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Eric Schwitzgebel - Home Page
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Eric Schwitzgebel
eschwitz at domain- ucr.edu
Associate Professor (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1997)
Areas
of interest: Philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive development,
philosophy of science, classical Chinese philosophy,
epistemology,
perceptual and cognitive psychology, metaphilosophy.
My Blog:
is here.
My Book with Russell T. Hurlburt:
Describing
Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic MIT Press (2007).
Essays Sorted by Theme:Belief:
"Acting
Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs" (in draft).
"Belief"
(2006), entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"A Phenomenal,
Dispositional Account of Belief" (2002), Nous, 36, 249-275.
"In-Between
Believing" (2001), Philosophical Quarterly, 51, 76-82.
"On
Containers and Content, with a Cautionary Note to Philosophers of Mind"
(not for print publication).
"Gradual
Belief Change in Children" (1999),
Human Development, 42, 283-296.
Our Poor Knowledge of Our Own Conscious Experience:
"The
Unreliability of Naive Introspection" (2008), Philosophical
Review, 117, 245-273.
"No
Unchallengeable Epistemic Authority, of Any Sort, Regarding Our Own
Conscious Experience -- Contra Dennett?" (2007), Phenomenology
and the Cognitive Sciences, 6, 107-113. (For further thoughts in
response to an exchange with Dennett, see here.)
"Descartes Inverted" (forthcoming), from Describing
Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic (with Russell T. Hurlburt).
"Do
You Have Constant Tactile Experience of Your Feet in Your Shoes? Or Is
Experience Limited to What's in Attention?" (2007), Journal
of Consciousness Studies, 14, no. 3, 5-35.
"Do
Things Look Flat?" (2006), Philosophy &
Phenomenological Research, 72, 589-599..
"Introspective
Training Apprehensively Defended: Reflections on Titchener's Lab Manual" (2004), Journal of
Consciousness Studies, 11, no. 7-8, 58-76..
"Difference
Tone Training: A Demonstration Adapted from Titchener's Experimental
Psychology" (2005), Psyche, 11, no. 6.
"Why Did
We Think We Dreamed in Black and White?" (2002), Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science, 33, 649-660.
"Do
People Still Report Dreaming in Black and White? An Attempt to Replicate a
Questionnaire from 1942" (2003), Perceptual & Motor
Skills, 96, 25-29; and
(with Changbing Huang and Zhou Yifeng) "Do
We Dream in Color? Cultural Variations and Skepticism" (2006), Dreaming,
16, 36-42.
"How Well Do
We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Visual Imagery"
(2002), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, no. 5-6, 35-53.
(with Michael S. Gordon) "How
Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation"
(2000), Philosophical Topics, 28, 235-246.
The Relationship Between Moral Reflection and Moral Behavior:
(with Joshua Rust) "The
Moral Behavior of Ethicists: Peer Opinion" (in draft).
"Do
Ethicists Steal More Books?" (in draft).
(with Joshua Rust) "Do
Ethicists and Political Philosophers Vote More Often Than Other Professors?"
(in draft)
"Human
Nature and Moral Education in Mencius, Xunzi, Hobbes, and Rousseau"
(2007) History of Philosophy Quarterly. 24, 147-168.
(with Joshua Rust) "The
Moral Behavior of Ethicists" (PowerPoint presentation: Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, June 2007).
Foundational Issues in Cognitive Development:
(with Victoria McGeer) "Disorder
in the Representational Warehouse" (2006), Child Development, 77,
1557-1562. [This is a commentary on an essay by Jacqueline Woolley, but it
is written so
as to be comprehensible without knowledge of Woolley's paper.]
"Gradual
Belief Change in Children" (1999),
Human Development, 42, 283-296. [Also listed under
"Belief" above.]
"A Difficulty
for Simulation Theory Due to the Close Connection of Pretense and Action
in Early Childhood" (2000, not for print publication)
"Children's
Theories and the Drive to Explain" (1999), Science & Education,
8, 457-488.
