Edited Works
PSYCHE. Guest editor for special edition on Alva Noë, Action in Perception (MIT Press, 2005). 21, 1, 2006.
The edition contained contributions from Andy Clark, Pierre Jacob, Bill Lycan, Jesse Prinz, Charles Siewert, and myself
Papers and Reviews
Articles and Chapters (Academic)
1. Discussion of Jackson and Pettit: functionalism and broad content', Mind, April 1989, 269-75.
2. `Property-Exemplification and Proliferation', Analysis, September 1989, 194-97.
3. `Anomalism, Supervenience and Davidson on Content-Individuation', Philosophia, December 1990.
4. `Towards a Reasonable Version of Methodological Solipsism', Mind and Language, vol.6, no.1, Spring 1991, pp.39-57.
5. `Narrow Content', in Barry Smith & Hans Burckhardt eds., Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Munich, Philosophia, September, 1991.
6. `A Defence of Behaviourism', Behavior and Philosophy, Spring-Summer, 1992.
7. `Wittgenstein and Derrida on Meaning', Behavior and Philosophy, vol.21, no.1, June 1993.
8. `Connectionism and the Language of Thought', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol.45, 1994, pp.485-503.
9. `The Mental Life of Some Animals', Between the Species, Vol. 10 Summer-Fall 1994, 3-4, 87-93.
10. `Externalism and Token-Token Identity', Philosophia, Vol.24, no.2, 1994, 359-75.
11. `Against Methodological Solipsism: The Ecological Approach', Philosophical Psychology, Vol.8, No.1, 1995, pp.5-24.
12. `Teleological Semantics', Mind, Vol.406, No.122, April 1997.
13. `Animal Rights', in Social Philosophy, ed., T. O'Connor, Department of Adult and Continuing Education/University College Cork Press, 1997.
14. `Contractarianism and Animal Rights', Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol.14, No.3, 1997.
15. `Teleosemantics', in Marco Nani & Massimo Maraffa eds., Philosophy of Mind: A Guided Tour, http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/mindguide/.
16. `Environmental Ethics in Ireland', Newsletter of the International Society for Environmental Ethics (October 2000)
17. `Consciousness and Higher-Order Thoughts', Mind and Language, 16, 3, 2001, 290-310.
18. ‘Two Dogmas of Consciousness’, in Alva Noe ed., special edition of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 2002.
19. ‘Consciousness: The Transcendentalist Manifesto’, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2, 3, 2003, 205-221.
20. ‘The Cognitive Penetrability of Perception’ in Athanassios Raftopoulos ed., Perception and Cognitive Penetrability, Nova Scientific Books, 2005.
21. ‘Environmental Epistemology’ in Ethics and the Environment, Indiana University Press. ed., Christopher Preston, 2005.
22. ‘Body Language’, Philosophical Psychology, Special edition on Embodied Cognition, ed., John Sutton, May 2006.
23. ‘Sensorimotor activity’, Psyche (12) 1, March 2006.
24. ‘Consciousness, Broadly Construed’, forthcoming in R. Menary ed., The Extended Mind, Ashgate, 2008.
25. ‘Understanding the ‘active’ in ‘enactive’’, in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, ed., Steve Torrance, forthcoming 2007.
26. ‘Theories of representation’ in M. Aydede and P. Robbins eds., A Handbook of Situated Cogntion, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007.
27. ‘Mysterianism’ in M.Velmans and S. Schneider eds., The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell, 2007.
28. ‘Philosophy and animals in the age of Empire’, in A Cultural History of Animals, Volume 3, Animals in the Age of Empire ed.., Kathleen Kete, forthcoming 2007.
29. ‘Externalism’ in T. Bayne, A. Cleeremans, and P. Wilken eds., Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008.
30. ‘Memory’ in P. Galzon and J. Symons ed., Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Routledge, forthcoming 2008.
