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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


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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. Final draft is available here.
    -----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). Final draft is available here.
  • "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.
  • "autos kath' hauton in the Clouds : Was Socrates himself a defender of Separable Soul and Separate Forms?", Classical Quarterly 59 (2009). Final draft is available here. The published version is available here.
  • "What do the colour-blind see?" In J. Cohen & M. Matthen, eds., Color Ontology and Color Science (MIT Press, forthcoming). Final draft is available here.
  • Iris Murdoch, Philosopher (ed.), Oxford, to appear.




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