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Robert Briscoe

Robert Briscoe

Professor
Philosophy
Ellis 219

Education

  • Ph.D., Boston University

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Perception

Courses Taught

  • Directed Reading: Gualtiero Piccinini’s Physical Computation and Andy Clark’s Surfing Uncertainty
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Phenomenology Seminar
  • Philosophy of Perception Seminar
  • Pictorial Representation Seminar
  • Honors Tutorial: Prism Adaptation and Sensory Substitution
  • Honors tutorial: Tyler Burge’s Origins of Objectivity
  • Honors tutorial: Formal Logic
  • Honors tutorial: Language and Thought
  • Seminar on Ruth Millikan’s Varieties of Meaning
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science Seminar & Honors tutorial
  • Directed Reading: Philosophy of Color
  • Philosophy of Perception Seminar: Seeing & Thinking
  • Tutorial: Connectionism & the Mind
  • Epistemology: Other Minds and Other Kinds of Minds
  • Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness & Visual Experience
  • Minds & Machines
  • Introduction to Philosophy: Personal Identity & the Mind-Body Problem

Biography

View Publications on PhilPapers

Presentations

2016

  • Comments on Bartek Chomanski's "Visual Spatial Awareness Probably Requires the Awareness of Space," Minds Online, October 2016.
  • Comments on Ryan Ogilvie's "Empirical Tests for Perceptual Content," Pacific Division APA , March 2016
  • "Gombrich and the Dual Content Theory of Pictorial Experience," iCog 3 Sense and Space Conference, University of London, February 2016.

2015

  • "Depiction, Pictorial Experience, and Vision Science" (invited), Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, October 2015.
  • "Depiction, Pictorial Experience, and Vision Science" (invited), Rutgers-Barnard-Columbia Mind Workshop, August 2015.
  • "Multisensory Integration and Novel Phenomenal Contents" (invited), University of Antwerp, April 2015.
  • "A Cartography of Multisensory Processes," Pre-SSPP workshop, Loyola University New Orleans, April 2015.
  • "On Matthew Fulkerson's The First Sense" (invited), author-meets-critics session, Central APA, February 2015.

2014

  • Comments on Bence Nanay's "Threefoldness," American Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, San Antonio, October 2014.
  • "A Deep Resemblance Theory of Depiction," British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, St Anne’s College, Oxford, September 2014.
  • "Seeing-in, Seeing-as, and the Paradox of Gestalt Switching" (invited), Sensuous Non-Perceptual State Workshop III, University of York, June 2014.
  • “Motor planning, Motor Programming, and the Ventral Stream” (invited), Workshop on Illusions of Self-Consciousness, University of Copenhagen, May 2014.
  • Comments on John Schwenkler's "Against Perspectivalism," SSPP, Charleston, SC, February 2014.