Ausonio Marras
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1060077 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ausonio Marras |
| PRENOMES | Ausonio |
| SOBRENOME | Marras |
| ASSINATURA | MARRAS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Prospects for Non-reductive Physicalism
The aim of this paper is provide a reassessment of Nonreductive Physicalism (NP) as a position in philosophy of mind in view of influential critiques of some of its central assumptions and implications. First, I undertake to explicate NP’s foundational concepts and metaphysical commitments in the attempt to establish NP’s internal coherence. Second, I defend NP against an attempt to discredit its theoretical plausibility by responding to what is …
Emergence and reduction
Consciousness and Reduction
A number of philosophers—among them Joseph Levine, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson and Jaegwon Kim—have claimed that there are conceptual grounds sufficient for ruling out the possibility of a reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness. Their claim assumes a functional model of reduction (regarded by Kim as an alternative to the traditional Nagelian model) which requires an a priori entailment from the facts in the reduction base to the phen…
Audi on Substantive vs Instrumental Rationality
On Putnam's Critique of Metaphysical Realism
Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality
The Debate on Mental Causation
The flurry of debates on mental causation in recent years has largely been occasioned by Donald Davidson's original and controversial views on the role of mind in the causation and explanation of behaviour. In his classic 1963 paper, “Actions, Reasons, and Causes,” Davidson argued, against the prevailing opinion of the Ryleans and later-Wittgensteineans, that in order to be genuinely explanatory of human behaviour, reasons must be causes; and in …
Thinking Out Loud
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Thinking Out Loud: an Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language. By Christopher Gauker. (Princeton UP, 1994. Pp. x + 327. Price 135.00.) Ausonio Marras Ausonio Marras University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 422–425, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956464 Published: 01 July 199…
Psychophysical supervenience and nonreductive materialism
Pollock on How to Build a Person
Pollock's How to Build a Person is a highly sophisticated defence of the “strong” Artificial Intelligence (AI) program within the framework of a physicalist/functionalist ontology. Its central thesis is as robust as any defender of strong AI could possibly want it to be: to build a person—“a thing that literally thinks, feels, and is conscious” (p. ix)—is to build a physical system that adequately models human rationality; and building such a sys…
Supervenience and Reducibility
Journal Article Supervenience And Reductibility: An Odd Couple Get access Ausonio Marras Ausonio Marras University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 215–222, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220371 Published: 01 April 1993
Materialism, Functionalism and Supervenient Qualia
Qualia are phenomenal properties of sensations and perceptual states: they are whatever it is that gives such states their "felt," qualitative character. (In speaking of sensations, I speak of course not of mental objects or mental contents, but of mental events-ofsensings, notsensa
Natural Signs
The Thinking Self
Stephen Stich's From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science
The aim of Stich's book is to further the controversial thesis that the conceptual framework of ‘folk’ psychology will have no significant role to play in a mature cognitive science. Skepticism about the scientific relevance of folk psychology has been voiced by others (behaviorists and nonbehaviorists alike); but Stich's critique is both novel and more fully developed than earlier ones. The charge is not–-or not simply–-that ‘folk theory’ is a “…
The Weak and the Strong RTM
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The Churchlands on Methodological Solipsism and Computational Psychology
