Title: The Deterritorialization of Intelligence
Supervisory Team: Dr. Luciana Parisi, Dr. Steve Goodman
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science.
About my research:
My current research develops an interest in the nature of consciousness and the naturalistic construal of the mind. This has broadened to include work on epistemological and metaphysical reduction more generally, including questions regarding two-dimensional approaches to semantics; scientific realism; conceptual revision.
Contact: See www.jamestrafford.net
Selected Publications and Presentations:
In Publication
2009: ‘Review of ‘Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism’ edited by Torin Alter and Sven Walter’, in Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, vol. 15, no.2, <http://journalpsyche.org/ojs-2.2/index.php/psyche/article/view/2715>.
2009: ‘Review of ‘Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind’ edited by Brian McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen’, in Philosophical Psychology, vol. 22.
2008: ‘Review of ‘Philosophies of Nature After Schelling’ by Iain Grant’, in Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, vol. 19.
2008: The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti, and the Elimination of Selves, Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol. IV
Refereed Conference Presentations
December 2009: 'Why Idealize?': Apriority and Modal Epistemology, Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh.
December 2009: ‘Modal Rationalism and the Transference of Meaning’, MindGrad, University of Warwick.
September 2009: ‘The Knowledge Argument Revisited’, GAP.7, University of Bremen.
July 2009: ‘Physicalism and the Possibility of A Priori Reduction’, The Metaphysics of Mind, University of Edinburgh.
May 2009: ‘Epistemic Physicalism and Perspicuous Entailment’, Stockholm Graduate Conference, University of Stockholm (One of 7 selected from 98 papers).
March 2009: ‘Epistemic Physicalism’, Mind, Action and Perception, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück.
July 2008: ‘Things are Not What They Seem: The Transcendentalism of Appearances in the Refutation of Reductive Naturalism’, Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mind, University of Durham.
July 2008: ‘Appearing Qua Appearing’: Thomas Metzinger and Reductive Naturalism, Philosophy of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology (PPNB), University of Edinburgh.
June 2008: ‘The Binding Problem’, Time and Consciousness, University of Birmingham.
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