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Tim Crane
Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Personal
Born: 1962
Nationality: British
Address: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
Telephone 01223 760830
Faculty Fax number 01223 335091
Main research areas
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of psychology, metaphysics
Other areas of interest
Philosophy of language, epistemology, Leibniz
Education
1981–84: University of Durham (BA 1984)
1984–85: University of York (MA 1985)
1985–89: University of Cambridge (PhD 1989)
Employment
1989-90: Research Assistant, Centre for Philosophical Studies, KCL
1990-96: Lecturer in Philosophy, University College London
1996-2002: Reader in Philosophy, University College London
2002-09: Professor of Philosophy, University College London
2005-08: Director, Institute of Philosophy, University of London
from 2009: Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Honours
Since 2008: Member, Academia Europeae (by invitation)
Publications
Authored books
Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes, translated by Markus Wild and Simone Ungerer (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007). This is a German translation of six of my essays (‘The Non-Conceptual Content of Experience’, ‘The Mental Causation Debate’, ‘Mental Substances’, ‘Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental’, ‘Subjective Knowledge’, ‘The Intentional Structure of Consciousness’) with a new introduction, ‘The Mental and the Physical’
Elements of Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001)
—Italian translation, Fenomeni Mentali (Milan: Rafaelo Cortina 2003)
—Japanese translation (Keiso Shobo forthcoming)
The Mechanical Mind: A Philosophical Introduction to Minds, Machines and Mental Representation (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1995)
—Japanese translation (Keiso Shobo 2001)
—Second edition, substantially revised with one wholly new chapter (London: Routledge 2003)
—Swedish translation: Medvetandets Mekanik (Stockholm: Thales 2004)
Edited books
Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004) co-edited with Katalin Farkas, including c.50,000 words of introductory material co-written with Katalin Farkas
History of the Mind-Body Problem (London: Routledge 2000) edited with an introduction by Tim Crane and Sarah Patterson
A Debate on Dispositions by D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place (London: Routledge 1996) edited with an introduction by Tim Crane
The Contents of Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992) edited with an introduction by Tim Crane
Articles
‘Is Perception a Propositional Attitude?’, Philosophical Quarterly, 2009
‘Sainsbury on Thinking about an Object’ Critica, Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 2009
‘Intentionalism’, in the Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Mind edited by Ansgar Beckermann and Brian McLaughlin (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)
‘Causation and Determinable Properties: on the Efficacy of Colour, Shape and Size’ in Being Reduced edited by Jakob Howhy and Jesper Kallestrup (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008)
‘Reply to Nes’ Analysis 63: 2008, 215-8
‘Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: The Challenge of the Explanatory Gap’ in Explaining the Mental: Naturalist and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes, edited by Carlo Penco, Michael Beaney and Massimiliano Vignolo (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) 192-206
‘Wine as an Aesthetic Object’ in Questions of Taste edited by Barry C. Smith (Oxford: Signal Books 2007)
‘Is there a Perceptual Relation?’ in Perceptual Experience edited by Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006) 126-46
‘Brentano’s Concept of Intentional Inexistence’ in The Austrian Contribution to Philosophy edited by Mark Textor (London: Routledge 2006) 20-35.
