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Dr Ian Ravenscroft
Senior Lecturer
The Flinders University of South Australia
Sturt Rd., Bedford Park
Adelaide, SA 5042
Australia
Ph: (08)8 201 3942
Fax: (08)8 201 2784
Email: Ian.Ravenscroft @flinders.edu.au
Ian Ravenscroft obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1995. He arrived at Flinders in 2000, having previously held a permanent lectureship in the Philosophy Department at King's College London.
He has four principal research interests:
- Philosophy of mind
- Evolutionary and microeconomic theories of human cognition and behaviour
- Moral psychology
He is currently leading the second phase of an Australian Learning and Teaching Institute project (formerly the Carrick Institute) entitled Forward Thinking: Teaching and Learning Philosophy in Australian Universities.
Ian's publications include
Books
1. Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2002). (With Gregory Currie.)
2. Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide (Oxford University Press, 2005).
3. Philosophie des Geistes: Eine Einfuhrung (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2008). German edition of (2).
4. Understanding Minds: Folk Psychology in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (Routledge, forthcoming).
Edited books
1.Prospects for Intentionality. Working Papers in Philosophy 3, RSSS, ANU 1993. (With Karen Neander.)
2. Minds, Ethics & Conditionals Jackson (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Chapters in books
1. Intentionality and naturalism. In Prospects for Intentionality, K. Neander & I. Ravenscroft (eds), Working Papers in Philosophy 3, RSSS, ANU 1993.
2. Folk psychology, as theory. In E. Zalta (ed), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/), October 1997.
3. Folk psychology, as theory. In E. Zalta (ed), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/), February 2004. (Substantially revised version of (2).)
4. The theory-theory of folk psychology. In P. Calvo & J. Symons (eds), Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (Routledge, forthcoming).
5. Themes and criticisms. In I. Ravenscroft (ed), Minds, Ethics and Conditionals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Refereed articles
1. Dennett's combinatorial explosion argument against brains in vats. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72, 1994.
2a. What is folk psychology? Cognition 50 1994. (With Stephen Stich.)
2b. Reprinted, J. Mehler & S. Franck (eds), Cognition on Cognition (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1995)
2c Reprinted Stephen P. Stich, Deconstructing the Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
3. Mental simulation and motor imagery. Philosophy of Science 64, 1997. (With Gregory Currie.)
4. Physical properties. Southern Journal of Philosophy 35, 1997.
5. What is it like to be someone else? Simulation and empathy. Ratio 11, 1998.
6. Neuroscience and the mind. Mind and Language 13, 1998.
7. Predictive failure. Philosophical Papers 28, 1999.
8. Simulation, collapse and Humean motivation. Mind and Language 18, 2003.
Critical notice
1. Where angels fear to tread: The evolution of language. (Critical notice of M. Corballis: From Hand to Mouth.) Biology & Philosophy 19, 2004.
Reviews
1. Review of Sober's Reconstructing the Past. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68, 1990.
2. Review of Boden's Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69, 1991.
3. Review of Bechtel & Abrahamsen's Connectionism and the Mind. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 70, 1992.
4. Review of Blackburn's Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 1996.
5. Review of Carruthers' Language, Thought and Consciousness. Times Literary Supplement December 27, 1996.
6. Double review of Baron-Cohen's Mindblindness and Graham & Stephen's Philosophical Psychopathology. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 1996.
7. Triple review of Davies and Stone's Folk Psychology and Mental Simulation, and Carruthers and Smith's Theories of Theories of Mind. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76, 1998.
He teaches the following undergraduate topics: PHIL 1010 Mind & World; PHIL 2030 Knowing Minds; PHIL 2040 Mind & Consciousness; PHIL 7999 honors seminar in philosophy. |
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