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Susan Schneider

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Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. Rutgers University
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Email: sls@sas.upenn.edu (This is the best way to reach me).
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania.

Faculty Member (Affiliate), Center for Neuroscience and Society, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), University of Pennsylvania.

Research Interests: 

I work mainly in philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of cognitive science.  I am now working on two projects. First, I am considering the scope and limits of cognitive science, and in particular, the plausibility of computational theories of mind.  And second, I am rethinking the traditional positions on the mind-body problem, reframing conceptions of property dualism and physicalism, especially in light of considerations in metaphysics involving the nature of properties and substance.

Selected Publications: 

Books:

The Mind-Body Problem: Rethinking the Solution Space, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

The Language of Thought: New Directions, MIT Press, in press.

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness , (with Max Velmans), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, January 2007, 768 pp.

Science Fiction and Philosophy , Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009, 250 pp.

Selected Papers:

"Why the Property Dualist Cannot be a Physicalist about Substance", Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.

"The Nature of Symbols in the Language of Thought", Mind and Language, Winter, 2009.

"LOT, CTM and the Elephant in the Room," Synthese, Winter, 2009.

“Fodor’s Critique of the Classical Computational Theory of Mind” (with Kirk Ludwig), Mind and Language, 2008, 23, 2008.

"What is the Significance of the Intuition that the Laws of Nature Govern?"  Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June, 2007, pp. 307-324.

“Direct Reference, Psychological Explanation, and Frege Cases,” Mind and Language,  Volume 20 Issue 4, September 2005, pp. 223-447.

(Downloads of many of my papers are available at my homepage).

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