WILLIAM S. ROBINSON
wsrob@iastate.edu
Homepage | www.public.iastate.edu/~wsrob/homepage

A.B., Yale University, 1962, Mathematics

Ph.D, Indiana University, 1966, Philosophy

Lecturer in Philosophy, Indiana University, 1965-1966

Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, 1966

Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Hebei University, Baoding, People's Republic of China,
spring semester, 1987.

ARTICLES (partial list)

Why I am a dualist
     In Philosophy: The Basic Issues
     ed. E. D. Klemke, A. D. Kline, and R. Hollinger, eds.
     St. Martin's Press, 1982, pp. 169-176.

Causation, sensations, and knowledge
     Mind, vol. 91, 1982, pp. 524-540.

States and beliefs
     Mind, vol. 99, 1990, pp. 33-51.

Can animals have pains in a morally relevant sense?-Yes.
     Ag Bioethics Forum, December 1992, pp. 3-4.

Brain symbols and cornputationalist explanation
     Minds and machines, vol. 5, 1995, pp. 25-44.

Epiphenomenalism
     Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, archive edition, March 31, 1999
     <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/Phenomenalism>

Qualia realism and neural activation patterns
     Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 6, 1999, pp. 65-80.

BOOKS
Brains and People
     Temple University Press, 1988.

Computers, Minds, and Robots
     Temple University Press, 1992.

Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness
     Cambridge University Press, 2004.