William S. Robinson

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
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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.

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

Some nonhuman animals can have pains in a morally relevant sense
     Biology and Philosophy, vol 12, 1997, pp. 51-71.

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.

Thoughts without distinctive, non-imagistic phenomenology
     Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 70, 2005, pp. 534-561.

What Is It Like to Like?
     Philosophical Psychology, vol. 19, 2006 pp. 743-765.

Experience and Representation
     in Wright, E., ed., The Case for Qualia (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford, 2008), pp. 73-87.

BOOKS
Brains and People
     Temple University Press, 1988.

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

Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness
     Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Your Brain and You: What Neuroscience Means for Us
     Goshawk Books, 2010. (Description and link to Amazon at http://yourbrainandyou.com .)