Publications

Articles

1. ‘Some basic preferences’, British Journal of Aesthetics, 4, No. 2 (April, 1964), 136-7 2. ‘Transparency and opacity and their relation to intentional meaning’, Journal of Literary Semantics, 3 (1974), 81-90 3. ‘Arbitrariness and motivation: A new theory’, Foundations of Language, 14 (1976), 505-23 4. ‘Words and intentions’, Philosophy, 52 (1977), 45-62 5. ‘Perception: A new theory’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 14 (1977), 273-86 6. ‘Sociology and the irony model’, Sociology, 12 (1978), 523-43 7. ‘Illusion and truth’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 39 (1979), 402-32 8. ‘Logic as an intention-matching system: A solution to the paradoxes’, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 10 (1979), 164-71. 9. ‘Yet more on non-epistemic seeing’, Mind, 90 (1981), 586-91 10. ‘Derrida, Searle, contexts, games, riddles’, New Literary History, 13 (1981-82), 463-77 11. ‘Inspecting images’, Philosophy, 58 (1983), 51-72 12. ‘Pre-phenomenal adjustments and Sanford’s Illusion Objection against sense-data’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64 (1983), 266-72 13. ‘Perception, pretence and reality’, Poetics Today, 4, No. 3 (1983), 513-42 14. ‘Recent work in perception’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 21 (1984), 17-30 15. ‘The way you tell them’, The Times Educational Supplement, November 2nd, 1984, 16 16. ‘Sentence-combining: A new method in English-teaching’, Links, 10, No. 3 (1985), 33-36 17. ‘A defence of Sellars’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 46, No. 1 (1985), 73-90 18. ‘A design for the human mind’, Conceptus, 47 (1985), 21-37 19. ‘Wilcox and Katz on Indirect Realism’, Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 16, No. 1 (1986), 107-13 20. ‘Dialectical perception: Lenin and Bogdanov on perception’, Radical Philosophy, 43 (1986), 9-16 21. ‘Ben-Zeev on the non-epistemic’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 37, No. 3 (1986), 351-59 22. ‘Habermas’, Review article on Habermas and Modernity, ed. Richard J. Bernstein (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989) and The Hermeneutics Reader, ed. Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1985), Textual Practice, 1, No. 2 (1987), 229-34 23. ‘The New Representationalism: A reply to Pitson’, Philosophical Papers, 16 (1987), 125-39 24. ‘Post-Humptydumptyism’. Review article on Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society (Cambridge, 1987) and Anthony Wilden, The Rules are No Game: The Strategy of Communication and Man and Woman, War and Peace: The Strategist’s Companion (London, 1987), New Formations, 6, (1988), 142-145 25. ‘Grammar in English teaching - Scientific evidence old and new’, Quest, Part I in 38 (Autumn, 1989), 11-15; Part II in 39 (Winter, 1989), 12-16 26. ‘Querying Quining Qualia’, Acta Analytica, 4, (1989), 9-31 27. Review article: Dalia Judovitz, Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and Seppo Sajama and Matti Kamppinen, A Historical Introduction to Phenomenology (Croom Helm, London, 1987), Textual Practice, 3, No. 2 (1989), 280-84 28. ‘New representationalism’, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 20 No. 2 (1990), 65-92 29. ‘Inspecting Images; A reply to Smythies’, Philosophy, 65, No. 252 (1990), 225-228 30. ‘Two more proofs of present qualia’, Theoria, 56, Nos. 1-2 (1990), 3-22 31. ‘Potrc on content’, Acta Analytica, 7 (1991), 79-86 32. ‘A dialectical theory of perception’, trans. Zdzislaw Kowalski into Polish, in Kazimierz Jodkowski (ed.), Realism, Rationality, Relativism, 9 (Marie-Curie University, Lublin, 1992) 33. ‘The Entity Fallacy in epistemology’, hilosophy, 67, No. 259 (1992), 33-50 34. ‘The original of E. G. Boring’s â€œYoung Girl/Mother-in-Lawâ€ﾝ drawing and its relation to the pattern of a joke’, Perception, 21 (1992), 273-75 35. ‘Gestalt-switching: Hanson, Aronson and HarrÃ©’, Philosophy of Science, 59, No. 3 (1992), 480-86 36. ‘Postmodern Habermas’, Review article: Zygmund Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity, Stephen K. White, The Recent Work of JÃ¼rgen Habermas, Robert C. Holub, JÃ¼rgen Habermas, David Rasmussen, Reading Habermas, Textual Practice, 7, No. 1 (1993), 131-39 37. Review article: Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Cambridge, 1991); Paisley Livingstone, Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction (Cambridge, 1991); John B. Thompson, Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication (Cambridge, 1990); Albrecht Wellmer, The Persistence of Modernity (Cambridge, 1991), Textual Practice, 7, No. 3 (1993), 530-38 38. ‘More qualia trouble for functionalism: J. R. Smythies’ TV-Hood Analogy’, Synthese, 97, No. 3 (1993), 1-18 39. ‘The neglected technique of the witticism: A philosophical inquiry’. Newsletter of the Freudian Field , 6, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Fall. 1992), 76-92. 40. ‘A New Critical Realism: An examination of Roy Wood Sellars’ epistemology’, Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, 30, No. 3, (1994), 477-514 41. ‘The story of the Story: Invasions from the Real’, Literature and Psychology, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Literature and Psychology, June 1994, ed. Frederico Pereira, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Applicada, Lisbon, pp. 47-52 42. ‘Art and Illusion : A philosophical defence’ in Gombrich on Art and Psychology, (ed.) Richard Woodfield, [Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 101-114 43. ‘What it Isn’t Like’, American Philosophical Quarterly 23, No, 1 (January, 1996), 23-45 44. ‘Is The Prelude a national epic?’, Literature and Psychology, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Literature and Psychology, St. Petersburg, July 1998, ed. Frederico Pereira, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Applicada, Lisbon, pp.143-50 45. ‘An Illusion with a Future: Epistemology, Narrative and Religion’, Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies , Website http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v3i12/wright.hu (1999). North Carolina State University. 