Education
Columbia University
Ph.D. Philosophy
Dissertation: Picturing: The Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Ontology of Pictorial Representation. Advisor: Arthur C. Danto.
1983
Columbia University
M.A. Philosophy
1977
Oberlin College
B.A. English & Philosophy — Phi Beta Kappa
1975
Books
Subjective Time: The philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of temporality
Co-edited with Valtteri Arstila, University of Turku, Finland. MIT Press, 2014.
Radiant Cool: a novel theory of consciousness
MIT Press, 2004. ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year — Gold Medal, Philosophy. Translated into Italian (Sironi, 2006), Japanese (Kodansha, 2006), and Korean (forthcoming).
Minds, Brains, and Computers: Perspectives in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
Co-edited with D. Anselmi, W. M. Brown, K. Haberlandt, and R. Morelli. Ablex Publishers, 1992.
Simple Minds
A philosophical examination of scientific approaches to the mind and brain. Bradford Books / MIT Press, 1989.
Articles & Chapters
Centering the narrative: Dennett on the self
Epistemic responsibility: toward a community standard for human-AI collaborations
What is it like to be a bot? The world according to GPT-4
Dynamic snapshots and artificial temporality
The Musical Structure of Time in the Brain
Notes toward a theory of sensory-motor understanding
Protention and Predictive Processing: The Wave of the Future
Not-Quite-So Radical Enactivism
Hearing, Seeing, and Music in the Middle
The Disunity of Time; Subjective Time: From Past to Future (both with Valtteri Arstila)
Creative Music Neurotechnology with Symphony of Minds Listening
The music of consciousness: Can musical form harmonize phenomenology and the brain?
Time after time: temporality in the dynamic brain
Neural correlates of temporality: Default mode variability and temporal awareness
Through a Glass Darkly: Schizophrenia and Brain Imaging
Mind as music
Grand challenges in theoretical and philosophical psychology
Functional Brain Imaging and the Problem of Other Minds
Aberrant ‘default mode’ functional connectivity in schizophrenia
Civil Schizophrenia
Outsourcing the Mind (review of Clark and Noë)
Stream of Consciousness; The Fringe
When time is out of joint: schizophrenia and functional neuroimaging
His Last Postcard (short story)
More Than Meets the Eye (commentary)
Functional MRI and the study of human consciousness
Terra cognita: From functional neuroimaging to the map of the mind
Popping the Thought Balloon
Consciousness: A Connectionist Manifesto
Mental Representation from the Bottom Up
Frankenstein’s Children: Artificial Intelligence and Human Value
Additional articles and commentaries in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Consciousness and Cognition, Philosophical Psychology, and other journals, 1983–2016.
Exhibitions, Installations & Performances
XXxXY, video — OHBM Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2020; FESTIYAQ, Madrid, 2020; Sigma Xi STEM Art & Film Festival, 2020
The Neuroanatomy Lesson, video installation — Science Gallery Rotterdam, 2020
Thinkerspace, permanent video wall installation — Innovation Hub, Hartford CT, 2020
Listening between your ears: Sonification and the dynamic brain — FESTIYAQ Madrid, 2020; RIT City Art Space, Rochester, 2019 (jury choice award); Johns Hopkins, 2020
Parallel Play, video — Imagine Science Film Festival, New School, New York, 2019
Apart Together, video — Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Rome, 2019
Music of the Hemispheres, video — Hémisphères ArtSci Exhibition, ETH Zurich, 2019
Digital photographic montages — Synkroniciti; LoosenArt, Rome; ViewArts Gallery, Old Forge NY (second prize); PH21 Photography Gallery, Budapest; Light Space & Time Online Gallery, 2019–2020
Rest/Full, video — CreateWorld 2018, Queensland College of Art; Australian Science Communicators, Sydney 2018
Smart Patterns / Smart Patterns II, video animation and sonification — Viten Filmfestival, Bergen 2017; Imagine Science Film Festival, Columbia University 2014; Londonewcastle Project Space, London 2013
Writer, Lecturer, Narrator, Co-producer — The Conscious Mind: A Philosophical Road Trip, MOOC, TrinityX and edX, 2016 · edX ↗
Producer & actor — Shakespeare’s King John, a dramatic reading, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 2015
Brain animation in documentary Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, dir. Michael Rossato-Bennett, 2014
Animation, Data & Analysis for Symphony of Minds Listening, composed by Eduardo Miranda, Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Plymouth University UK, 2013
Re:Vision, A Symphony in Your Brain, video and music — State of Mind: A Consciousness Expo, Sackler Center, Brighton UK, 2012
Music of the Hemispheres I & II, composition and multi-media performance — Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY, 2010 & 2011
Soundscape composition for Tony Oursler’s video installation Lock 2, 4, 6 — Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2009–2010
Installation Editor — Inside Out, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, 1993
Grants, Fellowships & Honors
Docent (Permanent Adjunct Professor), Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki
2009–
Fulbright Fellowship — Lecture/Research Grant, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
2008
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Development Grant
2005
Kellogg Foundation Education Fund Project Award
2005
ForeWord Magazine “Book of the Year” — Gold Medal, Philosophy, for Radiant Cool
2004
Visiting Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
2003
New Perspectives in Functional Brain Imaging Research Award
2002
Trinity College Faculty Research Grants
1993, 1997, 2000
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
1990–91
Arthur Hughes Award for Special Achievement in Teaching, Trinity College
1990
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University
1986–87
University of California Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowships
1984, 1985
Danforth Fellowship
1980–82
Chamberlain Fellowship
1980
Columbia University President’s Fellowship
1975–77
Christopher Dahl Award (Best Oberlin Philosophy Essay)
1975