Texts:

Radiant Cool (MIT Press, 2003)

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·      or read about it:   Emily Eakin, “Art and Science Meet, with Novel Results.”  NYTimes, October 18, 2003.

·        Walter Ellis, “A Neuro-noir Journey to the Centre of the Mind.”  Times Higher Education Supplement, November 28, 2003.

Selected papers, by topic:

Consciousness:

·        Functional MRI and the study of human consciousness, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14: 818-831, 2002

·      Terra Cognita: From functional neuroimaging to the map of the mind, Brain and Mind, 1: 1-24, 2000.

·        Beyond ‘the Fringe’:  A Cautionary Critique of William James, Consciousness and Cognition, 9: 629-637, 2000.

·        Virtual lesions in the not-so-modular brain, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6:627-635, 2000.

·        Consciousness, Connectionism, and Cognitive Neuroscience: A Meeting of the Minds, Philosophical Psychology, 9(1):61-81, March 1996

·        Consciousness: A Connectionist Manifesto, Minds and Machines, 5(2):161-185, May 1995.

 

...and philosophy:

• Popping the Thought Balloon in The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett, a comprehensive assessment, D. Ross, A Brook, D. Thompson, eds., MIT Press, 2000
• Consciousness and Its Discontents,  Communication and Cognition, 30(3/4): 273-285, 1997.
•  Twilight of the Zombies, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 1997.

Schizophrenia:

Civil Schizophrenia, in Distributed Cognition and the Will, D. Ross and D. Spurett, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press), in press.

Through a glass darkly: Schizophrenia and Functional Brain Imaging, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, forthcoming.

Conscious and Unconscious

• Leaping to Conclusions: Connectionism, Consciousness, and the Computational Mind, in Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind, J. Horgan and J. Teinson, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.

Connectionism and the Freudian unconscious

• The Fables of Lucy R.: Association and Dissociation in Neural Networks, in Connectionism and Psychopathology, D. Stein, ed., Cambridge University Press, pp. 247-272, 1998.
• Connectionist Hysteria: Reducing a Freudian Case Study to a Network Model,  Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 1(2):69-88, June 1994.

Teaching and Learning

• Street Rigor: Service Learning and the Liberal Arts.
• Context, Conversation, Community, in Excellent Teachers, Teaching Excellence, M. McLaughlin and D. Hyland, eds., Trinity College Press, in press.
• Sojourning in the Art World: Service Learning in the Philosophy of Art, in Philosophy and Service Learning, D. Lisman, ed., American Association for Higher Education, in press.
• Brain Teasers: After-Hours Experiments in Cognitive Neuroscience, in Neuroscience Methods: The Undergraduate Laboratory Experience, D. Blackburn, ed. Trinity College Press, 1996.

Ocassional flights (fiction and essays)

• Rubellium West, Pioneer of Ice Age Archeology
• 'She never knew she was a rabbit' (and other epitaphs), Socrates Lecture, Independent Degree Program, Trinity College, 2006.

Life in the fast lane of Liberal Arts

• My Strategic Plan

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