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  1. Kim’s Principle of Explanatory Exclusion.Ausonio Marras - 1998 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (3):439-451.
  2. Kim’s Supervenience Argument and Nonreductive Physicalism.Ausonio Marras - 2007 - Erkenntnis 66 (3):305 - 327.
    The aim of this paper is to show that Kim’s ‚supervenience argument’ is at best inconclusive and so fails to provide an adequate challenge to nonreductive physicalism. I shall argue, first, that Kim’s argument rests on assumptions that the nonreductive physicalist is entitled to regard as question-begging; second, that even if those assumptions are granted, it is not clear that irreducible mental causes fail to␣satisfy them; and, third, that since the argument has the overall structure of a reductio, which of (...)
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    Kim On Reduction.Ausonio Marras - 2002 - Erkenntnis 57 (2):231-257.
    In Mind in a Physical World (1998), Jaegwon Kim has recently extended his ongoing critique of `non-reductive materialist' positions in philosophy of mind by arguing that Nagel's model of reduction is the wrong paradigm in terms of which to contest the issue of psychophysical reduction, and that an altogether different model of scientific reduction – a functional model of reduction – is needed. In this paper I argue, first, that Kim's conception of the Nagelian model is substantially impoverished and potentially (...)
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  4. Consciousness and Reduction.Ausonio Marras - 2005 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (2):335-361.
    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 phenomena to be explained. The aim of this paper is to show that this (...)
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    From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case against Belief.Ausonio Marras - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (1):115-127.
    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 ; 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 “degenerating paradigm“, or that, in general, the constructs of folk theory fail to refer (...)
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  6. Psychophysical supervenience and nonreductive materialism.Ausonio Marras - 1993 - Synthese 95 (2):275-304.
    Jaegwon Kim and others have claimed that (strong) psychophysical supervenience entails the reducibility of mental properties to physical properties. I argue that this claim is unwarranted with respect to epistemic (explanatory) reducibility (either of a global or of a local sort), as well as with respect to ontological reducibility. I then attempt to show that a robust version of nonreductive materialism (which I call supervenient token-physicalism) can be defended against the charge that nonreductive materialism leads to epiphenomenalism in failing to (...)
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  7. The Supervenience Argument.Juhani Yli-Vakkuri & Ausonio Marras - 2008 - In Simone Gozzano & Francesco Orilia (eds.), Universals, Tropes and the Philosophy of Mind. Ontos Verlag. pp. 101-132.
  8. Supervenience and reducibility: An odd couple.Ausonio Marras - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (171):215-222.
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    Thinking Out Loud: an Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language.Ausonio Marras - 1996 - Philosophical Quarterly 46 (184):422-425.
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  10. Emergence and reduction: Reply to Kim.Ausonio Marras - 2006 - Synthese 151 (3):561-569.
    In this paper I examine Jaegwon Kim’s view that emergent properties are irreducible to the base properties on which they supervene. Kim’s view assumes a model of ‘functional reduction’ which he claims to be substantially different from the traditional Nagelian model. I dispute this claim and argue that the two models are only superficially different, and that on either model, properly understood, it is possible to draw a distinction between a property’s being reductively identifiable with its base property and a (...)
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    Nonreductive materialism and mental causation.Ausonio Marras - 1994 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3):465-93.
    The aim of this paper is to defend a version of nonreductive materialism against the epiphenomenalist objection to which Davidson's anomalous monism has often been held to be vulnerable. After considering a number of options for dealing with the objection, I argue that an appeal to the notion of strong supervenience (properly explicated) can both rebut a common form of the "property" ("type") epiphenomenalist objection and provide a grounding for the causal relevance ("efficacy") of mental properties.
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    Sellars on thought and language.Ausonio Marras - 1973 - Noûs 7 (2):152-163.
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    Intentionality, Mind, And Language.Ausonio Marras (ed.) - 1972 - London: University Of Illinois Press.
