Collected Papers, Volume 2

Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. His publications include six books, a dozen anthologies and over 150 articles. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the Jean Nicod Prize and the first recipient of the Gittler Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

• Introduction ; 1. The Recombinant DNA Debate ; 2. Justification and the Psychology of Human Reasoning, Stephen Stich and Richard E. Nisbett ; 3. Could Man Be An Irrational Animal? ; 4. Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity ; 5. Moral Philosophy and Mental Representation ; 6. Naturalizing Epistemology: Quine, Simon and the Prospects for Pragmatism ; 7. Rethinking Rationality: From Bleak Implications to Darwinian Modules, Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich and Patrice D. Tremoulet ; 8. Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions, Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols and Stephen Stich ; 9. Ending the Rationality Wars: How to Make Disputes About Human Rationality Disappear, Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich and Michael Bishop ; 10. Meta-Skepticism: Meditations on Ethno-Epistemology, Shaun Nichols, Stephen Stich and Jonathan Weinberg ; 11. As a Matter of Fact: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics, John Doris and Stephen Stich ; 12. A Framework for the Psychology of Norms, Chandra Sripada and Stephen Stich ; 13. Harm, Affect and the Moral / Conventional Distinction, Daniel Kelly, Stephen Stich, Kevin J. Haley, Serena Eng and Daniel M. T. Fessler ; 14. Two Theories About the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Morality, Daniel Kelly and Stephen Stich ; 15. Altruism, Stephen Stich, John Doris and Erica Roedder

This book deserves to be read by anyone interested in the methodology, psychology, and value of philosophy.