PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Many areas of philosophy require a correct theory of mind and its expression in language, art, and artifacts. I have developed an emergentist intentionalist property dualism, by which I propose to solve the mind-body problem. My argument is that thought is an intrinsically intentional neurophysiological state. The mind therefore has both mental and physical properties, as the source of intrinsic intentionality, which can neither be eliminated nor reduced to purely behavioral, material, or functional properties.

My research in philosophy of mind combines the development of an intentionalist property dualism with criticism of eliminative and reductive theories of mind that seek to explain away intentionality or try to account for aspects of mind as an exclusively physical or information processing phenomenon. I have written extensively on John Searle’s problem of the Chinese Room, on the Turing Test, on the implications of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem in providing metamathematical criteria for the distinction between minds and machines, and on many philosophical implications of the intentionality of mind.

I have published a monograph on Philosophy of Mind in the Prentice Hall Foundations of Philosophy series, and guest edited a special issue of the journal Philosophy and Rhetoric on ‘The Dialectics of Psychologism’, which I have expanded into an edited book, Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historial Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy. I have discussed my philosophy of mind in a wider metaphysical context in my recent book, Ontology. I am also planning a future comprehensive book project on The Emergent Mind: Property Dualism, Qualia and Intentionality.

BOOKS

Philosophy of Mind (Prentice Hall / Foundations of Philosophy Series, 1994) (x + 166 pp.).

Ontology (Acumen Books, McGill-Queen's University Press / Central Problems of Philosophy Series, 2002) (xv + 348 pp.).

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy (edited) (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003) (xiii + 339 pp.).

The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (edited) (Cambridge University Press, 2004) (xxii + 322 pp.).

Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Emergent Consciousness (Continuum Books) (2nd revised editionof Philosophy of Mind), in preparation.

"Intention, Meaning, and Substance in the Phenomenology of Abstract Painting", The British Journal of Aesthetics, 46, 2006, 38-58.

"Thomas Reid on Natural Signs, Natural Principles, and the Existence of the External World", The Review of Metaphysics,, 57, 2003, 279-300.

"Plato on the Parts of the Soul", Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8, 2003, 43-68.

"Searle's Antireductionism", Facta Philosophica, 4, 2002, 143-166. "La Neurobiología y el Alma", Estudios Filosficos (Spanish translation), 47, 1998, 143-156.

"Demonstratives and the Logic of the Self", Philosophical Papers, 28, 1999, 1-23.

"Reflections on Mally's Heresy", Axiomathes, 8, 1997, 163-180.

"Helmholtz's Conservation of Energy Proof for Mind-Body Identity", Philosophy in Science, 7, 1997, 129-136.

"Lloyd on Intrinsic Natural Representation in Simple Mechanical Minds", Minds and Machines, 6, 1996, 47-60.

"What Would a Cerebroscope Do?", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 27, 1996, 188-199.

"Color and Armstrong's Color Realism Under the Microscope",Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 26, 1995, 389-406.

"The Blue Banana Trick: Dennett on Jackson's Color Scientist", Theoria, 61, 1995, 217-230.

"Virtual Relations", Idealistic Studies, 25, 1995, 141-154 (see below).

"Virtual Relations vs. Virtual Universals: Essay, Comments, and Reply" (with William J. Rapaport), Center for Cognitive Science Technical Report 95-10 (Buffalo: State University of New York Technical Report Series, 1995), 1-20.

"Wittgenstein on Private Language and Private Mental Objects", Wittgenstein Studien, 1, 1994, Article 12 (computer disk format textname: 12-1-94.TXT) (89K) (c. 29 pp.).

"A Turing Test Conversation", Philosophy, 68, 1993, 231-233.

"Who's Afraid of the Turing Test?", Behavior and Philosophy, 20-21, 1993, 63-74.

"Pollock on Token Physicalism, Agent Materialism, and Strong Artificial Intelligence", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 7, 1993, 127-140.

"Chisholm on Persons as Entia Successiva and the Brain-Microparticle Hypothesis", The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, 70, 1993, 99-113.

"Fear and Loathing (And Other Intentional States) in Searle's Chinese Room", Philosophical Psychology, 3, 1990, 287-304.

"Intentionality and Stich's Theory of Brain Sentence Syntax", The Philosophical Quarterly, 40, 1990, 169-182.

"Searle's Intentionality Thesis", Synthese, 80, 1989, 267-275.

"Adventures in the Chinese Room", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 49, 1989, 605-623.

"Stich Against De Dicto - De Re Ambiguity", Philosophical Psychology, 2, 1989, 223-230.

"Metamathematical Criteria for Minds and Machines", Erkenntnis, 27, 1987, 1-16.

"Intentionality and Intentional Connections", Philosophia, 17, 1987, 13-31.

"Kripke and the Mind-Body Problem", Dialectica, 41, 1987, 293-300.

"Sensation and Intentionality", Philosophical Studies, 47, 1985, 429-440.

"Logical Behaviorism and the Simulation of Mental Episodes", The Journal of Mind and >Behavior, 6, 1985, 325-332.

"Meinong's Theory of Defective Objects", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 15, 1982, 1-19.