‘Intentionality and Emotion’ in Radical Enactivism: Intentionality, Phenomenology, Narrative, edited by Richard Menary, (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006) 107-119
‘Comment on Ted Honderich’s “Radical Externalism”’ Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no 7-8, 2006: 28-35
‘Papineau on Phenomenal Concepts’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXXI, 2005: 155-162
‘What is the Problem of Perception?’ Synthesis Philosophica 20, 2005: 237-264
––Spanish translation: ‘El Problema de la Percepcion en la Filosofia Analitica’ in Pluralidad de la Filosofia Analitica, edited by David Perez Chico and Moises Barroso, Madrid: Plaza y Valdes Editors 2008: 217-258
‘Précis of Elements of Mind and Replies to Critics’ Croatian Journal of Philosophy of Philosophy 4: 2004, 223-240
(with Vladimír Svoboda) ‘Causation, Omniscience and Interpretation: a Note on Davidson’s Epistemology’ Organon F, Filozoficky Casopis XI: 2004, 117-127
‘Mental Substances’ in Minds and Persons edited by A. O’Hear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003) 229-251
––German translation in Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007)
‘The Intentional Structure of Consciousness’ in Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives edited by A. Jokic and Q. Smith (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2003) 33-56
–– German translation in Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007)
‘Subjective Facts’ in Real Metaphysics edited by H. Lillehammer and G. Rodriguez-Pereyra (London: Routledge 2003) 68-83
—Hungarian translation: ‘Szubjektiv Tudas’ in Érvek és kontextusok edited by Marta Ujvári (Budapest: Gondolat 2003)
—Portugese translation: ‘Conhecimentio Subjectivo’ in A Explicacao da Interpretacao Humana edited by Joao Saagua (Lisbon: Edicoes Colibri 2005) 15-32
–– German translation of revised version (‘Subjective Knowledge’) in Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007)
‘Consciousness, the Awareness of the World and the Essence of the Mind’ in Exploring Consciousness (Milan: Fondazione Carlo Erba 2002) 35-45
‘The Significance of Emergence’ in Physicalism and its Discontents edited by Carl Gillet and Barry Loewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001) 207-224
––Polish translation ('Doniosloosc emergencji') in Marcin Milkowski and Robert Poczobut (eds.) Analityczna Metafyzyka Umyslu Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Filozofii i Socjologii PAN (IFiS PAN) 2008; 223-244
‘Intentional Objects’ Ratio 14, 2001, 336-349
— also in Meaning and Representation edited by Emma Borg (Oxford: Blackwell 2001)
‘Jacob on Mental Causation’ Acta Analytica 16 (2001) 15-21
‘The Emergence of Consciousness’ in The Emergence of the Mind (Milan: Fondazione Carlo Erba 2001) 183-191
‘The Origins of Qualia’ in History of the Mind-Body Problem edited by Tim Crane and Sarah Patterson (London: Routledge, 2000)
‘Dualism, Monism, Physicalism’ Mind and Society 2: 2000, 73-85
‘Introspection, Intentionality and the Transparency of Experience’ Philosophical Topics 28: 2000, 49-67
‘The Efficacy of Content: a Functionalist Theory’ in Human Action and Causality edited by Jan Bransen and Stefan Cuypers (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998)
‘Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental’ in Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind edited by A. O’Hear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) 229-251
––German translation in Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007)
‘Powstanie i Upadek Problemu Umysl-Cialo’ (‘The Rise and Fall of the Mind-Body Problem’) trans. by M. Iwanicki & T. Szubka, in: P. Gutowski & T. Szubka (eds.), Filozofia Brytyjska u Schylku XX Wieku (Lublin: TN KUL, 1998) 467-485
‘Reply to Tanney’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies 6, 1998, 279-282
‘Analytic Theories of A Priori Knowledge’ in The Logica Yearbook 1997 edited by T. Childers (Prague: Czech Academy of Sciences 1997) 89-97
‘Reply to Child’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96: 1996, 103-108
‘Against Physicalism’ in the Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mind (edited by Samuel Guttenplan, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) 479-484
‘The Mental Causation Debate’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 69: 1995, 211-236
––German translation in Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007)
––Hungarian translation ‘Vita a mentális okozásról’ in Elmefilozófia edited by Gergely Ambrus, Tamás Demeter, Gábor Forrai and János Tözsér (Budapest: L’Harmattan Kidadó 2008) 86-111
(with D.H. Mellor) ‘Postscript’ to ‘There is no Question of Physicalism’ in Contemporary Materialism: a Reader edited by P. Moser and J.D. Trout (London: Routledge 1995) 85-89
