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Professor Jennifer Hornsby

email: j.hornsby@bbk.ac.uk

Professor Jennifer Hornsby

Jennifer Hornsby's B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. are from Oxford, London and Cambridge respectively.  She returned to Oxford in 1979, where she was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.  She came to Birkbeck as Professor in 1995.  She is a founder member of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, and has been CoDirector of its rational agency section since 2007. Her main interests are in philosophy of action, mind, and language.  She teaches in these subjects, and in metaphysics and areas of feminist philosophy.

  

Selected Bibliography (with some links to eprints)

(A) Mind and Action

  • Simple Mindedness: A Defence of Naïve Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind (Harvard University Press, 1997).
  • “Agency and Actions”, in Agency and Action, eds. H. Steward and J. Hyman (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 1–23.
  • “Alienated Agents”, in Naturalism in Question, eds. M, De Caro and D. Macarthur (Harvard University Press, 2004), 173–87.
  • “Acting for Reasons: A Disjunctivist Thesis”, in Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, eds. A. Haddock and F. Macpherson (Oxford University Press, 2008), 244–61.
  • “Five Questions in the Philosophy of Action”, in the Five Questions series, eds. J. Aguilar and A. Buckareff (Automatic Press /VIP, forthcoming).

(B) Language and Feminism

  • “Speech Acts and Pornography”, Women’s Philosophy Review, 1993. Reprinted in The Problem of Pornography, ed. Susan Dwyer (Wadsworth, 1995) 220–32.
  • “Illocution and its Significance”, in Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives, ed. S.L.Tsohatzidis (Routledge) 1994, 187–207.
  • “Disempowered Speech”, in Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge and Reality (Philosophical Topics 23.2) ed. S. Haslanger (University of Arkansas Press, 1995) 127–47.
  • “Feminism in Philosophy of Language: Communicative Speech Acts”, in The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, eds. M. Fricker and J. Hornsby (Cambridge University Press, 2000) 87–106.
  • “How to Think About Derogatory Words”, in Figurative Language (Midwest Studies in Philosophy, XXV), eds. P. French & H. Wettstein (Blackwell Publishers, 2001) 128–41.
  • “Free Speech and Hate Speech: Language and Rights”, in Normativity, Facts, and Values, eds. R. Egidi, M. Dell’Utri, and M. De Caro (Quodlibet, Macerata, 2003) 297–310.
  • "Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic Interdependence", in Prospects for Meaning, ed. R. Schantz (De Gruyter, Berlin, forthcoming [2009]).

(C) Truth and Metaphysics

  • “Truth: The Identity Theory”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (1997) 1–24. Reprinted in Truth, ed. Michael Lynch (MIT Press, 2001) 663–81.
  • “Truth without truthmaking entities”, in Truthmakers, eds. H. Beebee and J. Dodd (Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • “Dealing with Facts”, Discussion Note on Stephen Neale’s Facing Facts (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006).
  • “Physicalism, Conceptual Analysis, and Acts of Faith”, in Minds, Worlds & Ethics: Essays in Honour of Frank Jackson, ed. I. Ravenscroft (Oxford University Press, forthcoming [2009]).

Complete List of Publications (in pdf format)

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