《罗伯特。
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教育
博士，波士顿大学
研究
心灵哲学，认知科学哲学，感知哲学
研究
- 心灵哲学
- 认知科学哲学
- 知觉哲学
出版物
- 查看他在报纸上发表的文章。
最近和即将到来的演讲H3
2017
2017年4月，安特卫普大学TBA（特邀）。
2016
2016年11月，辛辛那提大学TBA（特邀）。
对Bartek Chomanski的“视觉空间意识可能需要空间意识”的评论，心智在线，2016年10月。
TBA（特邀），感官与跨模式感知会议，伯尔尼大学，2016年10月。
评论Ryan Ogilvie的“感性内容的实证测试”，太平洋分部APA， 2016年3月
“贡布里希与绘画体验的双重内容理论”，iCog 3感官与空间会议，伦敦大学，2016年2月。
2015
“描绘、图像体验与视觉科学”（特邀），奥斯陆大学自然思维研究中心，2015年10月。“描绘、图像体验和视觉科学”（特邀），罗格斯-巴纳德-哥伦比亚精神研讨会，2015年8月。
“多感官整合与新奇现象内容”（特邀），安特卫普大学，2015年4月。
“多感官过程的制图”，Pre-SSPP研讨会，新奥尔良洛约拉大学，2015年4月。
“论马修·富尔克森的《第一感觉》”（特邀），作者会见评论家会议，中央APA， 2015年2月。
2014
评论Bence Nanay的“三重性”，美国美学学会年度会议，圣安东尼奥，2014年10月。
“描写的深度相似理论”，英国美学学会年度会议，牛津圣安妮学院，2014年9月。
“看到，看到，和格式塔转换的悖论”（邀请），感官非知觉状态研讨会III，约克大学，2014年6月。
“运动规划、运动编程和腹侧流”（特邀），自我意识幻觉研讨会，哥本哈根大学，2014年5月。
评论John Schwenkler的“反对透视主义”，SSPP, Charleston， SC， 2014年2月。
课程(2004 - 16)
22. 定向阅读：Gualtiero Piccinini的物理计算和Andy Clark的冲浪不确定性（2016年春季）。
21. 心灵哲学（2012年秋季、2014年春季、2016年春季、2017年春季）
我提供这门课程的入门和高级水平。主题包括哲学和认知科学中的心理表征理论（特别是联结主义），意识，语言和思想之间的关系，以及具体化/环境认知。查尔默斯、丘奇兰、克拉克、克兰、丹尼特、塞尔、泰伊等人的读物（俄亥俄大学）。
20.。现象学研讨会（2015年秋季）
感知哲学/认知科学哲学中关于行动、空间感知和身体自我意识之间关系的当代辩论的上层调查。贝恩、克拉克、德维涅蒙特、埃尔森、埃文斯、古德尔、曼迪克、Noë、帕切里等人的读物。
19. Philosophy of Perception Seminar (Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Fall 2016)
A graduate/undergraduate seminar on the philosophy and cognitive science of perception. Topics include the relationship between visual attention and visual consciousness, representationalism, the high-level properties debate, cognitive penetrability, mental imagery, multisensory processing, the importance of studying non-visual sensory modalities, and the role of action in perception. Readings by Batty, Block, de Vignemont, Clark, Fish, Gibson, Macpherson, Marr, Nanay, Noë, O'Callaghan, Prinz, Pylyshyn, Siegel, Smith, and others (Ohio University).
18. Pictorial Representation Seminar (Spring 2013)
An graduate/undergraduate seminar dealing with theories of depiction and pictorial representation. This seminar examines philosophical accounts of depiction put forward by Ernst Gombrich, Nelson Goodman, Richard Wollheim, Dominic Lopes, Robert Hopkins, and others in light of psychological research on pictorial space perception. Questions addressed include: “In which respects, if any, must pictures visually resemble their subjects?,” “Do all figurative pictures perform a representational, i.e., property-attributing function?”, “Is a theory of pictorial experience or ‘seeing-in’ (Wollheim) essential to an account of how pictures depict?”, “What is pictorial space?”, and “How does pictorial experience differ from ordinary seeing ‘face-to-face’?” (Ohio University).
17. Honors Tutorial: Prism Adaptation and Sensory Substitution (Spring 2012)
An undergraduate honors tutorial on prism adaptation and sensory substitution devices. Readings by Bach-y-Rita, Clark, Harris, Held, Hurley, Kiverstein, Noë, Welch and others (Ohio University).
16. Honors tutorial: Tyler Burge’s Origins of Objectivity (Winter 2012).
An undergraduate honors tutorial on Origins of Objectivity (Oxford, 2010) with a special focus on the relationship between perceptual constancy and objective mental representation (Ohio University).
15. Honors tutorial: Formal Logic (Fall 2010, Spring 2014)
An undergraduate honors tutorial in formal logic covering semantics and proof systems for truth-functional and first-order predicate logics. Text: J. Barwise and J. Etchemendy, Language, Proof, and Logic (Ohio University).
14. Honors tutorial: Language and Thought (Fall 2010)
An undergraduate honors tutorial on the relationship between language and thought. Readings by Tomasello, DeLoache, Povinelli, and others. Discussion meetings took place once a week (Ohio University).
