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Gary Purpura

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Lecturer
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
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120 Cohen Hall
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Lecturer Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests: 
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science

    • 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).

    Elisabeth Camp

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    Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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    (215) 898-5805
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    426 Cohen Hall
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    Mondays 11:30-1, and by appointment
    Research Interests: 

    My research focuses on thoughts and utterances that don’t fit standard propositional models. I am especially interested in cognitive "perspectives", in which one thought structures our overall understanding of a topic in a way that's similar to the way a concept like duck or rabbit can structure our perceptual experience. I've thought most about perspectives in our understanding of metaphor and fiction, but I'm also working on their role in emotions and the self. In addition, I am interested in the thought of non-human animals, in thought that takes place in maps rather than sentences, and in sarcasm and slurs.

    Selected Publications: 

    "Two Varieties of Literary Imagination: Metaphor, Fiction, and Thought Experiments," Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Poetry and Philosophy, XXXIII (2009), 107-130.

    "Putting Thoughts to Work: Concepts, Systematicity, and Stimulus-Independence," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78.2 (March 2009), 275-311.

    “Thinking with Maps” Philosophical Perspectives 21:1 (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), 145-182.

    "Contextualism, Metaphor, and What is Said" Mind & Language, 21:3 (June 2006), 280-309.

    "Metaphor and That Certain 'Je Ne Sais Quoi'" Philosophical Studies 129:1 (May 2006), 1-25.

    "The Generality Constraint, Nonsense, and Categorial Restrictions" Philosophical Quarterly 54:215 (April 2004), 209-231.

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