Campus P.O. Box 1832 Clark-Atlanta University Atlanta, GA 30314 EDUCATION: Ph.D. Duquesne University, Dec. 1975 (M.A. June 1971) philosophy with psychology minor. M.S. (Post-doctoral) Georgia State University, Aug.1984 Public and Urban Affairs, Concentration in Criminology. B.A. Emory University, Aug. 1970, double major, philosophy and psychology. CURRENT TEACHING POSITION: Full Professor, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314, USA. JOURNAL EDITORSHIP: Consciousness & Emotion (Co-edited with Natika Newton; John Benjamins Publisher). For further info, see http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jbp/ce. RESEARCH WEBSITE: "Consciousness and the Brain Annotated Bibliography," http://www.consciousness-brain.org PUBLICATIONS (Books): Curious Emotions: Roots of Consciousness and Personality in Motivated Action (2005, John Benjamins). Enactive Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem (forthcoming 2009, Open Court). Co-authored with Natika Newton. Foundations of Civic Engagement: The Philosophical Grounding of Social and Political Theory (2006, University Press of America). Co-authored with Norm Fischer and Jim Sauer. The Craft of Thinking (Kendall-Hunt 2004; first ed. by Clark Atlanta University Press, 1999). Co-authored with Anibal Bueno. Love and the Abyss: An Essay on Value and Finitude (2004, Open Court). The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect, and Self-Organization (Anthology co-edited with Natika Newton, John Benjamins, 2000). Just Results: Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis (Georgetown University Press, 1998). Eros in a Narcissistic Culture (Kluwer Academic, 1996). Questioning Consciousness: The Interplay of Imagery, Cognition, and Emotion in the Human Brain (John Benjamins, 1995). Coherence and Verification in Ethics (University Press of America, 1992). Theories of Criminal Justice: A Critical Reappraisal (Longwood Academic, 1989). An Ontology of Consciousness (Martinus Nijhoff/Kluwer Academic, 1986). PUBLICATIONS (Articles): "Phenomenology-friendly Neuroscience: The Return to Merleau-Ponty as Psychologist," Human Studies 29 (2007), pp. 33-55. "The Role of Imagery and Meta-emotion in Deliberate Choice and Moral Psychology," invited paper for Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (2005), pp. 140-157. "The Unity of Consciousness: An Enactivist Approach," invited paper for Journal of Mind and Behavior 26 (2005), pp. 255-279 (co-authored with Natika Newton). "Phenomenology and Cortical Microstimulation," in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press, 2005 (Amie Thomasson and David Woodruff Smith, eds.), pp. 140-163 (co-authored with John Bickle). "The Limited Roles of Unconscious Computation and Representation in Self-organizational Theories of Mind," Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming). "Spiritual Partnership and the Affirmation of the Value of Being," target article with commentaries on my work in a special issue of The Pluralist 1:3 (2006). "The Ambiguity of ‘In Here/Out There' Talk: In What Sense Is Perception ‘Out in the World'?" Journal of Consciousness Studies 12 (2005), pp. 82-87. "Review of Reconstructing the Cognitive World by Michael Wheeler (MIT Press)," Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (forthcoming). "Review of by The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language by Hagi Kenaan (Columbia University Press)," The Review of Metaphysics (forthcoming). "Editorial Introduction," Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception (2004, co-authored with Natika Newton). "Generating Predictions from a Dynamical Systems Emotion Theory," Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming). "Three Arguments Against Causal Indeterminacy." Philosophia 32 (2004), pp. 331-344. "Conscious Will Is Part of Moral Agency Even Granting Determinism," in Toward a Science of Consciousness, 2004 (MIT Press). "Imagery of the Self and Narcissism," in Lived Images: Mediations in Experience, Life-World and I-hood, edited by Matti Itkonen and Gary Backhaus (University of Jyväskylä Press, 2003). "Does Enactivism Yield Specific Predictions?" in Toward a Science of Consciousness, 2005. Invited to write chapter for an anthology, Consciousness Across Behavioral States, to be published by Kluwer Academic Press. "Non-consummatory Motivations: