Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Alva Noë
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley


Email: noe@berkeley.edu

Alva Noë received a BA from Columbia in 1986, a B.Phil. from Oxford in 1988, and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995. He has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, a Visiting Scholar at UC Irvine and at the Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS in Paris, and a McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. From 1996 to 2003, he was a member of the philosophy faculty at UC Santa Cruz. He has been a recipient of a UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities and an ACLS/Ryskamp Fellowship. Noë has written articles on topics in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of cognitive science, and other topics. He is the editor of Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion (Thorverton, 2002), and (with Evan Thompson) Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (The MIT Press, 2002). Noë is currently at work on Perception and Consciousness: A Sensorimotor Approach (with J. Kevin O'Regan). Action in Perception (The MIT Press) is his most recent publication.

Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe

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