Anne Jaap Jacobson

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510 Agnes Arnold Hall Department of Philosophy University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3785 Phone: 713-743-3204 Fax:       713-743-2990 ajjacobson@uh.edu

Short CV: Anne Jaap Jacobson  Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering  Co-Founder of the Houston Center for the Brain and Mind Science Director of the UH Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science  2003-2004 President of the Faculty Senate  B.A. (1965) UC, Berkeley.  B.Phil (1967) Oxford D.Phil (1975) Oxford Past teaching experience:  Oxford, Princeton, Lehigh and Rutgers.  Principal areas of philosophical interest: Neurophilosophy; The Philosophy of David Hume; Feminist Philosophy  Recent Research:  - Rethinking Representations. Under consideration by MIT Press. - What Should a Theory of Vision Look Like? Forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology - Empathy and Instinct: Forthcoming in Inquiry. - “Properly Functioning Vision: On Block on Noe,” APA Pacific Division, 2007. Invited symposium paper for 2007 SPP/ - “Empathy and Instinct,” invited presentation to conference, University of San Francisco; later version for APA Pacific Division, 2008. - “Emotions and Modularity,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy. - “Tenure and the political autonomy of faculty inquiry,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences. -“A New Reading of Hume’s Theory of Ideas”: The Pre-History of Cognitive Science, ed. Andrew Brook, Palmgrave McMillan. - “Is the Brain a Memory Box?” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 2005. - “The Psychology of Philosophy: Locke and Hume,”2004, in Alanen, L and Witt, C, Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. - “Mental Representations: What Philosophy Leaves out and Cognitive Science Puts in.” Philosophical Psychology, Summer, 2003.

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