William Seager (philosopher)

Publications

Books

• The Leibniz Lexicon: A Dual Concordance to Leibniz's Philosophische Schriften, Hildesheim: Olms, 1988.
• Metaphysics of Consciousness, London: Routledge, 1991. In 323 libraries, according to
• Theories of Consciousness, London: Routledge, 1999 In 723 libfraries, according to

  Peer reviewed articles

• "A New Idea of Reality: Pauli on the Unity of Mind and Matter" Mind and Matter, Volume 9, Number 1, 2011, pp. 37–52
• "Panpsychism, Aggregation and Combinatorial Infusion", Mind and Matter, Volume 8, Number 2, 2010, pp. 167-184
• "The Intrinsic Nature Argument for Panpsychism", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 13, Numbers 10-11, 2006, pp. 129-145
• "Emergence, Epiphenomenalism and Consciousness" in The Journal of Consciousness Studies, v. 13, no. 1-2, February 2006, pp. 21-38.
• "Paradox Lost – Illusion Regained", in Cortex, October 2005, pp. 637-641.
• "Tye's Theory of Consciousness: Time to Panic", in Philosophical Studies, 113:3, pp. 237-247.
• "Emotional Introspection", in Consciousness and Cognition.
• "Consciousness, Value and Functionalism", in Psyche, vol. 7, September 2001
• "The Worm in the Cheese: Leibniz, Consciousness and Matter", in Studia Leibnitiana, 23, pp. 79-91, 1991.
• "Introspection and the Elementary Acts of Mind', Dialogue, 39, 1, pp. 53-76.
• "Real Patterns and Surface Metaphysics" in D. Ross, A. Brook, D. Thompson Dennett's Philosophy, MIT Press, 2000, pp. 95-130.
• "The Constructed and the Secret Self", in Self-Reference and Self-Awareness, edited by A. Brook and R. Devidi, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 2001, pp. 247-268.
• "Critical Notice: Fred Dretske, Naturalizing the Mind", in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 27, 1, pp. 83-110.
• "Consciousness, Information and Panpsychism", in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, v. 2, 3, pp. 272-88, 1995. Reprinted in J. Shear Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem. Cited by 78 articles, according to
• "A Note on the Quantum Eraser", in Philosophy of Science, v. 63, 1, pp. 79-88, 1996.
• "Ground Truth and Virtual Reality: Hacking vs. van Fraassen", in Philosophy of Science, 62, pp. 459-78, 1995.
• "The Elimination of Experience', in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 53, 2, pp. 345-65, June, 1993.
• "Fodor's Theory of Content: Problems and Objections', in Philosophy of Science, 60, pp. 262-77, June, 1993.
• "Verificationism, Scepticism and Consciousness', in Inquiry, 36, pp. 113-33, March, 1993.
• Externalism and Token Identity', in Philosophical Quarterly, 42, pp. 439-48, October, 1992.
• "Disjunctive Laws and Supervenience", Analysis, 51, 2, pp. 93-8, March, 1991.
• "The Logic of Lost Lingens", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 19, pp. 407-28, 1990.
• "Instrumentalism in Psychology", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 4, #2, 1990.
• "Scientific Explanation and the Trial of Galileo", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, pp. 176-95, April, 1987.
• "Descartes on the Union of Mind and Body", History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 119-32, April, 1988.
• "Peirce's Teleological Signs", Semiotica, Vol. 69, No. 3-4, 1988.
• "Weak Supervenience and Materialism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 697-709, June, 1988.
• "Credibility, Confirmation and Explanation", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, pp. 301-17, September, 1987.
• "Scientific Anti-realism and the Philosophy of Mind", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, pp. 136-51, April, 1986.
• "A synopsis of 'Credibility, Confirmation and Explanation'," in Dalhousie Review, 1985.
• 'The Emergence of Consciousness' forthcoming in the Philosophical Exchange..
• "Is Nuclear Deterrence Paradoxical?", Dialogue, June, 1984.
• "Dretske on HOT Theories of Consciousness", in Analysis, v. 54, 4, pp. 270–6, October, 1994.
• "Probabilistic Semantics, Identity and Belief", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, pp, 353-64, September 1983.
• "Functionalism, Qualia and Causation", Mind, April 1983.
• "The Discreet Charm of Counterpart Theory", Analysis, June 1981.
• "The Principle of Continuity and the Evaluation of Theories", Dialogue, pp. 485–95, September 1981.
• "The Anomalousness of the Mental", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume XIX, Number 3, pp. 389–401, 1981.

  Book chapters

• 'Panpsychism' in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science wiley, 2010, .
• "Dual Aspect Theory", forthcoming entry in the Oxford Companion to Consciousness,
• Representationalism about Consciousness' forthcoming article for the Blackwell's Companion to Consciousness. .
• 'Panpsychism', forthcoming article for the Cambridge Companion to Consciousness, .
• "A Brief History of the Philosophical Problem of Consciousness", The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, edited by M. Moscovitch and P. Zelazo.
• "Emergence and Efficacy", in The Mind as a Scientific Object – Between Brain and Culture, David Johnson and Christina Erneling
• "Panpsychism" in The Stanford Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, .
• "Whitehead and the Revival of Panpsychism', in Franz Riffert and Michel Weber Searching for New Contrasts: Whiteheadian Contributions to Contemporary Challenges in Neurophysiology, Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Mind, New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
• "A Cold Look at HOT Theor"', in R. Gennaro Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.
• 'Panpsychism' in The Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science, 2002.
• "Metaphysics, Role in Science", in A Companion to Philosophy of Science, W. H. Newton-Smith, 1999, pp. 283–92.
• "Supervenience and Determination", in A Companion to Philosophy of Science, W. H. Newton-Smith, 1999, pp. 480–82.
• "Leibniz", in A Companion to Philosophy of Science, W. H. Newton-Smith, 1999, pp. 224–28.
• "Physicalism", in A Companion to Philosophy of Science, W. H. Newton-Smith, 1999, pp. 340–42.
• "Conscious Intentionality", in Consciousness and Intentionality, Denis Fisette, Kluwer, 1999.
• 'Leibniz and Scientific Realism", in K. Okruhlik and J. R. Brown Leibniz: The Philosophy and Foundations of Science,, Reidel, 1985.