Robert C. Richardson
Ph.D., 1976, University of Chicago

robert.richardson@uc.edu

Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati
P. O. Box 210374
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374

Areas of Specialization

Richardson's primary research interests include issues in philosophy of science, cognitive science, and the history of modern philosophy. Within philosophy of science, Richardson works on philosophy of biology (particularly issues related to evolutionary theory and development) and on theories of scientific change. Within cognitive science, Richardson focuses on accounts of human judgment, as well as on broader issues concerning philosophy and psychology.

Selected Publications

Philosophy of Science

Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research, with W. Bechtel. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Cognitive Science

"Heuristics and Satisficing," in W. Bechtel and G. Graham, eds., A Companion to Cognitive Science.
(Blackwell, 1997).

"How Not to Demarcate Cognitive Science and Folk Psychology" (with W. E. Morris), Minds and
Machines 5 (1995): pp. 339-55.

"The Prospects for an Evolutionary Psychology: Human Language and Human Reasoning," Minds
and Machines 6 (1996): pp. 541-57.

Philosophy of Biology

"Biology and Ideology: The Interpenetration of Science and Values," Philosophy of Science 51 (1984):
pp. 396-420.

"Form and Order in Evolutionary Biology," in M. A. Boden, ed., The Philosophy of Artificial Life (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 146-72.

"Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing Systems," in Self-Organization and Emergence in the Life
Sciences, edited by Bernard Feltz, 2005.

"Natural and Artificial Complexity," Philosophy of Science, 64 Supplement (1997): 255-267.

History of Modern Philosophy

"The 'Scandal' of Cartesian Interactionism," Mind 90 (1982): pp. 20-37.

"Brentano on Intentional Inexistence and the Distinction Between Mental and Physical Phenomena," Archiv für Geschichte die Philosophie 65 (1983): pp. 250-282.

"Union and Interaction of Body and Soul," Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1985): pp. 221-226.