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Tim Crane

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​I am a professor of philosophy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. I am also the Pro-Rector for Teaching and Learning.

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

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
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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. 
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