Profile
Current research interests lie in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive neurobiology, epistemology, and perception.

Selected Articles & Publications:

"The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain MIT Press, 1995).
A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science, MIT Press, 1989.
Images of Science: Scientific Realism versus Constructive Empiricism, University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Matter and Consciousness, MIT Press, 1984.
Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1979.
Selected Articles:

"Conceptual Similarity Across Sensory and Neural Diversity: The Fodor/Lepore Challenge Answered." Journal of Philosophy, 95, No. 1, January, 1998.
"The Neural Representation of Social Reality", reprinted in May, L., Friedman, M., and Clark, A., eds., Mind and Morals (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995).
"A Feedforward Network for Fast Stereo Vision with Movable Fusion Plane," in Ford, K. and Hayes, P., eds., Android Epistemology: Human and Machine Cognition (AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1994).
"On the Nature of Theories," Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, XIV.
"Reduction, Qualia, and the Direct Introspection of Brain States," Journal of Philosophy, January 82, no. 2, 1985.
"Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes, Journal of Philosophy, 78, no. 2, February 198l.