PUBLICATIONS

 José Luis Bermúdez


Authored books; Edited books; Guest editorships; Academic journal papers; Contributions to edited works; Encyclopedia articles; Reviews; Electronic journal articles; Foreign language publications


Authored Books

J. L. Bermúdez, The Paradox of Self-Consciousness
(MIT Press. Representation and Mind series. June 1998. Paperback 2000. Portuguese translation 2001)
J. L. Bermúdez, Thinking without Words (In press, OUP USA. Publication date March 2003)
J. L. Bermúdez, Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (under contract to Routledge)


Edited Books

J. L. Bermudez, A. J. Marcel and N. Ei
nesslan (eds.) The Body and the Self (MIT Press, 1995. Paperback 1998)
J. L. Bermúdez and A. Millar (eds.), Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality (OUP UK, 2002)
J. L. Bermúdez and S. Gardner (eds.), Art and Morality (Routledge, 2002)
J. L. Bermúdez and F. Macpherson (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings (under contract to Routledge)


Guest Editorships

J. L. Bermudez and M. E. Elton (guest editors), Personal and Subpersonal: Essays on Psychological Explanation. Special issue of Philosophical Explorations (Jan. 2000)
J. L. Bermúdez, Self-Consciousness. Special issue of The Monist (April 2004)


Academic Journal Papers

• ‘The Adequacy of Simple Ideas in Locke - A Rehabilitation of Berkeley’s Criticisms’ in The Locke Newsletter 23 (1992), 25-58
‘Peacocke’s Argument against the Autonomy of Nonconceptual Content’ in Mind and Language 9 (December 1994), 203-218. Reprinted in Y. Gunther (Ed.), Theories of Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, 2003.
‘The Unity of Apperception in the Critique of Pure Reason’ in European Journal of Philosophy 2, (December 1994), 213---240
• ‘Is the Postmodern World a Nietzschean World?’ in International Studies in Philosophy 27 (April 1995), 1-14
‘Scepticism and the Justification of Transcendental Idealism’ in Ratio 8 (June 1995), 1-23
• ‘Scepticism and Subjectivity: Two Critiques of Traditional Epistemology Reconsidered’ International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (June 1995), 141-158
• ‘Syntax, Semantics and Levels of Explanation’, Philosophical Quarterly 45 (July 1995), 361-367
‘Aspects of the Self (John Campbell’s Past, Space and Self)’ Inquiry 38 (September 1995), 1-15
• ‘Transcendental arguments and psychology’, Metaphilosophy 26 (October 1995), 379-401
‘Nonconceptual Content: From Perceptual Experience to Subpersonal Computational States’ in Mind and Language 10 (December 1995), 333-369. Reprinted in Y. Gunther (Ed.), Theories of Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, 2003.
‘The moral significance of birth’, Ethics 106 (January 1996), 378-403
‘Locke, Property Dualism and Metaphysical Dualism’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy  4 (September 1996), 223-245
• ‘Defending Intentionalist Accounts of Self-Deception’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (March 1997), 107-108.
• ‘Practical understanding vs reflective understanding’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (September 1997), 635-641
• ‘Nietzsche and the Tradition’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (September 1997), 402-414
• ‘Reduction and the Self’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (October 1997), 458-466. Reprinted in J. Shear and S. Gallagher (eds.), Models of the Self (Thorverton, Imprint Academic 1999).
‘Scepticism and science in Descartes’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (December 1997), 743-772.
• ‘Philosophical psychopathology’, Mind and Language 13.2 (June 1998), 287-307.
• ‘Levels of scepticism in the First Meditation’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (September 1998), 237-245.
‘Naturalism and conceptual norms’, Philosophical Quarterly 49 (January 1999), 77-85
• ‘Cognitive impenetrability, phenomenology and nonconceptual content’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, 367-368.
‘Psychologism and Psychology’, Inquiry 42 (October 1999), 487-504
‘Rationality and the backwards induction argument’, Analysis 59 (October 1999), 243-248
‘Personal and Subpersonal: A Difference without a Distinction’, Philosophical Explorations 2 (January 2000), 63-82
‘Consciousness, higher-order thought and stimulus-reinforcement learning: Comments on Rolls’s The Brain and Emotion’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (April 2000), 194-195
‘Rationality, logic and fast and frugal heuristics: Review of Gigerenzer et al’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (October 2000), 744-745
‘Self-deception, intentions and contradictory beliefs’, Analysis 60 (October 2000), 309-319
• ‘Naturalized Sense Data', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (October 2000), 353-374
‘The originality of Cartesian scepticism’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 17 (October 2000), 333-360
‘Frege on thoughts and their structure’ Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse 4 (January 2001), 87-105
• ‘Bodily self-awareness and the will: Reply to Power’ Minds and Machines 11 (February 2001), 139-142
‘Normativity and rationality in delusional psychiatric disorders’, Mind and Language 16 (November 2001), 457-493
‘Nonconceptual self-consciousness and cognitive science’, Synthese 129 (October 2001), 129-149.
‘Sources of self-consciousness’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (January 2002), 87-107
• ‘Ascribing thoughts to non-linguistic creatures’ forthcoming in Facta Philosophica (special issue on Belief Ascription edited by Marina Sbisa and Chris Gauker)
• ‘”I”-thoughts and explanation: Reply to Garrett’, forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly


Contributions to edited works

• ‘Ecological self-perception and the notion of a nonconceptual point of view’ in Bermúdez, Marcel and Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self, 153-174
• ‘The body and the self: Interdisciplinary issues’ (co-author) in Bermúdez, Marcel and Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self, 1-28
• ‘Categorising colour experience: Some problems’ in Proceedings of SimCat 1997. Technical Report of the Edinburgh University Artificial Intelligence department, 9-13
• ‘The concept of decadence’ forthcoming in Bermúdez and Gardner (eds.) Art and Morality (Routledge)
• ‘Rationality without language’, in Bermúdez and Millar (eds.) Reason and Nature (OUP), 233-264.
• ‘Ascribing thoughts to non-linguistic creatures’, forthcoming in M. Sbisa and C. Gauker (eds.), Belief-Ascription
• ‘The elusiveness thesis, immunity to error through misidentification, and privileged access’, forthcoming in Self-Knowledge and Privileged Access, edited by B. Gertler (Ashgate Epistemology and Mind series)
‘The domain of folk psychology’, forthcoming in Mind and Persons, edited by A. O’Hear (Cambridge University Press)
• ‘Evans and the sense of “I” forthcoming in Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy opf Gareth Evans, edited by R. Grush (Oxford University Press)
• 'What is commonsense psychology that it might be false?' forthcoming in Paul Churchland: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, edited by B. Keeley (Cambridge University Press)
• ‘Animal reasoning and proto-logic’, forthcoming in Rational Animals, edited by S. L. Hurley and M. Nudds (Oxford University Press)


Encyclopedia articles

• ‘Nonconceptual content’. In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (4000 word essay)
• ‘Self-consciousness’, In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (4000 word essay)
• ‘Mental content, nonconceptual’, In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Various entries forthcoming in Oxford Companion to Philosophy


Reviews


• A. W. Price, Mental Conflict, Mind 10 (April 1996), 357-362.
• M. Tiles and J. Tiles, Introduction to Historical Epistemology, Philosophical Books 37 (April 1996), 124-125
• J. Kim, Supervenience and Mind, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (September 1995), 403-406.
N. Nelkin, Consciousness and the Origins of Thought, Philosophical Books 39 (December 1998), 258-260
P. Carruthers and P. K. Smith (Eds.), Theories of Theory of Mind, Philosophical Quarterly 45 (January 1999), 115-119
• E. J. Lowe, Subjects of Experience, Philosophical Quarterly (May 1999), 272-275
S. Hurley, Consciousness in Action, European Journal of Philosophy 7 (April 2000), 106-110
• R. Tallis, Philosophical Explorations, Times Literary Supplement (30 June 2000)
• Gottlob Frege, Idéographie (French translation of Begriffsschrift), Dialectica 55 (January 2001), 67-72
C. Peacocke, Being Known, Philosophical Psychology 14 (June 2001), 250-256
J. Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way, Philosophical Quarterly 51 (October 2001), 549-552
P. Carruthers, Phenomenal Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly 52 , 265-268
• A. Clarke, Sentience, Mind 111 (July 2002), 653-657


Electronic journal articles (refereed)

‘Nonconceptual content and the nature of perceptual experience’ (with Fiona Macpherson), Electronic Journal of Analytical Philosophy 6 (1998)
‘Primitive self-consciousness: Reply to Evans on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
‘Circularity, “I”-thoughts and the linguistic requirement for concept possession: Reply to Fuller and Slater on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
‘The cognitive neuroscience of primitive self-consciousness: Reply to Gallese on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11
‘Direct self-consciousness: Reply to Myin on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
‘Concepts and the priority principle: Reply to Robbins on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
See also the electronic symposium on The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (http://www.uniroma3.it/kant/field/bermudezsymp.htm). The symposium contains replies to commentaries by Andrew Brook, José Luis Díaz, Vittorio Gallese, Gianfranco Soldati


Foreign Language Publications


Portuguese translation of The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, February 2001
‘Tres niveles de racionalidad animal’, Revista Mexicana de Psicología 16 (December 1999), 189-194.
‘Autoconciencia no conceptual’, Ciencia 50 (September 1999), 16-28
‘Autoinganno, intenzioni e credenze contraddittorie. Un commento a Mele’, Sistemi Intelligenti 3, 521-531
Nichtbegriffliche Selbstfahrung und das Paradox des selbstbewusstseins’ in Selbst und Gehirn, hg. von A. Newen und K. Vogeley (Paderborn, Mentis-Verlag)
‘La Conciencia’ in Gran Enciclopedia Larousse 4th Edition (Aleph, Barcelona, forthcoming)