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Donald F. Gustafson

Professor of Philosophy
Graduate Faculty
McMicken College of Arts and Sciences

Don Gustafson's main interests are in the philosophy of psychology. Recently he has focused on the science of pain--neurophysiological, psychological, pharmacological, and clinical aspects. More recently still, he has been concerned with the question of qualia--what they are said to be, and theoretical implications of the existence of qualia.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati

P. O. Box 210374
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0374

Fax: 859-380-8646
Office: 513-556-6335
E-mail: gustafdf@email.uc.edu

EDUCATION

Ph. D. (Philosophy) University of Texas at Austin, 1961
M.A. (Philosophy) University of Texas at Austin, 1959
B.A. (Philosophy and Psychology) University of Texas at Austin, 1957

APPOINTMENTS

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 2001-Present
Professor of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 1971-2001
Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, 1986 Spring
Head, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 1971-77
Visiting Professor of Phil., Univ. of Utah, 1975-76
Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, 1970-71
Visiting Associate Prof. of Phil., Rice University, 1967-68
Associate Professor of Phil., University of Colorado, 1966-70
Visiting Assistant Prof. of Phil., Syracuse Univ., 1966 Spring
Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, 1965 Fall
Assistant Professor of Phil., University of Colorado, 1962-65
Acting Assistant Prof. of Phil., Univ. of Colorado, 1961-62
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, 1959-61

MEMBERSHIPS

American Philosophical Association
Mountain-Plains Philosophical Conference, 1961-72; Secretary-Treasurer, 1971-72
Aristotelian Society
Mind Association
Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate
European Society for Philosophy and Psychology

HONORS

Faculty Mentor, President's Award Recipient, Honors Day Convocation, University of Colorodo, Spring 1965
Teaching Excellence, Cash Award as Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, Spring 1960
Fellow of the Graduate School, University of Cincinnati, 1994

RESEARCH INTEREST

Philosophy of psychology

PUBLICATIONS:
articles, books, critical studies, edited works, and reviews

Forthcoming

"Categorizing Pain" in Consciousness and Emothion, M. Aaydele (ed.) MIT Press.

2001

"Philosophical Biology of Pain" Southwestern Philosophical Association Proceedings, 1k7, 1, pp. 9-18.

2000

"On the Supposed Utility of a Fold Psychology of Pain," Brain and Mind, 1, 2, pp. 223-228
"Our Choice Between Actual and Remembered Pain and Our Flawed Preferences," Philosophical Psychology, 13, 1, pp. 111-119.

1999

Review: The Nature of consciousmess: Philosophical Debates, ed. by N. Block, O. Flanagan and G. Guzelde, MIT Press, 1997, Philosophical Psychology, 12, 1 pp. 95-101.

1998

Review: Deconstructing the ind, Stephen Stich, 1996. Philosophical Psychology, 11, 4, pp. 542-546.
"Pain, Qualia and the Explanatory Gap." Phiolosophical Psychology, 11, 3, pp. 375-387.
"Wittgenstein's Problem and the Methods of Psychology: How grammar depends on facts," with John T. Jost, Theory and Psychology, 8, 4, pp. 463-479.

1995

"Eighteen months on the planet and already a psychological theorist," Philosophical Psychology, 8, 2, 125-137.
"Belief in Pain," Consciousness and Cognition, 4, pp. 323-345.
Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Ted Honderich, ed., Oxford U. Press; entries on Associationism p. 62, the philosophy of V. C. Aldrich pp. 20-21, of David Hartley p. 334, and of W. G. Lycan, pp. 514-515.

1994

Review of The Springs of Action, by Alfred Mele, Oxford University Press, 1991, International Studies in Philosophy , xxiv, 2, 134-135.

1991

"Biro on Individualism and Interpretation" in Acta Analytica, No. 7, 1991, pp. 87-95.
"Prichard, Davidson and Action" in Philosophical Investigations, 14: 3, July. 1991, pp. 205-230.
Review of Simple Minds, Dan Lloyd, 1989, Cambridge, Mass, London, England, The MIT Press, A Bradford Book, xiv, 266pp, Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1991, pp. 287-293.

