Howard Robinson
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Publications by Howard Robinson

Books

  1. Matter and Sense: a Critique of Contemporary Materialism, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982, 130.
  2. Essays on Berkeley: a Tercentennial Celebration, ed. with John Foster, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985, 256, (paperback 1988)
  3. The Pursuit of Mind, ed. with Raymond Tallis, Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1991, 207.
  4. Aristotle and the Later Tradition: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supp. Vol. 2. Ed. with Henry Blumenthal, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991, 276.
  5. Objections to Physicalism, ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993, 326, (paperback 1996). 
  6. Perception, for the series ‘Problems of Philosophy: their Past and Present', Routledge, 1994, 260. (Pbk, 2001)
  7. Edition of Berkeley's Principles and Three Dialogues for Oxford University Press's World Classics.  It contains more apparatus than other popular editions, with Introduction (28pp), Notes (24pp), Analytical Contents and Index, 1996.

Contributions to Books, Journal Articles and Reviews

  1. ‘Professor Armstrong on "Non‑physical Sensory Items"',  Mind, 81, 1972, 84‑6.
  2. 'The Irrelevance of Intentionality to Perception', Philosophical Quarterly, 24, 1974, 1‑15
  3. ‘Prime Matter in Aristotle', Phronesis 19, 1974, 169‑88.
  4. ‘The Mind‑Body Problem in Contemporary Philosophy', Zygon 11, 1976, 346‑60.
  5. ‘Mind and Body in Aristotle', Classical Quarterly 28, 1978, 105‑24.
  6. Review of Groundless Belief, by Michael Williams, Mind, 88, 1979, 3l4‑5.
  7. ‘Aristophanes, Coleridge and Peacock', Notes and Queries, NS 26, 1979, 232.
  8. ‘Mackie's Interpretation of Hume', Analysis, 40, 1980, 19‑24.
  9. Review of Knowledge and Infallibility, by J. L. Evans, Mind, 89, 1980, 451‑2.
  10. ‘Imagination, Desire and Prescription', Analysis, 41, 1981, 55‑9.
  11. ‘Is Hare a Naturalist?', Philosophical Review 91, 1982,  73‑86.
  12. ‘Aristotelian Dualism', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 1, 1983, 123‑44.
  13. ‘The mind‑body problem';  a contribution to The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology, eds. R. Harre and R. Lamb, Blackwell, 1983, 395‑7.
  14. Review of Reasons and Knowledge, by M. Swain, Mind, 92, 1983, 455‑7.
  15. Review of The Case for Idealism, by John Foster, British Journal of Phenomenology, 1985, 208‑11.
  16. ‘The General Form of the Argument for Berkelian Idealism' in Essays on Berkeley, (item 2 above), 163‑86.
  17. ‘A Dualist Perspective on Psychological Development', in  Philosophical Perspectives on Developmental Psychology,  ed. James Russell, Blackwell, 1987, 119‑39.
  18. Review of Profile of D.M.Armstrong, ed. R. J. Bogdan,  Philosophical Reviews, 1987.
  19. ‘Abstract Ideas and Immaterialism', History of European Ideas 7, 1986, 617‑22.  Published as part of the  proceedings of the Colloque Franco-Britannique on  Berkeley held in Oxford, 1985. Reprinted in the series The Philosophy of George Berkeley, ed. George  Pitcher, Garland Press, 1990.
  20. ‘The Myth of Matter', Fundamenta Scientiae, 7, 1987, 323‑32. Published as part of the proceedings of the Lille  University‑Middlesex Polytechnic colloquium on ‘Science and Myth', Lille, 1985.
  21. ‘Nietzsche, Lawrence and the somatic conception of the good life', New Comparison, 1988, 40-56.  Published as part of the proceedings of the British Comparative Literature Association's 1987 conference, 'Literature and Philosophy'.
  22. Review of Peter Carruthers, Introducing Persons, Mind, 97, 1988, 310-12
  23.  Review of P. Smith and O. R. Jones, The Philosophy of Mind, Mind, 98, 1989, 311-13
  24. Review of George Berkeley; Essays and Replies, ed. D. Berman, Notes and Queries, 1988
  25. ‘Structural and Functional Criteria for the Identity of Mental States: a Dilemma for Physicalism', Hermes, 3, 1989, 128-42. (This is a journal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique:  the paper was delivered in English to a CNRS seminar in Paris, but published in French.)
  26. ‘A Dualist Account of Embodiment' in The Case for Dualism, edd. J. R. Smythies and J. Beloff, Virginia University Press, 1989, 43-57.
  27. ‘The Objects of Perceptual Experience', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 44, 1990, 151-66 (symposium with Paul Snowden).
  28. ‘The Development of Aristotle's Metaphysics: a review discussion of T.H. Irwin, Aristotle's First Principles, and D. W. Graham, Aristotle's Two Systems', Liverpool Classical Monthly, 16, 1991, 77-80.
  29. ‘Experience and Externalism: a Reply to Peter Smith', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 92, 221-3.
  30. ‘The Flight from Mind' in The Pursuit of Mind (item 3 above), 9-25.
  31. ‘Form and the Immateriality of the Intellect from Aristotle to Aquinas', in Aristotle and the Later Tradition (item 4 above) 207-226.
  32. 'Introduction' to Objections to Physicalism, (item 5 above), 1-25.
  33.   ‘The Anti‑Materialist Strategy and the "Knowledge Argument"', in Objections to Physicalism, (item 5 above), 159-83.
  34. ‘Physicalism, Externalism and Perceptual Representation', in New Representationalisms, ed. Edmond Wright, Avebury Press, 1993, 103-14.
  35. ‘Dennett and the Knowledge Argument', Analysis, 53, 1993, 174-7.
  36. ‘Varieties of Ontological Argument and the relevance of Kant's objections', Annales, 1992, 57-76.     
  37. ‘Berkeley', in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, eds N. Bunnin and E. James, Blackwell, Oxford, 1996, 555-70. 2nd ed., 2002.
  38. Review of: Vision, by Robert Schwarz, for Philosophical Review, 105, 1996, 97-9.
  39. Review of Objectivity, Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness, ed. C. Peacocke, for Philosophy, 70, 1995, 469-72.
  40. ‘How to put rigour into ‘soupy' metaphysics’, a review article of James and Bradley, by T. Sprigge, Inquiry, vol. 40, 1997, 95-114.
  41. Various reviews in TLS and THES, most recently of Timothy Sprigge's James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality, Dec. 1995.
  42.   ‘Problems with the combinatorial theory of possibility', Acta Analytica, 21, 1998, 147-61.
  43. ‘Materialism in the philosophy of mind', Encyclopaedia of Philosophy vol. 6, ed. Edward Craig,  Routledge, 1998, 173-8.
  44. ‘Representing one world: the unity of science and realism in the special sciences', in Images and Reality, the proceedings of the 1996 Miskolc conference on 'Science and Representation', ed Gabor Forrai, Miskolc University Press, 1998, 117-25.
  45. ‘Davidson and non-reductive physicalism: a tale of two cultures', Physicalism and Its Discontents, ed. Barry Loewer, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 129-51.
  46. ‘Dualism', The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, edd. Stitch and Warfield,  2003, 85-101. (There are plans to reprint this in Italian in a collection on dualism.)
  47. ‘Dualism', The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta (Internet publication, c. 14,000 words) 2003.
  48. ‘The ontology of the mental', in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, edd. M. Loux and D. Zimmerman, Oxford University Press, 2003, 527-55.
  49. ‘Some externalist strategies and their problems', Croatian Journal of Philosophy 2, 2003.
  50. ‘Ket  berkeleyanus erv a ter termeszeterol’,  in Boros Gabor (ed.) Esz es Szenvedely, Aron Kiado, Budapest, 2003, 399-412.
  51. ‘Substance', The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta (internet , publication; c15,000 words), 2005.   
  52. ‘Thought experiments, ontology and concept-dependent truthmakers', Monist special edition on ‘Methodological  problems and personal identity’, edd. T. Gendler and      D. Zimmermann, 2005, 537-53
  53. ‘Sense-data, intentionality and common-sense’, in Intentionality, eds G. Forrai and G. Kampis, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2005, 79-89.
  54. ‘Tyler Burge es a szocialis externalizmus’, in Magyar Filozofiai Szemle, 2005, 411-37.
  55. ‘Personal identity, the self, and time’, in Mind and Its Place in the World: non-reductionist approaches to the ontology of consciousness, eds A. Batthyany and A. Elitzur,  Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2006, 245-67.