31. ‘Representations’, Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, ed., P. Hogan, forthcoming 2008.
32. ‘Consciousness’, Handbook of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Elsevier, Forthcoming 2008.
33.’Consciousness, Intentionality, and the First-Person Perspective’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (forthcoming 2008)
34. ‘Contractarianism, Animals, and Risk’, Animal Experimentation, ed., J. Garrett, MIT Press (forthcoming 2008)
35. ‘The Extended Mind’, Zygon, special edition, The Extended Mind II, ed., L. Marsh (forthcoming 2009)
36. ‘Consciousness’, Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, ed., J.B. Callicott & R. Frodeman, Macmillan (forthcoming 2009).
Popular Articles
1. ‘So Whaddya’ Know?’ The Big Issues in the North, May 2003
2. ‘Keanu’s Cartesian Meditations’, Think, April 2004.
3. ‘Have the Housewives read too much Camus? Daily Telegraph, January 2005.
4. ‘I’ll be back, therefore I am’, The Philosopher’s Magazine, May 2005
Reviews
1. `Review of Rene Marres: A Defense of Mentalism', Philosophia, December 1993.
2. `Review of Barnes and Stearns: Social History and Issues in Human Consciousness', Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, Summer 1994.
3. ‘The New Smithfield Martyrs’. Review of Hilda Kean: Animal Rights, Political and Social Changes in Britain since 1800, Times Literary Supplement, January 22, 1999.
4. `Animals Matter, But Do They Have Rights?’ Review of Mark Bernstein: On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters', Times Literary Supplement, No. 5024, July 16, 1999.
5. `This Club Is For Men Only’. Review of Roger Scruton: Animal Rights and Wrongs', Times Literary Supplement, No. 5084, September 8, 2000.
6. `Review of Stephen R.L. Clark: Animals and their Moral Standing'. Mind, December 2000.
7. `Review of Roger Penrose: The Large, The Small and the Human Mind'. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2001.
8. `Review of Gary Varner: In Nature's Interests'. The Philosophical Review', Summer 2001.
9. `Review of Owen Flanagan: Dreaming Souls'. American Journal of Psychology, Autumn 2001.
10. ‘Mothers, Don’t Encourage Them’. Review of Mary Warnock: Making Babies. Times Literary Supplement, No. 5208, January 24, 2003
11 ‘Between Arthur and Martha’. Review of Joanne Meyerowitz: How Sex Changed, Times Literary Supplement, No. 5226, May 30, 2003.
12. ‘Good Citations’ Review of Bina Gupta: CIT Consciousness. Times Literary Supplement, No. 5238, January 9, 2004.
13. ‘Review of William Ian Miller: Faking It’. Times Literary Supplement, September 2004.
14. ‘Review of the journal: Nous’. Times Literary Supplement, January 2005.
15. Review of Calarco and Atterton Animal Philosophy, Times Literary Supplement, May 2005.
16. Review of Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, in Times Literary Supplement, February 3rd 2006.
In Progress
The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology.
This book manuscript examines and defends the new paradigm for understanding mental processes that, I argue, is slowly emerging from the confluence of work in situated cognition and embodied phenomenology.
Under contract with MIT Press.
The Philosopher and the Wolf
This is the autobiography of a decade or so of my life that I was fortunate enough to spend with a wolf named Brenin. The book also deals, through the medium of this autobiography, with certain central issues in moral philosophy and moral psychology such as the nature of happiness, good and evil, wildness and civilization, love, death and the meaning of life – especially the meaning of life. Click here to read a sample chapter.
Under contract with Granta, and will be published in 2009.
Fame.
A philosophical examination of the rise and rise of what I call new variant fame. I trace its humble roots to a dispute that took place between Plato and Protagoras and was carried on in a remarkable intellectual experiment that began in eighteenth century France. Imagine Hello magazine written by Adorno and Horkheimer, and you’ll get the picture.