1990

"Naturalism and Representation: the Place of Nature in Mind," in Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 37--1990, pp. 123-149.

1989

"Grief" in Nous, Vol. XXIII, 4, Sept., 1989, pp. 457-479.
Review of Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volumes I and II, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988 (paperback edition); Wittgenstein's Lectures on Philosophical Psyhchology 1946-47, Notes by P. Geach, J. Shah, and A. Jackson, Edited by P. T. Geach, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989, Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 2, 1989, pp. 355-58.
Review of Agency and Necessity, Anthony Flew and Godfrey Vesey, Basil Blackwell, 1987, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 4, December, 1989.
Review of Philosophers Ancient and Modern, Godfrey Vesey (ed.) Cambridge, Cambridge U. Press, 1986, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 2, June, 1989.

1987

Abstract: "Agency" Nous, XXI, March, p. 36

1986

Intention and Agency, Boston and Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Review of Minds, Brains and Science, John Searle, Harvard University Press, 1984, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 4, Dec. 1986, pp. 360-362.
Review of Animal Thinking, Donald R. Griffin, Harvard University Press, Environmental Ethics, Summer, 1986, pp. 179-182.

1985

"Expressions of Intention" in The Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Vol. 13, Psychology and Conceptual Relativity, Ed.by J. V. Canfield [reprint from 1974].
Review of Metaphysics, David W. Hamlyn, Cambridge University Press, 1984, Teaching Philosophy, 8, 3, July, 1985, pp. 264-267

1984

"Armstrong's Intentions" in Philosophia, Vol. 14, Nos. 3-4, Dec. 1984, pp. 369-387.
"Wittgenstein and a Causal Account of Intentional Action" in Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 7, No. 3, July, 1984, pp. 225-243.
"Philosophers and Communities" in The Philosopher in the Community: Essays in Memory of Bertram Morris, ed. by B. Lang, et. al. Latham, MD, University Press of America, 1984, pp. 100-111.
Review of Human Action and Its Explanation: A Study of the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology by Raimo Tuomela, Boston/Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1977. Critical Reviews: Nous, XVIII, 1, March, 1984. pp. 112-120.
Review of Animal Thought, Steven Walker, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1983, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 6, Fall, 1984, pp. 275-276.

1983

Review of Perspectives in Whitehead's Metaphysics, Stephen David Ross, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1983, Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, Fall, 1983, XIX, 4, pp. 416-421.

1981

"Passivity and Activity in Intentional Action" in Mind, January, 1981, XC, pp. 41-60

1980

"Castaneda's Intentions: A Critical Study of Thinking and Doing" in Synthese, Vol. 44, 1980, pp. 247-284.
Review of Intending, John F. M. Hunter, Dalhousie University Press, 1978, Philosophical Books, Vol. 21, No. 1, January, 1980, pp. 50-52.

1979

Body, Mind and Method: Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich, ed.with B. L. Tapscott, Boston and Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Co.
"'Pain', Grammar and Physicalism" in Body, Mind, and Method, D. Reidel, 1979, pp. 149-166.
"Wittgenstein on Meaning Something" in Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1979, pp.18-31.
Review of Theory of Action, Lawrence H. Davis, Prentice-Hall, 1979, and Reason and Action,Bruce Aune, Boston and Dordrecht, D. Reidel,1977, Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 3, No.1, 1979, pp. 100-102.

1978

"Wittgenstein and Modern Physicalism: A Reconciliation" in Wittgenstein and His Impact on Contemporary Thought, Proceedings of the Second International Wittgenstien Symposium, D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1978.

1976

"Some Reflections on the Abortion Issue" in Western Humanities Review, Summer, XXX, 1976, pp. 181-198.

1975

"The Range of Intentions" in Inquiry, 18, 1975, pp. 83-95.