    Chisholm, R. M. Sentences about believing.--Cornman, J. W. Intentionality and intensionality.--Marras, A. Intentionality and cognitive sentences.--Chisholm, R. M. Notes on the logic of believing.--Luce, D. R., Sleigh, R. C., and Chisholm, R. M. Discussion on "Notes on the logic of believing."--Lycan, W. G. On intentionality and the psychological.--Hempel, C. G. Logical analysis of psychology.--Carnap, R. Logical foundations of the unity of science.--Nagel, T. Physicalism.--Ryle, G. Dispositions.--Sellars, W. Empiricism and the philosophy of mind.--Chisholm, R. M. and Sellars, W. The Chisholm-Sellars correspondence (...)
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  14. Materialism, functionalism, and supervenient qualia.Ausonio Marras - 1993 - Dialogue 32 (3):475-92.
    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—of sensings, not sensa.).
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    On Sellars' linguistic theory of conceptual activity.Ausonio Marras - 1973 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (4):471-483.
    An important aspect of Sellars' philosophy is his attempt to explicate the concept of thought on the "model" of the concept of speech. More specifically, Sellars has argued that the intentionality of "inner" episodes or thoughts is to be understood in terms of the "semantical" characteristics of intelligent linguistic behavior, and not the other way around as the "classical tradition" had supposed.To avoid misunderstanding, it is important to realize that Sellars' claim, as he explains, in Aristotelian terminology, is a claim (...)
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  16. The Scholastic Roots of Brentano's Conception of Intentionality.Ausonio Marras - 1974 - Rassegna di Scienze Filosofiche 1:213-226.
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    Intentionality and cognitive sentences.Ausonio Marras - 1968 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (December):257-263.
  18. Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: Comments on Menzies and List.Ausonio Marras & Juhani Yli-Vakkuri - 2010 - In Graham Macdonald & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Emergence in mind. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 129.
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    Reply to Sellars.Ausonio Marras - 1973 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (4):495 - 501.
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    The Thinking Self.Ausonio Marras - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (1):214-216.
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    Agent, action, and reason.Robert Williams Binkley, Richard N. Bronaugh & Ausonio Marras (eds.) - 1971 - [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press.
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    The Behaviourist Foundation of Sellars' Semantics.Ausonio Marras - 1977 - Dialogue 16 (4):664-675.
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    Intentionality revisited.Ausonio Marras - 1982 - Philosophia 12 (1-2):21-35.
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    Rules, Meaning and Behavior: Reflections on Sellars' Philosophy of Language.Ausonio Marras - 1978 - In Joseph C. Pitt (ed.), The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions: Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1976. D. Reidel. pp. 163--187.
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    The Debate on Mental Causation: Davidson and His Critics.Ausonio Marras - 1997 - Dialogue 36 (1):177-.
    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 his equally influential and far more controversial 1970 paper, “Mental Events,” he (...)
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    Sartre, J.-P., 322.R. Kirk, P. Kitcher, S. Kripke, C. LaCasse, D. Lenat, E. LePore, R. Lewontin, Mackie Jl, D. Marr & A. Marras - 2000 - In Don Ross, Andrew Brook & David Thompson (eds.), Dennett’s Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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    The Prospects for Non-reductive Physicalism.Ausonio Marras - 2022 - ProtoSociology 39:107-132.
    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 perhaps the most powerful argument against NP, namely, Jaegwon Kim’s argument to (...)
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  28. On Putnam's critique of metaphysical realism: Mind-body identity and supervenience.Ausonio Marras - 2001 - Synthese 126 (3):407-426.
    As part of his ongoing critique of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam has recently argued that current materialist theories of mind that locate mental phenomena in the brain can make no sense of the proposed identifications of mental states with physical (or physical cum computational) states, or of the supervenience of mental properties with physical properties. The aim of this paper is to undermine Putnam's objections and reassert the intelligibility – and perhaps the plausibility – of some form of mind-body identity (...)
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  29. Agent, Action, and Reason. Edited by Robert Binkley, Richard Bronaugh [and] Ausonio Marras. --.Robert Williams ed Binkley, Richard jt ed Bronaugh, Ausonio Marras & Ont London - 1971 - University of Toronto Press.
