Wayne Wright

 

As of Fall 2005, I am an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Cal State - Long Beach, after spending two years as a Visiting Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Washington University in St. Louis. I was also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine for 2006-2007. I spent the four years between earning my Ph.D. and taking my position at WUSTL working in the computer software industry.

My main research areas are philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. Currently, I am exploring several issues related to the scientific studies of consciousness, vision, and color. I am also interested in psychological and economic research on negotiation. My background includes work on the metaphysics of consciousness (especially a representationalist approach) and in modern philosophy (focusing mainly on Kant). I can be reached by e-mail at wwright2@csulb.edu. My CV can be found here.

 

 

Education

Refereed Publications

  1. "Reply to Philipona and O'Regan" (w/  Kent Johnson) - Visual Neuroscience 25 (March 2008): 221-224.
  2. "Why naturalize consciousness?" - The Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (Winter 2007): 583-607.
  3. "Explanation and the hard problem" - Philosophical Studies 132 (January 2007): 301-330.
  4. "Visual stuff and active vision" - Philosophical Psychology 19 (April 2006): 129-149.
  5. "Colors as Properties of the Special Sciences" (w/  Kent Johnson) - Erkenntnis 64 (March 2006): 139-168.
  6. "Distracted drivers and unattended experience" - Synthese 144 (March I 2005): 41-68.
  7. "Projectivist representationalism and color" - Philosophical Psychology 16 (December 2003): 515-533.
  8. "McDowell, demonstrative concepts, and nonconceptual representational content" - Disputatio 14 (May 2003): 37-51.
  9. "A dilemma for Jackson and Pargetter's account of color" - The Southern Journal of Philosophy 41 (Spring 2003): 125-142.
  10. "Fodor's epistemic intuitions of analyticity" - Sorites 14 (October 2002): 110-116.

Invited Contributions

  1. Review of Stephen Schiffer's The Things We Mean - Disputatio 18 (May 2005): 191-197