46. ‘Merleau-Ponty and the sensory’, in French Existentialism: Consciousness, Ethics, and Relations with Others, ed. James Giles, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 33-57. 47. ‘The Game of Reference’, in Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology (ed.) Matjaz Potrc, Acta Analytica 22 (1999), 179-96. 48. Commentary on Palmer: ‘Isomorphism: Philosophical Implications’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, No. 6 (December 1999), 975-76 49. ‘The Joke, the ‘As If’, and the Statement’, in The Analytic Freud, ed. Michael P. Levine, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, pp. 294-311 50. ‘The topic of Entity as it relates to Ernst von Glasersfeld’s constructivism’, in L. Steffe ed. Radical Constructivism in Action: Essays in Honour of Ernst von Glasersfeld, Falmer Press, Brighton, 2000, pp. 10-22. 51. ‘Faith and the Real’, Paragraph, 24, No. 2 (July 2001), 5-22. 52. ‘A non-epistemic, non-pictorial, internal, material visual field’, Commentary on O’Regan and NoÃ«, , Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24, No, 5 (2001), 1010-11. 53. ‘A visual registration can be coloured without being a picture’, Commentary on Pylyshyn, ‘Mental imagery: In search of theory’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25, No. 1(2002), 215-216. 54. ‘Clamping and motivation’, Commentary on Glenberg, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, No. 5 (2003), 645-646 55. ‘Percepts are selected from nonconceptual sensory fields’, Commentary on Lehar, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, Number 4 (2003), 429-430. 56. ‘Faith and narrative: a reading of The Franklin’s Tale’, Partial Answers, Vol. 3:1 (January, 2005), 19-42. 57. ‘A proper faith operates with the acknowledgement of risk, and, hence, a true religion with that of sacrifice’, Commentary on Atran and Norenzayan, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming, 2005). 58. ‘Perceiving socially and morally: a question of triangulation’, Philosophy, 80:311 (January, 2005), 53-75 59. ‘Jorge Luis Borges’ â€œFunes the Memoriousâ€ﾝ: philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections’, Literature and Psychology, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Literature and Psychology, Arles, July 1998, ed. Frederico Pereira, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Applicada, Lisbon (2006) 60. ‘The question of the assumed givenness of the singularity of the target’, Commentary on Steels and Belpaeme, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2006) 61. A Selection from ‘The Hardy Hennets’, The Hardy Society Journal, 2:2 (Summer, 2006), 55-8. 62. ‘Dennett as Illusionist’, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 23 (Winter, 2006), 157-167. online - http://soe.indstate.edu/div24/JTPP%20Aticles/23-2/THE202.pdf 63. ‘Jorge Luis Borges’ â€œFunes the Memoriousâ€ﾝ: a Philosophical Narrative’, Partial Answers, 5:1 (January, 2007), 33-49. 64. ‘In trust we reason’, The Philosopher’s Magazine, 37 (1st quarter, 2007), 31-4. 65. ‘Gregory Bateson: epistemology, language, play and the Double Bind’, Anthropoetics - The Journal of Generative Anthropology, Volume XIV, number 1 (Summer 2008), ISSN 1083-7264. UR See URL: http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1401/ 66. ‘Commentary on â€œDoes an ‘ironic situation’ favour an ironic interpretation?â€ﾝ â€” from a philosophical viewpoint’. In Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains & Gaps, Jereon Vandaele and Geert BrÃ´ne (eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York (2009), pp. 411-16. 67. ‘The faith of a social constructionist’, Spiel (Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft, Jg 26 (2007), Heft 1, pp. 117-29 (appeared 2009) 68. ‘Habermas as lacking in faith’, in Beyond Universal Pragmatics, Colin Grant (ed.) (2010), Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 69. Preface to Mark Crooks: Collected Papers (forthcoming) 70. ‘The question of the assumed givenness of the singularity of the object’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28 (2005 [pub. 2010]), 514-514. (Comment on Steels, Luc and Belpaeme, Tony, ‘Co-ordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour’, 489-539) 71 ‘Faith as ethically basic to the task of constructing’, Constructivist Foundations 7(1) (2011): 31-33 72 ‘Jorge Luis Borges’ Funes the Memorious: a Philosophical Narrative’, reprinted in Short Story Criticism, ed. Jelena Krstovic (2012), Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Cengage. 73. ‘Generative Anthropology and Triangulation Theory’, Anthropoetics - The Journal of Generative Anthropology, Volume XVII, number 2 (Spring 2012). See URL http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1702/1702Wright.htm 74 ‘A linguistic source for the myth of the Summum Bonum, Anthropoetics - The Journal of Generative Anthropology, Volume XVIII, No. 1 (Fall 2012). See URL http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1801/1801Wright.htm 75 ‘Faith as the prime epistemological virtue’, Anthropoetics - The Journal of Generative Anthropology, Volume XIX, No.2 (Spring 2014), See URL http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1902/1902wright.htm

