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Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers

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KEY THINKERS

Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers

EDITED BY
ANDREW BAILEY

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Philosophy of mind: the key thinkers/edited by Andrew Bailey.

pages cm. (Key thinkers)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4411-4276-4 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-4411-9537-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4411-9096-3 (ebook (pdf)) 1. Philosophy of mindHistory. 2. Philosophers. I. Bailey, Andrew, 1969

BD418.3.P49 2014

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2013016926

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CONTENTS

Andrew Bailey is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. His research deals with the problem of consciousness, embodied cognition and the thought of William James. He is the editor of three books and author of several papers on zombies and physicalism.

John Bickle is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Fellow, Institute for Imaging and Analytical Technologies, at Mississippi State University. His research focuses on the philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of science (especially scientific reductionism), and cellular and molecular mechanisms of cognition and consciousness. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience (Oxford University Press 2009) and author of Psychoneural Reduction: The New Wave (MIT Press 1998) and Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Approach (Kluwer 2003) as well as two other books and more than 50 papers.

David Bourget was until recently a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, but he has now taken up a position at Western University, Ontario. His research focuses on philosophical questions about consciousness; he is also the co-creator of PhilPapers (http://philpapers.org).

David Braddon-Mitchell is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. His research deals with philosophy of mind and metaphysics, as well as meta-ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology and epistemology. He is the author, with Frank Jackson, of The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition (Blackwell 2006) and of many papers.

Andrew Brook is Chancellors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is a former President of the Canadian Philosophical Association and former Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at Carleton University. His research focuses on the project of interdisciplinary cognitive research, Kant, consciousness, and psychological and psychoanalytic explanation; he is the author or editor of seven books (two of which deal with the work of Daniel Dennett) and over 100 papers and book chapters.

Richard Brown is an associate professor at the City University of New York in the philosophy program at LaGuardia Community College and a member of the NYU Project on Space, Time and Consciousness. His work is focused on the philosophy of mind, consciousness studies and the foundations of cognitive science. He is also a rock drummer and organizer of Qualia Fest, which annually brings together in New York City bands featuring neuroscientists and philosophers, including David Chalmers.

Monica Cowart is chairperson and associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Merrimack College, Massachusetts. Her research deals with philosophy of cognitive science and psychology, and applied ethics, and includes investigating the role of metaphor in mindfulness-based clinical treatments.

Patricia Easton is Professor and Chair of Philosophy, and Associate Provost for Academic Planning, at Claremont Graduate University. She specializes in the history of modern philosophy, particularly the philosophy of Ren Descartes and the Cartesians of the seventeenth century. She directed and edited The Descartes Web Site , which features seventeenth-century French and English editions of Descartes work The Passions of the Soul , and is the author or editor of three books and several articles and chapters.

Sara Heinmaa is university lecturer in theoretical philosophy at University of Helsinki. Presently, she works as Academy Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, UH. She works on phenomenology, the mind-body relation, history of philosophy and philosophical womens studies, and is the author of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). She is the author or editor of a further 15 books and many papers.

Matthew Katz is a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Central Michigan University. His research defends and elaborates the claim that human adults possess (at least) two systems for representing numbers, one of which employs a language-like format of representation and the other employing a system of mental magnitudes that is not language-like in format. He has published on the Language of Thought Hypothesis and also works on the philosophy of mind and psychology, and epistemology.

William Lyons is an emeritus fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was formerly Head of the Department of Philosophy (19851995) and Professor of Moral Philosophy (19852004) in the School of Mental and Moral Science, Trinity College Dublin, and is the author of several books, including Emotion (1980), Gilbert Ryle (1980) and Matters of the Mind (2001). He has also written award-winning plays about Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Socrates.