‘Reply to Pettit’ Analysis 53: 1993, 224–227
‘The Nonconceptual Content of Experience’, in The Contents of Experience, edited by Tim Crane (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992) 136–157
––German translation in Intentionalität als Merkmal des Geistigen: Sechs Essays zur Philosophie des Geistes (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag 2007)
‘Mental Causation and Mental Reality’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92: 1992, 1–18
—Reprinted in Revue Romain de Philosophie (Bucharest) 38, 1994
‘Names, Sense and Kripke’s Puzzle’ From the Logical Point of View, 2: 1992, 11–26
‘Numbers and Propositions: reply to Melia’ Analysis 52: 1992, 253–256
‘All the Difference in the World’, The Philosophical Quarterly 41: 1991, 1–25
—reprinted in The Twin Earth Chronicles edited by Andrew Pessin and Sanford Goldberg (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996) 284-304
----Hungarian translation ‘Csak a világ különbözik’ in Elmefilozófia edited by Gergely Ambrus, Tamás Demeter, Gábor Forrai and János Tözsér (Budapest: L’Harmattan Kidadó 2008) 159-186
‘Why Indeed? Papineau on Supervenience’, Analysis 51: 1991, 32–37
‘All God Has To Do’, Analysis 51: 1991, 235–244
—Winner of 2nd Prize, Analysis International Essay Competition, 1991
(with D.H. Mellor) ‘There is no Question of Physicalism’, Mind 99: 1990, 185–206
—reprinted in Contemporary Materialism: A Reader edited by P. Moser and J.D. Trout (London: Routledge 1995), 65-85
—Romanian translation: ‘Nu poate fi vorba de fizicalism’ by Maria Vornicu in Realism si Relativism in Filosofia Stiintei Contemporane edited by Angela Botez (Bucharest 1993), 56-81
‘The Language of Thought: no Syntax without Semantics’, Mind and Language 5: 1990, 187–212
‘An Alleged Analogy between Numbers and Propositions’ Analysis 50: 1990, 224–230
‘Concepts in Perception’, Analysis 48: 1988, 150–153
‘The Waterfall Illusion’, Analysis 48: 1988, 142–147
—reprinted in Essays on Non-Conceptual Content edited by York Gunther (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2003)
Encylopedia entries
‘The Problem of Perception’ Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-problem/
‘Mental Causation’ in the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (edited by Lynn Nadel, London: Macmillan 2003) 1120-1125
‘The Mind-Body Problem’ in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (edited by Rob Wilson and Frank Keil, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999)
‘The Autonomy of Psychology’ in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (edited by Rob Wilson and Frank Keil, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999)
‘Intentionality’ in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (edited by Edward Craig, London: Routledge 1998)
‘Nonconceptual Content’ in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (edited by Edward Craig, London: Routledge 1998)
‘Causation’, ‘Time’ and ‘Universals’ in Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject edited by A.C. Grayling (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995) 184-214
Entries for The Oxford Companion to Philosophy edited by Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995) Armstrong; Burge; Cambridge Change; Chinese Room; Cognitive Science; Davidson; Dretske; Fodor; Homunculus; Indexicals; Intentionality; Lewis; McDowell; Meaning; Opacity & Transparency; Peacocke; Possible Worlds; Representation; Sense and Reference; Variable Realisation
Book reviews
Review of LOT2 by Jerry A. Fodor, TLS forthcoming
Review of The Really Hard Problem by Owen Flanagan, TLS 5521 January 23 2009, 24
Fraught with Ought: Review of In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars, and Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay Rosenberg, London Review of Books 30 no. 12, 19 June 2008: 33-35
Review of All the Power in the World, by Peter Unger, TLS May 2007
Review of Intentionality: Past and Future, edited by Gábor Forrai & George Kampis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu
Critical Notice of The Mind’s Provisions by Vincent Descombes, European Journal of Philosophy 12: 2004, 399-424
Review of Hume Variations by Jerry Fodor, TLS May 2004
Review of In Defence of Pure Reason by Laurence BonJour, Mind 112: July 2003, 502-506
Review of Purple Haze by Joseph Levine, Phenomenal Consciousness by Peter Carruthers, and The Nature of Consciousness by Mark Rowlands TLS No 5176, June 14 2002: 9-10
Review of A Survey of Metaphysics by E.J. Lowe and Metaphysics edited by Michael J. Loux, THES May 2002
Review of The Paradox of Self-Consciousness by José Luis Bermúdez, Philosophical Review 2001
