Associate Dean
                                                             University College

Education

Columbia University, Ph.D., philosophy, 1986

Current Research Interests

Topics at the intersection of aesthetics and cognitive science:  theories of picture perception; the role of attention in aesthetic experience;  a cognitive psychology of artistic style.

Active Courses

Art and the Mind-Brain, Philosophy 366.  (for syllabus see Art and the Mind-Brain)
Introduction to Aesthetics, Philosophy 237F (for syllabus see Introduction to Aesthetics)
 
 
 

Books

Minding the Brain: Perceptual Strategies and Mental Content
MIT Press/Bradford Books (in preparation under contract)

Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science
Yale University Press, 1989
Paperbound edition, January 1992

Anthologies

Arthur Danto and His Critics
Basil Blackwell, 1993

Begetting Images: Studies in the Art and Science of Symbol Production
Peter Lang, Inc., 1989 (with M.Campbell)
 

Articles

1. "The Invisible Content of Visual Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, (accepted, forthcoming with reply from Arthur Danto).
2. "The Strategic Eye: Kosslyn's Theory of Perception and Imagery," Mind and Machines (accepted, forthcoming with reply from Stephen Kosslyn).
3. "Picture Recognition:  Remarks on Kosslyn's Comments," Minds and Machines (accepted and forthcoming with article cited above).
4. "Pictorial Representation: When Cognitive Science Meets Aesthetics," Philosophical Psychology Vol 12, No 4, 1999.
5. "Introduction," to special issue, Philosophical Psychology, Vol 12, No 4, 1999.
6. "Pictorial Representation," Companion to Aesthetics, ed.  Dominic Lopes, Routledge (invited, forthcoming 2000).
7. "Philosophy, Perception, and Cognitive Science," in Perception and Cognition at Century's End, eds. J. Hochberg and J. Cutting, Academic Press (I 998).
8. "Pictorial Attitudes," Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. M. Kelly, Oxford University Press (1998).
9. "Picture Perception and Cognitive Science," Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. M. Kelly, Oxford University Press (1998).
10. "Perception and Proper Explanatory Width," Philosophy of Science Association 1995 Vol. 1, ed.  David Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard Burian.
11. "Deep Plasticity: An Encoding Approach to Perceptual Change," Philosophy of Science, vol. 6 1, March 1994.
12. "Re: Reinterpreting Images" Philosophical Psychology, Vol 7, 1994.
13. "Content and Conformation: Isomorphism in the Neural Sway," Behaviorial and Brain Sciences, June, 1992.
14. "Methodology and Mental Imagery in Cognitive Science," Logos, fall 1986.
15. "Distributive Justice," Kinesis, spring 1985.
16. "Mental Imagery and the Computational Model," Imagery 2, ed.  D. Marks (New Zealand: 1985).
17. "The Romantic Science," in Begetting Images, eds.  Campbell and Rollins.  Peter Lang, Inc., 1989.
18. "In Sartre's Thimble," in Begetting Images, eds.  Campbell and Rollins.  Peter Lang, Inc., 1989.
19. "Epistemology and Cognitive Psychology: The Eclectic Approach," Teaching Aeory of Knowledge, ed.  M. Clay, Council for Philosophical Studies, 1987.
20. "La scienza conoscitiva di croce," Productive 70, 1989 (invited).