Extropy and ‘Life Wish' in the Self-organization of Emotion," target article with commentaries on my work in Theoria et Historia Scientarium (forthcoming). "Love, Religion, and the Psychology of Inspiration," target article with commentaries on my work in Philosophy in the Contemporary World (forthcoming). Also printed by permission in Rhawn Joseph (ed.), NeuroTheology, 2nd edition (2003), pp. 447-466, University Press of California. "Imagery of the Self and Narcissism," in Lived Images: Mediations in Experience, Life-World and I-hood, edited by Matti Itkonen and Gary Backhaus (University of Jyväskylä Press, 2003). Same paper published at Lifwyn website, an on-line psychology journal. "Quantum Closures and Disclosures, by Gordon Globus," book review for Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (forthcoming). "A Short History of the C. Eric Lincoln Lectureship," co-authored with LillianAshcraft-Eason, in How Long This Road (L. Henry Whelchel, Ed.), Palgrave-Macmillan Publishing Co.(2003) "Grant R. Gillett and John McMillan: Consciousness and Intentionality," book review for Consciousness & Emotion 3:1 (2002), 98-103. "Implications of Inattentional Blindness for ‘Enactive' Theories of Consciousness," Brain and Mind 2 (2001), 297-322. "Can Dynamical Systems Explain Mental Causation?" Journal of Mind and Behavior 22 (2001), 311-334. "A Theoretical Model of the Role of the Cerebellum in Cognition, Attention and Consciousness," Consciousness & Emotion 2 (2001), 300-309. "Consciousness, Self-organization, and the Process-substratum Relation: Rethinking Nonreductive Physicalism." Philosophical Psychology, 13 (2000), 173-190. "Efferent Brain Processes and the Enactive Approach to Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7 (2000), 40-50. "Three Elements of Causation: Biconditionality, Asymmetry, and Experimental Manipulability." Philosophia, 29 (2000), 1-21. "Integrating the Physiological and Phenomenological Dimensions of Affect and Motivation." In R. Ellis and N. Newton (Eds.), The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, Affect, and Self-organization. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000), pp.3-26. "Editorial: The Interdependence of Consciousness and Emotion" (with Natika Newton), Consciousness & Emotion 1:1 (2000), 1-12. "Implications of Inattentional Blindness for the Problem of Consciousness," Consciousness Research Abstracts: Toward a Science of Consciousness IV (2000). "The Role of the Cerebellum in Cognition and Consciousness" (with Jeremy Schmahmann, Natika Newton, and Carl Anderson), Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society 22 (2000), 10-16. Longer version published in Consciousness & Emotion (see above). "Tragedy, Finitude, and the Value-Expressive Dimension," Analectica Husserliana (2000), 61-69. "Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp," Book review, Consciousness & Emotion 1:2 (2000), 119-123. "Dynamical Systems as an Approach to Consciousness: Emotion, Self-organization, and the Mind-body Problem." New Ideas in Psychology, 17 (1999), 237-250 "Why Isn't Consciousness Empirically Observable? Emotion, Self-organization, and Nonreductive Physicalism." Journal of Mind and Behavior, 20 (1999), 391-402. "The Dance Form of the Eyes: What Cognitive Science Can Learn from Art," Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (1999), 161-75. "Integrating Neuroscience and Phenomenology in the Study of Consciousness," Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 30 (1999), 18-47. "Review of The Paradox of Self-Consciousness by José Luis Bermúdez" Book review, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (forthcoming). "The Existential Condition at the Millennium," Philosophy in the Contemporary World (1999), 51-58. "Three Paradoxes of Conscious Experience: Bridging the Explanatory Gap," co-authored with Natika Newton, Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (1998), 419-42. "A Note on Imaginability Arguments," Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1998) "Consciousness After Postmodernism," in Eugene Gendlin and Mark Levine (eds.), After Postmodernism (forthcoming) "Why Isn't Consciousness Empirically Observable? Emotion as Basis for Self-Organization," Consciousness Research Abstracts: Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson III (1998), 65-66. "The Embodied and