Ben White
Title: Special Instructor
Office: 654 Mathematics and Science Center
Email: [email protected]
My areas of specialization are metaphysics and philosophy of mind. My research focuses on the mind-body problem and the topics of mental causation and perceptual content.
Degrees
Temple University,
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2016
Temple University
M.A. in Philosophy, 2013
Guilford College
B.A. in Philosophy, 2010
Publications
"The Phenomenal Intentionality of Mental Imagery and Seeing-As"
Forthcoming in Synthese.
“A Structuralist Theory of Phenomenal Intentionality”
Forthcoming in Inquiry.
“The Timing Problem for Dualist Accounts of Mental Causation”
2024. Erkenntnis. 89: 2417–2436.
“A Reductive Analysis of Statements about Universals”
2022. Synthese. 200: 1–21.
“Attention, Gestalt Principles, and the Determinacy of Perceptual Content”
2022. Erkenntnis. 87: 1133–1151.
“The Hard Problem Isn’t Getting Any Easier: Thoughts on Chalmers’ ‘Meta-problem’”
2021. Philosophia. 49: 495–506.
“Metaphysical Necessity Dualism”
2018. Synthese. 195: 1779–1798.
“The Realization of Qualia, Persons, and Artifacts”
2018. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 99: 182–204.
“Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism”
2017. The Philosophical Quarterly. 67: 387–405.
Department of Philosophy
146 Library Drive
Rochester, MI 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-3390
fax: (248) 370-3157
[email protected]
Department of Philosophy
146 Library Drive
Rochester, MI 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-3390
fax: (248) 370-3157