Fred Wilson (wilson-f)

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Bibliography

Sumner, L. W., Slater, John G. and Wilson, Fred, eds. 1981. Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1965. “Implicit Definition Once Again.” The Journal of Philosophy 62: 364–374. Reprinted in revised form and with an appendix in Wilson (2007a, 653–682).
Wilson, Fred. 1967. “The World and Reality in the Tractatus.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 5: 253–260. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 399–412).
Wilson, Fred. 1968a. “Is Operationism Unjust to Temperature?” Synthese 18(3): 394–422.
Wilson, Fred. 1968b. “A Note on Operationism (Nota Sobre el Operacionalismo).” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 2(4): 79–87.
Wilson, Fred. 1969a. “Weinberg’s Refutation of Nominalism.” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 8(3): 460–474.
Wilson, Fred. 1969b. “Barker on Geometry as A Priori.” Philosophical Studies 20(4): 49–53.
Wilson, Fred. 1969c. “The Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology.” The Modern Schoolman 47: 37–56. Reprinted in revised form as “Universals, Bare Particulars and Tropes: The Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology” in Wilson (2007a, 363–398).
Wilson, Fred. 1970. “Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge.” The New Scholasticism 44(1): 1–48. Reprinted, with three appendices, in Wilson (2007a, 1–108).
Wilson, Fred. 1974. “Why I Am Not Aware of Your Pain.” in The Ontological Turn: Studies in the Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann, edited by Moltke S. Gram and Elmer Daniel Klemke, pp. 276–300. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1975. “Marras on Sellars on Thought and Language.” Philosophical Studies 28: 91–102. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 519–536).
Wilson, Fred. 1979. “Hume’s Theory of Mental Activity.” in McGill Hume Studies, edited by David Fate Norton, Nicholas Capaldi, and Wade L. Robison, pp. 101–120. San Diego, California: Austin Hill Press. Reworked into Wilson (1999d).
Wilson, Fred. 1982a. “Is there a Prussian Hume? or How Far Is It from Könisberg to Edinburgh?” Hume Studies 8(1): 1–18.
Wilson, Fred. 1982b. “Review of Tuomela (1977).” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 21: 571–577. Reprinted as “Human Action and a Natural Science of Human Being” in Wilson (2007a, 497–518).
Wilson, Fred. 1983a. “Hume’s Sceptical Argument Against Reason.” Hume Studies 9(2): 90–129.
Wilson, Fred. 1983b. “Effability, Ontology and Method.” Philosophy Research Archives 9: 419–470. Reprinted as “Effability, Ontology and Method: Themes from Bergmann’s Ontology” in Wilson (2007a, 537–591).
Wilson, Fred. 1984. “Critical Review of Katz (1981).” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14: 663–673. Reprinted as “Language and (Other?) Abstract Objects” and with an appendix in Wilson (2007a, 609–652).
Wilson, Fred. 1985a. Explanation, Causation and Deduction. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 26. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Wilson, Fred. 1985b. “The Origins of Hume’s Sceptical Argument against Reason.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2(3): 323–335.
Wilson, Fred. 1985c. “Dispositions Defined: Harré and Madden on Analyizing Disposition Concepts.” Philosophy of Science 52(4): 591–607.
Wilson, Fred. 1985d. “Hume’s Cognitive Stoicism.” Hume Studies 10(anniversary issue): 52–68.
Wilson, Fred. 1985e. “The Lockean Revolution in the Theory of Science.” in Early Modern Philosophy: Epistemology, Metaphysics and Politics. Essays in Honour of Robert F. McRae, edited by Stanley Tweyman and Georges J. D. Moyal, pp. 65–97. Delmar, New York: Caravan Books. Reworked into Wilson (1999c) and Wilson (1999e).
Wilson, Fred. 1986a. Laws and Other Worlds: A Humean Account of Laws and Counterfactuals. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 26. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Wilson, Fred. 1986b. “Critical Notice of Grossmann (1983).” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16: 163–180. Reprinted as “Grossmann on the Categorial Structure of the World” in Wilson (2007a, 413–442).
Wilson, Fred. 1986c. “Hume and Derrida on Language and Meaning.” Hume Studies 12(2): 99–121. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 109–127).
Wilson, Fred. 1987a. “Resemblance, Universals and Sorites: Comments on March on Sorting Out Sorites.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17(1): 175–184.
Wilson, Fred. 1987b. “The Distribution of Terms: A Defence of the Traditional Doctrine.” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28: 439–454. Reworked into Wilson (1999c).
Wilson, Fred. 1989a. “The Logic of Probabilities in Hume’s Argument against Miracles.” Hume Studies 15(2): 255–276.
