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Adjunct Professor in History of Science, California State University, Los Angeles, (since Spring of 1995).
Behavioral and Brain Sciences associate.
Assessing Editor for The Journal of Mind and Behavior - 1993 - Present.
Referee for the Journal of Consciousness Studies - 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007.
Referee for the journal Synthése - 2006.
Referee for the journal Philosophical Psychology - 2003.
Adjunct Professor in Logic, Woodbury University (Burbank, California) - 2001.
Referee for the journal Consciousness and Cognition - 2001.
Referee for papers on Philosophy of Science and Perception for the Cognitive Science Society Annual Conference - 2000.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Liberal Studies, California State University, Fullerton - 1999.
Participant in NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds (director Robert Gordon), Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri - St. Louis, June-July 1999.
Referee for the E-Journal Psyche - 1997, 1998.
Instructor in Philosophy, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA - 1996, 1997.
Participant in NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Metaphysics of Mind (director John Heil), Department of Philosophy, Cornell University, June-August 1996.
Participant in NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Mental Representation (director Robert Cummins), Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, June-August 1993.
Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1990-1992.
Tutor in the History and Philosophy of Psychology, University of Leeds, 1981-3, 1984-5, 1988-90.
Visiting Scholar and Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 1983-4.
Tutor in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, 1979-80.
Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Leeds University (Leeds, U.K.), 1987 [Thesis: The Psychology of Perception, Imagination and Mental Representation and Twentieth Century Philosophies of Science. (ASLIB Index to Theses, 37-iii, 4561) .] (Supervisor: Dr. M.J.S. Hodge).
Graduate courses passed at University of California, Davis (1983-4) in: Metaphysics; Current Research Topics in Psychology; Perception; Human Learning and Memory; Cognitive Psychology; (Epistemology - audited only; I also designed and carried out experimental research in cognitive psychology, as well as continuing my research for my Leeds doctorate).
Participant in Anglo-Yugoslav Graduate Colloquium on Philosophy of Mind (Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, March 1983)
Postgraduate Diploma in the History and Philosophy of Science [with distinction], Leeds University (Leeds, U.K.), 1979.
B.A. [hons. II(i)] in Humanities, Bristol Polytechnic (Bristol, U.K.), 1979. [Modules passed in: Social Anthropology; Philosophy of Mind; Concepts of the Person; Psychology; English Studies; Communication Studies; Concepts of Man (philosophical anthropology); Beliefs and Society (sociology of knowledge); The Romantic Movement in English Literature; Twentieth Century British Cultural Thought; The Modern Movement in English Literature. Honors dissertation on philosophy of science and cultural attitudes to science.]
B.Sc. [hons.III] in Biochemistry, Leeds University (Leeds, U.K.), 1973.
19th Century Studies course (Polytechnic of Central London, 1971).
Philosophy of mind and psychology; philosophy of cognitive science and
neuroscience; consciousness; nature and function of mental imagery in cognition;
mental representation and intentionality; the concept of imagination and
its history; perception; naturalized epistemology; the history of experimental
psychology and neuroscience; philosophy of AI and robotics.
Introductory Philosophy; introductory logic; philosophy of mind/philosophical
psychology; cognitive science; philosophy of science; history of science;
epistemology; history of philosophy; relativism and realism; critical thinking;
history of psychology; history of social/human sciences; history of ideas;
history of western civilization.
"Experience and Theory as Determinants of Attitudes Towards Mental Representation: the case of Knight Dunlap and the Vanishing Images of J.B. Watson." - American Journal of Psychology (102) 1989 pp. 395-412.
Conference report on: BPS History and Philosophy of Psychology Section Fourth Annual Conference - British Psychological Society History and Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter (12) May 1991 pp. 43-47.
Review of The Making of Cognitive Science, edited by W. Hirst. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) - Annals of Science (48) 1991 pp. 505-7.
Review of A Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason, by L. Chertok & I. Stengers. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992) - Annals of Science (51) 1994 pp. 569-570.
Review of The Imagery Debate, by Michael Tye. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991) - The Journal of Mind and Behavior (15) 1994 pp. 291-294.
"Imagery and the Coherence of Imagination: a Critique of White." - Journal of Philosophical Research (22) 1997 pp. 95-127.
"A Stimulus to the Imagination." (Essay review of Questioning Consciousness, by Ralph D. Ellis - Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995) - Psyche (3) 1997, Online serial, URL: http://journalpsyche.org/ojs-2.2/index.php/psyche/article/view/2355/2287 [PDF download].
Report on the conference: What Does Implicit Cognition Tell Us About Consciousness? [The First Conference of The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Claremont, California, 13-16 June, 1997] - Journal of Consciousness Studies (4) 1997 pp. 393-396.
Entries on Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Marshall W. Nirenberg, in Richard Olson & Roger Smith (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, (New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1998).
