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Robert Gordon

University of Missouri, St. Louis
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  • University of Missouri, St. Louis
    Department of Philosophy
    Professor Emeritus
Columbia University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1965
Homepage
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Cognitive Sciences
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  • All publications (58)
  •  7
    Folk Psychology as Mental Simulation
    with Luca Barlassina
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1997.
  •  20
    Folk Psychology as Simulation
    Mind and Language 1 (2): 158-171. 2007.
  •  6
    Reply to Perner and Howes
    Mind and Language 7 (1‐2): 98-103. 2007.
  •  20
    The Simulation Theory: Objections and Misconceptions
    Mind and Language 7 (1‐2): 11-34. 2007.
  •  13
    Reply to Stich and Nichols
    Mind and Language 7 (1‐2): 87-97. 2007.
  • The Structure of Emotions: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy
    Cambridge University Press. 1990.
    The Structure of Emotions argues that emotion concepts should have a much more important role in the social and behavioural sciences than they now enjoy, and shows that certain influential psychological theories of emotions overlook the explanatory power of our emotion concepts. Professor Gordon also outlines a new account of the nature of commonsense (or 'folk') psychology in general.
  • The Argument From Similar Cases in Moral Discourse
    Dissertation, Columbia University. 1965.
  • Emotion
    with Louis C. Charland
    In Donald Borchert (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Vol. 2) (2nd Edition), . pp. 197-203. 2005.
    Emotions
  •  113
    Desire and self-intervention
    Noûs 20 (2): 221-238. 1986.
    Ethics
  •  85
    The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon Canadian Mental Health Law: The Dawn of a New Era or Business as Usual?
    with Simon N. Verdun-Jones
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 14 (3-4): 190-197. 1986.
    RightsBiomedical EthicsPolitical EthicsMedical Ethics
  •  54
    Against Methodological Fundamentalism: Towards a Science for a Complex Dynamic Psychology
    Psychological research has generally suffered from methodological fundamentalism, which is an overly strict interpretation of what is considered “scientific” and has created a psychology of triviality. Methodological fundamentalism often constricts the study of a complex dynamic psychology that encompasses both observed and unobserved reality with interacting and interdependent variables. In Against Method, Feyerabend (1993) posits there could be no set scientific method and that great scientist…Read more
    Psychological research has generally suffered from methodological fundamentalism, which is an overly strict interpretation of what is considered “scientific” and has created a psychology of triviality. Methodological fundamentalism often constricts the study of a complex dynamic psychology that encompasses both observed and unobserved reality with interacting and interdependent variables. In Against Method, Feyerabend (1993) posits there could be no set scientific method and that great scientists are methodological opportunists who use any methodology that helps with discovery. As opposed to Fisher’s (1925) arbitrary, categorical standard of p
  •  70
    Cross slip and the plastic deformation of NaCl single and polycrystals at high pressure
    with Erdem Aladag and Lance A. Davis
    Philosophical Magazine 21 (171): 469-478. 1970.
  • Representing minds
    investigation).<sup>{1}</sup> We project ourselves into what, from his remarks and other indications, we imagine the speaker's state of mind to have been, . . . even into what from his behavior we imagine a mouse's state of mind to have been, and dramatize it as a belief, wish or striving, verbalized as seems relevant and natural to us in the state thus
  •  5
    'Radical' simulationism
    In Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith (eds.), Theories of Theories of Mind, Cambridge University Press. 1996.
    The Simulation Theory
  • The Structure of Emotions: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy
    Behavior and Philosophy 18 (1): 63-67. 1990.
    Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  •  15
    Department of Philosophy, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri FRIDAY, April 8 SATURDAY, April 9 Welcome: Roger Gibson University (review)
    with Mark Johnson, Andy Clark, and Moral Objectivity
    Minds and Machines 3 (511). 1993.
    Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
  •  39
    Benefits and Costs of a Propositional Focus: Response to Deigh
    Behavior and Philosophy 18 (2). 1990.
  •  372
    Simulation theory
    with Joe Cruz
    In Lynn Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group. 2003.
    What is the simulation theory? Arguments for simulation theory Simulation theory versus theory theory Simulation theory and cognitive science Versions of simulation theory A possible test of the simulation theory.
    The Simulation Theory
  • Moorean pretense
    In Mitchell S. Green & John N. Williams (eds.), Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality, and the First Person, Oxford University Press. 2007.
    Moore's Paradox
  •  14
    Autism and the "theory of mind" debate
    with John A. Barker
    In George Graham & G. Lynn Stephens (eds.), Philosophical Psychopathology, Mit Press. 1994.
    The Simulation TheoryMental Disorders
  •  72
    The Structure of Emotions: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy
    with Robert C. Roberts
    Philosophical Review 99 (2): 266. 1990.
    Emotions
  •  79
    The Morality of Self-Interest (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 64 (3): 115-118. 1967.
  •  337
    Sympathy, simulation, and the impartial spectator
    In L. May, Michael Friedman & A. Clark (eds.), Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science, Mit Press. pp. 727-742. 1996.
    The Simulation TheoryEmpathy and Sympathy
  •  302
    Sympathy, simulation, and the impartial spectator
    Ethics 105 (4): 727-742. 1995.
    Empathy and SympathyAdam Smith
  •  130
    Sellars’s Ryleans Revisited
    ProtoSociology 14 102-114. 2000.
    Wilfrid Sellars's essay, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," (1) introduced, although it did not exactly endorse, what many philosophers consider the first defense of functionalism in the philosophy of mind and the original "theory" theory of commonsense psychology
    Theory of Mind and Folk Psychology, MiscWilfrid SellarsThe Theory Theory
  •  112
    Empathy, simulation, and Pam
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (1): 37-37. 2001.
    The wealth of important and convergent evidence discussed in the target article contrasts with the poorly conceived theory put forward to explain it. The simulation theory does a better job of explaining how automatic “mirroring” mechanisms might work together with high-level cognitive processes. It also explains what the authors' PAM theory merely stipulates.
    Areas of Artificial Intelligence
  •  405
    The simulation theory: Objections and misconceptions
    Mind and Language 7 (1-2): 11-34. 1992.
    The Simulation TheoryThe Theory Theory
  •  78
    The Structure of Emotions
    with Ronald De Sousa
    Journal of Philosophy 86 (9): 493-504. 1989.
    Emotions
  •  144
    The prior question: Do human primates have a theory of mind?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (1): 120-121. 1998.
    Given Heyes's construal of there is still no convincing evidence of theory of mind in human primates, much less nonhuman. Rather than making unfounded assumptions about what underlies human social competence, one should ask what mechanisms other primates have and then inquire whether more sophisticated elaborations of those might not account for much of human competence
    Theory of Mind and Folk Psychology, Misc
  •  206
    The passivity of emotions
    Philosophical Review 95 (3): 339-60. 1986.
    Aspects of Emotion, MiscMoral Emotion, MiscResponsibility and EmotionEuropean PhilosophyPhenomenolog…Read more
    Aspects of Emotion, MiscMoral Emotion, MiscResponsibility and EmotionEuropean PhilosophyPhenomenology
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