Philosophy

A selection:

[NB: Alexander George now disavows much in many of these works. Others may judge as they please.]

Books :

• Reflections on Chomsky , editor, Basil Blackwell, 1989

• Mathematics and Mind , editor, Oxford University Press, 1994

• Philosophies of Mathematics (with Daniel J. Velleman), Basil Blackwell, 2002 [ Errata ] (also available in German as Zur Philosophie der Mathematik , Springer, 2018 )

• What Would Socrates Say? Philosophers Answer Your Questions about Love, Nothingness, and Everything Else , editor, Clarkson Potter, 2007 (also available in German, Greek, Japanese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and other languages; see here for further details)

• What Should I Do? Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling , editor (with Elisa Mai), Oxford University Press, 2011

• The Everlasting Check: Hume on Miracles , Harvard University Press, 2016

Articles :

• "Philosophy and the Birth of Computer Science," Robotics Age , January-February 1983, 26-31

• "Skølem and the Löwenheim-Skølem Theorem: A Case Study of The Philosophical Significance of Mathematical Results," History and Philosophy of Logic , 6, 1985, 75-89

• [Reprinted in Stewart Shapiro (editor), The Limits of Logic , Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1996, 403-417]

• "Whence and Whither the Debate between Quine and Chomsky?," The Journal of Philosophy, September 1986, 489-500

• [Reprinted in Carlos Otero (editor), Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments , Routledge, 1994]

• [Reprinted in Dagfinn Føllesdal (editor), The Philosophy of W.V. Quine , Garland Publishing, 2001]

• "The Imprecision of Impredicativity," Mind , October 1987, 514-18

• "The Conveyability of Intuitionism, an Essay on Mathematical Cognition," The Journal of Philosophical Logic , 17, 1988, 133-56

• "How Not To Become Confused About Linguistics," chapter in Reflections on Chomsky , supra, 1989, 90-110

• [Reprinted in Carlos Otero (editor), Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments , Routledge, 1994]

• "Whose Language Is It Anyway?: Some Notes on Idiolects," The Philosophical Quarterly , July 1990, 275-298

• "How Not To Refute Realism," The Journal of Philosophy , March 1993, 53-72

• "Intuitionism and the Poverty of the Inference Argument," Topoi , 13, 1994, 79-82

• "Has Dummett Oversalted His Frege?: Remarks on the Conveyability of Thought," in Richard G. Heck, Jnr. (editor), Realism, Thought, and Language: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett , Oxford University Press, 1997, 35-69

• " Two Conceptions of Natural Number " (with Daniel J. Velleman), in Garth Dales and Gianluigi Oliveri (editors), Truth in Mathematics , Oxford University Press, 1998, 311-327

• "Quine and Observation," in Alex Orenstein and Petr Kotatko (editors), Knowledge, Language, and Logic: Questions for Quine , Reidel, 2000, 21-45

• " On Washing the Fur Without Wetting It: Quine, Carnap, and Analyticity ," Mind , January 2000, 1-24

• " Linguistic Practice and Its Discontents: Quine and Davidson on the Source of Sense ," Philosophers' Imprint , Volume 4, Number 1, February 2004, 1-37

• " A Proof of Induction? ," Philosophers' Imprint , Volume 7, Number 2, March 2007, 1-5

• " Quine's Legacy ," American Philosophical Quarterly, July 2011, Volume 48, Number 3, 301-4

• " Opening the Door to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land: Hempel and Kuhn on Rationality ," Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy , Volume 1, Number 4, 1-17

• " Quine's Indeterminacy: A Paradox Resolved and a Problem Revealed ," The Harvard Review of Philosophy , volume XXI, 2014

• " Anatomy of a Muddle: Wittgenstein and Philosophy ," in Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning , James Conant and Sebastian Sunday (editors), Cambridge University Press, 2019, 1-27

• "Philosophers and Other Conjurers," in The Raven, Fall 2021

Brief Discussions and Extended Reviews :

• "On Devitt on Dummett," The Journal of Philosophy , September 1984, 516-27

• "Reply to Weir on Dummett and Intuitionism," Mind , July 1987, 404-406

• "Review of Knowledge of Language by Noam Chomsky," Mind & Language , Summer 1987, 155-64

• "Intuitionism, Excluded Middle and Decidability: A Response to Weir on Dummett," Mind , October 1988, 597-602

• "'Goldbach's Conjecture Can Be Decided in One Minute': On An Alleged Problem for Intuitionism," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , January 1991, 187-89

• "Noam Chomsky," in Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (editors), A Companion to American Thought , Blackwell, 1995, 117-118

• "Nativism, Innatism," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Supplement , Macmillan, 1996, 370-72

• " Katz Astray ," in Mind & Language , Volume 11, Number 3, September 1996, 295-305

• "Review of From Stimulus to Science by W.V. Quine," Mind , Volume 106, Number 421, January 1997, 195-201

• " Frege, Gottlob " (with Richard G. Heck, Jnr.), in Edward Craig (editor), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Routledge, 1998, 765-78

• " Leveling the Playing Field Between Mind and Machine: Response to McCall " (with Daniel J. Velleman), The Journal of Philosophy , Volume XCVII, Number 8, August 2000, 456-461