UC Irvine Philosophy Colloqium

Speaker: Stephen P. Stich
University of California, San Diego

Topic: "The Problem of Cognitive Diversity"

October 14, 1987

STEPHEN P. STICH

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

1968

• (with Peter G. Hinman and Jaegwon Kim.) "Logical Truth Revisited." Journal of Philosophy (September 5, 1968), 65(17):495-500.

1970

• "Dissonant Notes on the Theory of Reference." Nous (November 1970), 4(4):385-397.

1971

• "What Every Speaker Knows." Philosophical Review (October 1971), 80(4):476-496.

1972

• "Grammar, Psychology, and Indeterminacy." Journal of Philosophy (October 7, 1972), 69(22):799-818.

1973

• (with John Tinnon and Laurence Sklar.) "Entailment and the Verificationist Program." Ratio (June 1973), 15(1):84-97.

• "What Every Grammar Does: A Reply to Professor Arbini." Philosophia (January 1973), 3(1):85-96.

1974

• Review of Jerrold J. Katz' Underlying Reality of Language and Its Philosophical Import. Philosophical Review (April 1974), 83(2):259-263.

1975

• "Competence and Indeterminacy." In David Cohen and Jesica R. Wirth, eds., Testing Linguistic Hypotheses, pp. 93-109. Washington, DC: Hemisphere, 1975.

• "Grammars, Psychological Theories and Turing Machines." PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, 1975.

• Edited. Innate Ideas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

• "Logical Form and Natural Language." Philosophical Studies (December 1975), 28(6):397-418.

1976

• "Davidson's Semantic Program." Canadian Journal of Philosophy (June 1976), 6(2):201-227.

1978

• "Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis." Monist (June 1976), 6(2):201-227.

• "Beliefs and Subdoxassstic States." Philosophy of Science (December 1978), 45(4):499-518.

• "Cognition and Consciousness in Non-Human Species." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (December 1978), 1(4):604-605.
       Commentary on David Premack and Guy Woodruff's "Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind?" and Donald R. Griffin's "Prospects for a Cognitive Ethology," and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaughnd Sally Boysen's "Linguistically Mediated Tool Use and Exchange by Chimpanzees Pan troglodytes)."

• "Empiricism, Innateness, and Linguistic Universals." Philosophical Studies (April 1978), 33(3):273-286.

• "The Recombinant DNA Debate." Philosophy & Public Affairs (Spring 1978), 7(3):187-205.

1979

• "Between Chomskian Rationalism and Popperian Empiricism." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (December 1979), 30(4):329-347.

• "Do Animals Have Beliefs?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy (March 1979), 57(1):15-28.

• Edited (with David A. Jackson.) The Recombinant DNA Debate. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979,

• "The Recombinant DNA Debate: Some Philosophical Considerations." In David A. Jackson and Stephen P. Stich, eds., The Recombinant DNA Debate, pp. 183-202. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979.

1980

• "Computation without Representation." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (March 1980), 3(1):152.
       Commentary on Zenon W. Pylyshyn's "Computation and Cognition: Issues in the Foundations of Cognitive Science."

• "Desiring, Believing, and Doing." Review of Christopher Peacocke's Holistic Explanation: Action, Space, Interpretation. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (June 27, 1980), 4031:737-738.

• "Headaches." Review of Daniel C. Dennett's Brainstorms. Philosophical Books (April 1980), 21(2):65-73.

• (with Richard E. Nisbett.) "Justification and the psychology of Human Reasoning." Philosophy of Science (June 1980), 47(2):188-202.

• "Paying the Price for Methodological Solipsism." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (March 1980), 3(1):97-98.
       Commentary on J.A. Fodor's "Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology."

• "What Every Speaker Cognizes." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (March 1980), 3(1):39-40.
       Commentary on Noam Chomsky's "Rules and Representations."

1981

• "Can Popperians Learn to Talk?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (June 1981), 32(2):157-164.

• "Dennett on Intentional Systems." Philosophical Topics (Spring 1981), 12(1):39-62.

• "Inferential Competence--Right: Right You Are, If You Think You Are." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (September 1981), 4(3):353-354.
       Commentary on L. Jonathan Cohen's "Can Human Irrationality Be Experimentally Demonstrated?"

• "Is Knowledge a Social Concept?" Review of D.W. Hamlyn's Experience and the Growth of Understanding. Contemporary Psychology (March 1981), 26(3):205.

