Andrew
Bailey
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Position / Title: 

Associate Professor, Department Chair

Phone: 
519-824-4120 x56389
Email: 

abailey@uoguelph.ca

Fax: 
(519) 837-8634
Building: 
MacKinnon
Room: 
347
Homepage: 

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~abailey/

Education: 

1998 Ph.D. Philosophy Department, University of Calgary

Dissertation Title: “Phenomenal Properties: The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Qualia”

1991 B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Oxon) Pembroke College, Oxford University

Politics, Philosophy and Economics

 

Research: 

My research deals with the problem of phenomenal consciousness, embodied cognition, and the thought of William James.

 

Publications: 

Papers:

  1.  “Zombies and Epiphenomenalism.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 48 (2009). 129–144.

  2.  “Spatial Perception, Embodiment and Scientific Realism: Critical notice of David Morris, The Sense of Space (SUNY 2004).” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 46 (2007). 553–68.

  3. “Qualia and the Argument from Illusion.” Acta Analytica 22, No. 2. (2007). 85–103.

  4. “Representation and a Science of Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 14, No. 1–2 (2007). 62­–76.

  5.  “Zombies, Epiphenomenalism, and Physicalist Theories of Consciousness.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (2006). 481–510.

  6. “What is it Like to See a Bat? Dretske on Qualia.” Disputatio, International Journal of Philosophy 18 (2005). 151–177.

  7.  “The Myth of the Myth of the Given.” Manuscrito, Revista Internacional de Filosofia 27, No. 2 (2004). 321–360.

  8. “Beyond the Fringe: William James on the Transitive Parts of the Stream of Consciousness.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 6, No. 2–3 (1999). 141–153.

  9. “Supervenience and Physicalism.” Synthèse 117, No. 1 (1998). 53–73.

  10. “The Strange Attraction of Sciousness: William James on Consciousness.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (1998). 414–434.

  11. “Neurosis: A Conceptual Examination.” International Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (1997). 51–61.

 Chapters: 

  1. “William James, Chaos Theory and Conscious Experience.” Systems Theory and A Priori Aspects of Perception, ed. J. Scott Jordan, New York: Elsevier Science Publications, 1998. 25–45.

  2. “The Five Kinds of Levels of Description.” Toward A Science of Consciousness II: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates, ed. S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak and A. Scott, Cambridge, M.A.: MIT Press, 1998. 577–583.

  3. “Supervenience and the Mind-Brain Relation.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS ’97), Seoul: Korean Society for Cognitive Science, 1997. 164–169.

 Edited Books:

  1. The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought, Volume Two: The Twentieth Century and Beyond, ed. Andrew Bailey, Samantha Brenna, Will Kymlicka, Jacob Levy, Alex Sager and Clark Wolf. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, October 2008. 900 pages. 

  2. The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought, Volume One: From Plato to Nietzsche, ed. Andrew Bailey, Samantha Brenna, Will Kymlicka, Jacob Levy, Alex Sager and Clark Wolf. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, July 2008. 1110 pages. 

  3. First Philosophy: Fundamental Readings and Problems in Philosophy, ed. Andrew Bailey. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002. 966 pages.    

 

Funding: 

2005–2008 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $57,641, Metaphysics of Phenomenal Consciousness

 

Awards: 

2009 Distinguished Professorial Award (teaching award presented by the University of Guelph Faculty Association)

 

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