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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Schwitzgebel, Eric

Associate Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Philosophy


Biography

 

Degrees

Ph.D. Philosophy 1997

University of California, Berkeley

Research Area

Philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive development, philosophy of science, classical Chinese philosophy, epistemology, perceptual and cognitive psychology, metaphilosophy.

Publications

Papers Sorted by Theme:

Belief:

"On Containers and Content, with a Cautionary Note to Philosophers of Mind" (in draft).

"A Phenomenal, Dispositional Account of Belief" (2002), Nous, 36, 249-275.

"In-Between Believing" (2001), Philosophical Quarterly, 51, 76-82.

"Gradual Belief Change in Children" (1999), Human Development, 42, 283-296.

Our Poor Knowledge of Our Own Conscious Experience:

"The Unreliability of Naive Introspection" (in draft).

"Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White?" (2002), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 33, 649-660.

"Do People Still Report Dreaming in Black and White? An Attempt to Replicate a Questionnaire from 1942" (forthcoming), Perceptual & Motor Skills.

"How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Visual Imagery" (2002), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 35-53.

(with Michael S. Gordon) "How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation" (2000), Philosophical Topics, 28, 235-246.

Foundational Issues in Cognitive Development:

"Gradual Belief Change in Children" (1999), Human Development, 42, 283-296. [Also listed under "Belief" above.]

"Children's Theories and the Drive to Explain" (1999), Science & Education, 8, 457-488.

"Representation and Desire: A Philosophical Error with Consequences for Theory-of-Mind Research" (1999), Philosophical Psychology, 12, 157-180.

"Theories in Children and the Rest of Us" (1996), Philosophy of Science, Supplemental Issue, 63, s202-s210.

"A Difficulty for Simulation Theory Due to the Close Connection of Pretense and Action in Early Childhood" (not for print publication)

"Difficulties in Davidson's Arguments Against Belief Without Language" (not for print publication)

Metaphilosophy:

(with Alison Gopnik) "Whose Concepts Are They, Anyway? The Role of Philosophical Intuition in Empirical Psychology" (1998), in M.R. DePaul and W. Ramsey (eds.), Rethinking Intuition (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield).

"Zhuangzi's Attitude Toward Language and His Skepticism" (1996), in P. Kjellberg and P.J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi (SUNY Press).

Dissertation:

Words about Young Minds: The Concepts of Theory, Representation, and Belief in Philosophy and Developmental Psychology (U.C. Berkeley, Philosophy Department, 1997).