Office Location: 201E West Duke Building
Email Address:
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~ojf

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursdays 8-9 AM

Specialties:

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

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 Springer, (2013)
• O. Flanagan Jr.. "The View From the East Pole: Buddhist and Confucian Tolerance." Religion and Tolerance. Ed. S. Clarke and R. Powell. Oxford University Press, 2013.  [abs]
• O. Flanagan Jr.. "Phenomenal Authority: The Epistemic Authority of Alcoholics Anonymous." The Nature of Addiction. Ed. N. Levy. Oxford University Press, 2013.  [abs]
• O. Flanagan Jr.. "Identity and Addiction: What Alcoholic Memoirs Teach." Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Ed. Wm. Fulford et al.. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• 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]

Conferences Organized

• Editorial Boards, 2007 - present  

Curriculum Vitae