"Zombie Killer" - in Stewart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak, & Alwyn C. Scott (eds.) Toward a Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 171-177).
Entry on Imagination
for the on-line Dictionary
of Philosophy of Mind (Editor, Chris Eliasmith) 1999.
URL:
http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/imagination.html
"Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination? An Active Perception Approach to Conscious Mental Content." - Cognitive Science (23) 1999 pp. 207-245.
"Color Realism: Toward a Solution to the 'Hard Problem'." - Consciousness and Cognition (10) 2001 pp. 140-145.
"Perceptual Systems: Five+, One, or Many?" - Behavioral and Brain Sciences (24) 2001 pp. 241-242.
Review of The Race for Consciousness by John G. Taylor (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). - Mind (110) 2001 pp. 1127-1130.
"The False Dichotomy of Imagery." - Behavioral and Brain Sciences (25) 2002 p. 211.
"Mental Imagery, Philosophical Issues About." - in L. Nadel (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. (London: Nature Publishing/Macmillan, 2003, Volume 2, pp. 1147-1153).
Review of Consciousness, Color, and Content by Michael Tye. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000). - Minds and Machines (13) 2003 pp. 449-452.
Imagining Minds [Conference Report: Bradshaw seminar, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California, February 6-8, 2003] - Journal of Consciousness Studies (10-xi) 2003 pp. 79-84.
"Fantasi, Eliminativisme og Bevidsthedens Forhistorie." - Slagmark: Tidsskrift for Idéhistorie (46) 2006 pp.15-31. (In Danish. The original English title was "Imagination, Eliminativism, and the Pre-History of Consciousness.")
Entry on Mental
Imagery for The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Editor, Edward N. Zalta) 2008. This
is a professionally refereed on-line encyclopedia (ISSN 1095-5054), editorially
based at Stanford University. My entry is a
comprehensive historical and conceptual treatment of imagery in philosophy
and cognitive theory. Earler, incomplete versions are now superseded by the
greatly exapanded and updated version published in 2008:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/
Entry on Visual Imagery and Consciousness in the Encyclopedia of Consciousness [Volume
2, pp. 445-457]. Edited by William P. Banks. Oxford: Academic Press/Elsevier, 2009.
"The Varieties of Iconophobia and the Strange Case of J.B. Watson's Lost Images." - delivered at the First Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy Section of the British Psychological Society, Ilkley, U.K., April 1987.
Chair of symposium on "The Grand View of Images: from Philosophy to Anthropology." at the 11th American Imagery Conference, New York city, November 1987.
"Imagery and Knowledge: a historical analysis." - delivered at the 11th American Imagery Conference, New York city, November 1987.
"Theories of Mental Imagery in Recent Cognitive Science: Imagination and Representation." - delivered at the Leeds HPS seminar, February 1988.
"Gestalt Psychology as a Theory of Imagination." - delivered at the Second Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy Section of the British Psychological Society, Leeds, U.K., April 1988.
"Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination?" - delivered at the Third Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy Section of the British Psychological Society, Lincoln, U.K., March 1989.
"What is Imagination?" - delivered to Leeds University Philosophy Society, November, 1989.
"Dual Substances or Dual Codes? An Answer to One of the Problems of Consciousness." - delivered at the Fourth Annual Conference of the History and Philosophy Section of the British Psychological Society, Lincoln, U.K., April 1990.
"Are Theories of Imagery Theories of Imagination?" - delivered at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park MD, June 1990.
"Origins of Imagination." - California Institute of Technology Humanities and Social Sciences 'Brown Bag' seminar, February 1991.
"Zombie Killer." - delivered at Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson II) Conference, Tucson Arizona, April 12 1996. [Abstracts published in: Consciousness Research Abstracts (2) 1996 pp. 59-60; and Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Erlbaum, 1996).]
"Mary Doesn't Know Science: on Misconceiving a Science of Consciousness." - delivered at at the annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, March 26th 1998.
"Imagination, Eliminativism, and the Pre-History of Consciousness." - delivered at the Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson III) Conference, April 30th 1998. [Abstract published in Consciousness Research Abstracts (3) 1998 p. 36.]
"The Study of Imagination as an Approach to Consciousness." - Inaugural Conference for the Society for the Multidisciplinary Study of Consciousness, San Francisco, August 18th 1998.
"Attitude and Image, or, What Will Simulation Let Us Eliminate?" - NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers (Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds), University of Missouri - St. Louis, July 1999.
"A Non-Symbolic Theory of Conscious Content: Imagery and Activity." - Tucson 2000 (Toward a Science of Consciousness) Conference, Tucson AZ, April 14th 2000.
"Experience (and Mental Representation) Outside the Brain." - Tucson 2004 (Toward a Science of Consciousness) Conference, Tucson AZ, April 10th 2004.
American Philosophical Association, American Psychological Association (Affiliate, Div. 26), Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
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