The University of Auckland - Faculty of Arts
 

Dr Denis Robinson
BA (Melbourne) , BPhil (Oxford) , PhD (Monash)

Senior Lecturer

Department:
Philosophy

Email:
dj.robinson@auckland.ac.nz

Extension:
87445 (ph + 64 9 373 7599)

Location:
Fisher Building
18 Waterloo Quadrant
Room 511



Research Interests

Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, identity.

Current Research

Metaphysics (identity, personal identity, matter, constitution, haecceities, properties, identity of indiscernibles); philosophy of mind (qualia, kinds of functionalism, mental content); philosophy of language (relativism, realism, supervenience and underdetermination)

Recent Publications

ROBINSON, D. “Human Beings, Human Animals, and Mentalistic Survival”
In D. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 3 (OUP, 2007?) (with a reply by Mark Johnston).

ROBINSON, D. “Moral Functionalism, Ethical Quasi-Relativism, and the Canberra Plan”. In D. Braddon-Mitchell and R. Nola (eds.) Naturalism and Analysis, (MIT Press, 2007/8).

Robinson, D. “Failing to Agree or Failing to Disagree? : Personal Identity Quasi-Relativism” Monist, 87, pp. 512 – 536, 2004.


Current Teaching


Philosophy
Course Title   Availability in 2010
PHIL 200     Philosophy of Mind   Semester 2
PHIL 261     Metaphysical Structures of the World   Semester 2
PHIL 320     Philosophy of Mind   Semester 2
PHIL 361     Metaphysical Structures of the World   Semester 2
PHIL 740     Metaphysics 1   Semester 2



 
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