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Prof Bill Fish

Professor in Philosophy

School of Humanities Media and Creative Comm

Director - Research Centre

CoHSS - Research

Professional

Prizes and Awards

  • I was awarded $9,937.50 by the Massey University Research Fund to enable me to prepare a draft manuscript of my book "Naive Realism" - (2004)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Philosophy of Mind (esp. Philosophy of Perception and Philosophy of Consciousness)

Epistemology

Philosophy of Psychology

Research Outputs

Book

Fish, W. (2021). Perceptual Paradigms. In Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception. (pp. 23 - 42).
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Fish, W. (2018). Direct realism, disjunctivism, and screening off. In Direct versus Indirect Realism: A Neurophilosophical Debate on Consciousness. (pp. 113 - 128).
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Fish, WJ. (2017). Naive Realism. In D. Pritchard (Ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. New York, United States of America: Oxford University Press
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Fish, WJ. (2017). Disjunctivism. In T. Polger (Ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis
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Fish, WJ., & Duffin, SJ.(2017). Tu Arohae: Interdisciplinary critical thinking. : Massey University Press
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Fish, WJ., Greener, BK., Harding, N., & Sigley, C. (2017). The limits of the military instrument. In Army Fundamentals: From Making Soldiers to the Limits of the Military Instrument. (pp. 219 - 244). Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Fish, W., Greener, B., Harding, N.Edited by: Greener, B.
Fish, WJ. (2016). Perception and Epistemology. In H. Miller (Ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. : Sage Publications, Inc.
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Fish, WJ. (2016). Introduction: Perception and sense modalities. In Perception: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. (pp. 1 - 4). : Routledge
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Fish, WJ. (2016). Introduction: The psychology of perception and its philosophy. In WJ. Fish (Ed.) Perception: Critical concepts in philosophy. (pp. 1 - 4). Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge - Taylor Francis Group
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Fish, WJ. (2016). Introduction: Contemporary philosophical theories of perception. In W. Fish (Ed.) Perception: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. (pp. 1 - 4). London, United Kingdom: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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Fish, WJ. (2016). Introduction: Classic readings in the Philosophy of Perception. In Perception: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. (pp. 1 - 6). Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge
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Fish, WJ. (2016). Hallucination. In WJ. Fish (Ed.) Perception: Critical concepts in philosophy. (pp. 273 - 303). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (Ed.) (2016). Perception: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. (Vol. I-IV): Routledge
[Edited Book]Edited by: Fish, W.
Greener, BK., & Fish, WJ.(2014). Internal security and statebuilding: Aligning agencies and functions.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Fish, W., Greener, B.
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Fish, WJ.(2014). Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction. Japan: Keiso Shobo
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Fish, WJ. (2013). Naive realism. In H. Pashler (Ed.) The SAGE encyclopedia of the mind. (pp. 553 - 554). : SAGE
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Fish, W.(2009). Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion.
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Fish, W.(2010). Philosophy of perception: A contemporary introduction.
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Journal

Fish, WJ. (2016). Marcus Willaschek (ed.), Disjunctivism: Disjunctive Accounts in Epistemology and in the Philosophy of Perception, London and New York: Routledge, 2013, x + 164 pp., £95.00 (Hardback), ISBN 0415623065.. Dialectica. 70(4), 632-635
[Book Review]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, W. (2016). "Post-Truth" Politics and Illusory Democracy. Psychotherapy and Politics International. 14(3), 211-213
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Fish, WJ. (2012). 'New Essays on Singular Thought', edited by Robin Jeshion. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 90(3), 617-618
[Book Review]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, W. (2004). Perception. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. 82(3), 532-535
[Journal article]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2013). Perception, hallucination, and illusion: reply to my critics. Philosophical Studies. 163(1), 57-66 Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-012-0072-8
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Fish, W. (2013). High-level properties and visual experience. Philosophical Studies. 162(1), 43-55
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Fish, W. (2008). Relationalism and the problems of consciousness. Teorema. 27(3), 167-180
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Fish, W., & Macdonald, C. (2007). On McDowell's identity conception of truth. Analysis. 67(293), 36-41
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Fish, W., & Macdonald, C. (2009). The identity theory of truth and the realm of reference: Where Dodd goes wrong. Analysis. 69(2), 297-304
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Fish, W., & Macdonald, C. (2011). McDowell's alternative conceptions of the world. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 19(1), 87-94
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Conference

