Professor Chris Hookway
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Emeritus Professor
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School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
- Profile
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Christopher joined the department in 1995, having taught at the University of Birmingham since 1977. Before taking up his post at Birmingham he was a Research Fellow at Peterhouse Cambridge. He has also spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and been Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Qualifications
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MA Oxford, B.Phil. East Anglia, Ph.D. Cambridge
- Research interests
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One of his central interests has been American Pragmatism: he has written extensively on Charles S Peirce, and wrote Peirce (1985) for Routledge's Arguments of the Philosophers series, after spending a year as a Fullbright Scholar at Harvard working on Peirce's papers. In 1995, he was President of the Charles S Peirce Society, a leading American organization devoted to the study of American philosophy. His interests in pragmatism have led more recently to an examination of the ideas of William James and John Dewey on rationality, truth and mind.
Although much of his current research is not historical, his ideas are shaped by this exposure to the pragmatist tradition. As well as completing a book on the influence of pragmatist ideas on recent philosophy, he has written a book on Scepticism (1990) and papers on epistemic evaluation which try to preserve what is of value in pragmatism.
A major interest is in the relations between the evaluations of beliefs studied by epistemologists and the evaluations of actions and agents examined by those working in ethics: he hopes for a general account of norms and evaluations which finds room for both. This project was the focus of his research during his research readership.
Another interest, which was the subject of Christopher Hookway's PhD thesis, is the philosophy of language and mind. This has led to a book on Quine: Language, Experience and Reality (1988) and to an interest in Cognitive Science: he edited a collection on Minds, Machines and Evolution (1984) and co-edited Philosophy and Cognitive Science (1994).
- Publications
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Books
- The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy. Open Court Pub Co.
- The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford University Press, USA.
- The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford University Press, USA.
- Oxford Handbook of Skepticism. Oxford University Press, USA.
- Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism. Oxford University Press, USA.
- Peirce. Taylor & Francis.
Edited books
- The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- James's Epistemology and the Will to Believe. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 3(1), 30-38.
- Some varieties of epistemic injustice: response to Fricker. Etudes Episteme.
- Psychologism and the American Pragmatists: Peirce and Dewey. Paradigmi, XXVIII, 45-56.
- Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism * By ROBERT B. BRANDOM. Analysis, 69(3), 568-570.
- Belief and freedom of mind. Philosophical Explorations, 12(2), 195-204.
- Lotze and the Classical Pragmatists. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 1, 1-9.
- Questions, Epistemology, and Inquiries. Grazer Philosophische Studien: internationale Zeitschrift fuer analytische Philosophie, 77, 1-21.
- Short on Peirce's early theory of signs. Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society, 43(4), 619-625.
- Peirce's theory of signs. TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY, 43(4), 619-625.
- Reasons for Belief, Reasoning, Virtues. Philosophical Studies, 130(1), 47-70.
- Ethics without Ontology. JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 3(2), 231-236.
- The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays. JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 3(2), 231-236.
- Interrogatives and Uncontrollable Abductions. Semiotica, 2005(153 - 1/4).
- W.V. Quine.. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 54(214), 186-188.
- The Principle of Pragmatism: Peirce's Formulations and Examples. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 28(1), 119-136.
- Affective States and Epistemic Immediacy. Metaphilosophy, 34(1‐2), 78-96.
- ... A sort of composite photograph: Pragmatism, ideas, and schematism. Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society, 38(1-2).
- The divided self of William James. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 51(202), 100-102.
- Reply to comments on 'Scepticism and the Principle of Inferential Justification'. NOUS, 395-399.
- Scepticism and the Principle of Inferential Justification. Nous, 34(s1), 344-365.
- Epistemic Norms and Theoretical Deliberation. Ratio, 12(4), 380-397.
- Peirce, pragmatism and the logic of Scripture. RELIGIOUS STUDIES, 35(3), 376-379.
- Meta-epistemology and scepticism. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 49(195), 266-270.
- Normative concepts and epistemological internalism (Richard Fumerton, 'Metaepistemology and Skepticism'). PHILOS PHENOMEN RES, 58(4), 907-912.
