Mark Rowlands

Mark Rowlands
Born	Newport, Wales, UK
Occupation	philosopher
Nationality	British
Website
http://www.markrowlandsauthor.com/

Mark Rowlands, D.Phil., is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.

Life

Rowlands is known for his popular books on philosophy, for his work on the moral status of animals, and as one of the principal architects of the view of the mind known as 'vehicle externalism' or 'the extended mind'.

Beliefs

In an online interview with Dan Schneider [1], Rowlands listed his three major philosophical beliefs as:

• The mind is not entirely in the head: mental processes go on in the world around us as much as inside our brains.
• Consciousness – what it is like to have or undergo an experience – is real, but nowhere at all.
• Animals have moral rights (at least, they do if humans do).

Publications

Books

• Body Language: Representing in Action, MIT Press, 2006.
• Everything I Know I Learned From TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato, Ebury/Random House, 2005
• The Philosopher at the End of the Universe, Ebury/Random House, 2003
• Externalism: Putting Mind and World Back Together Again, Acumen/McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
• Animals Like Us, Verso, 2002.
• The Nature of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• The Environmental Crisis: Understanding the Value of Nature, Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 2000.
• The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence, Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 1998.
• Supervenience and Materialism, Ashgate, 1995.

External links

• University of Hertfordshire entry
• Personal Website entry
• Secular Philosophy
• Review of Rowlands' book The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe