 Justin Broackes
Associate Professor at Brown University
D. Phil. Oxford University
Office: 210 Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: (401) 863-3183
E-Mail: Justin_Broackes@brown.edu
Office Hours
Research Interests
History of 17th and 18th Century Philosophy, Topics in Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Topics in Epistemology,
Philosophy of Mind
Current Work
Theory of Perception from the Ancient Greeks to Wittgenstein;
Colour and Colour-Blindness; Substance and its problems in the time of
Locke and after.
Recent Seminar Topics
Colour, Substance, Hume, Locke
Selected Publications
"The Autonomy of Colour" in K. Lennon & D. Charles eds.,
Reduction, Explanation, and Realism (Oxford University Press, 1992),
421-65
-----Reprinted in A. Byrne & D. Hilbert, eds., Readings on Color (MIT
Press, 1997)
"Did Hume hold a Regularity Theory of Causation?" British Journal for the History of Philosophy I (1993), 99-114. (A study of Galen Strawson, The Secret Connexion) Final draft is available here.
"Hume" in T. Honderich ed., Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford, 1995)
"Aristotle, Objectivity and Perception", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 1999
"Hume, Belief and Personal Identity", in Peter Millican, ed., Reading Hume on Human Understanding (Oxford University Press, 2002)
"Do Opponent Process Theories help Physicalism about Colour?""
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26[6] (2004)
"Substance", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2005-06, 131-166. Final draft is available here. The published version is available here.
"Black and White and the Inverted Spectrum", Philosophical Quarterly , 57 (2007), 161-175. Final draft is available here. The published version is available here .
"Colour, World and Archimedean Metaphysics: Stroud and the Quest for Reality", Erkenntnis, 66 (2007); also published in R. Schumacher, ed., Perspectives on Colour Perception. Final draft is available here. The published version is available here.
"Plato and the Grammar of Perception", Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy, to appear
Iris Murdoch, Philosopher (ed.), Oxford, to appear.
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