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PROFESSOR PETER J. MANDIK
Peter J. Mandik, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Philosophy, and
Coordinator and Chairperson, Cognitive Science Laboratory, William
Paterson University. He specializes in
Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy of
Neuroscience.
Pete authored
The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity,
An Epistemological Theory of Consciousness?,
Cognitive Cellular Automata,
The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness,
The Introspectability of Brain States as Such,
Phenomenal Consciousness and the Allocentric-Egocentric
Interface,
Action Oriented Representation,
Varieties of Representation in Evolved and Embodied Neural
Networks,
Mental Representation and the Subjectivity of Consciousness,
and
Objectivity Without Space,
coauthored
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to Mind and Brain,
Type-Q Materialism,
The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement,
Evolving Artificial Minds and Brains,
Representational Parts,
Selective Representing and World Making, and
Philosophy of Science,
and coedited
Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader.
Pete earned his A.A. in Philosophy from the College of Du Page in 1993,
his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 1995, his M.A. in Philosophy in the
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at the Washington University
in St. Louis in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy in the
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at the Washington University
in St. Louis in 2000 with the dissertation
Objective
Subjectivity: Allocentric and Egocentric Representations in Thought and
Experience.
Stuff he does "for fun" involves
building robots,
drawing comix,
taking photographs,
painting paintings, and
fictioning fictions.
Check out his blog Brain Hammer.
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