DISC Faculty

Güven Güzeldere

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and of Neurobiology

Güven Güzeldere

Office Location: 203-B West Duke Building
Office Phone: +1 919-660-3068, +1 919-660-3050
Email Address: guven.guzeldere@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/philosophy/istanbul/

Specialties:
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science

Education:
Philosophy & Symbolic Systems (Field Designation in Cognitive Science), Stanford University, 1997
Computer Science, Indiana University, 1989
Philosophy, Indiana University, 1989

Research Description: 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)

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

Bio/Profile
Professor Güven Güzeldere directs the Duke in Istanbul and Duke in Turkey programs, which aim at introducing cultural, historical, social, political, and religious issues emerging at the intersection of Europe and the Middle East, with particular attention to the unique position of Turkey within the global context. The program takes an interdisciplinary approach to area and cultural studies, offering a coherent curriculum organized around four courses together with an integrated component of cultural activities and excursions during the semester.

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Dharol L. Tankersley  
  • Erich Gerlach  
  • Dharol Tankersley  
  • Steven Prince  
  • Tanya Kaefer  
  • Joe Neisser  
  • Steve Geisz  
  • Tom Polger  
  • Edward Nahmias  
  • Alan Galloway  
  • Donald Dryden  
  • Stefan Linquist  
  • Scott Huettel  
  • Elliott Ludvig  
  • Chrissy Camblin  
  • Taskin Kocak  
  • Xena Ryder  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Roy Crist, Ph.D. (2002/07-2003/07)  
  • Urs Pohlman, M.D., Ph.D. (2000/07-2002/07)  
  • Hyo-Eun Kim, A.B.D. (2000/07-2002/07)  
  • Askin Karadayi, M.D. (1998/07-1999/07)