Jonathan Waskan
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Washington)
Holds full-time appointment with the Department of Philosophy and part-time appointment with the Cognitive Science group at the Beckman Institute. Interested in topics in the philosophies of mind, cognitive science, and science such as representational formats, the nature of explanation, intentional causation, connectionism, folk psychology, and theories of content. Publications include “Intrinsic Cognitive Models,” “Folk Psychology and the Gauntlet of Irrealism,” “De Facto Legitimacy and Popular Will,” “Kant’s Epistemic and Defining Criteria of Truth,” and Models and Cognition (2006). Co-author of Cognitive Science (2006).
Courses
FALL 2008
- PHIL 107 - Introduction to Political Philosophy
- PHIL 477 - Philosophy of Psychology (Same as PSYC 477)