Re-publications

  1. ‘Dennett and the knowledge argument' [orig. publ. in Analysis, 53, 1993, no. 42 above], There is Something about Mary, edd. P Ludlow, Y. Nagasawa and D. Stoljar, MIT Press, 2004, 69-73.
  2. ‘Matter, turning the tables', [ch.7 of  H. Robinson, Matter      and Sense,  no. 1 above,], Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology, edd T. Crane and K. Farkas, Oxford University      Press, 2004, 107-119.
  3. ‘The general form of the argument for Berkelian  idealism'      [orig. publ. in Essays on Berkeley, Oxford, 1985 and 1988, item 2 above], in the  Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, edd. T. O'Connor, D. Robb, Routledge, 2003, 81-102.

Forthcoming/in press

  1. ‘What sense, if any, can be made of the idea that the Divine Existence is identical with the Divine Essence?', in Festschrift for Paul Helm, ed. Martin Stone, Ashgate, 2006?
  2. 'A comparison of the ontology of mind in Condillac and the British Empiricists', in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.
  3. ‘The self and time', for Persons, Human and Divine, edd  P.van Inwagen and D. Zimmermann, Oxford U.P.
  4. ‘Idealism', The Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Mind, ed. B. McLaughlin, Oxford University Press. (8,000 words: probable date of publication, 2007).
  5. ‘John McDowell and ‘Darkness Within’’, in a memorial volume for Nikola Grahek, Belgrade.

Current commissions

  1. Review of The Problem of Perception, by A. D. Smith (Harvard U. P.) for Mind.
  2. 'Why Frank should not have jilted Mary', for The Case for Qualia, ed Edmond Wright, contracted to MIT Press. Submission due, November, 2006.
  3. ‘Reductionism’, for The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, eds. P. Simons and  P. LePoidevin. Submission due, November, 2007.
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