Research Interests
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Philosophy of Mind, especially consciousness and intentionality and sensation
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Philosophy of Language
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Metaphysics
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Ancient Philosophy
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17th-Century Rationalism
Courses Recently Taught
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Mental Qualities and Perception (Fall 2015)
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Intentionality and the Mental (Spring 2015)
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Proseminar (Fall 2014)
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Theories of Consciousness (Spring 2014)
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Quine and Sellars on Thought and Language (Fall 2013)
Representative Publications
Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming December 2005.
"Varieties of Higher-Order Theory," in
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, ed. Rocco J. Gennaro, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers, 2004, pp. 17-44.
"Being Conscious of Ourselves,"
The Monist 87, 2 (April 2004): 159-181.
"Consciousness, Interpretation, and Higher-Order Thought," in Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, ed.,
Psychoanalysis as an Empirical, Interdisciplinary Science: Collected Papers on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Research, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005, pp. 119-142.
"Subjective Character and Reflexive Content,"
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68, 1 (January 2004): 191-198.
"Explaining Consciousness," in
Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. David J. Chalmers, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 406-421.
"Consciousness and Metacognition," in
Metarepresentation: Proceedings of the Tenth Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference, ed. Daniel Sperber, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
"A Theory of Consciousness," in
The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, ed. Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, and Gaven Gazeldere, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 729-753.
"Perceptual and Cognitive Models of Consciousness,"
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45, 3 (Summer 1997): 740-746.
The Nature of Mind, anthology, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.