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| Unnatural Kinds: remarks on Linnĉus’s classification of mental disorders | seminar paper (HTML version) |
| Bergson and cognitive science | seminar paper (HTML version) |
| False beginnings: early nineteenth century episodes in the human sciences | seminar paper (HTML version) |
| Condillac | article about Étienne Bonnot, abbé de Condillac (HTML version) |
| Knowledge incorporated: past and future |
HTML version of a lecture |
| 2004 | Developing Learning Environments | Ora Kwo, Tim Moore, John Jones (ed.), University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong |
| 2004 | The Observation of Savage Peoples | par J-M Degérando, translated with an introduction (foreword by E.E. Evans-Pritchard), Routledge, reprinted in Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography |
| 2001 | Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie | par Maine de Biran, édition critique, Œuvres tome VII-1-2, Vrin, Paris, XXVIII-592 pp |
| 1996 | Bergson: thinking backwards | Cambridge University Press, in the Modern European Philosophy series, xx-152 pp |
| 1984 | Sur les rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme | par Maine de Biran, édition critique, Œuvres tome VI, Vrin, Paris, XVI-207 pp |
| 1978 | The Psychological Basis of Morality: an essay on value and desire | in the Library of Philosophy of Religion (general editor: John Hick), Macmillan, 106 pp |
| 1978 | Wisdom from the Nile: a collection of folk stories from Northern and Central Sudan | translated with an introduction (co-author: Ahmed Al-Shahi), The Oxford Library of African Literature, Clarendon Press, Oxford, xiii-256 pp |
| 1970 | The Psychology of Maine de Biran | Clarendon Press, Oxford, 228 pp |
| 1969 | The Observation of Savage Peoples | by J-M Degérando, translated with an introduction (with a preface by E.E. Evans-Pritchard), Routledge Kegan Paul/University of California Press, xi-123 pp |
| 2001 | The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Abstracts, compiled by FCT Moore, University of Hong Kong |
| 1988 | How Computers Work, (co-authors: L. Goldstein & Yu Kam Por), Logical Products, the University of Hong Kong, viii-64 pp |
| 1987, 1989 | CHARLES, a microcomputer-assisted learning package for computer literacy (on the topic ‘How computers work’), a set of seven diskettes, information sheets for teachers and students, a peripheral called the ‘Fingerpad’, and two manuals, versions 1.0 and 2.0. (Co-authors: Chan Ho Mun, Laurence Goldstein, and Yu Kam Por) |
| 1981, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1997 | LOGIC TUTOR, a microcomputer-assisted learning package for elementary logic, with a set of four diskettes, a technical manual, and a user’s manual (sixth edition 1997 vii-55 pp; co-author: Laurence Goldstein) |
| 1978 | Evocation: a memoir of discussions on symbolism in the human sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, 28 pp |
| 1969 | Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Cultural Sciences, occasional paper of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, 50 pp partial reprint in Mass media and mass communication, ed. Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn, Edward Shils, Cambridge ; Teaneck, N.J. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1978. |
| 2003 | Creative Evolution: Analysis and Life | The Classics of Western Philosophy, ed. Garcia, Jorge JE, Reichberg, Gregory M, Schumacher, Bernard N, Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA |
| 2003 | Bergson | in The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945, ed. Thomas Baldwin, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.67-73 |
| 2001 | Scribes and Texts: models of cultural transmission | Monist, 84(3): 417-36 |
| 1999 | How anthropologists think | note in memory of Godfrey Lienhardt, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford |
| 1999 | Magic | The New Bergson, ed. J. Mullarkey, Manchester University Press, pp 135-44 |
