Updated July 2011

MURALI RAMACHANDRAN

Published articles:

1.           An Alternative Translation Scheme for Counterpart Theory, Analysis 49 (1989) pp. 131-41.

2.           Sense and Schmidentity, The Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1989) pp. 463-71.

3.           Contingent Identity in Counterpart Theory, Analysis 50 (1990) pp. 163-66.

4.           Unsuccessful Revisions of CCT, Analysis 50 (1990) pp. 173-77.

5.           On Restricting Rigidity, Mind 101 (1992) pp. 141-44.

6.           The Rigidity of Proper Names, Philosophical Studies XXXIII (The National University of Ireland, 1992) pp. 189-200.

7.           Conditionals and Transitivity: Response to Lowe, Analysis 52 (1992) pp. 68-77.

8.           Restricted Rigidity: the Deeper Problem, Mind 102 (1993) pp. 157-58.

9.           A Strawsonian Objection to Russell’s Theory of Descriptions, Analysis 53 (1993) pp. 209-12.

10.       Frege’s Objection to the Metalinguistic View, European Review of Philosophy Vol. I (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1994) pp. 133-41.

11.       Methodological Reflections on Two Kripkean Strategies, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society XCV (1995) pp. 67-81.

12.       Bach on Behalf of Russell, Analysis 54 (1995) pp. 283-87.

13.       McDermott on Causation: A Counterexample, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (1996) pp. 328-29.

14.       Counterfactuals and Preemptive Causation (co-authors: Jonardon Ganeri and Paul Noordhof), Analysis 55 (1996) pp. 219-25.

15.       The Ambiguity Thesis vs. Kripke’s Defence of Russell, Mind & Language 11 (1996) pp. 371-87.

16.       Redundant Causation, Composite Events and M-sets, Acta Analytica 16/17 (1997) pp. 149-58.

17.       A Counterfactual Analysis of Causation, Mind 106 (1997) pp. 263-77.

18.       For a (Revised) PCA-Analysis (co-authors: Jonardon Ganeri and Paul Noordhof), Analysis 58 (1998) pp. 45-47.

19.       The M-set Analysis of Causation: Objections and Responses, Mind 107 (1998) pp. 465-71.

20.       Sortal Modal Logic and Counterpart Theory, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1998) pp. 553-65.

21.       Noordhof on Probabilistic Causation, Mind 109 (2000) pp. 309-13.

22.       Rigidity, Occasional Identity, and Leibniz’s Law (co-author: Simon Langford), The Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2000) pp. 518-26.

23.       The Ambiguity Thesis vs. Kripke's Defence of Russell: Further Developments (co-author: Nadja Rosental), Philosophical Writings,14 (2000) pp. 49-57.

24.       Contingent Identity and Kripkean Counterpart Theory, in Timothy Childers and Ondrej Majer (eds.), The Logica Yearbook 2002, (Prague: Filozofia, 2003) pp. 207-219.

25.       Indeterministic Causation and Varieties of Chance-Raising, in P. Dowe and P. Noordhof (eds.), Cause and Chance (Routledge, 2003) pp. 152-62.

26.       A Counterfactual Analysis of Indeterministic Causation, in J. Collins, N. Hall, L. A. Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals (MIT Press, 2004) pp. 387-402.

27.       How Believing Can Fail to be Knowing, Theoria 56 (May, 2006), pp. 185-94.

28.       Williamson’s Argument Against the KK-Principle, in J. Skilters et al. (eds.), Paradox: Logical Cognitive and Communicative Aspects (Riga: University of Latvia Press, 2006) pp. 157-64..

29.       Descriptions and Presuppositions: Strawson vs. Russell, South African Journal of Philosophy 27 (2008, special issue on the philosophy of P.F. Strawson) pp. 64-79.  Click here for journal offprint.

30.       Kripkean Counterpart Theory, Polish Journal of Philosophy 2 (2008) pp. 89-106. Click here for journal offprint.

31.       Anti-Luminosity: Four Unsuccessful Strategies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009) pp. 659-73.

32.       Descriptions with an Attitude Problem, Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2009) pp. 721-23

33.       The Impossibility of Inverted Reasoners, Acta Analytica 25 (2010) pp. 499-502

34.       Occasional Identity: A Tale of Two Approaches, Analytic Philosophy 52 (2011) pp. 175–187.

35.       The KK-Principle, Margins for Error, and Safety, forthcoming in Erkenntnis.

Unpublished (including work in progress)

1.           Contingent Identity, Rigidity, and Counterpart Theory. (Book)

2.           The Products of Fission, Fusion, and Teletransportation

3.           Irrational Knowledge — The Plight of Blameless Estimators and Expectant Examinees?

4.           Limitations on the Transfer of Knowledge

5.           A Puzzle About Conditionals