"Theories
in Children and the Rest of Us" (1996), Philosophy of Science, Supplemental
Issue, 63, s202-s210.
"Representation
and Desire: A Philosophical Error with Consequences for Theory-of-Mind
Research" (1999), Philosophical Psychology, 12, 157-180.
"Difficulties
in Davidson's Arguments Against Belief Without Language" (1997, not for
print publication)
Metaphilosophy:
(with Alison Gopnik) "Whose
Concepts Are They, Anyway? The Role of Philosophical Intuition in
Empirical Psychology" (1998), in M.R. DePaul and W. Ramsey (eds.),
Rethinking
Intuition (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield).
"Zhuangzi's Attitude
Toward Language and His Skepticism" (1996), in P. Kjellberg and P.J.
Ivanhoe (eds.),
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the
Zhuangzi (SUNY Press).
Chinese Philosophy:
"Human
Nature and Moral Development in Mencius, Xunzi, Hobbes, and Rousseau"
(2007) History of Philosophy Quarterly, 24, 147-168. [Also
listed under "The Relationship Between Moral Reflection and Moral
Behavior" above.]
"Why
Don't We Know Our Chinese Philosophy?" (2001), APA Newsletter on the
Status of Asian & Asian-American Philosophers & Philosophies, 1,
26-27.
"Zhuangzi's Attitude
Toward Language and His Skepticism" (1996), in P. Kjellberg and P.J.
Ivanhoe (eds.),
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the
Zhuangzi (SUNY Press). [Also listed under "Metaphilosophy"
above.]
Other:
(with Josh Dever) "The
Two Envelope Paradox and Using
Variables Within the Expectation Formula" (2008), Sorites, 20,
135-140 -- also see
our Simple
Explanation of the Two Envelope Paradox.
Dissertation:
Words about Young Minds: The Concepts of Theory, Representation, and Belief
in Philosophy and Developmental Psychology (U.C. Berkeley, Philosophy
Department, 1997).
General Description of My Main Research Themes:
Our
poor knowledge of our own conscious experience.
In-between
cases of belief and the dispositional approach to believing.
Key
concepts in developmental psychology.
Metaphilosophical
empiricism and pragmatism.
Moral
reflection and moral behavior.
Miscellaneous Thoughts:
Conjugal
love.
Marilyn Vos Savant on Goliath and
Lump1.
Recent Courses:
Lower Division:
Evil (Spring 2007, Winter 2006, Winter 2005; Fall 2003)
Upper Division:
Classical Chinese Philosophy
(Winter 2007, Fall 2005, Winter 2004)
Senior Seminar: Consciousness (Fall 2007); Chalmers on Consciousness (Fall 2006); Philosophy of Mind (Winter
2005)
Philosophy of Science (Fall 2005, Winter 2002)
Philosophy of Mind
(Fall 2004, Spring 2003)
Sophomore-Junior Seminar (Winter 2004)
Graduate Seminars:
Visual Consciousness (Winter 2008)
Workshop: Moral Psychology (Winter 2008)
Moral Reflection and Moral Behavior (Winter 2007)
Self-Knowledge (Spring 2006)
Moral Sentiments (Spring 2005)
Introspected Experience (Spring 2004)
Consciousness (Spring 2003)
Click
here for more detailed information on my courses.
Dissertations completed under my direction:
Nick Baiamonte (2008): On The Possibility of Being Virtuous in a Wicked
World: The Nature, Character, and Power of Genuine
Moral Reflection.
Joshua Rust (2005): John Searle's Ideal Type: Max Weber and the Construction
of Social Reality.
Ted M. Preston (2005): Bridging the Gap Between Normative Beliefs and
Actions.
Click here
to see pictures of my wife and son and for non-academic information about
me. The pictures of my son are out of date now, I'm afraid. But
they're still cute!
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