| 1998 | Bonnet, Charles | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| 1998 | Cabanis | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| 1998 | Maine de Biran | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| 1994 | Goldstein on the road to Rome | Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 72(2): 229-32 |
| 1994 | Taking the sting out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma | Philosophical Quarterly, 44(2): 223-233 |
| 1990 | Rome inferences and structural opacity | Mind, 99: 601-8 |
| 1990 | Conflict between desire and value | Family, Society and Morality, Hong Kong, Commercial Press, pp 187-95 [in Chinese] |
| 1988 | Do higher-order desires resolve conflict? | Harmony and Strife: contemporary perspectives, East and West, ed. Shu-hsien Liu & Robert E. Allinson, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, pp 59-67 |
| 1988 | School Logic and Computer Literacy | Computerized Logic Teaching Bulletin, 1.2 (co-authors: L. Goldstein, Yu Kam Por) |
| 1988 | Logic and Computer Literacy | Microcomputers in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong (co-authors: L. Goldstein, Yu Kam Por) |
| 1987 | citations of Mou Tsang San, Kan Yuet Wai, Stanley Ho and Lee Wing Tat for honorary degrees at the University of Hong Kong |
University of Hong Kong Gazette, vol. XXXIV |
| 1987 | Maine de Biran | The Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. R.L. Gregory, pp 445-447 |
| 1986 | citations of Li Ka Shing, PAL Vine, Lord Todd of Trumpington and Louis Cha for honorary degrees at the University of Hong Kong | University of Hong Kong Gazette, vol. XXXIII |
| 1985 | citations of Pauline Chan, Zhu Guangqian and EH Paterson for honorary degrees at the University of Hong Kong | University of Hong Kong Gazette, vol. XXXII |
| 1985 | A problem about higher-order desires | Acta Philosophica Fennica, 38: 149-55 |
| 1985 | The Martyr’s Dilemma | Analysis, 45: 29-33 |
| 1984 | citations of KLC Legg, MGR Sandberg, and JM Bennett for honorary degrees at the University of Hong Kong | The University of Hong Kong Gazette, vol. XXXI |
| 1984 | Effective Methods for Logic | Collegiate Microcomputer, 11(2): 141-55 (co-author: L. Goldstein) |
| 1984 | The Microcomputer as Logic Teacher: an illustration | Teaching Philosophy, 7(2): 109-14 (co-author: L. Goldstein) |
| 1983 | Is the intuition of dualism primary? | Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 146: 257-72 |
| 1983 | Mechanical deductive techniques: three microcomputer packages | Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 15: 545-6 (co-author: L. Goldstein) |
| 1982 | Meet MICAL: teaching elementary logic by microcomputer | Australian Logic Teachers Journal, 6: 15-29 (co-author: L. Goldstein) |
| 1982 | On taking metaphor literally | Metaphor: problems and perspectives, ed. D. Miall, Harvester Press/Humanities Press, pp. 1-13 |
| 1981 | The authority of symbols | Literary Theory Today, ed. M.A. Abbas and T.W. Wong, Hong Kong University Press, pp. 80-94 |
| 1980 | La philosophie analytique hors de chez elle | Critique, vol. 36: Les Philosophes anglo-saxons par eux-mêemes, pp. 765-73 |
| 1980 | Thresholds of coherence | an inaugural lecture from the Chair of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong Gazette, vol XXVII (3) |
| 1978 | Claude Lévi-Strauss and the cultural sciences | partial reprint of a previous publication under the same title, in Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication, ed. P. Davison, R. Meyersohn, E. Shils (in 14 vol.) |
| 1975 | Evans off target | Philosophical Quarterly, 25: 58-9 |
| 1975 | An approach to the analysis of folk-tales from Central and Northern Sudan | Directions in Sudanese Linguistics and Folklore, ed. SH Hurreiz and H Bell, Khartoum University Press, pp 106-22 |
| 1974 | White mythology: metaphor in the text of philosophy | translation of an article by Jacques Derrida, inNew Literary History, VI: 5-74 |
| 1974 | How myths die | translation of an article by Claude Lévi-Strauss, in New Literary History, V: 269-81 |
| 1973 | The Analysis of Stories | The Theory of Myth, ed. A. Cunningham, Sheed and Ward, pp. 22-39 |