Transcendental Self: Toward a Synthesis and a Way of Knowing," Philosophy in the Contemporary World 5 (1998), 1-17. "Purposeful Processes, Personalism, and the Contemporary Natural and Cognitive Sciences," The Personalist Forum 13 (1997), 49-67. "Foundations of Understanding by Natika Newton," book review, Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (1997), 382-84. "The Fate of Place by Edward Casey," book review, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (forthcoming). "Foundations of Understanding by Natika Newton," book review, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. "Scientific Uncertainties, Environmental Policy, and Political Theory," The Philosophical Forum 28 (1997), 209-231. "Ray Jackendoff's Phenomenology of Language as a Refutation of the Appendage Theory of Consciousness," Pragmatics and Cognition 4 (1996), 125-137. "Scientific Uncertainties, Environmental Policy, and Political Theory," in Joe Pappin, ed., Environmental Rights in Conflict (University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming). "The Imagist Approach to Inferential Thought Processes," Pragmatics and Cognition 3 (1995), 75-109. "Quantifying Distributive Justice for Environmental and Risk-related Public Policy," Policy Sciences 26 (1993), 99-123. "A Critique of Concepts of Non-sufficient Causation," Philosophical Inquiry 14 (1992), 1-10. "A Thought Experiment Concerning Universal Expansion," Philosophia 21 (1992), 257-275. "Moral Pluralism Reconsidered: Is There an Intrinsic-Extrinsic Value Distinction?" Philosophical Papers 21 (1992), 45-64. "Toward a Reconciliation of Liberalism and Communitarianism," Journal of Value Inquiry 25 (1991), 55-64. "Toward a Coherent Definition of Liberalism," Southwest Philosophy Review 7, (1991), 31-46. "Ethical Consequences of Recent Work on Incompatibilism," Philosophical Inquiry 13 (1991), 22-42. "Beyond Justice by Agnes Heller" (book review), International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 1991. "Afferent-Efferent Connections and Neutrality Modifications in Perceptual and Imaginative Consciousness," Man and World 23 (1990), 23-33. "The Moral Significance of Hard Toil: Critique of a Common Intuition," The Philosophical Forum 21 (1990), 343-358. "A New Formulation of the Twin Paradox," accepted for publication in Journal of Philosophical Analysis. "Factual Adequacy and Comparative Coherentism in Ethical Theory," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 26 (1988), 57-81. "Compatibilism and the Ontological Status of Consciousness," accepted for publication in Diotima. "Fairness and the Etiology of Criminal Behavior," Philosophy and Social Criticism 13 (1987), 175-194. "General Assistance and Crime Rates in the United States," Policy Studies Review 7 (1987), 291-303. "Twentieth Century Physics and Its Implications" in Frederick Ferré, ed., Concepts of Nature and God (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987). "Phenomenological Psychology and the Empirical Observation of Consciousness," International Philosophical Quarterly 23 (1983), 191-204. "Agent Causation, Chance, and Determinism," Philosophical Inquiry 5 (1983), 29-42. "Existentialism and the Demonstrability of Ethical Theories," Journal of Value Inquiry 16 (1982), 156-175. "The Decoration-Illustration-Art Trichotomy and the Referentialism Controversy," Auslegung 8 (1981), 105-120. "Prereflective Consciousness and the Process of Symbolization," Man and World 13 (1980), 173-191. "Phenomenology and the Empiricist Criteria for Meaning," Philosophy Today 24 (1980), 146-152. "A Writing Lab Approach to Applied Informal Logic," Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Fall, 1980. "Directionality and Fragmentation in the Transcendental Ego," Philosophy Research Archives, July, 1979; also in Auslegung 6 (1979), 147-60. "Ethics and Multinational Corporations," accepted for publication in Toward Wholeness, originally presented at Symposium on Third World Relations sponsored by Council on Foreign Affairs, held at Atlanta University, Nov., 1981. "Name That Fallacy," Public TV program produced at C.C.T.V., Georgia State University, 1981, aired on local Public TV and for use in undergraduate classroom presentations. DISSERTATION: "Human and Transcendental Subjectivity: The Problem of Self-Alienation," Duquesne University, Aug. 1975; Carl Berreckman, director.