Selected Publications: Robert L. Causey

(without oral presentations and other small items)

Books

Unity of Science (Synthese Library Volume 109). D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston, 1977.

Logic, Sets, and Recursion. Jones and Bartlett Pub., Boston, 1994.  Revised edition, 2001.

Supplement to Logic, Sets, and Recursion. Jones and Bartlett Pub., Boston, 2002.

Logic, Sets, and Recursion, 2nd Edition.   Jones and Bartlett Pub., Boston, 2006.  (This edition merges the previous two items, plus much additional material.)

 

Multi-Media Materials

Author of several parts of Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, edited by Gordon Novak, Jr. This is a graduate-level course consisting of approximately sixty hours of video-taped lectures, several hundred pages of written material, and LISP programs on magnetic media. Morgan Kaufmann Pub., San Mateo, CA (1988).

Computer Programs

INDUCT and FAST. Interactive simulations and experiments in the philosophy of science; run on MS-DOS based computers. Wm. C. Brown Pub., Dubuque, IA 52001.

EVID. A prolog program for interactive defeasible reasoning. (c) 1990, the University of Texas at Austin.

Articles and Reports

"An NMR Study of the Precipitation of Manganese Sulfide from Homogeneous Solution," (with R.M. Mazo), Analytical Chemistry 34 (1962), 1630-1633.

"Derived Measurement and the Foundations of Dimensional Analysis". Technical Report No. 5, Measurement Theory and Mathematical Models Reports, The University of Oregon, Eugene (1967), 136pp. (Reprint of dissertation at University of California)

"The Importance of Being Surprised in Scientific Research," Agricultural Science Review 6 (1968), 27-31.

"Polanyi on Structure and Reduction," Synthese 20 (1969), 230-237.

"Scientific Progress," Texas Engineering and Science Magazine 6 (1969), 22-29.

"Derived Measurement, Dimensions, and Dimensional Analysis," Philosophy of Science 36 (1969), 252-270.

"Avogadro's Hypothesis and the Duhemian Pitfall," Journal of Chemical Education 48 (1971), 365-367.

"Attribute-Identities in Microreductions," The Journal of Philosophy 69 (1972), 407-422.

"The Black Box as an Aid in Teaching Philosophy," Metaphilosophy 3 (1972), 324-325.

"Uniform Microreductions," Synthese 25 (1972), 176-218.

"Professor Bohm's View of the Structure and Development of Theories," in F. Suppe (ed.), The Structure of Scientific Theories, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1974, pp. 392-401. Second edition published 1977. Spanish translation in Pilar Castrillo and Eloy Rada, La Estructura de las Teorias Cientificas, Editoria Nacional, Madrid, 1979, pp. 440-449.

"Laws, Identities, and Reduction," in Reports of the Seminar on Formal Methodology of Empirical Sciences (November 1973-February 1974), Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Wroclaw, 1974, pp. 33-49.

"Identities and Reduction: A Reply," Nous 10 (1976), 333-337.

"Unified Theories and Unified Science," in R. S. Cohen et al. (eds.), PSA 1974, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, 1976, pp. 3-13.

"Laws, Identities, and Reduction," in M. Przelecki et al. (eds.), Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences, Ossolineum, Wroclaw, and D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1976, pp. 188-198. (Reprint of report above with same title)

"Theory and Observation," in P. D. Asquith and H. E. Kyburg, Jr. (eds.), Current Research in Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, Michigan, 1979, pp. 187-206.

"Structural Explanations in Social Science," in T. Nickles (ed.), Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston, 1980, pp. 355-373.

"Reduction and Ontological Unification: Reply to McCauley," Philosophy of Science, 48 (1981), 228-231.

"The Use of Microcomputers for Classroom Demonstrations," Issues in Higher Education 6 (1982), 67-85.

``Scientific Progress and Unity of Science,'' This is a Chinese translation of Chapter 8 of my book Unity of Science by Li Chun tai in Foreign Natural Science and Philosophy, 3 (1982), Harbin, China.

"Artificial Intelligence Project at The University of Texas at Austin" (co-edit. with G. S. Novak, Jr.). Technical Report, AI-TR-84-1, University of Texas Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Austin, TX (1984), 78 pp.

"Philosophy and Behavioral Science," in J. L. Capps (ed.), Philosophy and Human Enterprise, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1984, pp. 57-80.

"Recent Developments in Expert Systems for Preventative Maintenance and Diagnosis", in J. D. Johannes, et al., (eds.), Workshop on Military Applications of Expert Systems, U. S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1985, 71-83.

"Philosophical Simulations and Experiments: Scientific Reasoning Processes," in F. D. Dwyer, et al., (eds.), Proceedings of the 1986 IBM Academic Information Systems University AEP Conference "Tools for Learning", IBM Academic Information Systems, Milford, Connecticut, 1986, pp. II-64 - II-77.

