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Alva Noë |
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Research The focus of my research is perception, perceptual content and perceptual consciousness. Action in Perception is now in print! The central idea of this book is that perceptual experience acquires content thanks to perceivers' mastery of patterns of sensorimotor dependence. The publisher's site for the book, where you can view the table of contents, sample chapters, and the jacket blurbs, is here. The book can be ordered at Amazon. Please visit my Action in Perception page here. I am now at work on two new book projects. Perception and Consciousness: A Sensorimotor Approach, by J. Kevin O'Regan and myself, will be published by Oxford University Press in the Oxford Psychology Series. This book is a restatement and development of the position developed in our 2001 BBS target article (see below). Susan Hurley and I are also at work on a joint book on the brain-basis of consciousness. The project is as yet untitled but will probably be published in David Chalmers's Oxford University Press Philosophy of Mind series. The basic claim of the book will be that neural states are not sufficient for consciousness. The mind is not in the head, at least not entirely. We have begun to make out this claim in a series of papers on neural plasticity and consciousness (discussing, among other things, rewired ferrets, phantom limbs, synaesthesia, and related phenomena). All three of these books explore and develop a sensorimotor, dynamic, enactive approach to perception and consciousness. Papers on this and on other topics are available below. For a complete list of publications, please see my CV. Information about my co-authors is available here. |
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Perception and Understanding
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New article: "Experience of the world in time".
New article: "Against Intellectualism".
New article: "Real presence".
New article: "Experience without the head".
New article with Susan Hurley: "Can hunter gatherers hear color?". "The deferential brain in action: reply to Jeffrey Gray." With Susan Hurley. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7/5: 195-196.
"Neural plasticity and consciousness: reply to Block." With Susan Hurley. In press in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
"Art as enaction." Interdiscipline Online Symposium on Art and Cogntion.
"Is the visual world a grand illusion?" Journal of Consciousness Studies. Volume 9, No 5/6, 2002: 1-12.
"Are there neural correlates of consciousness?" With Evan Thompson. Completed and accepted as a target article for the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Commentaries now being solicited.
"Neural plasticity and consciousness." With Susan Hurley. Biology and Philosophy 18: 131-168 [2003], special issue on neuroscience, edited by Kathleen Akins and Philip Gerrans.
"Towards an analytic phenomenology: The concepts of bodiliness and grabbiness." With J.K. O'Regan and Erik Myin. In A. Carsetti (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Colloquium : "Seeing and Thinking. Reflections on Kanizsa's Studies in Visual Cognition". Univ. Tor Vergata, Rome, June 8-9, 2001. Kluwer, in press.
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New article: "Real presence".
"Causation and perception: the puzzle unravelled," forthcoming in Analysis.
"On what we see." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Volume 83, number 1. 2002: 57-80.
"Is perspectival self-consciousness nonconceptual?" The Philosophical Quarterly. Volume 52, number 207, April 2002: 185-194.
"A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness." [A target article] With J. Kevin O'Regan. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5), 2001: 883-917.
"Acting out our sensory experience: Authors' Response to Commentary." With J. Kevin O'Regan. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5), 2001: 955-975.
"What it is like to see: a sensorimotor theory of perceptual experience." With J. Kevin O'Regan. Synthese. Volume 129, No. 1, October, 2001: 79-103.
"Towards an analytic phenomenology: The concepts of bodiliness and grabbiness." With J.K. O'Regan and Erik Myin. In A. Carsetti (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Colloquium : "Seeing and Thinking. Reflections on Kanizsa's Studies in Visual Cognition". Univ. Tor Vergata, Rome, June 8-9, 2001. Kluwer, in press.
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| Perception and the Grand Illusion | ||||
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"Is the visual world a grand illusion?" Journal of Consciousness Studies. Volume 9, No 5/6, 2002: 1-12.
"Beyond the grand illusion: what change blindness really teaches us about vision." (With Evan Thompson and Luiz Pessoa.) Visual Cognition 7, 2000: 93-106.
"Experience and the active mind." Synthese. Volume 129, No. 1, October, 2001: 41-60.
"Perception, attention and the grand illusion." (With J. Kevin O'Regan.)
Psyche 6 (15), 2000. URL: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v6/psyche-6-15-noe.html
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| Perception and the Brain | ||||
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"Are there neural correlates of consciousness?" With Evan Thompson. Completed and accepted as a target article for the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Commentaries now being solicited.
"Neural plasticity and consciousness." With Susan Hurley. Submitted by invitation to Biology and Philosophy, special issue on neuroscience, edited by Kathleen Akins and Philip Gerrans.
"The deferential brain in action: reply to Jeffrey Gray." With Susan Hurley. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7/5: 195-196.
"Neural plasticity and consciousness: reply to Block." With Susan Hurley. In press in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
"On the brain-basis of visual consciousness." With J. Kevin O'Regan. Accepted, completed and in press. In A. No‘ & E. Thompson (eds.) Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception. Cambridge: MA, The MIT Press, 2002.
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"Finding out about Filling in: A Guide to Perceptual Completion for Visual Science and the Philosophy of Perception," . [A target article] (With Luiz Pessoa and Evan Thompson). The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21: 6, 1998: 723-748.
"Filling-in is for finding out. Authors' response." (With Evan Thompson and Luiz Pessoa.) The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21: 6, 1998: 781-802.
"Perceptual Completion: A Case Study in Phenomenology and Cognitive Science." (With Evan Thompson and Luiz Pessoa.) In J. Petitot, J-M Roy, B. Pachoud & F. J. Varela (eds.) Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Stanford University Press: 1999.
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| Perception and understanding | ||||
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"Is perspectival self-consciousness nonconceptual?" The Philosophical Quarterly. Volume 52, number 207, April 2002: 185-194.
"Perception, action, and nonconceptual content." A Field Guide to Philosophy of Mind. 2000.
"Thought and experience." American Philosophical Quarterly. Volume 36, No. 3 (July, 1999): 257-265.
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| Perception and art | ||||
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"Art as enaction." Interdiscipline Online Symposium on Art and Cogntion.
"Experience and experiment in art." Journal of Consciousness Studies. 7, No. 8-9, 2001: 123-135.
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"Direct perception." The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Accepted. Completed. In press. Due out late in 2002. Penultimate version (pdf) "Introduction to Vision and Mind." With Evan Thompson. In A. Noë & E. Thompson (eds.) Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception. Cambridge: MA, The MIT Press, 2002.
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"Wittgenstein, Phenomenology, and What It Makes Sense To Say," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LIV, No. 1 ( March 1994): 1-42.
Final version available from JSTOR.
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Susan L. Hurley
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- Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-2390 --- TEL: (510) 643-8412 --- FAX: (510) 642-4164 --- noe+AT+berkeley.+edu |
