Rob Rupert
Professor • Chair

MUEN D110

Office hours: 9:30-10:30 and by appointment via Zoom

overview

Robert Rupert (Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1996) works in the philosophy of mind, the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, and in related areas of philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. His research focuses particularly on mental representation, concept acquisition, mental causation, cognitive architecture, situated cognition, group cognition, natural laws, and properties. Rob has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers as well as an NEH summer research stipend. He has won a CU Provost's Faculty Achievement Award and a Kayden Book award, is a fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU-Boulder, and is a member of CU-Boulder's Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science. He has held visiting research positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian National University, and the Ruhr-Universit盲t, Bochum. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the听.

For more information, see Professor Rupert's CV.

selected papers

  • 鈥淪elf-knowledge in a Human Mind Flattened from Above,鈥 forthcoming in a volume edited by C. Wright, G. Melis, and G. Merlo, Oxford University Press
  • 鈥淐ognitive Systems, Predictive Processing, and the Self,鈥 themed issue ofReview of Philosophy and Psychology13 (2022): 947鈥972
  • 鈥淓pistemic Value in the Subpersonal Vale,鈥 co-authored with J. Adam Carter,Synthese198: 9243鈥9272, (2021)
  • 鈥淭he Self in the Age of Cognitive Science: Decoupling the Self from the Personal Level,鈥Philosophic Exchange47 (2018), 1鈥36:
  • 鈥淩epresentation and Mental Representation,鈥Philosophical Explorations21, 2 (2018), 204鈥225, special issue on enactivism, representationalism, and predictive processing
  • 鈥淎cting Up: What Difference Does an Action-Oriented Approach Make to the Study of Cognitive Development?鈥 co-authored with Giovanni Pezzulo, Gottfried Vosgerau, Uta Frith, Antonia Hamilton, Cecilia Heyes, Atsushi Iriki, Henrik J枚rntell, Peter K枚nig, Saskia Nagel, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, and Antonella Tramacere. In A. Engel, K. Friston, and D. Kragic (eds.)The Pragmatic Turn: Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 53鈥81
  • 鈥淭riple Review of J. Stewart, O. Gapenne, and E. A. Di Paolo (eds.),Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science; Anthony Chemero,Radical Embodied Cognitive Science; and Mark Rowlands,The New Science of the Mind,鈥Mind125 (Jan., 2016), 497: 209鈥228
  • 鈥溾,听American Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2 (April, 2016): 169鈥192
  • 鈥溾, Mind 125 (Jan., 2016), 497: 209鈥228
  • 鈥溾,听狈辞没蝉 48, 3 (2014): 558鈥564
  • 鈥溾 In S. Chant, F. Hindriks, and G. Preyer (eds.), From Individual to Collective Intentionality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 97鈥111
  • 鈥溾, Philosophical Studies 152 (2011): 427鈥436
  • "鈥, Philosophical Topics 39, 1 (2011): 99鈥120
  • "," in P. Robbins and M. Aydede (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 96-116.
  • 鈥,鈥 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77, 3 (November 2008): 579-612.
  • ,鈥 狈辞没蝉 42 (2008): 349-80.
  • 鈥,鈥 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (2007): 1-11.
  • 鈥,鈥 No没蝉 40 (2006): 256-83.
  • 鈥,鈥 Journal of Philosophy 101 (2004): 389-428.
  • 鈥,鈥 Journal of Philosophy 98 (2001): 499-530.
  • 鈥,鈥 Mind & Language 14 (1999): 321-55
  • 鈥,鈥 Synthese 117 (1998-99): 95-131.