James Ladyman and Don Ross (with David Spurrett and John Collier). Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Don Ross, David Spurrett, Harold Kincaid, and Lynn Stephens (eds). Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context (MIT Press, 2007).
Don Ross, Carla Sharp, Rudy Vuchinich and David Spurrett, Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling (MIT Press, forthcoming).
Don Ross, David Spurrett, and Rudy Vuchinich. The Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling (2006).
Books in print:
Don Ross, Metaphor, Meaning and Cognition. Peter Lang (1993).
A study of the implications for general models of human cognitive architecture of our ability to comprehend and produce original metaphors.
Don Ross, Andrew Brook, and David Thompson, editors. Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment. MIT Press (2000).
A volume of essays that attempts to assess the extent to which Daniel Dennett's work on intentionality, consciousness and evolution "hangs together" as a coherent whole.
Andrew Brook and Don Ross, editors. Daniel Dennett. Cambridge University Press (2002).
A volume of essays on Dennett by (mainly) non-philosophers, aiming to evaluate Dennett's influence on the sciences of behavior and cognition.
Melvin Ayogu and Don Ross, editors. Development Dilemmas. Cambridge University Press (2005).
Essays by leading economists, philosophers and political scientists on the methods and political ethics of growth policy, with a focus on Africa. Contributors include Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Robert Bates, Daniel Hausman, and Alex Rosenberg.
Don Ross, Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation. MIT Press (2005).
A study of the cognitive and behavioral foundations of microeconomics, showing how to reconcile empirical behavioral economics, revealed preference theory, and postwar neoclassical theory.
Recent papers:
Don Ross, H. Sapiens as Ecologically Special: What Does Language Contribute? Language Sciences 29; 710-731, 2007.
Don Ross. South African Fruit Canning Industry Competitiveness. Report to the SA Department of Trade and Industry, 2007.
Don Ross and David Spurrett. On Notions of Cause: Russsell’s Thesis Revisited. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58: 45-76.
Don Ross and Paul Dumouchel. Emotions as Strategic Signals. Rationality and Society 16: 251-286.
Don Ross and Paul Dumouchel. Sincerity is Just Consistency: Reply to Frank. Rationality and Society 16: 307-318.
Don Ross. Metalinguistic Signalling for Coordination Amongst Social Agents. Language Sciences 26: 621-642.
Don Ross. The WTO, Unfair Trade, and Developing Countries. In M. Agogu and D. Ross, eds, Development Dilemmas. Routledge (2005) pp. 144-169.
Don Ross and David Spurrett. What to Say to a Skeptical Metaphysician: A Defence Manual for Cognitive and Behavioral Scientists. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 603-647, 2004.
Susan Cleary. and Don Ross. The 1998-2001 Legal Sruggle Between the South African Government and the International Pharmaceutical Industry: A Game-Theoretic Analysis. Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 27: 445-494, 2002.
Don Ross. Evolutionary Game Theory and the Normative Theory of Institutional Design: Binmore and Behavioral Economics. Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2005.
Pre-prints and Pre-publications:
Don Ross. Classical Game Theory, Socialization and the Rationalization of Convention.
Don Ross. Economic Models of Pathological Gambling.
Don Ross. Robbins, Positivism and the Demarcation of Economics from Psychology.
Don Ross and Kim Field. South African Road Surfacing Policy.
Don Ross. The Economics Agent: Not Human, but Important. (Forthcoming).
Don Ross. Economics, Cognitive Science and Social Cognition. (Forthcoming, 2008)
Don Ross. Do Evolutionary Accounts of Morality Imply Quiet Policies? (2006)
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Don Ross. Integrating the Dynamics of Multi-level Economic Agency. (2006)
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Don Ross. In Defense of Standard Welfare Measurement. (2006)
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Don Ross. Economic Theory, Anti-economics, and Political Ideology. (2006)
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Don Ross. "Millenium Plus" Community Development for South Africa. (2006)
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Curriculum Vitae
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