Department of Philosophy

Loyola University

6363 St. Charles Avenue

New Orleans, LA  70118

USA

E-mail: rebrisco@loyno.edu

Main areas of interest: philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of perception, epistemology, philosophy of language, and history of analytic philosophy.

I am currently working on a book -- provisionally titled Body Space -- in which I develop and defend a unified account of spatial representation in perception, action, and proprioception. More information here...

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Philosophy

Enrolled in Ph.D. program in Philosophy

M.A. in Religion

B.A. in Philosophy with Honors

Boston University

University of Virginia

Harvard University  

Columbia University

2004

1997-98

1997

1993

Dissertation: Single-Mindedness: Language, Thought, and the First Person

Supervisors: 1. Juliet Floyd, 2. Richard Heck, 3. Aaron Garrett, 4. Daniel Dahlstrom

PUBLICATIONS

1. “Egocentric Spatial Representation in Action and Perception,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming 2008).  PDF

2. “Vision, Action, and Make-Perceive,” Mind and Language (forthcoming 2008).  PDF  or  WORD

3. “Communication and Rational Responsiveness to the World,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2007): 135-159.

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4. “Individualism, Externalism, and Idiolectical Meaning,” Synthese 152 (2006): 95–128.

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5. “Faith, Social Hope, and Clarity,” review of Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls, Boston Book Review (Fall 2001).

INVITED LECTURES & CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Perspectival Properties and the Perceptual Priority of Depth,” accepted for presentation at the APA Pacific Division Meeting in Pasadena, CA, March 2008.

“Visual Shape Perception and Bodily Action,” accepted for presentation at the APA Central Division Meeting in Chicago, IL, April 2008.

“Wittgenstein and Externalism in the Philosophy of Language” (invited), Tulane University, Supervenience Colloquium, Fall 2006 (event cancelled).

“Vehicles of Perception” (invited), Boston University, J.J. Gibson Colloquium (with Ruth Millikan and Alva Noë), January 2006.

“Objectivity, Communication, and Rational Responsiveness to the World: On a Theme from Brandom, Davidson, and McDowell” (invited), UC Riverside, November 2005.

“Idiolectical Meaning and Referential Intentions” (invited), MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cog Lunch Lecture Series, November 2003.

“On the Intentional Interpretation of Artifacts” (invited), MIT Relational Artifacts Workshop, October 2002.

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

Bobet Faculty Fellowship, Loyola University, Summer 2007

Professor of the Year, Loyola University Honors Program, 2006

A.M. Brennan Humanities Fellowship, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2002

A.J. and J.J. Rallis Memorial Award, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2002

Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2001-03

Teaching Fellowship, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1998-2001

DAAD Scholarship, Herder Institute in Leipzig, Germany, 1998

Departmental Fellowship, University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1997-1998