13. Seminar on Ruth Millikan’s Varieties of Meaning (Winter 2010)
A graduate seminar on Ruth Millikan’s Varieties of Meaning (MIT, 2004). Other readings include recent papers by Millikan on externalism in the philosophy of language (Ohio University).
12. Philosophy of Cognitive Science Seminar & Honors tutorial (Spring 2009)
A graduate/undergraduate seminar focusing on two major, highly interdisciplinary areas of inquiry in the philosophy of cognitive science: our biologically based and uniquely human ability to make sense of one another in psychological terms (aka “social cognition” or “theory of mind”) and the relationship between perceptual awareness of space and bodily action. Texts for part one: Michael Tomasello’s Origins of Human Communication (2008) as well as readings by Davidson, Dennett, Schwitzgebel, and others. Texts for part two: readings by Clark, Goodale, Grush, Jackendoff, Marr, Noë, and others (Ohio University).
11. Directed Reading: Philosophy of Color (Spring 2009)
A graduate-level tutorial on recent work in the philosophy of color. Readings by Churchland, Cohen, Hilbert, and others. Discussion meetings took place once a week (Ohio University).
10. Philosophy of Perception Seminar: Seeing & Thinking (Spring 2008)
An intermediate level seminar focusing on the recent debate about nonconceptual content in the philosophy of perception. After a careful examination of John McDowell’s Mind and World, the course examines competing philosophical conceptions of the representational content of visual perception, the role of inference in visual processing, and the relation between visual awareness and visually guided action. Additional readings by Clark, Davidson, Kanizsa, Millikan, Peacocke, Pylyshyn, Rock, and others (Loyola University Honors Program).
9. Tutorial: Connectionism & the Mind (Spring 2008)
An undergraduate-level tutorial on connectionism and its implications for philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Text: W. Bechtel and A. Abrahamsen, Connectionism and the Mind, 2nd ed., 2002 as well as additional readings (Loyola University).
8. Epistemology: Other Minds and Other Kinds of Minds (Spring 2006-Spring 2008)
An interdisciplinary, undergraduate-level course focusing on the problem of other minds/other kinds of minds. Topics include psychological explanation and social cognition, autism as a form of “mind-blindness” (Baron-Cohen), the role of language in acquiring a “theory of mind,” and philosophical approaches to mental representation in non-human animals. Readings by Baron-Cohen, de Villiers, Davidson, Dennett, Frith, Heck, Malcolm, Tomasello, Tye, and others (Loyola University Honors Program).
7. Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness & Visual Experience (Fall 2006)
An upper level course in the philosophy of mind focusing on the so-called “hard problem” of consciousness. Topics include the mind-body problem, epiphenomenalism, representationalism about qualia, the relation between visual attention and visual consciousness, Dennett’s “multiple drafts” theory of consciousness, and Noë’s “enactive” account of visual perception. Readings by Chalmers, Dennett, Dretske, Jackson, Noë, Peacocke, Rensink, and others (Loyola University).
6. Minds & Machines (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
An intermediate level course in the philosophy of mind dealing with the problem of mental representation in relation to recent work in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Topics include: Turing machines, connectionism, the relationship between language and thought, and embodied/environmentally-situated cognition. Readings by Churchland, Clark, Crane, Dennett, Searle, and others (Loyola University).
5. Logic (Spring 2004-Winter 2011)
An intermediate level graduate/ undergraduate course in formal logic covering semantics and proof systems for truth-functional and first-order predicate logics. Text: J. Barwise and J. Etchemendy, Language, Proof, and Logic, 2002. (Boston University, Loyola University, Ohio University).
4. Introduction to Philosophy/Fundamentals of Philosophy (Fall 2006-Fall 2016)
An introductory level undergraduate course surveying core topics and themes in the Western philosophical tradition. Topics covered include: the mind-body problem, personal identity, freedom of the will, the theory of justice, and the nature of art (Loyola University, Ohio University).
3. Critical Thinking (Spring 2006, Spring 2007)
An introductory level undergraduate course focusing on the acquisition of critical thinking skills. After an introduction to the logical and non-logical fallacies, students are assigned between 50-100 pages of reading per meeting and are quizzed on their comprehension of content and argumentation at the beginning of each class. Texts include: Crimes Against Logic (Whyte), The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pollan), Collapse (Diamond), and No Logo (Klein), as well as selected articles. This course was taught as a topically organized alternative to the traditional, textbook-based approach to critical thinking (Loyola University).
2. Tufts Undergraduate Research Grant Program Supervised Study (Summer 2005)
Supervised an undergraduate student in an intensive summer study of recent work on change blindness, visual attention, and visual consciousness in philosophy, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. Readings by Dennett, Dretske, Lamme, Noë, Rensink, Simons, Tye, and others. Discussion meetings took place once a week (Tufts University).
1. Introduction to Philosophy: Personal Identity & the Mind-Body Problem (Fall 2004, Spring 2005)
An introductory level undergraduate course thematically organized around two topics: personal identity and the mind-body problem. Readings by Plato, Descartes, Locke, Hume, and others. The course was designed to meet a university undergraduate intensive writing requirement (Tufts University).