This paper addresses a recent argument of the Churchlands against the “linguistic-rationalist” tradition exemplified by current cognitive-computational psychology. Because of its commitment to methodological solipsism–the argument goes–computational psychology cannot provide an account of how organisms are able to represent and “hook up to” the world. First I attempt to determine the exact nature of this charge and its relation to the Churchlands…
Intentionality and Physicalism
This paper discusses the traditional antagonism between the Intentionalist and the Physicalist paradigms of the nature of mind and human behaviour. After tracing the development of the concept of intentionality in contemporary analytic philosophy and delineating some of the problems it presented for the so-called Thesis of Physicalism in several of its formulations, the paper proceeds to show how a liberalized methodology of theory construction a…
The Behaviourist Foundation of Sellars' Semantics
It is well known that Sellars' account of linguistic meaning is closely linked to a framework of Rylean-behaviouristic concepts. It is far from clear, however, what the nature of this relation exactly is. Some (e.g., Chisholm, [2], 523) have construed this relation as conceptually so tight as to commit Sellars to logical behaviourism about meaning: semantical statements would be shorthand ways of talking about overt verbal and nonverbal behaviour…
Intentionality, Mind, and Language
Sellars on thought and Language
According to a venerable philosophical tradition, the concepts speech and thought are, in some important sense, analogically related. The analogy can be illustrated in a variety ways. For example, both speech and thought may be said to refer to, or be about, something or other. Both speech and thought are reportable by means indirect speech constructions. What I judge, as well as what I say, may be said to be true or false, interesting or uninter…
Agent, Action, and Reason
Book Reviews Agent, Action, and Reason. Edited by Robert Binkley, Richard Bronaugh and Ausonio Marras. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1971. Pp. vii + 202. Price £2.50) Roger Trigg Roger Trigg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 90, January 1973, Pages 87–89, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217746 Published: 01 January 1973
Agent, Action, and Reason
This volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action.
Intentionality and Cognitive Sentences
Psychophysical supervenience and nonreductive materialism
Consciousness and Reduction
A number of philosophers—among them Joseph Levine, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson and Jaegwon Kim—have claimed that there are conceptual grounds sufficient for ruling out the possibility of a reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness. Their claim assumes a functional model of reduction (regarded by Kim as an alternative to the traditional Nagelian model) which requires an a priori entailment from the facts in the reduction base to the phen…
Supervenience and Reducibility
Journal Article Supervenience And Reductibility: An Odd Couple Get access Ausonio Marras Ausonio Marras University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 215–222, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220371 Published: 01 April 1993
Materialism, Functionalism and Supervenient Qualia
Qualia are phenomenal properties of sensations and perceptual states: they are whatever it is that gives such states their "felt," qualitative character. (In speaking of sensations, I speak of course not of mental objects or mental contents, but of mental events-ofsensings, notsensa
Intentionality, Mind, and Language
Emergence and reduction
Audi on Substantive vs Instrumental Rationality
Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality
The Behaviourist Foundation of Sellars' Semantics
It is well known that Sellars' account of linguistic meaning is closely linked to a framework of Rylean-behaviouristic concepts. It is far from clear, however, what the nature of this relation exactly is. Some (e.g., Chisholm, [2], 523) have construed this relation as conceptually so tight as to commit Sellars to logical behaviourism about meaning: semantical statements would be shorthand ways of talking about overt verbal and nonverbal behaviour…
Intentionality and Cognitive Sentences
Intentionality and Cognitive Sentences
Agent, Action, and Reason
This volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action.