Review of Perception and Reason by Bill Brewer & The Nature of Perception by John Foster, THES December 2001
Review of Knowledge and its Limits by Timothy Williamson, The Economist August 2001
Review of Mind in a Natural World by Jaegwon Kim, TLS August 2000
Review of Bertrand Russell 1921-1970: The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk The Economist October 2000
‘How to Define your (Mental) Terms: a Critical Notice of Deconstructing the Mind by Stephen P. Stich’, Inquiry 41, 1998, 341-354
Critical Notice of What Minds Can Do by Pierre Jacob, European Journal of Philosophy 1999
Review of The Nature of Consciousness edited by N. Block et al, THES January 1999
Critical Notice of Mental Reality by Galen Strawson, Ratio 10, April 1997, 82-90
Review of The Mystery of Consciousness by John Searle, The Economist December 13 1997, 11-12
Review of Causes and Coincidences by David Owens, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 1996, 146-148
Review of Soul-Searching by Nicholas Humphrey, Nature 6567, March 1996, 685
Review of Physicalism: the Philosophical Foundations by Jeffrey Poland TLS 4831 November 1995, 28
Critical Notice of A Study of Concepts by Christopher Peacocke, European Journal of Philosophy 2, December 1994, 352-356
Review of Representation, Meaning and Thought by Grant Gillett, Philosophical Books 35, 1994, 122-124
Critical Notice of The Rediscovery of the Mind by John Searle, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1, October 1993, 313-324
Review of Sensory Qualities by Austen Clark, TLS 4714, July 1993, 28
Review of The Imagery Debate by Michael Tye, Mind 102, July 1993, 535-538
Review of Dretske & his Critics edited by Brian McLaughlin, International Journal of Philosophical Studies1, October 1993, 379-381
Other philosophical writings
Online course, Metaphysics, for Oxford University Continuing Education Department 2007: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/online/philosophy.asp
‘World’ in Philosophy: the Illustrated Guide to Understanding and using Philosophy Today, edited by David Papineau (London: Duncan Baird Publishers 2004) 8-41. (Introductory material for a general readership on: what is reality?; Aristotle; the physical world; the supernatural; cause; Hume; idealism; Berkeley; Hegel; phenomenology; truth; mathematics; the infinite; Leibniz; time and space)
Other output
‘Mind & Body’: a podcast recorded for Philosophy Bites http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/
‘The Crane Discussion’ videotaped discussion with Donald Davidson on mental causation and anomalous monism, published by Philosophy in Britain, 1996
Scholarships and major research grants
1984-7: British Academy Major State Studentship
1987–8: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research Scholarship
2000: AHRB Research Leave Scheme Award
2004: AHRB Research Leave Scheme Award
2005-8: EU 6th Framework NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology) project, ‘The Origins of Referential Communication’ (REFCOM)
Visiting positions
1987-8: Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993: Academic Visitor, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
1997: Visiting Fellow, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University
1999: Visiting Lecturer, University of Sydney
2003-4: Fellow, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study
2004: Visiting Scholar, Macquarie University, Sydney
2006: Visiting Professor, Witten-Herdecke University
2007: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen University
2008: Seybert Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
2008: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University
Administration
1991-3: Admissions Tutor, UCL Philosophy Department
1994-8: Departmental Tutor, UCL Philosophy Department (responsible for academic and pastoral welfare of all philosophy undergraduates)
1994-8: Tutor to Affiliate Students (non-degree, overseas students), UCL Philosophy Department
1994-8: Chair, University of London Intercollegiate Philosophy Lecture Committee
1998-2005: Director, University of London School of Advanced Study, Philosophy Programme
2000-1: Graduate Advisor, UCL Philosophy Department
2001-4: Chair, UCL Boards of Examiners in for philosophy combined degree programmes
2002-3: Tutor to MA students, UCL Philosophy Department
2004-5: Acting Head, UCL Philosophy Department
2005-8: Founder and first Director of the University of London’s Institute of Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study; see http://www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk for details
2008-9: Head, UCL Philosophy Department
External examining
