Brian's Academic History

• BORN: Mobile, Alabama.

• B.A. in Philosophy from the University of South Alabama (USA).

• M.Sc. in Knowledge-Based Systems (translation: "artificial intelligence") from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), Sussex University in Brighton, England. Due to restructuring, this school no longer exists. It has evolved into the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex.

• Ph.D. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. Advisors: Sandra D. Mitchell (now a Professor in the History & Philosophy of Science Program at the Univ. of Pittsburgh) and Pat Churchland. Pat has more than one page. There is also this one.

• While at UCSD, I was a founding member of the Experimental Philosophy Lab.

• I also conducted experiments on the behavior of weakly electric fish in Walter Heiligenberg's lab at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography . While there, I was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at San Diego.

• From 1997 until 1999, I was the McDonnell Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Postdoctoral Fellow in the PNP program based in the Philosophy Dept. of Washington University in St. Louis.

• During the 1999-2000 school year, I was an assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at the University of Northern Iowa.

• Starting Fall 2000, I am an assistant professor of philosophy in the Philosophy Field Group and Science, Technology and Society Field Group at Pitzer College (one of the Claremont Colleges located about 40 miles east of Los Angeles).

• In 1999, I was awarded a 5-year fellowship in the James S. McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences. My project is entitled: "The Eyes Have It: The Neuroethology of Eye Gaze Information Processing and Other Minds".

• In the Fall 2003, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

• In 2004, I was awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

• In the Fall 2005, I was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley.

Last Modified: 23 March, 2006.