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Professor (Adj. Philosophy, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, The Cognitive Program in Psychology, Rhetoric of Science Program). Research Associate (Learning Research and Development Center). He has edited a number of books, including Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Science (with Michael Silberstein), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, The Cambridge Companion to Galileo, and Studies in Perception. He has written many articles on topics in the history and philosophy of science. He works primarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes and Hobbes, and in the philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science. He also does empirical work in cognitive psychology.

On-line Works in Progress:
Interpretation in Art and the Human and Natural Sciences (2/29/08)

Current Projects:
Book, with J.E. McGuire, Descartes’ Changing Mind: From Abstractionism to the Epistemic Stance, contract with Princeton University Press, undergoing final revision.

“Neuroscience, Learning, Memory and the new Behaviorism,” John Bickle, ed., Philosophy of Neuroscience, Oxford University Press.

“Explaining mechanisms”

“Models as Models of Mechanisms”

“The Uniquely Coherent Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes”

“The Dispositions of Descartes”

“On interpretation: Evaluations and values in art and science” (70 pp. Mss completed in draft; another 100 pp. Or so to come.)

"Leveling Reduction" with Jacqueline Sullivan, paper in draft.

A History and theory of the Emotions and Identity.

Metaphor and Descriptions.

Cooking, Eating, and Drinking Philosophically: a cookbook and guide, with Jim Bogen.

Greg Godels and Peter Machamer “Wrongs about Rights” under revision.

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