Books

Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith (December, 2005, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) Avatar-Philosophy (and -Religion) or FAITHEISM (2011, Plymouth: Imprint Academic)

[edited]

The Ironic Discourse, the Vol. 4, No. 3 issue of Poetics Today (1983) New Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception, Avebury Press, Aldershot (1993) The Žižek Reader: Slavoj Žižek (co-edited with Elizabeth Wright) Blackwells, Oxford (1999) Volume of the periodical Paragraph (Vol. 24, No. 2, July, 2001) devoted to the work of Slavoj Žižek, entitled Faith and the Real (co-edited with Elizabeth Wright). The Case for Qualia (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2008)

Poetry

The Horwich Hennets (Peterloo Poets, 1976) The Jester Hennets (Peterloo Poets, 1981) Poems in The Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, Quarto, Encounter, Stand, P.E.N. anthologies, BBC 2 ‘Poem at Midnight’ programme, etc.

Reviews

In The Times Literary Supplement, Mind, New Formations, Poetics Today, Textual Practice, British Book News, European Journal of Philosophy, Comparative Literature

Lectures

Given in the last decade at the philosophy departments of the universities of Cambridge, Durham, Uppsala, Ljubljana, Ottawa, Hokkaido, Ain Shams (Cairo), Buffalo (NY), High Point (NC), Irvine (Cal.), Western Australia, Sydney, Queensland, and Monash, the linguistic department of the University of Lodz, the sociology departments of UMIST, Bielefeld, Gothenburg, Madrid, and Queensland, and the literature departments of the University of Hokkaido at Sapporo, and of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Unfinished work

Book: Telling the Story: A New English Pedagogy Article on William Wordsworth’s ‘Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ An Open Letter on Free Speech, Democracy, Faith, and Monarchy to all Dictators, Despots, Autocrats, Superannuated Presidents, Leaders of the Nation, and their loyal Followers