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:  - Keeping the World in Mind, Forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan - Neurofeminism, (ed Bluhm, Jacobson, Maibom), forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan - “The Faux, Fake, Forged, False, Fabricated, Phony, Etc: Problems for the Independence of Similarity-Based Theories of Concepts,” comments on E. Machery’s Précis, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, forthcoming. “Empathy and Instinct: Cognitive Neuroscience and Folk Psychology,” Inquiry,2009, 59(5) pp. 467-42. “What Should a Theory of Vision Look Like?” Philosophical Psychology, 2008, 21 (5), pp. 641-655. “Empathy, Primitive Reactions and the Modularity of Emotion,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Suppl. Vol. 32, 2006, 95-113.

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