Robert Arp, PhD
Articles / Writings (Alphabetized by Title)
A Humean Response to Scotus’s Concept of Infinite Being
Ideas y Valores (1999) 110: 3-19
An Analysis of Freedom in the Political Doctrines of Suárez & Filmer
Philosophical Inquiry (2004 26: 53-82
Awareness and Consciousness: Switched-On Rheostats
Journal of Consciousness Studies (2007) 14: 101-106 (by invitation)
Checks and Balances: The Welcomed Tension between Philosophy and Science
The Quarterly Review of Biology (2008) 83: 1-12
The Chewbacca Defense: A South Park Logic Lesson - Ch. 2: Logic & Fallacies
Introducing Philosophy Via Pop Culture, ed. Irwin & Johnson (Wiley, 2010), 40-53
Creating a Controlled Vocabulary for the Ethics of Human Research: Towards a Biomedical Ethics Ontology (with David Koepsell, Jennifer Fostel, Barry Smith)
The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (2009) 4: 43-58
The Double Life of Justice and Injustice in Thrasymachus’s Account
Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought (2009) 16: 17-29
Environments of Our Hominin Ancestors, Tool Usage & Scenario Visualization
Biology & Philosophy (2006) 21: 95-117
Evolution and Two Popular Proposals for the Definition of Function
Journal for General Philosophy of Science (2006) 37: 2-12
The Evolution of Scenario Visualization and the Early Hominin Mind
Origins of Mind, ed. Liz Stillwagon (Springer, 2013), 220-241
Finding Unapparent Connections: How Our Hominin Ancestors Evolved Creativity by Solving Practical Problems
Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism, ed. Tibor Solymosi & John Shook (Palgrave, 2014), 135-146
Frege, As-If Platonism, and Pragmatism
Journal of Critical Realism (2005) 4: 1-27
Freud’s Wretched Makeshift and Scheler’s Religious Act
Journal of Philosophical Research (2000) 25: 405-429
Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology (with Barry Smith)
Nature Precedings (2008) 1941: 1
Hegel and the Prospect of Perpetual Peace
Dialogos (2000) 34: 71-100
Homeostatic Organization, Emergence, and Reduction
Philosophia Naturalis (2007) 44: 238-270
Hume’s Mitigated Skepticism and the Design Argument
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (1998) 72: 539-558
Hume’s Morality, Reason, and Sentiment
Journal of the Irenaeus Society (2000) 3: 1-13
Husserl, the Transcendental, and the Mundane
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2004) 35: 168-179
Husserlian Penetrability of the Transcendental and Mundane Spheres
Human Studies (2004) 27: 221-239
If the Devil did not Exist, It May be Necessary to Invent Him in Certain Contexts
Philosophical Approaches to the Devil, McCraw & Arp (Routledge, 2016), 180-200
Information in the Biological Sciences (with Alfredo Marcos)
The Philosophy of Biology, ed. Kampourakis (Springer, 2013), 511-548
Life and the Homeostatic Organization View of Biological Phenomena
Cosmos and History (2008) 4: 260-285
Objectification, Care Ethics, and the Case against Pornography
Under Review
Ontologies Just May Save Your Savings Accounts, in
Progress in Economics Research, Volume 16, ed. Tavidze (Nova, 2010), 115-129
Ontologies of Cellular Networks (with Barry Smith)
Science Signaling (2008) 1: mr2
Ontology: Not Just for Philosopher’s Anymore
Practical Philosophy (2010) 10: 81-103
Philosophical, Domain, and Formal Ontology
The Reasoner (2008) 1: 12
Philosophical Ontology, Domain Ontology, Formal Ontology, in
Key Terms in Logic, ed. Williamson & Russo (Continuum, 2010) 74-75
Plotinus, Mysticism, and Mediation
Religious Studies (2004) 40: 145-163
The Pragmatic Value of Frege’s Platonism for the Pragmatist
Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2005) 19: 22-41
The Quinque Viae of Thomas Hobbes
History of Philosophy Quarterly (1999) 16: 367-394
Radiological and Biomedical Knowledge Integration: The Ontological Way
Scholarship in Radiology Education, ed. Chhem et al. (Springer, 2009), 87-106
Realism and Antirealism in Informatics Ontologies
The American Philosophical Association: Philosophy and Computers (2009) 9: 19-23
Resolving Conflicts in Evolutionary Psychology with Cognitive Fluidity
Southwest Philosophy Review (2007) 35: 91-101
Re-thinking Hobbes’s Materialistic and Mechanistic Projects
Hobbes Studies (2002) 15: 3-31
Selectivity, Integration, and the Psycho-Neuro-Biological Continuum
Journal of Mind and Behavior (2005) 26: 35-64
Scenario Visualization: One Explanation of Creative Problem Solving
Journal of Consciousness Studies (2005) 12: 31-60
Should Batman Kill the Joker? - Ch. 12: Argument
The Norton Sampler, ed. Cooley. 8th ed. (Norton, 2013), 545-549
Should Batman Kill the Joker? - Ch. 13: Argument
The Norton Sampler, ed. Cooley. 9th ed. (Norton, 2017), 481-485
Suárez and Filmer on Freedom
Philosophical Frontiers, ed. Corrigan & Farrell (Continuum, 2009), 39-66
Suffering as Theodicy
Cahiers Simone Weil (2000) 23: 413-433
Vindicating Kant’s Morality
International Philosophical Quarterly (2007) 7: 5-22
Book Reviews (Editors asked me to write):
“Gry Oftedal, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Peter Rossel, and Michael Slott Norup (eds.), Evolutionary Theory: Five Questions,” Reports of the National Center for Science Education, (2012) 32, 6: 4.1-4.3.
“F. Ellen Netting, Mary Katherine O'Connor, and David P. Fauri, Comparative Approaches to Program Planning,” The American Journal of Psychology (2010) 123, 3: 369-371.
“Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology,” Science & Education (2010)
“Devin Stauffer, Plato’s Introduction to the Question of Justice,” Polis: Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought (2002) 19: 67-72.
Reviewing/Refereeing For:
- Theoria- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Cambridge University Press
- Cengage Learning
- McGraw-Hill Publishers
- MIT Press
- Oxford University Press
- Prentice-Hall Publishers
- Routledge
- SAGE Publishers
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishers
- Entropy
- History of Philosophy Quarterly
- International Journal of Computer Engineering Research
- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
- Iyun: Israel Journal of Philosophy
- Journal of Consciousness Studies
- Journal of the American Philosophical Association
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Philosophy & Technology
- Science and Education
- Social Semiotics
- Synthesis philosophica
- Theoria