Alva noe

Alva Noë (B.Phil, University of Oxford, Ph.D., Harvard University) is an externalist philosopher. The main focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he interested in Phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy.
Professor Noë joined the UC Berkeley Department of Philosophy as an associate professor in 2003. He is now a member of the UC Berkeley Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, serving as a core faculty member for the Program in Cognitive Science and the Center for New Media. Before coming to Berkeley Professor Noë was an assistant professor of philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. He has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine and at the Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS/EN/EHESS) in Paris, a McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. Noë has been a recipient of a UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities and an ACLS/Ryskamp Fellowship, and is now currently on a research fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Noë is the author of the book Action In Perception (MIT Press, 2004). He is the co-editor of Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (MIT Press, 2002) and the editor of Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Academic Press, 2002).

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