Biography/ Background
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Publications
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Dr Jordi Fernandez

Telephone	+61 8 8303 5299
Position	Lecturer
Email	jorge.fernandez@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 5241
Building	Napier
Floor/Room	7 03
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Philosophy

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Biography/ Background

Jordi did his bachelor's in philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He then moved to the United States to pursue a PhD in philosophy at Brown University. He taught for a year at Bowdoin College as a visiting assistant professor after that. In 2003, he moved to Sydney as a post-doctoral fellow at Macquarie University. He spent part of 2005 at the Research School of Social Sciences (ANU), where he was associated to the Centre for Consciousness as a post-doctoral fellow as well.

Teaching Interests

- Foundations of Modern Philosophy.
- Epistemology.
- Metaphysics.
- Existentialism.

Research Interests

Self-Knowledge: How do we know what we believe? How do we know our own desires, perceptual experiences and actions?
Memory: When we remember something, we are inclined to believe that we perceived it. We are also inclined to believe that the event happened in the past and that we existed at that time. How much should we build into the content of memories to explain these facts?
Metaphysics of Mind: Mental causation, reduction and emergence, program explanation, the determinable-determinate relation.
Continental Philosophy: Schopenhauer on happiness and desire, Sartre on deliberation and self-deception, Nietzsche on authenticity.

Publications

(Forthcoming) "Thought Insertion and Self-Knowledge" in Mind & Language.

(Forthcoming) "Review of 'Describing Inner Experience?' by Eric Schwitzgebel and Russell Hurlburt", in Mind.

(Forthcoming) "Objects of Memory" in H. Pashler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Mind. SAGE Publications.

(2009) "Happiness and Life Choices: Sartre on deliberation, desire and action", in L. Bortolotti (Ed.) Happiness and Philosophy, London: Palgrave McMillan.

(2009) "Introspection" in John Symons & Paco Calvo (eds.) Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology. London: Routledge.

(2009) (with Tim Bayne) "Delusion and Self-deception: Mapping the terrain" in T. Bayne and J. Fernandez (Eds.) Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective influences on belief formation . New York: Psychology Press.

(2008) (with Suzanne Bliss) "Causal Inheritance and Second-Order Properties", in Abstracta.

(2008) "Memory and Time" in Philosophical Studies.

(2008) "Memory, Past and Self", in Synthese.

(2007) "Desire and Self Knowledge", in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

(2006) "Memory and Perception: Remembering Snowflake", in Theoria

(2006) "The intentionality of memory" in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

(2006) "Review of 'Speaking my Mind' by Dorit Bar-On", in The Philosophical Quarterly.

(2006) "Schopenhauer's Pessimism", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

(2005) "Self-knowledge, rationality and Moore's paradox", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

(2005) "Privileged Access Revisited" in The Philosophical Quarterly.

(2005) (with Tim Bayne) "Resisting Ruthless Reductionism: A commentary on Bickle", in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

(2004) "Externalism and Self-Knowledge: A puzzle in two dimensions" in The European Journal of Philosophy.

(2003) "Privileged access naturalized" in The Philosophical Quarterly.

(2003) "Explanation by computer simulation in cognitive science" in Minds and Machines.

IN PROGRESS:

"Self-Deception and Self-Knowledge"

(with Suzanne Bliss) "Reduction and the Layered Model"

(with Suzanne Bliss) "Program Explanation and Higher-Order Properties"

FILES AVAILABLE BELOW (Please note: These are only provisional drafts.)

Files

Entry last updated: Thursday, 9 Jul 2009

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