Mark Rowlands
Mark Rowlands | |
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| Born | Error: Need valid birth date: year, month, day Newport, Wales, UK |
| Occupation | philosopher |
| Nationality | British |
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| http://www.markrowlandsauthor.com/ | |
Mark Rowlands, D.Phil., is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
Life
Rowlands was born in 1962, in Newport, Wales.[1] Rowlands is married. His wife's name is Emma. They have a son.[2]
Prior to his current employment, Rowlands was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire.[3] He 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).
Writings
Book publications
- 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.
References
- ^ The Dan Schneider Interview 14: Mark Rowlands 16 August, 2008
- ^ The Dan Schneider Interview 14: Mark Rowlands 16 August, 2008
- ^ The Dan Schneider Interview 14: Mark Rowlands 16 August, 2008