Laird Addis, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Office address:

257 English-Philosophy Building (EPB)
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Office phone: 319-335-0021
Office FAX: 319-353-2322
Home phone: 319-338-6635
e-mail address: laird-addis@uiowa.edu

Publications

• Moore and Ryle: Two Ontologists (with D. Lewis), Nijhoff, 1965.
• The Logic of Society: A Philosophical Study , University of Minnesota Press, 1975.
• Natural Signs: A Theory of Intentionality, Temple University Press, 1989.
• Of Mind and Music, Cornell University Press, 1999.
• Ontology and Analysis: Essays and Recollections about Gustav Bergmann (editor, with G. Jesson and E. Tegtmeier), Ontos Verlag, 2007.
• Mind: Ontology and Explanation (Collected Papers 1981-2005), Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Articles and Reviews

• Kant's First Analogy. Kant Studien, 54/3/1963, 237-242.
• Freedom and the Marxist Philosophy of History. Philosophy of Science, 33/2/1966, 101-117. Reprinted as: The Individual and the Marxist Philosophy of History, in Readings in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, edited by M. Brodbeck, Macmillan, 1968, 317-335.
• Particulars and Acquaintance. Philosophy of Science, 34/3/1967, 251-259.
• Historicism and Historical Laws of Development. Inquiry, 11/2/1968, 155-174.
• Review of E. Gellner's Thought and Change. Philosophy of Science, 37/1/1970,159-162.
• The Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte. 63/2/1971, 78-98.
• Presentness and the Ideal Language. Mind, 80/4/1971, 603-604.
• American Philosophy Today. Amersfoortse Stemmen, 53/2/1972, 47-51.
• Aristotle and the Independence of Substances. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 33/1/1972, 107-111.
• Time, Substance, and Analysis. The Ontological Turn: Studies in the Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann, edited by M. S. Gram and E. D.Klemke, The University of Iowa Press, 1974, 148-167.
• Monistic Theories of Society. PSA 1972 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XX), edited by R. S. Cohen and K. F. Schaffner, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1974, 209-216.
• Review of M. S. Gram's and E. D. Klemke's The Ontological Turn: Studies in the Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann. Iowa Alumni Review, 27/3/1974, 19.
• On Defending the Covering-Law Model. PSA 1974 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XXXII), edited by R. S. Cohen, C. A. Hooker, A. C. Michalos, and J. W. Van Evra, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1976, 361-368.
• Review of C. Gould's Marx's Social Ontology. Noûs, 14/4/1980, 648-652.
• Dispositions, Explanation, and Behavior. Inquiry, 24/2/1981, 205-227.
• Mind, Structure, and Time. Philosophical Topics, 12/3/1981, 39-52.
• Behaviorism and the Philosophy of the Act. Noûs, 16/3/1982, 399-420.
• Natural Signs. The Review of Metaphysics. 36/3/1983, 543-568.
• Review of D. Bradford's The Concept of Existence. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 18/3/1984, 247-250.
• Parallelism, Interactionism, and Causation. Causation and Causal Theories (Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume IX), edited by P. A. French, T. E. Uehling, and H. K. Wettstein, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, 329-344.
• Pains and Other Secondary Mental Entities. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 47/1/1986, 59-74.
• Dispositional Mental States: Chomsky and Freud. Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 19/1/1988, 1-17.
• Critical Review of L. Smith's Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the Alliance. Synthese, 78/3/1989, 345-356.
• Intrinsic Reference and the New Theory. Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language II (Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XIV, edited by P. A. French, T. E. Uehling, and H. K Wettstein, University of Notre Dame Press, 1989, 241-257.
• Review of J. C. Maloney's The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language. The Review of Metaphysics, 44/2/1990, 426-427.
• Review of E. Pivcevic's Change and Selves. Canadian Philosophical Reviews,11/1991, 442-444.
• Review of M. Heller's The Ontology of Physical Objects and J. K. Swindler's Weaving: An Analysis of the Constitution of Objects. Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 12/1992, 55-58.
• Note on Gustav Bergmann. A Companion to Epistemology, edited by J. Dancy and E. Sosa, Basil Blackwell, 1992, 49-50.
• Entries on Holism, Mannheim, Methodological Holism. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by R. Audi, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• The Ontology of Emotion. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 33/3/1995, 261-278.
• Human Action and the Humean Universe. Philosophia, 26/1-2/1998, 23-40.
• Intellectual Biography of Gustav Bergmann. American National Biography, Vol. 2, edited by J. Garraty, Oxford University Press, 1999, 639-641.
• Emotion in Music and Language. Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, edited by C. Woods, G. Luck, R. Brochard, F. Seddon, and J. A. Sloboda, Keele University, 2000.
• The Simplicity of Content. Metaphysica: Zeitschrift für Ontologie & Metaphysik. 2/1/2000, 23-43.
• La Musica che Attraversa la Mente: L'Immaginazione Musicale e la Natura della Coscienza (Musical Imagery and the Nature of Consciousness). L'Esperienza Musicale: Per Una Fenomenologia dei Suoni, edited by Luca Nostra, I Libri di Montag, 2002, 137-149.
• Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind (1949): A Method and a Theory. The Classics of Western Philosophy, edited by Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg, and Bernard N. Schumacher, Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., 2003, 540-545.
• Music and Knowledge. Truth, Rationality, Cognition and Music, edited by Kepa Korta and Jesus M. Larrazabal, Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V., 2004, 175-190.
• Entry on May Brodbeck. Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960, edited by Ernest Lepore, Thoemmes Press, 2005, 347-349.
• The Necessity and Nature of Mental Content. Intentionality: Past and Future, edited by Gabor Forrai and George Kampis, Rodopi, 2005, 1-14.
• Particulars as Areas and Durations. Fostering the Ontological Turn: Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987), edited by Guido Bonino and Rosaria Egidi, Ontos Verlag, 2008, 231-242.
• Entry on Carl Emil Seashore. The Iowa Biographical Dictionary, edited by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton, University of Iowa Press, 2008, 447-448.
• Ryle and Intentionality. Metaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics, 10/1/2009, 49-63 .

Current Research Interests

• metaphysics
• philosophy of mind
• philosophy of music
• Nietzsche

Selected Memberships

• American Philosophical Association
• Philosophy of Science Association
• The American Society for Aesthetics
• North American Nietzsche Society
• Institute 'Vienna Circle'
• Society of Humanist Philosophers