"Supervenience of Qualia and Intentionality" , Philo.

"Twardowski, Brentano's Dilemma, and the Content-Object Distinction", Actions, Products, and Things: Brentano and Polish Philosophy, Mind and Phenomenology series, edited by Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Dariusz Lukasiewicz (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2006), 9-33.

"Zombie Gladiators", The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless, edited by Richard Green and K. Silem Mohammad, (Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court Press, 2006), 105-118.

"Introduction: Brentano's Philosophy", The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, edited by Dale Jacquette (Cambridge: Cambridge Unniversity Press, 2004), 1-19.

"Brentano's Concept of Intentionality", The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, edited by Dale Jacquette (Cambridge: Cambridge Unniversity Press, 2004), 98-130.

"Assumption and Mechanical Simulation of Hypothetical Reasoning", Phenomenology and Analysis: Essays on Central European Philosophy, edited by Arkadiusz Chrudzimski and Wolfang Huemer (Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos Verlag, 2004), 323-358.

"Introduction: Psychologism the Philosophical Shibboleth", Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003), 1-19; reprinted from Philosophy and Rhetoric.

"Psychologism Revisited in Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology", Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism: Critical and Historical Readings on the Psychological Turn in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette (Kluwer Academic Publishing / Philosophical Studies Series, volume 91, 2003), 245-262; reprinted from Metaphilosophy.

"Wittgenstein on Thoughts as Pictures of Facts and the Transcendence of the Metaphysical Subject", Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment After 50 Years / Wittgenstein und die Zukunft der Philosophie, Eine Newbewetung nach 50 Jahren, edited by Rudolf Haller and Klaus Puhl (Vienna: Öbv&Hpt, 2002), 160-170.

"Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument and Reductivism in the Cognitive Sciences", Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, edited by Roberto Casati, Barry Smith, and Graham White (Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1994), 89-99.

"Desire", "Intention", "Responsibility", "Wittgenstein, Ludwig", Ethics (Magill Ready Reference), edited by John K. Roth (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1994), 3 vols., 221-222; 444-445; 742-746; 936-937.

"The Myth of Pure Syntax", Topics in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, edited by Liliana Albertazzi and Roberto Poli (Bolzano: Instituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura, 1991), 1-14.

"Art, Expression, Perception and Intentionality", Art and Expression, edited by Michael H. Mitias and Ananta Sukla (Westport: Greenwood Press).

"Logic for Meinongian Object Theory Semantics", Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods, Volume V: Logic from Russell to Gödel (Elsevier Science).

"Brentano, Franz", "Husserl, Edmund", Scribner's Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (Gale/Thomson).

"Supervenience (on Steroids) and the Mind", Causality and Motivation, edited by Roberto Poli (Ontos Verlag).

REVIEWS

Review of Rom Harré and Michael Tissaw, Wittgenstein and Psychology: A Practical Guide, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 45, 2007, 169-170.

Review of Hans-Johann Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, Philosophical Investigations, 29, 2006, 97-103.

Review of Anna Sierzulska, Meinong on Meaning and Truth, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (electronic format); http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.dfm?id=5781; 2006.02.17.

Review of Edmund Husserl, Philosophy of Arithmetic: Psychologcial and Logical Investigations with Supplementary Texts from 1887-1901, translated by Dallas Willard, The Review of Metaphysics, 59, 2005, 428-431.

Review of Gordon Baker, Wittgenstein's Method: Neglected Aspects, International Philosophical Quarterly, 45, 2005, 264-266.

Review of Karl Schuhmann, Selected Papers on Phenomenology, Studia Phænomenologica, 5, 2005, 388-390.

Review of Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, Intentionalitätstheorie beim frühen Brentano, The Review of Metaphysics, 46, 2002, 163-167.

Review of Jerry A. Fodor, The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology, The Philosophers' Magazine, 18, 2002. 59.

Review of Laurence Goldstein, Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Development and his Relevance to Modern Thought, Mind, 110, 2001, 207-211.

Review of Chistopher Williams, A Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Human and Humeanism, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 9, 2001, 591-594.

"Light, Dark, and Shades of Gray Matter" [Review of Charles Don Keyes, Brain Mystery Light and Dark: The Rhythm and Harmony of Consciousness], Metascience, 10, 2001, 81-86.

Review of David Owen, Hume's Reason, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 9, 2001, 377-383.

Review of Carol Rovane, The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, Philosophy in Review / Comptes rendus philosophiques, 19, 1999, 55-57.

Review of Jacek Pasniczek, The Logic of Intentional Objects: A Meinongian Version of Classical Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 64, 1999, 1847-1849.

Review of Hollibert E. Phillips, Vicissitudes of the I: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, The Personalist Forum, 11, 1995, 55-58.

Review of Anthony Palmer, Content and Object: The Unity of the Proposition in Logic and Psychology, History and Philosophy of Logic, 10, 1989, 113-115.

Review of Daniel C. Dennett, The Intentional Stance, Mind, 97, 1988, 619-624.

Review of Dean W. Zimmerman, editor, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2, Grazer Philosophische Studien.