Tim Crane
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I am a professor of philosophy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. I work in the philosophy of mind. I have attempted to address questions about the most general nature, or essence, of the human mind, and about the place of the mind in the rest of nature. A short description of my philosophical interests is here. A short CV is here. A full CV is here. In April 2021, I will be a visiting professor at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano |
Recent writings
The significance of the many properties problem (draft), co-written with Alex Grzankowski -- a short paper which attempts to spell out the lesson of Frank Jackson's argument against adverbialism in the theory of perception
A sceptical piece about AI ethics, responding to Thomas Metzinger's claim that research on AI and consciousness should be prohibited (2021)
A short piece about Hugh Mellor (1938-2020), written to celebrate his 70th birthday in 2008
'Computers don't give a damn': the AI fantasy, TLS 2020 (no paywall)
Remembering Roger Scruton (1944-2020), TLS, 2020
Review of Mark Sainsbury, Thinking about Things, NDPR, 2019
On the scandal of academic journal publishing, TLS 2018 (non-paywalled version here)
On the problems of peer review in academic philosophy, TLS 2018 (non-paywalled version here)
'The Knowledge Argument is an Argument about Knowledge' (penultimate version) in Sam Coleman (ed.) The Knowledge Argument (CUP 2019)
Review of John Gray, Seven Types of Atheism, Wall Street Journal 2018
'Secularism as a Liberal Ideal', Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Sex and Secularism, Tocqueville21 (2018) with a reply by Prof Scott, and my reply to her
'Religion in the Open Society' in Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch (eds.) Rethinking Open Society (CEU Press 2018)
'Aristotle returns', a review of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, in First Things 2018
Review of Rowan Williams, Being Human, TLS 2018
'A Short History of the Philosophy of Consciousness in the 20th Century' in Amy Kind (ed.) History of the Philosophy of Mind: the 20th Century (Routledge 2018)
Other online papers are here. Other book reviews are here.
A sceptical piece about AI ethics, responding to Thomas Metzinger's claim that research on AI and consciousness should be prohibited (2021)
A short piece about Hugh Mellor (1938-2020), written to celebrate his 70th birthday in 2008
'Computers don't give a damn': the AI fantasy, TLS 2020 (no paywall)
Remembering Roger Scruton (1944-2020), TLS, 2020
Review of Mark Sainsbury, Thinking about Things, NDPR, 2019
On the scandal of academic journal publishing, TLS 2018 (non-paywalled version here)
On the problems of peer review in academic philosophy, TLS 2018 (non-paywalled version here)
'The Knowledge Argument is an Argument about Knowledge' (penultimate version) in Sam Coleman (ed.) The Knowledge Argument (CUP 2019)
Review of John Gray, Seven Types of Atheism, Wall Street Journal 2018
'Secularism as a Liberal Ideal', Review of Joan Wallach Scott, Sex and Secularism, Tocqueville21 (2018) with a reply by Prof Scott, and my reply to her
'Religion in the Open Society' in Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch (eds.) Rethinking Open Society (CEU Press 2018)
'Aristotle returns', a review of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, in First Things 2018
Review of Rowan Williams, Being Human, TLS 2018
'A Short History of the Philosophy of Consciousness in the 20th Century' in Amy Kind (ed.) History of the Philosophy of Mind: the 20th Century (Routledge 2018)
Other online papers are here. Other book reviews are here.