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William Fish

Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Programme

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Review (NDPR)


Review (Metapsychology)




Location
Turitea Site, Manawatu Campus, Palmerston North

Office MB 4.37
Email: W.J.Fish@massey.ac.nz
Telephone + 64 6 356 9099 extn 7607
Main Building
MB 4.37



Academic qualifications

PhD, Nott.
MA (Distinction), Nott.
BA Hons (First Class), Nott.

Area of specialisation

Philosophy of Mind and Perception. Also Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Psychology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Teaching

134.101 Knowledge and Reality
134.201/301 Philosophy of Mind
134.212/312 Epistemology: Seeing and Knowing
134.740 Advanced Philosophical Topics
134.750 Advanced Philosophical Texts

Current research

Current research projects include:

work on the nature of consciousness and the relationship between consciousness, the brain and the world

the nature and philosophical implications of visual illusion and hallucination

imagination and mental imagery

the metaphysics of colour

Books

(forthcoming 2010) Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction (New York: Routledge). Link

(2009) Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion (New York: Oxford University Press). Link

Articles

(forthcoming): "Naive Realism" Encyclopedia of the Mind, ed. by Hal Pashler.

(2009): "The identity theory of truth and the realm of reference: where Dodd goes wrong" Analysis, 69, pp. 297-304 (co-authored with Cynthia Macdonald). Link

(2009): "Disjunctivism" The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Link

(2008): "Relationalism and the Problems of Consciousness" Teorema, 28, pp. 167-180. Link

(2008): ‘Disjunctivism, Indistinguishability and the Nature of Hallucination’ in Disjunctivism: Perception, Action and Knowledge, ed. by F. Macpherson and A. Haddock (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 44-167. Link

(2007): 'On McDowell's Identity Conception of Truth" Analysis, 67, pp. 34-41 (co-authored with Cynthia Macdonald).
Link

(2005): 'Emotions, Moods and Intentionality' in Intentionality: Past and Future ed. by G. Forrai, and G. Kampis, Rodopi, pp. 25-35.
Link

(2005): 'Disjunctivism and Non-Disjunctivism: How to Make Sense of the Debate', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 105:1, pp. 119-127.

(2005): 'D.W. Hamlyn', Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, 2005, pp. 364-369.

(2004): 'The Direct / Indirect Distinction in Contemporary Philosophy of Perception', Essays in Philosophy, 5:1.
Link

(2002): 'Who is I?', Philosophical Studies, 107, pp. 1-21 (co-authored with Eros Corazza and Jonathan Gorvett) Link

(2000) 'Asymmetry in Action'. Ratio, 13, pp. 138-145. Link

(1999): 'Reconsidering the Obvious', Philosophical Writings, 12, pp. 47-52.


Reviews

(forthcoming): Review of The Metaphysics of Perception, by Paul Coates, Mind

(2009) Review of The Bounds of Cognition, by Frederick Adams and Kenneth Aizawa, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 87:2, pp. 355-356.

(2007): Review of Epistemology, by Christopher Norris, Philosophy in Review.

(2004): Review of Perception, by Barry Maund, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 82:3, pp. 532-535.

(2000): Review of Mind in Action, by Bede Rundle, Mind, 109, pp. 170-173.

(2000): Review of Consciousness and the Origins of Thought, by Norton Nelkin, Mind, 109, pp. 973-976.



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