"Simulations and Experiments in Philosophy of Science," Perspectives in Computing, [IBM, Armonk, NY], 7 (1987), pp. 23-33. [Describes the INDUCT and FAST programs listed above.]

"The Black Box as an Aid in Teaching Philosophy," Reprint of previous article with same name. In A. Wilson (ed.), Demonstrating Philosophy. University Press of America, (1988).

"A Planning Problem: Revisable Academic Course Scheduling," with Charles J. Petrie, et al. Technical Report No. ACT-AI-020-89, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., 3500 W. Balcones Center Drive, Austin, TX, 78759, (1989), 97 pp.

"EVID: A System for Interactive Defeasible Reasoning," Technical Report No. AI90-119, University of Texas Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, (1990), 35 pp.

"The Epistemic Basis of Defeasible Reasoning," Minds and Machines (Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science), 1, No. 4 (1991), pp. 437-458.

"EVID: A System for Interactive Defeasible Reasoning," (revised and expanded version of above technical report), Decision Support Systems, 11 (1994), pp. 103-131.

Discussion Review of James H. Fetzer, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Paragon House, NY, 1991, and Jay L. Garfield (Ed.), Foundations of Cognitive Science, Paragon House, NY, 1990. Minds and Machines, 4 (1994), pp. 345-352.

"Magnitude," In Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press (1995), pp. 456-457;  2nd  ed. 1999,  pp. 528–529.

"Unity of Science," In Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press (1995.), 821-822; 2nd  ed. 1999,  pp. 940–939.

"Complications in the Formalization of Hobbes on ‘Seeking Peace’ ". Appendix 4.3 in David Braybrooke, Natural Law Modernized, University of Toronto Press (2001), pp. 120 - 124.

“Computational Dialogic Defeasible Reasoning,”  Argumentation, Vol. 17 (2003), 421 - 450.

 

“What is Structure?”  In Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, and Jeanne Peijnenburg (eds.), Cognitive Structures in Scientific Inquiry. (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 84), Rodopi, Amsterdam/NY (2005), pp. 441–462.

 

“A Comprehensible World,” in John Symons, Olga Pombo, and Juan Torres (eds), Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science,       Kluwer/Springer Academic Publishers in its series “Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science”, in press.

Book Reviews

Nuel Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1968. The Austin American-Statesman, September 22, 1968.

Brian Ellis, Basic Concepts of Measurement, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1966. The Journal of Symbolic Logic 34 (1969), 310-311.

Richard Schlegel, Completeness in Science, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1967. The Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (1970), 576-577.

Wolfgang Stegmüller, Theorie und Erfahrung, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1970. Synthese 25 (1972), 229-233.

Marjorie Grene (ed.), Interpretations of Life and Mind, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1971. Philosophia 4 (1974), 205-210.

Mary Hesse, The Structure of Scientific Inference, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974. The Philosophical Review 85 (1976), 137-138.

Robert J. Baum (ed.), Philosophy and Mathematics, Freeman, Cooper, and Co., San Francisco, 1973. Teaching Philosophy 1 (1976), 336-338.

H. R. Otto, The Linguistic Basis of Logic Translation, University Press of America, Washington, D.C., 1978. The Journal of Symbolic Logic 45 (1980), 373-374.

Mario Bunge, The Mind-Body Problem, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1980. Synthese 60 (1984), 459-466.

Fred Wilson, Explanation, Causation, and Deduction, Reidel, Dordrecht and Boston, 1985. Philosophy of Science, 54 (1987), 311-313.

C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories (Vol. XIV, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science), Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990. American Scientist, 80 (1992), 505.

Todd C. Moody, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993. SIGART Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, NY), 5, No. 1 (1994), 52-54.

Owen Flanagan, Consciousness Reconsidered, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, UK, 1992. Minds and Machines, 7, No. 1 (1997), 147-152.

Stan Franklin, Artificial Minds, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, UK, 1995. SIGART Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, NY), Vol. 9, No. 1, (1998) 35-39.

Reviews of Philosophical Web  Pages for the American Philosophical Association

Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

"Web Page Reviews," (3 brief reviews) American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 96, No. 1, (Fall 1996), 26-27.

"Electronic Journals: Number 1," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, Vol. 96, No. 1, (Fall 1996), 27.

"David Chalmers Home Page", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 96, No. 2 (1997), 32-33.

"Electronic Journals: Number 2," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 97, No. 2 (1998), 56–58.

"Electronic Journals: Number 3," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 98, No. 1 (1998), 28–29.

"Electronic Journals: Number 4," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 98, No. 2 (1999). 71-72.

"Electronic Journals: Number 5," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 99, No. 1 (1999), 22.-23.

"Electronic Journals: Number 6," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 00, No. 1 (2000), 7 - 9. 

"Electronic Journals: Number 7," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 00, No. 2 (2001), 70-71.  

 

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