External examiner for undergraduate degrees: University of Glasgow, 1994-7; King’s College London 1997-9; University of St Andrews, 1999—2002; University of Southampton, 2002-5; extra-mural courses, Birkbeck College, 2001-4; Open University 2004-8
External PhD examiner: University of Cambridge 1993 & 2005, University of Oxford 1995, 1996 & 2007, University of Sussex 1996, University of Birmingham 1998 (MPhil), University of Edinburgh 2000, Slovak Academy of Sciences 2005, University of Stirling 2000, University of New South Wales 2000 & 2004, University of Nottingham 2001, University of Durham 2002 & 2008, University of Leeds 2005, University of Siena 2008, University of Sheffield 2009 (plus 14 PhDs examined in the University of London)
Assessment work
QAA (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) Subject Specialist Reviewer, Philosophy Subject Review 2000-2001
Member, AHRC Peer Review College (2005-8)
Referee for Danish National Research Foundation, Australian Research Council, Israel Science Foundation, European Science Foundation, Australian Research Council
Referee for tenure and promotion reviews: Harvard University, Yale University, University of Illinois, University of Indiana, Rutgers University, Rice University, University of Haifa, University of Toronto, Southern Methodist University, City University of New York, University of Sydney
External advisor, UK professorial appointments: University of Southampton, Birkbeck College, University of Glasgow, University of Nottingham, University of Aberdeen
Referee for journals: Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Mind, Analysis, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Ratio, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, British Journal of Aesthetics, Dialectica
Consultant on new course proposal in Philosophy of Mind, Open University (2002—5)
Editing work
2007-present: Consultant editor, SAGE Encylopedia of the Mind (general editor, Hal Pashler, University of California San Diego) forthcoming
1998-present: Joint Editor (with Jonathan Wolff, Tom Pink, KCL, and Martin Stone, Leuven): London Studies in the History of Philosophy (Routledge)
1992-present: Joint Editor (with Jonathan Wolff, UCL), Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks (a series devised by Jonathan Wolff and myself, over 40 volumes published)
1992-2004: Joint Editor (with José Luis Bermúdez, Washington University, St Louis, Peter Sullivan, University of Stirling and Jonathan Wolff): The International Library of Philosophy (Routledge)
1992-2002: Joint Editor (with Jonathan Wolff) The Problems of Philosophy: their Past and Present (Routledge)
Membership of editorial and advisory boards
Chair, Academic Advisory Board of the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary (from 2006—)
Academic Advisory Board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland (from 2004-6)
Editorial Board, Philosophy Compass (from 2006–-)
Editorial Board, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (from 2006–-)
Executive Committee, Forum for European Philosophy (from 2002—2008)
Executive Committee and Council, Royal Institute of Philosophy (from 2001—2009)
Editorial Board, Mind and Language (from 1999—)
Analysis Committee (from 1993—)
From the Logical Point of View, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Prague (1992-8)
Invited talks and papers at Universities 1990-2009
UK
Charing Cross Hospital, London (Cognitive Neuropsychology Unit), the Universities of Birmingham (3), Bradford, Bristol (2), Cambridge (5), Durham (2), East Anglia (2), Edinburgh (3), Essex, Glasgow (2), Hertfordshire, Hull, Kent (2), Leeds (3), Liverpool, London – Heythrop, King’s College (5), LSE (2) and Birkbeck College (2) – Manchester (2), Northampton, Nottingham (3), Oxford (4), Queen’s University Belfast, Reading, Sheffield (3), Southampton (2), Stirling, Sussex (2), Wales (Cardiff, St David’s Lampeter and Swansea), Warwick (3), York (2)
Rest of Europe
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague (4), Bilkent University (Ankara), Central European University Budapest (3), University of Belgrade (2), Eötvös Lórand University Budapest (3), University College Cork, University of Copenhagen (2), Trinity College Dublin (2), University College Dublin, University of Helsinki (3), University of Konstanz, Catholic University of Leuven, University of Lund, San Raffaele Milan (3), University of Oslo (2), Institut Jean Nicod Paris, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Scuola Normale Pisa (2), University of Riejka, University of Stockholm, University of La Laguna Tenerife (2), University of Uppsala, University of Eastern Piedmont (Vercelli), Ca’ Foscari (Venice), Witten-Herdecke (Germany), University of Zagreb
USA
