Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: Peter Carruthers

Peter Carruthers (DPhil, Oxford) is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy. His primary research interests for most of the last fifteen years have been in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. He has worked especially on theories of consciousness, the role of natural language in human cognition, and modularity of mind. But he has also published on such issues as: the nature and status of our folk psychology; nativism (innateness); theories of intentional content; and defence of a notion of narrow content for psychological explanation. Before coming to College Park he was at the University of Sheffield (UK), where he had a spell as Head of Department and was Director of the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies. In a previous incarnation he trained as a Wittgensteinian, and published a couple of monographs on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.

E-mail: pcarruth@umd.edu

Personal Home Page (with CV, on-line articles, books, etc.): http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/Faculty/pcarruthers

Representative Publications

The Architecture of the Mind: massive modularity and the flexibility of thought (Oxford, 2006).

Consciousness: essays from a higher-order perspective (Oxford, 2005).

The Nature of Mind: an introduction (Routledge, 2004).

Phenomenal Consciousness: a naturalistic theory (Cambridge, 2000).

The Philosophy of Psychology (with George Botterill; Cambridge, 1999).

Language, Thought and Consciousness (Cambridge, 1996).

Human Knowledge and Human Nature (Oxford, 1992).

The Animals Issue: moral theory in practice (Cambridge, 1992).

The Metaphysics of the Tractatus (Cambridge, 1990).

Tractarian Semantics: finding sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Blackwell, 1989).