Philip Percival

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Biography

Philip Percival received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He works primarily in the four fields of metaphysics (artworks, time and modality, existence, realism vs. anti-realism, indeterminism (including counterfactuals, explanation, and chance), epistemology (induction, basic first order theories, including virtue theoretic vs. consequentialist (in particular, decision-theoretic) approaches), philosophy of science (the nature of science, the nature and role of theory acceptance), and philosophical logic (paradox of knowability, the semantics of tense, the language of science). He enjoys occasional forays into other fields, however.

Expertise Summary

I have wide-ranging philosophical interests. My most recent publications belong to the three fields of metaphysics (artworks, time, existence, indeterminism (including counterfactuals, explanation, and chance), epistemology (induction, basic first order theories, including virtue theoretic vs. consequentialist (in particular, decision-theoretic) approaches), and philosophy of science (the nature of science, the nature and role of theory acceptance, the language of science). I have additional research interests, however, and I have supervised research in two further fields--philosophy of mind (episodic memory) and moral philosophy (metaethics, basic first order theories).

I welcome applications from prospective research students wishing to focus on particular topics within any of these five fields, broadly conceived.

Recent Publications

• PERCIVAL, P., 2009. Determinism and Probability. In: LE POIDEVIN, R. ET. AL., ed., The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics
• PERCIVAL, P., 2007. An empiricist critique of constructive empiricism: the aim of science. In: MONTON, B., ed., Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances Oxford: Oxford University Press. 83-116
• PERCIVAL, P., 2006. On realism about chance. In: MACBRIDE, F., ed., Identity and modality Oxford: Oxford University Press. 74-106
• PERCIVAL, P., 2003. The pursuit of epistemic good Metaphilosophy. 34, 29-47

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• PERCIVAL, P., 2009. Determinism and Probability. In: LE POIDEVIN, R. ET. AL., ed., The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics
• PERCIVAL, P., 2007. An empiricist critique of constructive empiricism: the aim of science. In: MONTON, B., ed., Images of empiricism: essays on science and stances Oxford: Oxford University Press. 83-116
• PERCIVAL, P., 2006. On realism about chance. In: MACBRIDE, F., ed., Identity and modality Oxford: Oxford University Press. 74-106
• PERCIVAL, P., 2003. The pursuit of epistemic good Metaphilosophy. 34, 29-47
• PERCIVAL, P, 2002. A presentist's refutation of Mellor's McTaggart. In: CALLENDER, C., ed., Time, reality and experience Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 91-118
• PERCIVAL, P., 2002. Epistemic consequentialism Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: supplementary volume. 76, 121-151
• PERCIVAL, P., 2002. Is constructivism floored?: Reply to Stecker Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 60, 83-6
• PERCIVAL, P., 2002. 'Can novel critical interpretations create art objects distinct from themselves?. In: KRAUSZ, M., ed., On the Single Right Interpretation Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press. 181-208
• PERCIVAL, P., 2000. Theoretical terms: meaning and reference. In: NEWTON-SMITH, W H, ed., Companion to the Philosophy of Science 495-514
• PERCIVAL, P., 2000. Probability. In: NEWTON-SMITH, W H, ed., Companion to the Philosophy of Science 358-372
• PERCIVAL, P., 2000. Lewis's dilemma of explanation under indeterminism exposed and resolved Mind. 109, 39-66
• PERCIVAL, P., 2000. Stecker's dilemma: a constructive response Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 58, 51-60
• PERCIVAL, P., 1999. The explanation of chance events. In: ROCKMORE, T., ed., Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy Vol 2: Metaphysics 105-122
• PERCIVAL, P., 1999. A note on Lewis' on counterfactual dependence in a chancy world Analysis. 59, 165-73
• PERCIVAL, P., 1995. Human knowledge and human nature by Peter Carruthers: Critical Notice International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 3, 374-381
• PERCIVAL, P., 1994. Absolute truth Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 94, 189-213
• PERCIVAL, P., 1992. Thank goodness that's non-actual Philosophical Papers. 21, 189-211
• PERCIVAL, P., 1991. Knowability, actuality and the metaphysics of context-dependence Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 69, 82-97
• PERCIVAL, P., 1990. Indices of truth and intensional operators Theoria. 57, 148-72
• PERCIVAL, P., 1990. Fitch and intuitionistic knowability Analysis. 50, 182-190
• PERCIVAL, P., 1989. Indices of truth and temporal propositions Philosophical Quarterly. 39, 190-99
• Predicate abstraction, the limits of quantification, and the modality of existence Philosophical Studies.