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Assistant Professor
206 Thornton Hall
Last name at Dartmouth dot edu
646-9391
Office Hours: By Appointment
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There are two major strands in my research. The first focuses on perception. How do perceptual states represent and thus make us aware of the environment? How do colors and other so-called 'secondary' qualities differ from shapes and other primary qualities? How should we explain the conscious aspects of perception, or what it is like to see red things, smell roses, and taste wine? The second focuses on the nature of pictorial representation. What makes pictures different from other kinds of representations like diagrams and descriptions? What makes some pictures more realistic than others? How do we use pictures and other kinds of representations as aids to learning about the world around us?
Selected Publications:
- On Images: Their Structure and Content. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
- Perceptual content is vertically articulate. American Philosophical Quarterly 44(4) 2007.
- What is what it's like? Introducing perceptual modes of presentation. Synthese 156(2) 2007.
- Pictorial representation. Philosophy Compass 1(6) 2006.
- Perceptual content, information, and the primary/secondary quality distinction. Philosophical Studies 122(2) 2005.
- Isomorphism in information-carrying systems. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85(4) 2004.
Courses
Fall 2008
- 50 (FSP, Edinburgh, Scotland) Special Topics in Philosophy: Sounds
Winter 2009
- 23 (2) Philosophy of Art
- 35 (12) Philosophy of Mind
Spring 2009
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