Wilson, Fred. 1989b. “Hume’s Fictional Continuants.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 6(2): 171–188.
Wilson, Fred. 1989c. “Is Hume a Sceptic with Regard to the Senses?” Journal of the History of Philosophy 27(1): 49–73.
Wilson, Fred. 1991a. Empiricism and Darwin’s Science. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 47. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Wilson, Fred. 1991b. “Hume on the Abstract Idea of Existence: Comments on Cummins (1991).” Hume Studies 17(2): 167–201. Reworked into Wilson (1999f).
Wilson, Fred. 1992. “Association, Ideas, and Images in Hume.” in Minds, Ideas and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy, edited by Phillip D. Cummins and Guenter Zoeller, pp. 255–274. Noth American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy n. 2. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co.
Wilson, Fred. 1994. “The Rationalist Response to Aristotle in Descartes and Arnauld.” in The Great Arnauld and Some of His Philosophical Correspondents, edited by Elmar J. Kremer, pp. 28–65. Toronto Studies in Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Reworked into Wilson (1999b).
Wilson, Fred. 1995a. “Burgersdijck, Bradley, Russell, Bergmann: Four Philosophers on the Ontology of Relations.” The Modern Schoolman 72(4): 283–310. Reprinted in expanded form as “Burgersdijck, Coleridge, Bradley, Russell, Bergmann, Hochberg: Six Philosophers on the Ontology of Relations” in Wilson (2007a, 275–328), doi:10.5840/schoolman199572419.
Wilson, Fred. 1995b. “Empiricism and the Epistemology of Instruments.” The Monist 78(2): 202–229.
Wilson, Fred. 1995c. “On the Hausmans’ ‘New Approach’ [Hausman and Hausman (1995)].” in Berkeley’s Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann, pp. 67–88. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. Reprinted as “On the Hausmans’ “New Approach to Berkeley’s Ideal Reality” in Wilson (2007a, 169–193).
Wilson, Fred. 1996a. “Bradley and the Demise of Classical Psychology.” in Perspectives on the Logic and Metaphysics of F.H. Bradley, edited by William J. Mander, pp. 177–222. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1996b. “Hobbes’ Inductive Methodology.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 13(2): 167–186. Reworked into Wilson (1999d).
Wilson, Fred. 1996c. “F.H. Bradley’s Impact on Empiricism.” in Philosophy after F.H. Bradley. A Collection of Essays, edited by James Bradley, pp. 251–282. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. Reprinted as “Bradley’s Account of Relations and Its Impact on Empiricism” in Wilson (2007a, 195–223).
Wilson, Fred. 1996d. “Moore’s Refutation of Idealism.” in Current Issues in Idealism, edited by Paul Coates and Daniel D. Hutto, pp. 23–58. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 225–273).
Wilson, Fred. 1997a. “Berkeley’s Metaphysics and Ramist Logic.” in Logic and the Working of the Mind. The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Patricia Easton, pp. 109–135. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co. Reprinted in Wilson (1999a, 262–289).
Wilson, Fred. 1997b. “Critical Review of Dummett (1993).” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 27: 377–406. Reprinted as “Dummett’s History: Critical Review of Michael Dummett’s Origins of Analytical Philosophy” in Wilson (2007a, 683–726).
Wilson, Fred. 1998a. “The Ultimate Unifying Principle of Coleridge’s Metaphysics of Relations and our Knowledge of Them.” Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding 21: 273–300.
Wilson, Fred. 1998b. “Mill on Psychology and the Moral Sciences.” in The Cambridge Companion to Mill, edited by John Skorupski, pp. 203–254. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999a. The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999b. “Establishing the New Science: Rationalist and Empiricist Responses to Aristotle.” in The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies, pp. 3–134. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999c. “Logic under Attack: The Early Modern Period.” in The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies, pp. 135–261. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999d. “Empiricist Inductive Methodology: Hobbes and Hume.” in The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies, pp. 290–318. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999e. “ ‘Rules by Which to Judge of Causes’ before Hume.” in The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies, pp. 319–363. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999f. “Causation and the Argument A Priori for the Existence of a Necessary Being.” in The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies, pp. 364–412. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 1999g. “Descartes’s Defence of the Traditional Metaphysics.” in The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies, pp. 413–530. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 2001. “Galileo’s Lunar Observations: Do They Imply the Rejection of Traditional Lunar Theory?” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32(3): 557–570.
Wilson, Fred. 2002. “John Stuart Mill.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2002/entries/mill/.
Wilson, Fred. 2003a. “The Aboutness of Thought.” in Cartesian Views. Papers presented to Richard A. Watson, edited by Thomas M. Lennon, pp. 151–164. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History n. 116. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 593–607).
Wilson, Fred. 2003b. “David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (1740): A Genial Skepticism, an Ethical Naturalism.” in Classics in Western Philosophy. A Reader’s Guide, edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg, and Bernard N. Schumacher, pp. 291–308. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Wilson, Fred. 2004. “Bareness, as in ‘ “bare” particulars’: Its Ubiquity.” in Relations and Predicates, edited by Herbert Hochberg and Kevin Mulligan, pp. 81–111. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 11. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 329–362).
Wilson, Fred. 2005a. “Empiricism: Principles and Problems.” in Approaches to Metaphysics, edited by William Sweet, pp. 265–300. New York: Springer. Reprinted in Wilson (2007a, 129–168).
Wilson, Fred. 2005b. “John Stuart Mill.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2005/entries/mill/.
Wilson, Fred. 2006a. “Science and Religion: No Irenics Here.” Metaphysica 7(2).
Wilson, Fred. 2006b. “John Stuart Mill.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2006/entries/mill/.
Wilson, Fred. 2007a. Acquaintance, Ontology and Knowledge. Collected Essays in Ontology. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 19. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, doi:10.1515/9783110327014.
Wilson, Fred. 2007b. “Bergmann’s Hidden Aristotelianism.” in Acquaintance, Ontology and Knowledge. Collected Essays in Ontology, pp. 443–495. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 19. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, doi:10.1515/9783110327014.
Wilson, Fred. 2007c. “Placing Bergmann.” in Ontology and Analysis. Essays and Recollections about Gustav Bergmann, edited by Laird Addis, Greg Jesson, and Erwin Tegtmeier, pp. 185–275. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 20. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Wilson, Fred. 2008a. The External World and Our Knowledge of It. Hume’s Critical Realism, an Exposition and a Defence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Wilson, Fred. 2008b. Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 22. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Wilson, Fred. 2008c. “Universals, Particulars, Tropes and Blobs.” in Fostering the Ontological Turn: Essays on Gustav Bergmann, edited by Rosaria Egidi and Guido Bonino, pp. 15–44. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 28. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, doi:10.1515/9783110325980.
Wilson, Fred. 2008d. “The Logic of John Stuart Mill.” in Handbook of the History of Logic. Volume 4: British Logic in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods, pp. 229–282. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.
Wilson, Fred. 2009. “Bergmann’s Hidden Aristotelianism.” in Gustav Bergmann. Phenomenological Realism and Dialectical Ontology, edited by Bruno Langlet and Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, pp. 17–68. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 29. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Wilson, Fred. 2010a. “Mill: Logic and Metaphysics.” in The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy, edited by Dean Moyar, pp. 601–632. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Wilson, Fred. 2010b. “Hume and the Role of Testimony in Knowledge.” Episteme 7(1): 58–78.
Wilson, Fred. 2011. “Including these Categories in One’s Ontology, Excluding those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology.” in Ontological Categories, edited by Javier Cumpa and Erwin Tegtmeier, pp. 181–224. EIDE – Foundations of Ontology n. 3. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Wilson, Fred. 2012a. “Hochberg, Hume, and Wittgenstein on Causal Necessity.” in Studies in the Philosophy of Herbert Hochberg, edited by Erwin Tegtmeier, pp. 155–222. EIDE – Foundations of Ontology n. 4. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, doi:10.1515/9783110330557.
Wilson, Fred. 2012b. “John Stuart Mill on Justice.” in Mill on Justice, edited by Leonard Kahn, pp. 90–118. Philosophers in Depth. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wilson, Fred. 2013. “Exemplification, Then and Now.” Axiomathes 23(2): 269–289.
Wilson, Fred. 2014. “Was Frege a Realist? And, if so, in What Sense?” in Defending Realism. Ontological and Epistemological Investigations, edited by Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson, and Javier Cumpa, pp. 141–196. EIDE – Foundations of Ontology n. 7. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Further References

Cummins, Phillip D. 1991. “Hume on the Idea of Existence.” Hume Studies 17(1): 61–82.
Dummett, Michael A. E. 1993. Origins of Analytic Philosophy. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Reprinted as Dummett (1996).
Dummett, Michael A. E. 1996. Origins of Analytic Philosophy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Reprint of Dummett (1993).
Grossmann, Reinhardt Siegbert. 1983. The Categorical Structure of the World. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
Hausman, Alan and Hausman, David B. 1995. “A New Approach to Berkeley’s Ideal Reality.” in Berkeley’s Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays, edited by Robert G. Muehlmann, pp. 47–66. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Katz, Jerrold J. 1981. Language and Other Abstract Objects. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld.
Tuomela, Raimo. 1977. Human Action and Its Explanation: A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology. Synthese Library n. 116. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.