Owen Flanagan
{{Citations missing|article|date=January 2008}}
Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (born
1949) is the
James B. Duke Professor of
Philosophy and Professor of
Neurobiology at
Duke University. Flanagan has done work in
philosophy of mind,
philosophy of psychology,
philosophy of social science,
ethics,
contemporary ethical theory,
moral psychology, as well as
Buddhist and
Hindu conceptions of the self.Flanagan earned his
Ph.D from
Boston University and his
Bachelor of arts degree from
Fordham University.Flanagan has written extensively on
consciousness. He has been realistic about the difficulty of consciousness as a scientific and philosophical problem, but optimistic about the chance of solving the problem. One of the problems in a study of consciousness is the hidden way in which conscious states are dependent of brain states. Flanagan has proposed that there is a "natural method" to go about understanding consciousness that involves creating a science of mind. Three key elements of this developing science are: 1) paying attention to subjective reports on conscious experiences, 2) incorporating the results from
psychology and
cognitive science,and3) including the results from
neuroscience that will reveal how neuronal systems produce consciousness.Flanagan is currently on the Editorial Board of Greater Good Magazine, published by the
Greater Good Science Center of the
University of California, Berkeley. Flanagan's contributions include the interpretation of scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism, and peaceful human relationships.
Bibliography
- The Science of the Mind-(MIT press, 1984; 2nd edition, 1991)
- Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology - (MIT Press, 1990)
- Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism - (Harvard University Press, 1991)
- Consciousness Reconsidered - (MIT Press, 1992)
- Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life - (Oxford University Press, 1996)
- The Nature of Consciousness - (MIT Press, 1998)
- Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind - (Oxford University, 1999)
- Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain - (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them - (Basic 2002)
- The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World - (MIT Press 2007)
See also
External links
Owen Flanagan
(...as imported from WP)
article has not been saved locally
