Alva Noë

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Alva Noë, 2009

Alva Noë (* 1964 ) has been Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 2003 . His main areas of work are the philosophy of perception and the philosophy of mind . Furthermore, Noë deals with the philosophy of art , Ludwig Wittgenstein and phenomenology .

Noë received his B. Phil from Oxford University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1995 . He then worked with Daniel Dennett at Tufts University and from 1996 to 2003 at the University of California, Santa Cruz .

Noë has done progressive work in the philosophy of mind in collaboration with Francisco Varela , Evan Thompson , Susan Hurley and Kevin O'Regan . The aim is to overcome the classic view of cognitive science that perception and consciousness are based solely on an input-output principle. Instead, Noë, taking phenomenology into account , represents a so-called sensorimotor account (also known as enactive cognition , see Extended Mind ) of consciousness: According to Noë, perception and consciousness as well as the qualia involved are products that arise from cognitive activity, i.e. In other words, they do not just happen, but arise through the interaction of an organism with its environment.

The theses that Noë and his colleagues are developing are currently - because they are still relatively young - in a development phase and the subject of current discussion. Characteristic is the combination of phenomenological ideas à la Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty with theses of the classical or analytical philosophy of mind .

Fonts

  • Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature , Hill and Wang, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-8090-8917-8 .
  • Varieties of Presence , Harvard University Press, Cambridge / London 2012, ISBN 978-0-6740-6214-6 .
  • Out of our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness , Hill and Wang, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8090-1648-8 ; German: You are not your brain. A radical philosophy of consciousness , translated by Christiane Wagler; Piper Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-492053495 .
  • Action in Perception . Cambridge, MA .: The MIT Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-262-14088-1 .
  • Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? . Special Issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies. Volume 9, No. 5-6, May / June 2002.
  • Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception . Edited with Evan Thompson, Cambridge, MA .: The MIT Press 2002, ISBN 978-0-262-64047-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Mayer: What does the knee think in the afternoon? , Reviews of the FAZ from Dec. 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Noë, Alva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and cognitive scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964