- Reference to items and the development of pragmatism: Peirce and Royce. DEUTSCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHILOSOPHIE, 46(1), 79-102.
- Metaphysics and semiosis. Semiotica, 114(1-2), 169-180.
- From time and chance to consciousness: Studies in the metaphysics of Charles S. Peirce - Moore,EC, Robin,RS. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, 47(187), 270-272.
- Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce.. The Philosophical Review, 106(2), 286-286.
- Ecstatic naturalism: Signs of the world - Corrington,R. SEMIOTICA, 114(1-2), 169-180.
- Design and chance: The evolution of Peirce's evolutionary cosmology. TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY, 33(1), 1-34.
- Book Reviews. Mind, 105(420), 709-710.
- On Quine: New essays - Leonardi,P, Santambrogio,M. REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS, 50(1), 168-170.
- FREEDOM AND BELIEF - STRAWSON,G. PHILOS QUART, 38(153), 533-535.
- COLLECTED PAPERS ON MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY - FREGE,G. PHILOS BOOK, 26(2), 90-90.
- NATURAL AND CONVENTIONAL MEANING - EXAMINATION OF DISTINCTION - ROLLIN,B. J LITERARY SEMANTICS, 7(1), 53-54.
- SEMANTICS - LYONS,J. PHILOSOPHY, 53(205), 421-423.
- UNIVERSALISM VERSUS RELATIVISM IN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT - PROCEEDINGS OF A COLLOQUIUM ON SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESES - PINXTEN,R. J LITERARY SEMANTICS, 7(2), 111-112.
- 4 PRAGMATISTS - SCHEFFLER,I. J PHILOS, 73(16), 546-554.
- Peirce, Pragmatism, and Philosophical Style. Journal of Philosophical Research, 39, 325-337.
Chapters
- ‘The principle of Peirce’ and the origins of pragmatism, The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism (pp. 17-35). Cambridge University Press
- Normative Logic and Psychology: Peirce’s rejection of psychologism, The pragmatic maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism (pp. 83-114). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy In Moore ME (Ed.), New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy (pp. 19-40). Chicago and LaSalle Illinois: Open Court Pub Co.
- New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy In Moore ME (Ed.), New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy (pp. 19-40). Chicago and LaSalle Illinois: Open Court Pub Co.
- The form of a relation: Peirce's mathematical structuralism, New Essays on Peirce's Mathematical Philosophy (pp. 19-40). Chicago and La Salle Illinois: Open Court.
- Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce Oxford University Press
- Pragmatism and the Given: C I Lewis, Peirce, and Quine In Misak CJ (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy (pp. 149-164). Oxford University Press, USA
- Oxford Handbook of Skepticism In Greco J (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (pp. 20-38). Oxford University Press, USA
- Peirce and Skepticism In Greco J (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (pp. 20-38). Oxford University Press, USA
- Truth, Reality, and Convergence, The Cambridge Companion to Peirce (pp. 127-149). Cambridge University Press
- How to be a Virtue Epistemologist, Intellectual Virtue (pp. 183-202). Oxford University Press
- Bergson, The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945 (pp. 67-73). Cambridge University Press
- Proper Ambition of Science Routledge
- William James: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Central Works of Philosophy Volume 4 (pp. 54-70). Acumen Publishing Limited
- Metaphysics from A to Z, A Companion to Metaphysics (pp. 466-523). Wiley-Blackwell
- Introduction: The pragmatist maxim, the method of science, and representation, Introduction: The pragmatist maxim, the method of science, and representation
- How Peirce argued for pragmatism, The Pragmatic maxim" Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism (pp. 197-234). November 2012: OUP.
- The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism
Conference proceedings papers
- Regulating inquiry: Virtue, doubt, and sentiment. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY, VOL 5 (pp 149-157)
- Analyticity, linguistic rules and epistemic evaluation. PHILOSOPHY (pp 197-218)
- I—The Presidential Address: Questions of Context. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 96(1) (pp 1-16)
- The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and Pragmatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Christopher was President of the Aristotelian Society for 1995-6. From 1998-2000, he held a British Academy Research Readership.