John Morrison
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B.A., Williams College (2001)
M.A., University of Pittsburgh (2004)
Ph.D., New York University (2009)
Professor Morrison joined the Department in 2009. He is currently working on two projects. The first is about the way that we visually represent colors and locations. It draws heavily on empirical psychology, particularly psychophysics and cognitive psychology. The second is about the first two parts of Spinoza's Ethics. It focuses on why Spinoza presents certain claims as axioms.
Philosophy of Mind; Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Spinoza)
"Colour in a Physical World: A Problem due to Visual Noise" forthcoming in Mind.
"The Relation between Conception and Causation in Spinoza's Metaphysics" forthcoming in Philosophers' Imprint.
"Anti-Atomism about Color Representation" forthcoming in Nous.
Fall 2012
V1404: Introduction to Logic
V2400: Psychology and Philosophy of Human Experience (with Josh New, Barnard, Psychology)
Spring 2013
V2201: History of Philosophy II: From Aquinas to Kant
G9515: Topics in Metaphysics: Substance (with Shamik Dasgupta, Princeton, Philosophy)