

Robert M. Francescotti
(Ph.D., Syracuse University)
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Undergraduate Advisor
Phone: (619) 594-6585
Location: AL-438
Email: rfrances@mail.sdsu.edu
Office Hours:
M 7:00-8:00p, TU 3:30-5:00p
TH 4:30-6:15p
Interests
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
Publications
"Emergence," Erkenntnis, vol. 67, 2007.
"Animal Mind and Animals Ethics: An Introduction," The Journal of
Ethics," vol. 11, 2007.
"Constitution and the Necessity of Identity,"Logique et Analyse, vol. 48, 2005.
Fetuses, Corpses, and the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity,"
Philosophical Explorations, vol. 8, 2005.
"Embodied Personalities and Personalities
Embodied," Proceedings of the Hawaii Conference on the Arts and Humanities,
vol. 3, 2005.
"Statues and Their Constituents: Whether Constitution
is Identity," Metaphysica, vol. 4, 2003.
"Foundations of a Theory of Hate Speech" (with Angelo
Corlett), The Wayne Law Review, vol. 48,
2002.
"Understanding Physical Realization (and What it
Does Not Entail)," Journal of Mind and Behavior,
vol. 23, 2002.
"Whether Mentality is "Higher-Level"," Philosophical
Inquiry, vol. 24, 2002.
"Property Dualism without Substance Dualism?" Philosophical
Papers, vol. 30, 2001.
"Ontological Physicalism and Property Pluralism:
Why They are Incompatible," Pacific Philosophical
Quarterly, vol. 81, 2000.
"Introspection and Qualia: A Defense of Infallibility,"
Communication and Cognition, vol. 33, 2000.
"Mere Cambridge Properties," American Philosophical
Quarterly, vol. 36, 1999.
"How to Define Intrinsic Properties," Nous, vol.
33, 1999.
"Defining 'Physicalism'," The Journal of Mind
and Behavior, vol. 19, 1998.
"The Non-Reductionist's Troubles with Supervenience,"
Philosophical Studies, vol. 89, 1998.
"What Multiple Realizability Does Not Show," The
Journal of Mind and Behavior, vol. 18, 1997.
"EVEN: The Conventional Implicature Approach Reconsidered,"
Linguistics and Philosophy 18, 1995.
"Higher-Order Thoughts and Conscious Experience,"
Philosophical Psychology 8, 1995.
Review of Jaegwon Kim, Supervenience and Mind,
Philosophical Psychology 8, 1995.
"Qualitative Beliefs, Wide Content, and Wide Behavior,"
Nous 28, 1994.
"Subjective Experience and Points of View," Journal
of Philosophical Research 18, 1992.
"Externalism and Marr's Theory of Vision," The
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 42,
1991. |