophy, XXV/2 (1993), pp. 85-92.

 

"Intuitionism and Vagueness," with William Throop, Erkenntnis 34 (1991), pp. 347-356.

 

"Modern Theories of Natural Kinds" and "Hilary Putnam," articles in The Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Philosophia Verlag, (1991).

 

"Intuitionism versus Degress of Truth," Analysis 50 (1990), pp. 43-48.

 

"Vagueness and Incoherence: A Reply to Burns," Synthese 80 (1989), pp. 395-406.

 

"Intuitionism and Sorites," Analysis 47 (1987), pp. 179-183.

 

"Salmon on Reference and Essentialism," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1984), pp. 288-291.

 

"Reply to Kornblith and Nelson," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 21 (1983), pp. 475-479.

 

"Natural Kinds," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (1981), pp. 310-311.

 

"Formal Semantics and Natural Kind Terms," Philosophical Studies 38 (1980), pp. 189- 198.

 

"Natural Kinds and Nominal Kinds," Mind 89 (1980), pp. 182-195.

 

"Natural Kind Terms," Cognition (September 1979), pp. 301-315.

 

"Putnam on Artifacts," Philosophical Review (October 1979), pp. 566-574. Reprinted in The Twin Earth Chronicles, ed. Andrew Pessin and Sanford Goldbrg, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996.

 

 

Reviews:

 

“Ontology and Mental Causation,” review of Real Natures and Familiar Objects by Crawford L. Elder, American Journal of Psychology (Spring 2006), pp.139-144.

 

 

Review of Beyond Formalism: Naming and Necessity for Human Beings by Jay F. Rosenberg, Philosophical Review (January 1996).

 

Review of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Nature and Cosmology by Alistair Moles, Journal of the History of Philosophy (April 1993), pp. 301-302.

 

Review of Identity and Discrimination by Timothy Williamson, Philosophical Review, (October 1992). pp. 888-890.

 

Review of What is Existence by C.J.F. Williams, International Studies in Philosophy (1984), pp. 112-114.

 

Review of Acts and Other Events by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Philosophical Review (January 1979), pp. 100-105.

 

Review of Practical Reason edited by Stephan Korner, Philosophical Review (April 1976), pp. 236-241.

 

Review of Enigmas of Agency by Irving Thalberg, Philosophical Review (January 1975), pp. 125-129.

 

Review of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion by H.H. Price, Philosophical Review (April 1974), pp. 283-286.