Tim Crane
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I am a Professor of Philosophy and Pro-Rector at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. I am also the Director of Research for the FWF Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis, which began on October 1, 2023. This is a collaboration between philosophers at CEU and the universities of Vienna, Graz and Salzburg, led by CEU. 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. |
Recent writings
A website in memory of my teacher, Hugh Mellor
Review of David Chalmers, Reality+, in The Philosopher
The explanation of intentionality, forthcoming in the Australasian Philosophical Review (draft)
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)
'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)
'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
'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.
Review of David Chalmers, Reality+, in The Philosopher
The explanation of intentionality, forthcoming in the Australasian Philosophical Review (draft)
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)
'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)
'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
'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.