Bowdoin College, Brown University, University of California Berkeley, University of Connecticut, University of Kentucky, University of Maine, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MIT, University of Missouri St Louis, University of New Hampshire, City University of New York Graduate Center, University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Smith College, Stanford University, University of Texas Austin
Australasia
Australian National University Research School of the Social Sciences (4), University of Auckland, University of Brisbane, University of Canterbury, Flinders University, Macquarie University (2), University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of New South Wales, University of Otago, University of Sydney (3), University of Tasmania
Invited lecture series
March 2009: Universities of Lausanne & Bochum Joint Graduate School, Lectures on Perception (3)
February 2008: University of Pennsylvania, Seybert Lectures, The Objects of Thought (3)
January 2008: Universitá Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Substance, Property and Cause (5)
April 2006: Scuola Normale, Pisa The Concept of Intentionality (3)
November 2005: University of La Laguna, Tenerife, The Philosophy of Mind (2)
September 2005: Summer School, ‘Esprit, Science, Métaphysique’, Ramatuelle, France, The Metaphysics of Intentionality (3)
May 2001: University of Birmingham, Intentionalism (4)
November 1999: Helsinki University, Intentionality and the elements of mind (4)
July-September 1999: University of Sydney, Seminar on Intentionality (12)
September 1995: National Autonomous University of Mexico City (UNAM), Mental Causation (3)
Invited conference and other significant presentations
2009
‘The Semantic and Phenomenological Conceptions of Content’ Stockholm, Knowledge and Perception
‘What is Consciousness?’ Stockholm, Graduate Conference
‘Consciousness as predicated of human beings’ Liverpool, conference celebrating the work of Barry Dainton
‘Consciousness as predicated of human beings’ Edinburgh, Consciousness
‘Emergent minds and their powers’ Kazimierz Dolny Poland, Naturalism Workshop
‘Mental substances and their powers’ Durham, The New Ontology of Mental Causation
‘Reply to Travis’ Warwick, Knowledge
TBA Zürich, Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology
‘The Singularity of Singular Thought’ Warwick MindGrad
2008
‘Conscious belief’ St Catherine’s College Oxford, Cognitive Phenomenology
‘Philosophical perspectives on reference and communication’ St Andrews, REFCOM workshop
‘Mind-World relations’ Utrecht, Philosophers’ Rally
‘Seeing that someone is in pain’ Manchester, Open Minds
‘Seeing that someone is in pain’ ANU Canberra, Workshop on Relational and Representational Conceptions of Experience
‘Picturing and perceiving’ Sydney, Images and Intentionality
‘Awareness of properties’ Crete, Hallucination on Crete
‘Consciousness as predicated of human beings’ Sardinia, CNCC self and other workshop
‘Reference, quantification and existence’ Helsinki, Reference
2007
‘On the content and object of presentations:’ Glasgow, The Admissible Contents of Experience
‘Emergence and the explanatory gap’ Belfast, Emergence
‘Knowledge of the mind and knowledge of the brain’ University of Copenhagen, 3rd Annual Brain and Mind Lecture
‘Why perception is not a propositional attitude’ University of California Berkeley, Keynote Speaker, Annual London-Berkeley Graduate Conference
‘Perceptual normativity’ Stockholm, Workshop on Perception and Content
‘Perceptual normativity’ University of Kentucky, Normativity and the Mental
‘On content and object’, University of Fribourg, Intentionality
2006
‘Can science explain everything about consciousness?’ Glasgow, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
‘Horwich on the reduction of meaning’ Pécs, Hungary, Conference on the Philosophy of Paul Horwich
‘No identity without an entity: thinking about the non-existent’ University of Missouri St Louis, Keynote Speaker, 1st Gateway Graduate Conference
‘Intentionalism’, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italian Society for Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
‘Some Wittgensteinian ideas about intentionality’, Collegium Budapest, Budapest Mind Society Inaugural Conference
‘Aboutness and non-existence’ Oslo, Perception and Sensation
2005
‘Narrow content and intentional inexistence’ Chicago, Symposium with Georges Rey and Joseph Levine, American Philosophical Association, Central Division
‘Intentionalism’ Danish Research School in Philosophy (History of Ideas and History of Science), Copenhagen, Mind, World and Intentionality: New Perspectives on the Internalism/Externalism Debate
‘Emergence, Cosmic Hermeneutics and the Explanatory Gap’ Belgrade, Serbia Explanatory Gaps: Conference in Memory of Nikola Grahek
