Dr Nicholas Shea

Book

On Millikan, Wadsworth, 2004

Papers

Shea, N. (2013), 'Naturalising representational content', Philosophy Compass, 8(5), pp. 496-509 [pre-print pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2012), 'Reward prediction error signals are meta-representational', Nous [open access pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2012), 'New thinking, innateness and inherited representation', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, pp. 2234-44 [open access pdf] [link] 

Shea, N. (2012), ‘Methodological Encounters with the Phenomenal Kind’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 84(2), pp. 307-344 [open access pdf] [link] 

Shea, N. (2012), 'Genetic representation explains the cluster of innateness-related properties', Mind & Language, 27(4), pp. 466-493 [open access pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2013), 'Inherited Representations are Read in Development', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 64(1), pp. 1-31 [open access pdf] [link]

Mars, R.B.*, Shea, N.J.*, Kolling, N. and Rushworth, M.F.S. (2012). ‘Model-based analyses: Promises, pitfalls, and example applications to the study of cognitive control’, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(2), pp. 252-267 (* joint first authors) [open access pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2013), 'Using phenomenal concepts to explain away the intuition of contingency', Philosophical Psychology [pre-print pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (forthcoming), ‘Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission’, in B. Calcott et al. (eds.) Signaling, Commitment, and Emotion (MIT Press) [pre-print pdf]

Shea, N. (2013), 'Millikan's Isomorphism Requirement', in D. Ryder, J. Kingsbury & K. Williford (eds.) Millikan and Her Critics (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) [pre-print pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (forthcoming), 'Distinguishing Top-Down From Bottom-Up Effects', in S. Biggs, M. Matthen and D. Stokes (eds.), Perception and Its Modalities (OUP) [pre-print pdf]

Shea, N. (forthcoming), 'Neural mechanisms of decision-making and the personal level', in KWM Fulford, M Davies, G Graham, J Sadler, G Stanghellini and T Thornton (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (OUP) [pre-print pdf]

Shea, N. (2011), 'Developmental Systems Theory Formulated as a Claim About Inherited Information',Philosophy of Science 78, pp. 60-82 [open access pdf] [link] 

Shea, N., Pen, I., Uller, T. (2011), ‘Three epigenetic information channels and their different roles in evolution’, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp. 1178-87 [open access pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2011), ‘What's Transmitted?  Inherited Information.’ Biology & Philosophy 26(2), pp. 183-189 [pre-print pdf] [link] [target article]

Shea, N. (2011), 'New concepts can be learned', review essay on Susan Carey, The Origin of Concepts (OUP, 2009), Biology & Philosophy 26, 129-139 [pre-print pdf] [link]

Shea, N. and Bayne, T. (2010), ‘The Vegetative State and the Science of Consciousness’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61, 459-484 [open access pdf] [link]

Shea, N. and Heyes, C. (2010) ‘Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick’, Biology & Philosophy 25, 95-110 [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] [published pdf]

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] [journal doi]

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]

Short Reviews

Shea, N. (forthcoming) 'Perception vs. Action: the computations may be the same but the direction of fit differs', Behavioral and Brain Sciences [pre-print pdf] 

Shea, N. (2011), 'Acquiring a new concept is not explicable-by-content', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(3), pp. 148-149  [pre-print pdf] [pdf] [link]

Shea, N. (2009) ‘Review of R. G. Millikan, Varieties of Meaning’, Philosophical Review, 118(1), pp. 127 - 130 [pre-print pdf]

Shea, N. (2005), 'Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures by Ruth Millikan', Quarterly Review of Biology, 80(3), p. 344 [link]

Shea, N. (2003), 'Functions in Mind by Carolyn Price', Philosophical Quarterly, 53, pp. 129-132 [link]