Dr Jakob Hohwy
Ph.D., ANU 1998
Email: Jakob.Hohwy@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 990 53208
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I joined Monash in 2007. My teaching is mainly in philosophy of mind, critical thinking and philosophy of language. I'm involved in research in philosophy of mind, ranging from the traditional mind-body debate over philosophy of cognitive neuroscience to philosophical psychopathology. In much of this research the focus is on the notions of reduction and explanation: how can the science of the brain explain higher-level, psychological phenomena? I am involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects with neuroscientists and psychiatrists.
I welcome honours and research students in all of the above areas. Students can work on research projects in traditional philosophical areas or join in some of the interdisciplinary research projects. I welcome students with a background mainly in philosophy as well as students with a background in areas such as medicine, psychology, biology, computer science, and engineering. If you want to hear more about any particular research projects, either in philosophy or interdisciplinary, then you’re welcome to contact me.
Education
- Mag.Art., Inst. for filosofi, Aarhus Universitet, 1995.
- M.Phil., Dept. of Logic & Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews, 1992.
- Ph.D., Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1998. [Ph.D.-thesis: Meaning as Use, Philosophy Program, RSSS, ANU, 1998.]
Area of research
Philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of science, philosophy of neuroscience and neuropsychiatry.
Publications
Books and edited collections:
Functional Integration and the Mind. Special issue of Synthese 159(3), 2007. Guest editor, J. Hohwy. With contributions from: Mike Anderson, Rick Grush, Tori McGeer, Chris Eliasmith, Karl Friston and Klaas Stephan, Philip Gerrans, Tim Bayne & Elizabeth Pacherie.
Hohwy, J. & Kallestrup, J. (eds).. Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. September 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921153-1. With contributions from: Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn Stewart, John Bickle, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Christian List & Philip Pettit, Jaegwon Kim, Peter Lipton, David Papineau, Barry Loewer, Louise Antony, Tim Crane, Peter Menzies, James Woodward, Daniel Stoljar, Karen Bennett.
Articles:
Hohwy, J., Roepstorff, A., Friston, K. Predictive coding explains binocular rivalry: an epistemological review. Cognition. In print.
Hohwy, J. Functional integration and the mind. Synthese 159(3): 315-328, 2007.
Hohwy, J. The Sense of Self in the Phenomenology of Agency and Perception. Psyche 13/2 (Susanna Siegel, ed.). 2007.
Hohwy, J. The Search for Neural Correlates of Consciousness. Philosophy Compass 2/3: 461-474, 2007.
Hohwy, J. Internalized meaning factualism. Philosophia, Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 34:3: 325-336.
Hohwy, J., Rosenberg, R. Cognitive neuropsychiatry: conceptual and methodological issues. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 6(3): 192-197, 2005.
Hohwy, J., Rosenberg, R. Unusual experiences, reality testing and delusions of alien control. Mind & Language 20(2): 141-162, 2005.
Hohwy, J. Explanation and two conceptions of the physical. Erkenntnis 62: 71-89, 2005.
Hohwy, J., Frith, C. Can neuroscience explain consciousness? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11 (7-8): 180-198, 2004.
Hohwy, J. Evidence, explanation, and experience: On the harder problem of consciousness. The Journal of Philosophy CI (5): 242-254, 2004. Also found on Ned Block's webpages.
Hohwy, J. The experience of mental causation. Behaviour and Philosophy 32, 377-400, 2004.
Hohwy, J. Top-down and bottom-up in delusion formation. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 11(1): 65-70, 2004.
Hohwy, J., Frith, C. Studies of the neural correlates of consciousness can do better, but are on the right track. Journal of Consciousness Studies 11(1): 45–51, 2004.
Hohwy, J. Capacities, explanation and the possibility of disunity. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17(2): 179–190, 2003.
Hohwy, J. Critical Notice: When Self-Consciousness Breaks, by Lynn Stephens & Graham. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 8: 237–242, 2003.
Hohwy, J. A reductio of Kripke-Wittgenstein's objections to dispositionalism about meaning, Minds and Machines 13(2): 257–268, 2003.
Hohwy, J. Deflationism about truth and meaning. Southern Journal of Philosophy 40: 217–242, 2002.
Hohwy, J. Privileged self-Knowledge and externalism: A contextualist approach. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83: 235–252, 2002.
Hohwy, J. Semantic primitivism and normativity. Ratio 14: 1–17, 2001.
Gold, I., Hohwy, J. Rationality and schizophrenic delusion. Mind and Language 15: 146–167, 2000. Also in Pathologies of Belief, M. Coltheart & M. Davies (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell 2000.
Hohwy, J. Quietism and cognitive command. Philosophical Quarterly 47: 496–500, 1997.
Companion and encyclopaedia entries
Consciousness. In The Language of Science - ISSN 1971-1352 - Monza: Polimetrica.
Reviews:
Review. The Nature of Consciousness, by Mark Rowlands. In Philosophical Psychology 18(1): 145–156, 2005.