     
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    Forms of representation: proceedings of the 1972 Philosophy Colloquium of the University of Western Ontario.B. Freed, Ausonio Marras & Patrick Maynard (eds.) - 1975 - New York: American Elsevier Pub. Co..
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    Intentionality without extensionality.Robert J. Lithown & Ausonio Marras - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 25 (6):403 - 410.
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    (12 other versions)Acknowledgments.Ausonio Marras, R. N. Bronaugh & Robert W. Binkley - 1973 - In Roger Trigg (ed.), Agent, Action, and Reason. Wiley-Blackwell.
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  33. And Nonreductive Physicalism.Ausonio Marras - unknown
    The aim of this paper is to show that KimÕs ‘supervenience argumentÕ is at best inconclusive and so fails to provide an adequate challenge to nonreductive physicalism. I shall argue, first, that KimÕs argument rests on assumptions that the nonreductive physicalist is entitled to regard as question-begging; second, that even if those assumptions are granted, it is not clear that irreducible mental causes fail to satisfy them; and, third, that since the argument has the overall structure of a reductio, which (...)
     
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    Abstract of Comments: Taming the Wild Epistemic Engine: Reply to the Churchlands.Ausonio Marras - 1983 - Noûs 17 (1):21 - 22.
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  35. Behaviorism.A. Marras - 1995 - In Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 67--68.
     
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    (4 other versions)Critical notice.Ausonio Marras - 1983 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (2):277-291.
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    Commonsense Refutations of Eliminativism.Ausonio Marras - 2004 - In Christina E. Erneling (ed.), The Mind As a Scientific Object: Between Brain and Culture. Oxford University Press. pp. 206.
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    Davidson on Intentional Causation.Ausonio Marras - 1999 - In Denis Fisette (ed.), Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution. Springer. pp. 273--285.
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    (28 other versions)Frontmatter.Ausonio Marras, R. N. Bronaugh & Robert W. Binkley - 1973 - In Roger Trigg (ed.), Agent, Action, and Reason. Wiley-Blackwell.
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    Functionalism without multiple supervenience.Ausonio Marras - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):632-632.
    Multiple supervenience is a problematic notion whose role can well be served by a contextualized or properly restricted standard notion of supervenience. It is furthermore not needed to defend functionalism against Kim's charge that cross-classifying taxonomies imply a serious form of dualism; nor does Ross & Spurrett's (R&S's) Kitcherian account of the metaphysics of causation crucially depend on multiple supervenience.
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  41. Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, and Alexander Ulfig (eds.) Language, Mind and Epistemology: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy.A. Marras - 1997 - Minds and Machines 7:133-138.
  42. (1 other version)Hector-Neri Castañeda, Thinking, Language, and Experience Reviewed by.Ausonio Marras - 1991 - Philosophy in Review 11 (1):17-20.
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    Index.Ausonio Marras, R. N. Bronaugh & Robert W. Binkley - 1973 - In Roger Trigg (ed.), Agent, Action, and Reason. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 201-204.
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  44. Intentionality and Mental Acts.Ausonio Marras - 1967 - Dissertation, Duke University
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    Intentionality and probability: Reply to Yoder.Ausonio Marras - 1987 - Philosophia 17 (3):307-310.
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    Intentionality and Physicalism: a Resolvable Dispute.Ausonio Marras - 1980 - Analyse & Kritik 2 (1):1-14.
    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 and an understanding of functional systems and artificial intelligence models may enable us to reconstruct the (...)
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  47. Intentionality and the Computational Theory of the Mind.A. Marras - 1998 - Metalogicon 2:81-102.
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    Pollock on how to build a person.Ausonio Marras - 1993 - Dialogue 32 (3):595-605.
  49. Renouncing existential presuppositions.A. Marras - 1978 - Logique Et Analyse 21 (82):355.
     
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  50. Recent Publications.Ausonio Marras - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (1):217.
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