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| Owen Flanagan Jr., James B Duke Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and Professor of Neurobiology
- Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- ON LEAVE SPRING 2010
- Specialties:
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Philosophy of Mind
Cognitive Science
Moral Psychology
Ethics
- Research Interests:
Owen Flanagan (Ph.D. 1978, Boston
University) came to Duke as Chair of department in 1993, a post he held until 1999. He
also holds appointments in Psychology and
Neurobiology and is a Faculty Fellow in
Cognitive Neuroscience and a steering committee member of the "Philosophy, Arts, and Literature" (PAL) program, and an Affiliate of the Graduate Program in Literature. He has also had visiting
positions at Berkeley, Brandeis, Princeton, Harvard, and
La Trobe in Australia University of Vienna as well as several
fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. In 1993-94 Flanagan was
President of the Society for Philosophy and
Psychology. In 1998, he was recipient of the
Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa award,
given annually to one American philosopher
for distinguished contributions to philosophy
and the public understanding of philosophy. He has lectured on every continent except Antarctica, where however he has been. Besides writing many
articles, reviews, and
contributions to colloquia, Flanagan has
written the following books and edited several:
- The
Science of the Mind (MIT press, 1984; 2nd
edition, 1991)
- Identity, Character, and
Morality:
Essays in Moral Psychology, edited with
Amelie O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990)
- Varieties of
Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological
Realism (Harvard University Press, 1991),
- Consciousness Reconsidered (MIT
Press,
1992)
- Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and
the
Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press,
1996)
- The Nature of
Consciousness
edited with Ned Block and Güven Güzeldere
(MIT Press, 1998)
- Dreaming Souls: Sleep,
Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious
Mind (Oxford University, 1999)
- Narrative
and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology,
and the Brain Co-edited with Gary Fireman and Ted
McVay (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- *The Problem of the
Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to
Reconcile Them*
- *The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World* (MIT Press 2007).
His most recent book is
*The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized* (October, 2011), MIT PRESS.
He
was awarded a Fulbright Research Award
in 2001-2002 to study Buddhist and Hindu
conceptions of the self. In 2006 he gave the Templeton research Lectures at USC in Los Angeles on *Human Flourishing in the Age of Mind Science.*
In December 2012 he will lecture in INDIA as Indian Council for Philosophical Research (ICPR) Distinguished Lecturer on *Comparative Philosophy, Virtue, and Well-Being*
- Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Philosophy (Chinese, Buddhist)
Philosophy & Literature
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Steve Martin
- Nathaniel C. Gindele
- Jing Hu
- Gordon Steenbergen
- James Abordo Ong
- David L. Barack
- Robert A Willlams
- Pamela Buck
- Donald Dryden
- Robert Conrad
- Kevin DeLapp
- Woojin Han
- Hagop S Sarkissian
- Tamler Sommers
- Andrew Terjesen
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- O. Flanagan Jr. & Tim Lane, Neuroexistentialism, Eudaimonics, and Positive Illusions,
SYNTHESE Philosophy Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
(2013), Springer
- O. Flanagan Jr., The View From the East Pole: Buddhist and Confucian Tolerance,
in Religion and Tolerance, edited by S. Clarke and R. Powell
(2013), Oxford University Press [abs]
- O. Flanagan Jr., Phenomenal Authority: The Epistemic Authority of Alcoholics Anonymous,
in The Nature of Addiction, edited by N. Levy
(2013), Oxford University Press [abs]
- O. Flanagan Jr., Identity and Addiction: What Alcoholic Memoirs Teach,
in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, edited by Wm. Fulford et al.
(2013), Oxford University Press
- O. Flanagan Jr., Kristján Kristjánsson The Self and Its Emotions Kristján Kristjánsson, The Self and Its Emotions, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 288pp., ISBN 9780521114783.,
NOTRE DAME PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS
(2012) [available here]
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