Through a collection of original essays from leading philosophical
scholars, Stich and His Critics provides a thorough
assessment of the key themes in the career of philosopher Stephen
Stich.
* Provides a collection of original essays from some of the
world’s most distinguished philosophers
* Explores some of philosophy’s most hotly-debated contemporary
topics, including mental representation, theory of mind, nativism,
moral philosophy, and naturalized epistemology
Table of Content
Introduction: Dominic Murphy (California Institute of Technology)
and Michael Bishop (Florida State University).
1. Is There a Role for Representational Content in Scientific
Psychology?: Frances Egan (Rutgers University).
2. Representationalism Reconsidered: Peter Godfrey-Smith
(Harvard University).
3. On Determining What There Isn’t: Michael Devitt (City
University of New York).
4. Eliminativism and The Theory of Reference: Frank Jackson (The
Australian National University).
5. Why Isn’t Stich an Elimi Nativist?: Fiona Cowie
(California Institute of Technology).
6. A Defense of the Use of Intuitions in Philosophy: Ernest Sosa
(Brown University).
7. Reflections on Cognitive and Epistemic Diversity: Can a Stich
in Time Save Quine?: Michael Bishop (Florida State University).
8. Simulation Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience: Alvin Goldman
(Rutgers University).
9. The Triumph of a Reasonable Man: Stich, Mindreading and
Nativism: Kim Sterelny (Australian National University and Victoria
University of Wellington).
10. Against Moral Nativism: Jesse J. Prinz (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill).
11. Replies: Steve Stich (Rutgers University).
List of Publications by Steve Stich
About the author
Michael A. Bishop is Professor of Philosophy at Florida
State University. His research focuses on how to properly
understand and assess reasoning in science and in everyday life. He
is the co-author, with J. D. Trout, of Epistemology and the
Psychology of Human Judgment (2005).
Dominic Murphy is Senior Lecturer in History and
Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is the author
of Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (2006).