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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
Summer 2007
Fall 2007
Winter 2008
Spring 2008
Summer 2008
Fall 2008
- 50 (FSP, Edinburgh, Scotland) Special Topics in Philosophy: Self
Deception
Winter 2009
- 14 (2) Modern Philosophy: British Empiricism
- 35 (12) Philosophy of Mind
Spring 2009
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