Robert Eamon Briscoe
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Contact: Bobet Hall, Rm 439A, (504) 865-2347
Email: rebrisco@loyno.edu
Education
Ph.D., Boston University, 2004
M.A., Harvard University, 1997
B.A., Columbia University, 1993
Research Interests
Dr. Briscoe works in areas including philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of perception, and history of analytic philosophy. Prior to coming to Loyola, Dr. Briscoe taught at Boston University and at Tufts. Between 2001-2004 he was a Research Associate at the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self; in the fall of 2004 he was a Research Fellow at the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science; and in the fall of 2005 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
In spring 2006, Dr. Briscoe was voted Professor of the Year by the Loyola University Honors Program.
His recent papers include “Egocentric Spatial Representation in Action and Perception," forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and “Vision, Action, and Make-Perceive,” forthcoming in Mind and Language.
Publications
“Egocentric Spatial Representation in Action and Perception,” Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research (forthcoming 2008). PDF
“Vision, Action, and Make-Perceive,” Mind and Language (forthcoming 2008). PDF or WORD
“Communication and Rational Responsiveness to the World,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2007): 135-159. (To obtain a copy of this article for personal use in accordance with "fair use" laws, click here.)
“Individualism, Externalism, and Idiolectical Meaning,” Synthese 152 (2006): 95–128. (To obtain a copy of this article for personal use in accordance with "fair use" laws, click here.)
“Faith, Social Hope, and Clarity,” review of Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John
Rawls, Boston Book Review (Fall 2001).