Sellars on thought and Language
According to a venerable philosophical tradition, the concepts speech and thought are, in some important sense, analogically related. The analogy can be illustrated in a variety ways. For example, both speech and thought may be said to refer to, or be about, something or other. Both speech and thought are reportable by means indirect speech constructions. What I judge, as well as what I say, may be said to be true or false, interesting or uninter…
Agent, Action, and Reason
Book Reviews Agent, Action, and Reason. Edited by Robert Binkley, Richard Bronaugh and Ausonio Marras. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1971. Pp. vii + 202. Price £2.50) Roger Trigg Roger Trigg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 90, January 1973, Pages 87–89, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217746 Published: 01 January 1973
Intentionality, Mind, and Language
The Behaviourist Foundation of Sellars' Semantics
It is well known that Sellars' account of linguistic meaning is closely linked to a framework of Rylean-behaviouristic concepts. It is far from clear, however, what the nature of this relation exactly is. Some (e.g., Chisholm, [2], 523) have construed this relation as conceptually so tight as to commit Sellars to logical behaviourism about meaning: semantical statements would be shorthand ways of talking about overt verbal and nonverbal behaviour…
Intentionality and Physicalism
This paper discusses the traditional antagonism between the Intentionalist and the Physicalist paradigms of the nature of mind and human behaviour. After tracing the development of the concept of intentionality in contemporary analytic philosophy and delineating some of the problems it presented for the so-called Thesis of Physicalism in several of its formulations, the paper proceeds to show how a liberalized methodology of theory construction a…
The Churchlands on Methodological Solipsism and Computational Psychology
This paper addresses a recent argument of the Churchlands against the “linguistic-rationalist” tradition exemplified by current cognitive-computational psychology. Because of its commitment to methodological solipsism–the argument goes–computational psychology cannot provide an account of how organisms are able to represent and “hook up to” the world. First I attempt to determine the exact nature of this charge and its relation to the Churchlands…
Stephen Stich's From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science
The aim of Stich's book is to further the controversial thesis that the conceptual framework of ‘folk’ psychology will have no significant role to play in a mature cognitive science. Skepticism about the scientific relevance of folk psychology has been voiced by others (behaviorists and nonbehaviorists alike); but Stich's critique is both novel and more fully developed than earlier ones. The charge is not–-or not simply–-that ‘folk theory’ is a “…
The Weak and the Strong RTM
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Thinking Self
Natural Signs
Psychophysical supervenience and nonreductive materialism
Pollock on How to Build a Person
Pollock's How to Build a Person is a highly sophisticated defence of the “strong” Artificial Intelligence (AI) program within the framework of a physicalist/functionalist ontology. Its central thesis is as robust as any defender of strong AI could possibly want it to be: to build a person—“a thing that literally thinks, feels, and is conscious” (p. ix)—is to build a physical system that adequately models human rationality; and building such a sys…
Supervenience and Reducibility
Journal Article Supervenience And Reductibility: An Odd Couple Get access Ausonio Marras Ausonio Marras University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 215–222, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220371 Published: 01 April 1993
Materialism, Functionalism and Supervenient Qualia
Qualia are phenomenal properties of sensations and perceptual states: they are whatever it is that gives such states their "felt," qualitative character. (In speaking of sensations, I speak of course not of mental objects or mental contents, but of mental events-ofsensings, notsensa
Thinking Out Loud
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Thinking Out Loud: an Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language. By Christopher Gauker. (Princeton UP, 1994. Pp. x + 327. Price 135.00.) Ausonio Marras Ausonio Marras University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 422–425, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956464 Published: 01 July 199…
The Debate on Mental Causation
The flurry of debates on mental causation in recent years has largely been occasioned by Donald Davidson's original and controversial views on the role of mind in the causation and explanation of behaviour. In his classic 1963 paper, “Actions, Reasons, and Causes,” Davidson argued, against the prevailing opinion of the Ryleans and later-Wittgensteineans, that in order to be genuinely explanatory of human behaviour, reasons must be causes; and in …
Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality
On Putnam's Critique of Metaphysical Realism
Audi on Substantive vs Instrumental Rationality
Consciousness and Reduction
A number of philosophers—among them Joseph Levine, David Chalmers, Frank Jackson and Jaegwon Kim—have claimed that there are conceptual grounds sufficient for ruling out the possibility of a reductive explanation of phenomenal consciousness. Their claim assumes a functional model of reduction (regarded by Kim as an alternative to the traditional Nagelian model) which requires an a priori entailment from the facts in the reduction base to the phen…
Emergence and reduction
The Prospects for Non-reductive Physicalism
The aim of this paper is provide a reassessment of Nonreductive Physicalism (NP) as a position in philosophy of mind in view of influential critiques of some of its central assumptions and implications. First, I undertake to explicate NP’s foundational concepts and metaphysical commitments in the attempt to establish NP’s internal coherence. Second, I defend NP against an attempt to discredit its theoretical plausibility by responding to what is …
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