Susan Schneider

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Assistant Professor of Philosophy
sls (at) sas.upenn.edu
Ph.D. Rutgers University

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423 Cohen Hall
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Email: sls@sas.upenn.edu (This is the best way to reach me).
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania.

Faculty Member, Center for Neuroscience and Society, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), University of Pennsylvania.

Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET).

Research Interests: 

I work mainly in philosophy of mind and metaphysics.  I am now working on two projects. First, I am considering the scope and limits of cognitive science, and in particular, the plausibility of computational theories of mind.  And second, I am rethinking the traditional positions on the mind-body problem, reframing conceptions of property dualism and physicalism.

Selected Publications: 

Books:

 Some Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

  • "The Nature of Symbols in the Language of Thought", Mind and Language, Winter, 2009.
  • "LOT, CTM and the Elephant in the Room," Synthese, Winter, 2009.
  • “The Language of Thought”, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Paco Calvo and John Symons, eds. NY: Routledge, 2009. 
  •  “Fodor’s Critique of the Classical Computational Theory of Mind” (with Kirk Ludwig), Mind and Language, 2008, 23, 2008.
  • Transcending and Enhancing the Human Brain”, in Science Fiction and Philosophy. Reprinted in, Brains, Minds, Selves and Others, James Giordrano, ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
  • “Thought Experiments: Science Fiction as a Window into Philosophical Puzzles”, in Science Fiction and Philosophy, Susan Schneider, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009.
  • "What is the Significance of the Intuition that the Laws of Nature Govern?"  Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June, 2007, pp. 307-324.
  •  “Daniel Dennett’s Theory of Consciousness,” in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, Jan. 2007, pp. 313-324.
  • “Yes, It Does:  A Diatribe on Jerry Fodor’s Mind Doesn’t Work that Way,” Psyche, Spring 2007, pp. 1-15.
  • “Direct Reference, Psychological Explanation, and Frege Cases,” Mind and Language,  Volume 20 Issue 4, September 2005, pp. 223-447.

(Papers available at my homepage).