<img src="peter.JPG" width="200px" height="266px" style="float:right; padding-left:5px;" /> <p> My primary research interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. I have worked especially on theories of consciousness, the role of natural language in human cognition, and modularity of mind. But I have also published on such issues as: the mentality of animals; the nature and status of our folk psychology; nativism (innateness); human creativity; theories of intentional content; and defence of a notion of narrow content for psychological explanation. I am presently working on a book project, tentatively entitled <i>Know Thyself: the cognitive science of self-awareness</i>, which examines the cognitive basis of our understanding of the minds of others and its relationship to our access to our own minds.</p> <p> Before coming to the University of Maryland I was at the University of Sheffield (UK), where I founded and directed the <i>Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies</i>, resulting in a number of edited volumes of interdisciplinary essays. </p> <p> In a previous incarnation I trained as a Wittgensteinian (at the University of Leeds), got my DPhil from Oxford (working with Michael Dummett), and published a couple of monographs on Wittgenstein’s <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i>. I have also published books on epistemology, and on ethics, and continue to have interests in these areas.</p> <p>I am a member of the organizing committee for the University of Maryland <a href="cog-sci.htm">Cognitive Science Colloquium</a>. </p> <p> E-mail: <a href="mailto:pcarruth@umd.edu">pcarruth@umd.edu</a></p> <p align="right"><a href="http://www.umd.edu/phil/">Return to Philosophy Department page.</a></p>
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