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Oddie, Graham

Professor Emerita/Emeritus

Positions

Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Philosophy

Research Areas

Research

research overview

I work on the logic, metaphysics and epistemology of value. Of late I have been mostly interested in cognitive value—the value of truth, of truthlikeness, of accuracy and of probability. I am also interested in aesthetic value and the nature of art.

keywords

metaphysics, value theory, ethics, philosophical logic

Publications

selected publications

book
- What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics. Ed. Boonin, David. 2010
- Value, Reality, and Desire 2009
- What's wrong? 2005
- Justice, Ethics, and New Zealand Society 1992
- Likeness to truth 1986
chapter
- Ontological Arguments 2018
- Truth and Truthlikeness. 625-646. 2018
- Evaluative Perception 2018
- Tichy. 195-213. 2018
- Desire and the Good: In Search of the Right Fit. 29-56. 2017
- Value and Desires 2015
- TRUTHLIKENESS. 541-551. 2014
- Value realism 2013
- Pavel Tichy 2010
- The Fictionalist's Attitude Problem. Philosophical Studies Series. 199-215. 2010
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education 2009
- Experiences of Value. 121-141. 2009
- Truthlikeness and Value 2008
- TRUTHLIKENESS. 478-488. 2008
- A refutation of Peircian idealism 2006
- Metaphysics 2006
- Reduction: varieties of. 12857-12864. 2001
- Truth, verification, confirmation, verisimilitude. 15932-15927. 2001
- Control, consequence and compatibilism 2000
- The consequences of action 1996
- Moral uncertainty and human embryo experimentation 1994
- What agents can do. 13-28. 1994
- Is the Treaty of Waitangi a social contract? 1992
- The unity of theories 1989
- Partial interpretation, meaning-variance, and incommensurability 1989
- On a dogma concerning realism and incommensurability 1988
- The picture theory of truthlikeness 1987
- Truthlikeness and the convexity of propositions 1987
- A decision-theoretic argument against human embryo experimentation 1986
- Control 1982
journal article
- What Accuracy Could Not Be. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 551-580. 2019
- Non-Naturalist Moral Realism, Autonomy and Entanglement. Topoi: an International Review of Philosophy. 607-620. 2018
- What Do we See in Museums?. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 217-240. 2016
- Oxford Studies in Metaethics 2016
- Speech and Morality: On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 602-605. 2016
- THINKING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY: PARTIALITY, PREFERENCES AND PERSPECTIVE. Les Ateliers de l'Ethique. 57-81. 2014
- The content, consequence and likeness approaches to verisimilitude: compatibility, trivialization, and underdetermination. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. 1647-1687. 2013
- Reasons from Within: Desires and Values. Journal of Moral Philosophy. 473-476. 2012
- The Fictionalist’s Attitude Problem. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 485-498. 2007
- Moral fictionalism. Mind: a quarterly review of philosophy. 439-446. 2007
- Recombinant values. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. 259-292. 2001
- Axiological atomism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 313-332. 2001
- Hume, the BAD Paradox, and Value Realism. Philo. 109-122. 2001
- Scrumptious Functions. Grazer Philosophische Studien: International Journal for Analytic Philosophy. 137-156. 2001
- Permanent possibilities of sensation. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. 345-359. 2000
- The moral case for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.. Victoria University of Wellington Law Review. 207-224. 1998
- Moral realism, moral relativism and moral rules (a compatibility argument). Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. 251-274. 1998
- Conditionalization, cogency, and cognitive value. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 533-541. 1997
- Killing and letting-die: Bare differences and clear differences. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. 267-287. 1997
- RESCUING REASON + MILLER,DAVID 'CRITICAL RATIONALISM'. Philosophy. 445-460. 1996
- HARMONY, PURITY, TRUTH. Mind: a quarterly review of philosophy. 451-472. 1994
- ADDICTION AND THE VALUE OF FREEDOM. Bioethics. 373-401. 1993
- ACT AND MAXIM - VALUE-DISCREPANCY AND 2 THEORIES OF POWER. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 71-92. 1993
- Simultaneity and God's timelessness. Sophia: international journal of philosophy and traditions. 123-127. 1992
- AN OBJECTIVISTS GUIDE TO SUBJECTIVE VALUE. Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy. 512-533. 1992
- The possibility and value of possibilities for value. 46-62. 1992
- Act and value: Expectation and the representability of moral theories. Theoria: a Swedish journal of philosophy. 42-76. 1991
- SUPERVENIENCE, GOODNESS, AND HIGHER-ORDER UNIVERSALS. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 20-47. 1991
- Verisimilitude by Power Relations: A Response to Oddie. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 101-104. 1991
- BACKWARDS CAUSATION AND THE PERMANENCE OF THE PAST. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. 71-93. 1990
- CREATIVE VALUE. Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy. 297-315. 1990
- RESPLICING PROPERTIES IN THE SUPERVENIENCE BASE. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. 259-269. 1990
- VERISIMILITUDE BY POWER RELATIONS. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 129-135. 1990
- THE AESTHETIC ADEQUACY OF COPIES. British Journal of Aesthetics. 258-260. 1989
- IS SCIENCE PROGRESSIVE - NIINILUOTO,I. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 272-276. 1987
- Is Science Progressive: Ilkka Niiniluoto (Reidel, 1987). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 272-276. 1987
- TRUTH TELLING AND FATAL ILLNESS. New Zealand Medical Journal. 759-761. 1986
- THE POVERTY OF THE POPPERIAN PROGRAM FOR TRUTHLIKENESS. Philosophy of Science. 163-178. 1986
- Truthtelling and fatal illness. New Zealand Medical Journal. 159-161. 1986
- ABILITY AND FREEDOM. American Philosophical Quarterly. 135-147. 1983
- ARMSTRONG ON THE ELEATIC PRINCIPLE AND ABSTRACT ENTITIES. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. 285-295. 1982
- COHEN ON VERISIMILITUDE AND NATURAL NECESSITY. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. 355-379. 1982
- The logic of ability, freedom and responsibility. Studia Logica: an international journal for symbolic logic. 227-248. 1982
- VERISIMILITUDE REVIEWED. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 237-265. 1981
- CHANGING NUMBERS. Theoria: a journal of social and political theory. 148-164. 1980
- MILLER SO-CALLED PARADOX OF INFORMATION. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 253-261. 1979
- Verisimilitude and distance in logical space. Acta Philosophica Fennica. 227-243. 1978

editor of

book
- What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics 2010

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of London (England) 1979
B.A., Univ of Otago (New Zealand) 1976

awards and honors

Fellow, conferred by Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 2019
BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2009

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