Under contract with Acumen.
Media Appearances, Interviews etc..
Spin Radio, Dublin: The Jack and Allie Show, July 2003.
Devon Today, ‘Schwarzenegger to Socrates’, October 2003.
SETI Institute Radio, Los Angeles: Are We Alone? May 2004
Eastside Radio, Sydney: The Ghost in the Machine. November 2004.
The Ultimate Matrix Collection DVD. Documentary: The Roots of the Matrix. Released December 2004.
The Herald, Arts, Books, and Cinema, Interview, ‘Socrates and the City’, Saturday, January 8, 2005 (cover story).
LBC Radio, London, January 16, 2005. The Charlie Jordan Sunday Supplement Show.
BBC Three Counties Radio, The Nick Ferrari Show. February 2005.
The Independent, Interview, ‘Navigating the moral maze’. A feature on my life in the South of France. August 10, 2005.
BBC London Radio, The Late Show, August 29, 2006.
Blood Festivals, Documentary interview. Forthcoming.
Presentation of Papers
To provide a full list of presented papers here would not be feasible. However, I have presented papers at conferences and workshops, and have accepted invitations to give papers in both philosophy and psychology departments in many parts of the world, including Europe, the U.S., and Australasia.
More recent (i.e. 21st century) conferences include:
1. Plenary speaker for the ‘Extended Mind’ conference, University of Hertfordshire, 29 June-1 July 2001. I presented a paper entitled, ‘Extended qualia’.
2. Plenary speaker at the conference, ‘Consciousness in historical perspective’, held at the University of Kent, May 15-16, 2002. I presented a paper entitled ‘Consciousness: the transcendentalist manifesto’.
3. From June 10-14, 2002, I was the annual invited speaker for combined philosophy departments at several universities in Finland. The week-long lecture series was entitled ‘Mind, Cognition and Environment’, and the lectures were held at the University of Turku.
4. Plenary speaker at conference, ‘Enactive Perception’, Oxford University, June 27-29 2003.
5. I was speaker at ‘Enactive Perception II’, University of Sussex, March 10-11, 2004.
6. Keynote speaker at The Contents of Consciousness conference in Antwerp, October 11, 2003. I presented a paper entitled ‘The contents of consciousness’.
7. Keynote speaker at the two conferences on Memory and Embodied Cognition, Sydney, November/December 2005. I gave two, papers (or one long paper divided into two halves): ‘Cognition Unbound’ and ‘Body Language: Representation in Action’.
8. Plenary speaker at the AHRC conference on ‘The Interactive Mind’, Edinburgh, June 2005.
9. Colloquium speaker at Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Portland, Oregon, March 2006.
10. Colloquium speaker and group meeting speaker at Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, April 2006.
11. Plenary speaker at ‘The Extended Mind II: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the head’, University of Hertfordshire, July 2006.
12. Plenary speaker at ‘Embodied Cognition’ conference, Cardiff University, July 2006.
13. Speaker at international conference, ‘Human Violence and Animal Cruelty’, Keble College, Oxford, September 2007.
14. Plenary speaker at ‘Mind: Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended’, University of Central Florida, Orlando, October 2007.
15. Keynote speaker at ‘Body Language’ conference, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, March 2008.
16. Symposium speaker (‘Embodied perception’) at Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2008
17. Plenary speaker at British Academy conference on Embodiment and Culture, London, September 2008.
In addition, in the past seven years, I have given papers at the following universities: Antwerp (BEL), Belfast (IRE), Birkbeck (UK), Canterbury (NZ), Coleraine (IRE), Dundee (UK), Durham (UK), Edinburgh (UK) Exeter (UK), Georgetown, (USA), Keele (UK), Lampeter (UK) Macquarie (AUS), Miami (USA), Reading (UK), Stirling (UK), Sussex (UK), Swansea (UK), Trinity College Dublin (IRE), University College Dublin (IRE).