Fish, W.Naïve Realism and the Phenomenology of Perception and Memory. . University of Otago
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2018, May). Naive Realism and the Phenomenology of Perception and Memory. Presented at Perception and Memory: Fishing for Connections. University of Otago.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2017, July). Perceptual Paradigms. Presented at Purpose and Procedure in Philosophy of Perception. Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2015, December). A New Kite String (Opening Address). Presented at 63rd Annual New Zealand Philosophy Conference. Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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Fish, WJ. (2012, April). Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion: A Reply to my Critics. Presented at The conference of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. San Diego.
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Greener, BK., & Fish, WJ. (2012, April). Maintaining the military-police divide in the policing of peace. Presented at International Studies Association http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/San-Diego-2012. San Diego, California.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
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Fish, BJ. (2002, June). Emotions, moods and intentionality. Presented at Intentionality: Past and Future. Miskolc, Hungary.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, B. (2012, December). Emotional consciousness. Presented at New Zealand Australasian Association of Philosophy [AAP] Conference. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, W.Perception, hallucination, and illusion: Reply to my critics.
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Fish, WJ. (2011, April). Commentator: Shifts of attention and the content of perception. Presented at Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. San Diego, California.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2010, July). McDowell's formulation of disjunctivism. Presented at Australian National University Conference, Themes from John McDowell. Australian National University, ACT, Australia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2008, July). Representationalism and psychosemantics. Presented at The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience. Canberra, Australia.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2006). Demonstrative Concepts and Conceptualism. Presented at Australasian Association of Philosophy conference. ANU Canberra.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2006). Naïve Realism and Phenomenal Character. Presented at ANU Workshop on Consciousness. ANU Kioloa Campus.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2006, August). Phenomenal character, naive-realist style. Presented at Consciousness at the beach. ANU Kioloa Campus.
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Other

Fish, W. (2018, May). Perceptual Paradigms. In University of Otago Philosophy Seminar. Presented at University of Otago.
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Fish, WJ. (2018, May). Perceptual Paradigms. In University of Otago Philosophy Seminar Series. Presented at Richardson Building GS2, University of Otago.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2014, May). Analysing the notion of a perspective. In Victoria University Philosophy Staff Seminar Series. Presented at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, W. (2010). Closing the gap: A relational theory of visual consciousness. Presented at Massey University, New Zealand.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, W. (2010). On what we see. Presented at Massey University, New Zealand.
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Fish, W. (2010). The building blocks of experience. Presented at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Fish, WJ. (2009). Sensing indeterminate properties. Presented at University of Sydney, NSW.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2009). Sensing indeterminate properties. Presented at Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2008). Representationalism and Psychosemantics.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2008). Representationalism, theories of content and the explanatory gap. Presented at Perth, Australia.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2007). Anton's Syndrome.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2007). Naive realism and the problem of consciousness. Presented at Toronto, Canada.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2007). Naive realism and the problems of consciousness. Presented at Cambridge, MA.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2007). Naive realism and the problems of consciousness. Presented at London, England.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fish, W.
Fish, WJ. (2007). Naive realsim, the hard problem and the explantory gap. Presented at Canberra, Australia.
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Fish, WJ. (2006). Anton's syndrome and hallucination. Presented at University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Report

Greener, BK., & Fish, WJ.(2013). Police–military interaction in international peace and stability operations: working towards guidelines for action.
[Technical Report]Authored by: Fish, W., Greener, B.