1974

"Expressions of Intention" in Mind, Vol. LXXXIII, July, 1974. pp.321-340.
"On Doubting One's Intentions" in Mind, Vol. LXXXII, January, 1974, pp. 114-115

1973

"A Critical Survey of the Reasons Versus Causes Arguments in Recent Philosophy of Action" in Metaphilosophy, Vol. 4, October,1973, pp. 269-297.
"On Unconscious Intentions" in Philosophy, Vol. 48, 1973, pp. 178-182.

1972

Review of Studies in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Peter Winch, ed. and Wittgenstein'sConception of Philosophy, K. T. Fann, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 32, June, 1972, pp. 772-774.

1971

"The Natural Expressions of Intention" in The Philosophical Forum, Boston University, Fall 1971, pp. 299-315.

1970

"Privacy" in Persons, Privacy, and Feeling: Essays in the Philosophy of Mind, Ed. by D. Van de Vate, Jr., Memphis State University Press, 1970. Revision of 1965 paper.

1968

"A Note on a Misreading of Wittgenstein" in Analysis, Vol. 28, March, 1968, pp.143-144.
"Wittgenstein's Zettel" in Philosophy, Vol. 43, No. 164, April, 1968, pp. 161-164.
"Momentary Intentions" in Mind, Vol. 77, No. 305, January, 1968, pp. 1-13.
Review of The Philosophy of Mind, Alan R. White, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 65, No. 23,December 5, 1968, pp. 772-774.

1967

"On Pitcher's Account of Investigations 43" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1967, pp. 252-258.
"Are Strawson's Persons Immortal?" in Philosophical Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1967, pp. 45-47.
Essays in Philosophical Psychology, ed. by, London, Macmillan and Co. [British Edition of 1964 edited volume.]
Review of Memory, Brian Smith, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 28, No. 2,1967, pp. 295-296.
Review of Perspectives on Peirce, Richard Bernstein, ed. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 76, No. 3, 1967, pp. 387-389.

1966

"Absurd but Possibly True" in Theoria, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1966, pp. 67-71.
"Assertions About the Future" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 26, No. 3,1966, pp. 421-426.

1965

"A Note on Knowing and Believing" in Theoria, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1965, pp. 275-278.
"Privacy" in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall, 1965, pp. 140-146.
"Contemporary Metaphysics in the United States" in Aspects of Contemporary American Philosophy ed. by F. H. Donnell, Jr., Wursburg:Physica-Verlag, 1965, pp. 18-26.

1964

"Voluntary and Involuntary" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 24, June,1964, pp. 493-501,
"Hampshire on Trying" in Theoria, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1964, pp. 31-33.
"Explanation in Psychology" in Mind, Vol. 63, April, 1964, pp. 280-281.
"The Criterion of Adequacy in Whitehead's Speculative Philosophy" in Darshana International,Vol. 4, 1964, pp. 41-46
Essays in Philosophical Psychology, ed. by, New York, Doubleday and Co. [Second printing,1966.]
Review of Philosophy and Its History, H. R. Smart, The Personalist, April,1964.

1963

"On the Identity Theory" in Analysis, Vol. 24, December, 1963, pp. 30-33
Review of La Nature et L'Esprit dans la Philosophie de T. H. Green, Jean Pucelle,The Personalist, Summer, 1963.

1962

"Self-Deception" with J. V. Canfield, in Analysis, Vol. 23, December,1962, pp. 32-36.

1961

"Christian on Causal Objectification in Whitehead" in The International Philosophical Quarterly,Vol. 1, No. 4, 1961, pp. 683-696.

1960

"Moral Disputes and Moral Descriptions" in The Graduate Review of Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 3,1960, pp. 1-15.
Review of Reflections on the Human Venture, H. Cantril and C. H. Bumstead, The American Journal of Psychology, June, 1960, pp. 424-425.

Current research

Pain, Consciousness and Cognition: Naturalistic Studies of the Mind

Why we suffer: Pain and the problem of suffering

"Neurosciences of Action and Noncausal Theories of Action"

" Are there qualialess zombies? or Why more distinctions are needed"

Last revision: November, 1996

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