Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science at Rutgers
Core Philosophy Faculty: 


Frances Egan  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Jerry Fodor  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Alvin Goldman  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Barry Loewer   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Robert Matthews  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Brian McLaughlin  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Stephen Stich  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  


Affiliated faculty: 


Randy Gallistel (Psychology)   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Rochel Gelman (Psychology)   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Alan Leslie (Psychology)   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Zenon Pylyshyn (Psychology)  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Matthew Stone (Computer Science)  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Robert Woolfolk (Psychology)  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   


Recent graduate student placement: 


2009 

  • Walter Dean, “What Algorithms Could Not Be,” Robert Matthews (advisor), Assistant Professor, University of Warwick.

  • Carlos Montemayor, “The Psychology of Time and its Philosophical Implications,” Alvin Goldman (advisor), Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University.

 2008 

  • Douglas Parvin, Brian McLaughlin (advisor), Assistant Professor, Augustana College.

 2007 

  • Joseph Corabi, “Evolutionary Arguments and the Mind/Body Problem,” Brian McLaughlin (advisor), Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s University.

  • Daniel Kelly, “Projectivism Psychologized: A Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective on Disgust and its Philosophical Implications,” Stephen Stich (advisor), 2yr. post-doc at Sydney University, tenure track position at Purdue University.

 2006 

  • Gary Bartlett, “Taking Phenomenal Internalism Seriously,” Brian McLaughlin (advisor), Assistant Professor, Central Washington University.

  • Kevin Edwards, “Referentialism Without Compromise”  Jerry Fodor (advisor), Assistant Professor, Syracuse University.

  • Bernard Molyneux, “Aspects of Consciousness Explained,” Alvin Goldman (advisor), Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis.

 2005 

  • Chandra Sripada, “Conceptual Foundations for the Psychology and Evolution of Morality,”  Stephen Stich (advisor), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan.

 2004 

  • Matthew Phillips, “Intentional States and Intentional State Ascriptions: An Integrated Linguistic/Psychological Account,” Robert Matthews (advisor), Research Associate, Columbia University Medical Center.

 2003 

  • Jeffrey Buechner, “A Critical Examination of Hilary Putnam’s Refutation of Computational Functionalism,” Frances Egan (advisor), lecturer, Rutgers/Newark.

  • Catherine Driscoll, “Darwinizing Human Nature: Evolutionary Issues in Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology,” Stephen Stich (advisor), Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University.

  • Susan Schneider, “Meaning and the Computational Mind: The Role of Intentional and Computational States in a Scientific Psychology,” Jerry Fodor (advisor), Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Adam Wager, “Perceptual Awareness and Perceptual Knowledge,” Brian McLaughlin (advisor), Assistant Professor, University of Vermont.