Ausonio Marras
Professor of Philosophy
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7E-mail: amarras@julian.uwo.ca
Tel: (519) 661-3453
Fax: (519) 661-3922
Publications:
On Sellars:
- 'Sellars on Thought and Language,' Noûs 7 (1973), 152-163.
- 'On Sellars' Linguistic Theory of Conceptual Activity,' The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1973), 471-483.
- 'Reply to Sellars,' The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1973), 495-501.
- 'Sellars' Behaviorism: A Reply to Fred Wilson,' Philosophical Studies 30 (1976), 413-418.
- 'The Behaviourist Foundation of Sellars' Semantics,' Dialogue 16 (1977), 661-675.
- 'Rules, Meaning, and Behavior: Reflections on Sellars' Philosophy of Language,' The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions, ed. by J.C. Pitt (Reidel Publishing Co., 1978), 163-187.
Other Selected Publications:
- 'Identity and Existence in Intentional Contexts,' Methodology and Science 1 (1968), 190-209.
- 'Intentionality and Cognitive Sentences,' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1968), 257-263. Reprinted in 1972 with revisions.
- 'Properties and Beliefs about Existence,' Logique et Analyse 13 (1970), 438-451.
- Agent, Action, and Reason (co-editor with R.W. Binkley and R.N. Bronaugh). University of Toronto Press and Blackwell's, 1971, 202 pp.
- Intentionality, Mind, and Language, edited with introductory essay and critical bibliography. University of Illinois Press, 1972, 527 pp.
- 'Intentionality without Extensionality' (with R.J. Lithown), Philosophical Studies 25 (1974), 62-69.
- 'Intentionality, Referential Opacity, and Semantic Drift: A Reply to Morick and Elugardo' (with R.J. Lithown), Philosophical Studies (1975), 427-443.
- Forms of Representation (co-editor with B. Freed and P. Maynard). North Holland, 1975, 245 pp.
- 'Scholastic Roots of Brentano's Conception of Intentionality,' The Philosophy of Brentano, ed. by L. McAlister (London: Duckworth, 1976).
- 'Russell on General Facts,' Rassegna di Scienze Filosofiche 29 (1976), 194-204.
- 'Zeno Vendler's Res Cogitans,' Metaphilosophy 8 (1977), 189-200.
- 'Renouncing Existential Presuppositions,' Logique et Analyse 21 (1978), 355-363.
- 'Intentionality and Physicalism: A resolvable Dispute,' Analyse &aml; Kritik 2 (1980), 1-14.
- 'Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Science of Man,' Atti del Congresso Internazionale 'Metafisica e Scienza dell'Uomo' (Rome 1982), 39-47.
- 'Intentionality Revisited,' Philosophia 12 (1983), 13-27.
- Critical Notice of Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky, ed. by M. Piattelli-Palmarini (Harvard U.P., 1980), The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1983), 277-291.
- 'The Churchlands on Methodological Solipsism and Computational Psychology,' Philosophy of Science 52 (1985), 295-309.
- 'Intentionality, Methodological Solipsism, and Computational Psychology,' Proceedings of the IX International Wittgenstein Symposium, ed. by R.M. Chisholm (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1985), 86-89.
- Language Learning and Concept Acquisition, ed. with W. Demopoulos, Ablex Publishing Co., 1986.
- Critical Notice of From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science, by S. Stich (MIT Press, 1983), Philosophy of Science 54 (1987), 115-127.
- 'Naturalistic Epistemology and the Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence,' Proceedings of the XI International Wittgenstein Symposium, ed P. Weingartner (Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1987).
- 'Intentionality and Probability: Reply to Yoder,' Philosophia 17 (1987), 307-310.
- 'The Weak and the Strong RTM: Stich's Interpretation of Fodor,' Dialogue 26 (1987), 349-355.
- Critical Notice of The Thinking Self, by J. Rosenberg (Temple U.P., 1986), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (1989), 214-217.
- 'Reduction in Psychology,' Acta Analytica 6 (1990), 65-78.
- 'Behavioristic Approaches,' Handbuch der Sprachphilosophie, ed. M. Dascal et al., Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1992, pp. 705-717.
- Critical Notice of Natural Signs, L. Addis (Temple U. P., 1989), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52 (1992), 222-227.
- 'Psychophysical Supervenience and Nonreductive Materialism' in Synthese 95 (1993), 275-304.
- 'Supervenience and Reducibility: An Odd Couple', Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), 215-222.
- Critical Review of How to Build a Person, J. Pollock (MIT Press, 1989), Dialogue 32 (1993), 621-631.
- 'Materialism, Functionalism, and Supervenient Qualia', Dialogue 32 (1993), 475-492.
- 'Supervenience and the Relevance of Content', in C. Casati and G. White, eds., Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences. Papers of the XVI International Wittgenstein Symposiumy, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1993, 341-345.
- Review of Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics, ed. B. Loewer & Georges Rey, Blackwell 1991, Minds and Machines 3 (1993), 369-375.
- 'Nonreductive Materialism and Mental Causation', Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (1994), 465-494. (Italian translation in Nuova Civilt… delle Macchine (forthcoming 1996).
- 'The Causal Relevance of Mental Properties,' Philosophia (forthcoming 1996)
- 'The Debate on Mental Causation: Davidson and His Critics', Dialogue (forthcoming 1996).
- 'Davidson on Intentional Causation', forthcoming in a collection edited by Denis Fisette based on the Intentionality and Consciousness conference held at the University of Quebec at Montreal in May 1995.
- 'Metaphysical Foundations of Action-Explanation,' in preparation for Contemporary Action Theory: Vol. 1, ed. by Raimo Tuomela and Ghita Holmstrom-Hintikka (Reidel)
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