Faculty Profile
Educational Background
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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Teaching Interests
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
- Logic
Research Interests
- Philosophy of Mind, especially issues relating to consciousness, qualia, and the imagination
Selected Research and Publications
- "Putting the Image Back in Imagination," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62: 85-109 (2001)
- "Qualia Realism," Philosophical Studies 104: 143-162 (2001)
- "Shoemaker, Self-Blindness and Moore's Paradox," The Philosophical Quarterly 53: 39-48 (2003)
- “What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” Philosophical Studies 115: 225-244 (2003)
- “The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future,” Metaphilosophy 35: 536-553 (2004)
- “Panexperientialism, Cognition, and the Nature of Experience,” Psyche 12 (2006)
- "Restrictions on Representationalism," Philosophical Studies 134: 405-427 (2007)
- "How to Believe in Qualia," in The Case for Qualia, ed. Edmond Wright, MIT Press, 2008.
- “’I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon’: The Identity of Cylons,” in Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed. Jason T. Eberl, Blackwell Press, 2008.
- "The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire," forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Selected Awards
- Roy P. Crocker Award for Merit, 2008
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