Mohan Matthen
Mohan Matthen
PhD (Stanford), MA (Delhi), B. Sc. (Hons) Physics (Delhi)
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Philosophy, Perception, and Communication
His areas of research are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology and Ancient Philosophy.
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Selected Publications
Book
Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005): xxii + 362 pp. Paperback edition, 2007. (Available also on Oxford Scholarship Online, www.oxfordscholarship.com.)
Recent edited books
Color Ontology and Color Science (with Jonathan Cohen). A collection of about 12 new papers on colour perception and the nature of colour. MIT Press, 2010.)
Philosophy of Biology (with Christopher Stephens). (Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2006). Volume 3 of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. A collection of 25 original entries, offering a synopsis and discussions of current research in philosophy of biology and its historical background. Elsevier, 2006, 640 pp.
Recent papers
"How To Be Sure: Sensory Exploration and Empirical Certainty," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research forthcoming.
"Visual Demonstratives," in A. Raftopoulos and P. Machamer (eds) Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference, forthcoming.
“Is Memory Preservation?”, Philosophical Studies 148 (2010): 3-14.
“Drift and ‘Statistically Abstractive Explanation’,” Philosophy of Science 76 (2009): 464-487.
“Selection and Causation,” (with André Ariew), Philosophy of Science 76 (2009): 201-224.
“On the Diversity of Auditory Objects,” Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (2010): 63-89.
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