• "The Many Rights to Health and Health Care." In Marc D. Basson, ed., Rights and Responsibilities in Modern Medicine, pp. 15-30. Proceedings of the 1979-1980 Conferences on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. New York: A.R. Liss, 1981.

• "On the Relation between Occurrents and Contentful Mental States." Inquiry (October 1981), 24(3):353-358.

• "Philosophers Make House Calls." Human Sciences Management (April 1981), 2(1):54-55.

• Review of Aaron Sloman's The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind. Philosophical Review (April 1981), 90(2):300-307.

1982

• "The Compleat Cognitivist." Review of Jerry A. Fodor's Representations: Philosophical Essays on the Foundations of Cogntive Science. Contemporary Psychology (June 1982), 27(6):419-421.

• "Genetic Engineering, Epistemology of Risk, and the BValue of Life." In L. Jonathan Cohen, ed., Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, pp. 809-834. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Amsterdam & New York: North-Holland, 1982.

• "Genetic Engineering: How Should Science be Controlled?" In Tom Regan and Donald VanDeVeer, eds., And Justice For All, pp. 86-115. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1982.

• "On the Ascription of Content." In Andrew Woodfield, ed., Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality, pp. 153-206. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

• Review of Israel Scheffler's Beyond the Letter: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ambiguity, Vagueness and Metaphor in Language. Linguistics and Philosophy (1982), 5(2):295-297.

1983

• "Beastly Brainwork." Review of Stephen Walker's Animal Thought. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (April 29, 1983), 4178:424.

• From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1983.

• Review of Martin D. Ringle, ed., Philosophical Perspectives in Arificial Intelligence. Philosophical Review (April 1983), 92(2):280-282.

1984

• "Armstrong on Belief." In Radu J. Bogdan, ed., D.M. Armstrong, pp. 121-138. Dordrecht, Holland & Boston: Reidel, 1984.

• (with Richard Nisbett.) "Expertise, Justification, and the Psychology of Inductive Reasoning." In Thomas L. Haskell, ed., The Authority of Experts: Studies in History and Theory, pp. 226-241. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

• "Is Behaviorism Vacuous?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences (December 1984), 7(4):647-649.
       Commentary on B.F. Skinner's "Behaviorism at Fifty."

• "Relativism, Rationality and the Limits of Intentional Description." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (July 1984), 65(3):211-235.

• "Self-Awareness and Straw Men." Review of Stanton Peele's The Science of Experience: A New Direction for Psychology. Contemporary Psychology (May 1984), 29(5):398-399.

• "Thinking as Per Program." Review of P.N. Johnson-Laird's Mental Models: Towards a Cogntive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (February 24, 1984), 4221:189.

1985

• "Could Man Be an Irrational Animal? Some Notes on the Epistemology of Rationality?" Synthese (July 1985), 64(1):115-135.

• "Could Man be an Irrational Animal? Some Notes on the Epistemology of Rationality." In Hilary Korblith, ed., Naturalizing Epistemology. Cambridge, MA: Bradford, 1985.

• "Grammar, Psychology and Indeterminacy." In Jerrold J. Katz, ed., The Philosophy of Linguistics, pp. 126-145. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Reprint of "Grammar, Psychology and Indeterminacy" (1972).

• Review of Joseph Margolis' Philosophy of Psychology. Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes Rendus en Philosophie (April 1985), 5(4):166-167.

• Review of Sidney Shoemaker and Carl Ginet, eds., Knowledge and Mind: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Norman Malcolm. Ethics (January 1985), 95(2):357-358.

• "Sorting out the Right Properties." Review of Elliott Sober's The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus, and Mark Ridley's The Problems of Evolution. TLS. Times Literary Supplement (November 29, 1985), 4313:1367-1368.

1986

• "Are Belief Predicates Systematically Ambiguous?" In Radu J. Bogdan, ed., Belief: Form, Content and Function, pp. 119-147. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

• "How Thoughts Get Their Content." Review of Christopher Peacocke's Sense and Content: Experience, Thought, and Their Relations. Contemporary Psychology (April 1986), 31(4):267-268.

• Review of John Elkington's The Gene Factory, Daniel J. Kevles' In the name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, and Marc Lappe's Broken Code: The Exploitation of DNA. Hastings Center Report (April 1986), 16(2):39-42.

1987

• Review of John Searle's Minds, Brains and Science. Philosophical Review (January 1987), 96(1):129-133.

Forthcoming

• The Fragmentation of Reason. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.