Department of Philosophy
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Güven Güzeldere, Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and of Neurobiology    editGüven Güzeldere

Office Location: 203-B West Duke Building
Office Phone: +1 919-660-3068, +1 919-660-3050
Fax:  (919) 660-3060
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Education:
Philosophy & Symbolic Systems (Field Designation in Cognitive Science), Stanford University, 1997
Computer Science, Indiana University, 1989
Philosophy, Indiana University, 1989

Specialties:
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science

Research Interests:
Güven Güzeldere (Ph.D. 1997, Stanford) joined the Duke faculty in 1997. He has published articles on philosophy of mind, history and philosophy of psychology, and artificial intelligence. He has co-edited (with Stefano Franchi) two special issues of Stanford Humanities Review: "Bridging the Gap: Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism," and "Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities," as well as an anthology on consciousness (with Ned Block and Owen Flanagan), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical and Scientific Debates, (MIT Press, 1998). He is a founder of Stanford Electronic Humanities Review, a founding associate editor of Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, and a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. He was a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (1993-94), served as the academic coordinator for the Stanford Symbolic Systems Program (1994-95), and as a research consultant at the XEROX Palo Alto Research Center (1991-96). Güzeldere is affiliated with Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of Mind, 
History and Philosophy of Psychology and Neuroscience, 
Cognitive Science, 
Computation and Artificial Intelligence

Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  • G. Güzeldere. Mechanical Minds: Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from.  2008. (Book manuscript under review by MIT Press)
  • Güven Güzeldere and Yoshi Nakamura, eds.. The Puzzle of Pain: Philosophical and Scientific Readings.. The MIT Press, 2008. (forthcoming, under contract)
  • Murat Aydede, Güven Güzeldere. Sensing, Perceiving, Introspecting: Cognitive Architecture and Phenomenal Consciousness.  2007. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
  • O, Flanagan, J. Evans, G. Guzeldere. "Neuroethics: The Ethics of Neuroscience or the Neuroscience of Ethics?." Neurology Ed. Patricia S. Churchland.  (2007)
  • Murat Aydede and Güven Güzeldere. "Cognitive Architecture, Concepts and Introspection: An Information-." Nous  (2005)

Conferences Organized
  • Fifth annual international meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 2001  
  • Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society, Davidson, NC, Program Chair and Organizer, February 2003  
  • Two-year colloquium and panel series on animal minds, 1999-2001