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Wilson, Robert A.

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Selected Publications

Genes and the Agents of Life: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Biology. Cambridge University Press. 312 pp. Hard & paperback, 2005. http://www.cup.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521544955

Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Cognition. Cambridge University Press. 392 pp. Hard & paperback, 2004. http://www.cup.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521544947

Explanation and Cognition, 2000. MIT Press. Edited with Frank Keil. 406 pp., 13 commissioned essays, based on a special issue of the journal Minds and Machines.

Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, 1999. MIT Press. Editor. x + 325pp., 12 original, commissioned essays.

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, 1999. MIT Press. General editor, with Frank Keil. 8 advisory editors. cxxxii + 964 pp, 471 articles, 6 overview essays, ~ 1 200 000 words. Published in hardcover / CD-ROM, with website access; paper October 2001.

American Association of University Publishers, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division 1999 Prize in the Category of Psychology.

Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Sciences of the Mind, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii + 273 pp. Paperback 1997.

Outstanding Title, Choice, April 1996.
Ch.2, "An a priori argument: the argument from causal powers" reprinted in W.G. Lycan (ed.), Mind and Cognition: An Anthology, 2nd ed., Blackwell, 1998.

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