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St. John's, Newfoundland
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Philosophy Department
Memorial University of
Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C 5S7 Canada
Phone: (709) 864-8966; Fax (709) 864-2187
Philosophical Interests:
Philosophy of Mind (e.g. relationship of consciousness to neural system)
Phenomenology (e.g. description of our immediate experience)
Post-Modernism (e.g. what is meaning; where does it originate?)
Philosophy of Human Sciences (e.g. can there be a science of free humans?)
Mass-Media & the Internet as a mass medium (e.g. do the media manipulate us or educate and free us?)
Education:
1988 Finished all course work required for B.A. in Computer Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
1970 Doctorate degree in Philosophy, Institut Superieur de
Philosophie of the University of Louvain, Belgium. November
1970.
Dissertation:
Culture and Personality: Methodological and Philosophical Foundations
in the Anthropology of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead.
Defended
with "La plus grand distinction," 1970. Advisor: Jean
Ladriere.
1968 Licence degree in Philosophy, Institut Superieur de Philosophie of the University of Louvain, Belgium, February, 1968.
1966 Master of Arts in Philosophy, West Virginia University, August 1966.
Thesis:
The Nature of Basic Explanation, A study in the philosophy of
psychology based on C. Taylor's The Explanation of Behaviour.
Advisor: Karel (Joe) K. Lambert.
Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in pure Mathematics, University of Alberta, May 1962.
High School: Dublin, Ireland, and Calgary, Canada.
List of Presentations and Publications
Papers Presented to Memorial University Philosophy Department's Colloquium
Semi-Academic Presentations and Publications
Book: Becoming a self: The past, present and future of selfhood (2023)
Selection of Philosophical Papers Online:
The Body as the Active Principle in the Constitution of Perceptual Space (1977)
What, if Anything, is Represented? Objects in their Worlds 1992
Rorty and Husserl on Realism, Idealism and Intersubjective Solidarity
Overcoming our Childhood: Metaphors and the History of Philosophy 2002
Intuition by Whom? Responsibility and the Role of the Self 2004
Thought and Image 2010
Norms of Life 2012
Normative Binding 2016
The evolutionary origin of selfhood in normative emotions 2016
Defining Language 2018
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