| 1972 | The Two Persons (and A Surrejoinder to Professor Frings) | Linguistic Analysis and Phenomenology, ed. W. Mays and S.C. Brown, Macmillan, pp. 59-67, 88-92 |
| 1971 | Manners | Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology |
| 1971 | Liberals in Trouble | Ethics and Society, ed. M.M. Agrawal, Khartoum University Press, pp. 7-17 |
| 1966 | Maine de Biran et la théorie du language | Actes du XIIIème congrès des sociétés de philosophie de langue française, Neuchâtel, pp. 157-9 |
| 1966 | Maine de Biran and Pestalozzi: some unpublished letters | Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 75: 27-52 |
| Scribes and Texts | reworked version of a Monist article under the same title to be published in a book by Open Court. Accepted by the editor. |
| 1985- | The Structure of the Will | projected book |
| 1975- | Nomadic Tales from the Nile | projected companion volume to Wisdom of the Nile (1978). The stories were collected by fieldwork some years ago. |
| 1995- | Telling Tales: the ordinary beginnings of philosophy | projected book. |
| 2003/4 | Exploring the Ass | This book realtes a variety of practical and theoretical dilemmas which can be construed as versions of Buridan's Ass. Draft of main text completed. |
| 1992-2005 | The Mysteries of Crito of Samos | Four short novels: Gilt, Fire and Water, Food of the Gods, Thistle, three and a half drafts completed. |
| 1965-1979 | The University of Birmingham, UK | lecturer/senior lecturer in Philosophy |
| 1969-72 | The University of Khartoum, Sudan | senior lecturer in Philosophy |
| 1979-2000 | The University of Hong Kong | Chair of Philosophy |
| 2000-2002 | The University of Hong Kong | Emeritus professor of philosophy, Consultant to the University on Teaching Quality and Innovation and Director of the Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching |
| 1993 | ICANAS, 34th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, held in Hong Kong |
Member of the advisory committee, Chairman of the Programme Committee for West Asia and North Africa, and Chairman of a panel on Classical Islamic Philosophy and related topics |
| 1993 | Expo 2001, a HK$100M public exhibition marking the University of Hong Kong’s 80th anniversary | member of the planning Committee, organizer of an exhibit called ‘The Fourth Revolution’ concerning the effect of technologies on learning |
| 1993- | European Journal of Philosophy | member of the Advisory Committee |
| 1992- | Hong Kong Research Grants Council project for IMPACT (‘Intelligent multimedia package for the advancement of creative and critical thinking’) | Principal Investigator |
| 1991 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Visiting professor |
| 1989-90 | Cognitive Science Working Group, The University of Hong Kong | member |
| 1987- | Strategic Research Grant for Microcomputer-assisted Logic Learning | Principal Investigator |
| 1986 | China, the Chinese and the West, international symposium to mark the 75th anniversary of the University of Hong Kong | Chairman of the Organizing Committee |
| 1985 | Barnard College, Columbia University, New York | Visiting Professor |
| 1984-1998 | Preparation of an edition of Maine de Biran, Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie | holder of research grants |
| 1980 | Arts Faculty working party on Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong | convenor |
| 1980 | CNRS planning group for a new edition of the works of Maine de Biran | member |
| 1979-81 | University of St Andrews | External Examiner in Philosophy |
| 1974 | gouvernement français | bourse |
| 1974 | British Academy | European Exchange Fellowship |
| 1970-72 | University of Makerere | External Examiner in Philosophy |
A fuller list of other positions is available.
| education | King’s College School, Wimbledon (to 1958) Keble College, Oxford (to 1962: BA in Litterae humaniores) St Antony’s College, Oxford (to 1965: D.Phil. on The Psychology of Maine de Biran awarded 1967; the examiners were Stuart Hampshire and Henri Gouhier) |
| nationality | British & French |
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