Mohan Matthen BSc (Hons) Physics, MA Philosophy (Delhi University) PhD Philosophy (Stanford University)
Professor Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 CANADA
Tel: 604 822 6548 (work) 604 255 7033 (home)
Especially for my Philosophy 311 students (but all are welcome to browse):
On Aristotle's Teleology of Living Things (forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, edited Georgios Anagnostopoulus)
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Publications:
Seeing, Doing and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception
Oxford University Press, 2005
A wide-ranging discussion of philosophical problems connected with the psychological study of sense perception.
View the Analytic Table of Contents
Some Recent Papers: Two Ways of Thinking About Fitness (with Andre Ariew): Suggests a replacement for the idea that the theory of evolution is a theory of forces. (This essay appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, 2002.)
On Causes in Evolution (with Andre Ariew) A follow-up to the above; this essay explores the question of causation. Are natural selection and drift causes? (Unpublished)
Features, Places, and Things: A critique of Austen Clark's A Theory of Sentience, this essay discusses the visual representation of objects and of colours. (This paper appeared in Philosophical Psychology, 2004.)
On Visual Experience of Objects A critique of John Campbell's Reference and Consciousness. (This paper will appear in Philosophical Studies.)
Polymorphism, History, and Taxonomy (with Marc Ereshefsky): A critique of Richard Boyd's idea that species are "homeostatic property clusters". Suggests "population structure theory" as an alternative point of view. (This paper appeared in Philosophy of Science, 2005.)
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