‘Reply to Shaun Gallagher’ Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen Towards a Science of Consciousness
‘Robinson and Jackson on the knowledge argument’ Central European University Budapest, 60th Birthday Conference in Honour of Howard Robinson
‘Reply to Carlo Gabbani’ University of Genoa, Mental Processes
2004
‘Reply to Snowdon’ Frankfurt, The Disjunctive Theory of Perception workshop
‘The efficacy of colour, shape and size’ Aarhus, Denmark, NAMICONA project conference: Mental and Special Science Causation
‘Perceptual intentionality and perceptual relations’ Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study, Oslo, Norms and Truth
‘The efficacy of colour, shape and size’ Macquarie University, Sydney, Workshop on Mental Causation
2003
‘Physicalism as emergence’ Vietri sul Mare, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) Annual Conference
‘Sense-data and mental representation: Reply to Paternoster’ University of Bologna, Mind and Language
‘Physicalism as emergence’ Aarhus, Denmark, NAMICONA (‘Natural Mind and Cognisant Nature’) project workshop
2002
‘Mental substances’ London, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, Minds and Persons
‘The problem of consciousness’ & ‘The real distinction between dualism and physicalism’ Perth, Australasian Association of Cognitive Science, Annual Conference
‘Intentionality and intensionality’ Miskolc, Hungary Intentionality Past and Present
‘The real distinction between dualism and physicalism’ Bielefeld, Mental Causation
‘Dispositions and consciousness’ École Normale Supérieur, Paris, Dispositions
2001
‘Subjective facts’ Lisbon, Mind & Action III
‘Intentionality, introspection and the transparency of experience’ Humboldt University Berlin, Mental Representation and Reality
‘Consciousness, the awareness of the world and the essence of the mind’ Fondazione Carlo Erba Milan, Evolution and Consciousness
‘Concepts, content and non-conceptual content’ University of Bologna, Concepts
2000
‘Intentional objects’ University of Reading, Meaning and Representation
‘The emergence of consciousness’ Fondazione Carlo Erba, Milan, The Emergence of the Mind
1999
‘Is intentionality a relation?’ University of Stockholm, Externalism
‘Reply to Joelle Proust’ Aix-en-Provence, Survenance, Causalité, Esprit & Action (Mind & Action II)
‘The intentional structure of consciousness’ Melbourne, Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference
1998
‘Dualism, monism, physicalism’ Fondazione Rosselli, Turin, Cognitive Theory of Social Action
‘Dualism, monism, physicalism’, Noszvaj, Hungary, Eastern European Sub-Division of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy
‘Does philosophy analyse commonsense? The case of externalism’ Bologna, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy and Commonsense
‘The intentional structure of consciousness’ Santa Barbara, California, Consciousness
1997
‘Intentionality as the mark of the mental’ London, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mind
‘Jacob on mental causation’, Maribor, Slovenia, Symposium on Pierre Jacob’s What Minds Can Do
1996
‘Sensations and sense-data: then and now’ University of Warwick, The Future of Analytic Philosophy
‘Sensations and sense-data: then and now’ University of Miskolc, Hungary, Images and Reality
‘The efficacy of content: a functionalist theory’ Utrecht, Netherlands, Human Action and Causality (Mind & Action I)
1995
‘The mental causation debate’ University of Liverpool Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association
1993
‘Names, sense and Kripke’s puzzle’ Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Meaning
1992
‘Mental causation and mental reality’ The Aristotelian Society London
Conferences organised
1990
Perception and Perceptual Content, King’s College London
1995 & 1998
Logic & Language, University of London (co-organiser with Barry C. Smith and Gabriel Segal): Awarded Mind Association Major Conference Grant, Analysis Conference Grant and British Academy Conference Grant.
1998-2002
Co-organiser (with Mike Martin of UCL) of four workshops on ‘Mental Phenomena’, Dubrovnik, Croatia (awarded a British Academy International Joint Activity Award for 2001-3)
2004
Co-organiser (with Marcus Willaschek, University of Frankfurt) of The Disjunctive Theory of Perception (funded by a grant from the DFG)
1998-2008
Overall planning, organisation and control of 127 one- and two-day conferences, public lectures and seminar series at the Philosophy Programme (later, the Institute of Philosophy) of the School of Advanced Study, University of London (see www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk).
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