Education:

B.Sc. Univ. of Toronto (1985); Ph.D. MIT (1990)

Research Areas:

philosophy of mind, consciousness, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion.

Online Papers (for complete list of publications - click here)

1. "Social Relations and the Individuation of Thought," Mind 102, 1993, 247-261.
2. "Against Functionalist Theories of Consciousness," Mind and Language 9, 1994, 105-123.
3. "On the Temporal Boundaries of Simple Experiences," Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA, 1998.
4. "Outline of a General Methodology for Consciousness Research," Anthropology and Philosophy 3(2), 1999, 43-56.
5. "Is 'Consciousness' Ambiguous?," Journal of Consciousness Studies 8(2), 2001, 19-44.
6. "Conceiving Simple Experiences," The Journal of Mind and Behavior 22(3), 2001, 263-286.
7. "Concepts of Consciousness, Kinds of Consciousness, Meanings of 'Consciousness'," Philosophical Studies 109(1), 2002, 1-16.
8. "Davidson's Argument for Monism," Synthese 135(1), 2003, 1-12 .
9. "Vagueness and the Metaphysics of Consciousness," Philosophical Studies 128(3), 2006, 515-538.
10. "Papineau on the Vagueness of Phenomenal Concepts," Dialectica 60(4), 2006, 475-483.
11. "Simulation Constraints, Afterlife Beliefs, and Commonsense Dualism," Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(5), 2006, 462-463. (Commentary on Jesse Bering's "The Folk Psychology of Souls.")
12. "Are Our Concepts Conscious State and Conscious Creature Vague?" Erkenntnis 68(2), March 2008, pp. 239-263.