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J Christopher Maloney

Professor of Philosophy and Head, Department of Philosophy
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1978
Philosophy of Mind

J. Christopher Maloney (Ph.D., Indiana) is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department. His specialty is the philosophy of mind, including its intersection with the cognitive sciences. He is currently writing on naturalistic theories of mental content. He is a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Books

  • The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language (Cambridge, 1989)

Selected Publications

  • "Content: Control, Contingency and Covariation" (Synthese, August 1994)
  • "The Language of Thought" (A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell, 1994)
  • "Connectionism and Conditioning" (Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind, Kluwer, 1991)
  • "Saving Psychological Solipsism" (Philosophical Studies, March 1991)

Teaching

  • TRAD 104: Mind, Matter and God