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Dr Richard Gray - BSc (Open); MPhil (Cantab); PhD (Edin)

Overview

Dr Richard Gray Position: Senior Lecturer Email: GrayR@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75416
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74618
Extension: 75416
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff

Research Group

Philosophy

Research Interests

Philosophy of Perception; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language

Selected Publications

'Natural phenomenon terms', Analysis 66, no.2 (2006).

'On the concept of a sense', Synthese, 147, no.3 (2005), abstract [11Kb], also available on journal website.

'What synaesthesia really tells us about functionalism', Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11, no.9 (2004), abstract [11Kb], also available onjournal website.

'Tye's representationalism: feeling the heat?', Philosophical Studies, 115, no.3 (2003), abstract[11Kb], also available on journal website.

'Synaesthesia and misrepresentation: a reply to Wager', Philosophical Psychology, 14, no.3 (2001), abstract [11Kb], also available on journal website.

'Cognitive modules, synaesthesia and the constitution of psychological natural kinds', Philosophical Psychology, 14, no.1 (2001), abstract [11Kb], also available on journal website.

For copies of any of the above please email me at grayr@cf.ac.uk

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

  1. ‘An argument for non-reductive representationalism’, American Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

    (Co-author Alessandra Tanesini) ‘Perception and action: The taste test’, The Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

    ‘Natural phenomenon terms’, Analysis, 66, no.2 (2006).
  2.  ‘On the concept of a sense’, Synthese, 147, no.3 (2005).
  3. ‘What synaesthesia really tells us about functionalism’, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11, no. 9 (2004).
  4. ‘Tye’s representationalism: Feeling the heat?' Philosophical Studies, 115, no.3 (2003).
  5. ‘Synaesthesia and misrepresentation: A reply to Wager’, Philosophical Psychology, 14, no.3 (2001).
  6.  ‘Cognitive modules, synaesthesia and the constitution of psychological natural kinds’, Philosophical Psychology, 14, no.1 (2001).
  7. ‘A problem for the Aristotelian solution to the mind-body problem’, Philosophical Inquiry, XXIII, no.1 (2001).

  8. ‘Locke and the story of the studious blind man’, The Locke Newsletter, 31(2000).

  9. Chapters in Books

  10. On the nature of the senses’ forthcoming (2009) in The Senses: A Philosophical Perspective, F. Macpherson (Oxford: OUP).

  11. Reviews

  12. ‘Review of S. Horst Beyond Reduction’, Analysis, (2009).
  • ‘Review of New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self- Knowledge ed. S. Nuccetelli, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12, no.1 (2004).
  • ‘Recent work on consciousness’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 11, no.2 (2003).
  • ‘Review of M. Tye Consciousness, Color and Content’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9, no.4 (2001).

Research

Much time and effort has been expended on philosophical questions related to vision, visual perception and visual experience. The assumption has tended to be that what goes for vision can be straightforwardly applied to the other senses. Much of my work has focused on other senses and sensory processes which have received little attention in the philosophical literature. My PhD thesis, and a number of published papers drawn from it, focused on synaesthesia. I have also written papers on heat perception, which, so I have argued, can shed light on the nature of perceptual experience. In a recent paper co-authored with Alessandra Tanesini  we have looked at the distinctive nature of taste perception in the context of enactive accounts of perception. All of these have been used to motivate a more general account of the senses.

Biography

Richard Gray came to Cardiff in 2004. From 2000-4 he was a lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Prior to that he was at the University of Edinburgh, where he completed his PhD, having previously studied at the University of Cambridge.

Current Undergraduate Teaching

(Second- and Third-Year)

  • SE4358 Philosophy of Language
  • SE4307 Topics in Metaphysics
  • SE4313 Philosophy of Mind
  • SE4360 Contemporary Epistemology

Current Postgraduate Teaching

(MA)

  • Philosophy of Mind Epistemology