Dr Nicholas Shea
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Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College
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Book
On Millikan, Wadsworth, 2004
Papers
Shea, N. (forthcoming), 'New concepts can be learned', review essay on Susan Carey, The Origin of Concepts (OUP, 2009), Biology & Philosophy [pre-print pdf] [link]
Shea, N. 'Millikan's Isomorphism Requirement', for Millikan and Her Critics, D. Ryder (ed.), Blackwell [draft]
Shea, N. and Bayne, T. (2010), ‘The Vegetative State and the Science of Consciousness’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science [open access pdf]
Shea, N. and Heyes, C. (2009) ‘Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick’, Biology & Philosophy [open access pdf] [link]
Shea, N., (2009) ‘Imitation as an inheritance system’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2429-2443 [pre-print pdf] [link]
Shea, N., Krug, K. and Tobler, P.N., (2008) ‘Conceptual representations in goal-directed decision making’, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(4), 418-428 [published pdf] [link]
Shea, N. (2007) ‘Consumers Need Information: supplementing teleosemantics with an input condition’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 75(2), 404-435 [pdf] [link]
Shea, N. (2007) ‘Content and Its Vehicles in Connectionist Systems’, Mind & Language, 22(3), 246-269 [pdf] [link]
Shea, N. (2007) ‘Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems’ Biology and Philosophy, 22, 313-331 [pdf] [link]
Shea, N. (2006) 'The Biological Basis of Cultural Transmission', review of Kim Sterelny, Thought in a Hostile World (Blackwell, 2003), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57, 259-266 [pdf] [link]
Shea, N. (2006) ‘Millikan’s Contribution to Materialist Philosophy of Mind’ (in French translation) Matière Première, Vol. 1, Feb 2006, pp. 127-156 [pdf]
Shea, N. (2003) ‘Does Externalism Entail the Anomalism of the Mental?’, Philosophical Quarterly, 53, 201–213 [pdf] [link] [Jstor]
Shea, N. (2002), 'Getting Clear About Equivocal Concepts: Critical Review of Millikan's on Clear and Confused Ideas', Disputatio 13, pp. 34-47 [unedited draft]
Papineau, D. and Shea, N. (2002) 'Ruth Millikan's On Clear and Confused Ideas', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(2), pp. 453-466 [pdf] [link]