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Dr Jordi Fernandez

Telephone +61 8 8313 5299
Position Lecturer
Email jorge.fernandez@adelaide.edu.au
Fax +61 8 8313 5241
Building Napier Building
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 the 2003-2006 period, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Macquarie University and, during 2005, at the Research School of Social Sciences (ANU), where he was associated to the Centre for Consciousness. Jordi joined the University of Adelaide in 2007.

Teaching Interests

- Philosophy of Mind
- Epistemology.
- Metaphysics.
- Early Modern Philosophy.
- 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

BOOKS

(Forthcoming) Transparent Minds: A Study of Self-Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

EDITED VOLUMES

(2009) (with Tim Bayne) Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective influences on belief formation . New York: Psychology Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

 (Forthcoming) "Memory" in Adrian Bardon & Heather Dyke (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. London: Blackwell.

(Forthcoming) "Objects of Memory" in H. Pashler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: 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.  

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(Forthcoming) "Self-Deception and Self-Knowledge", in Philosophical Studies.

(2011) (with Suzanne Bliss) "Does the supervenience argument generalize?", in the Southern Journal of Philosophy.

(2010) (with Suzanne Bliss) "Program Explanation and Higher-Order Properties", in Acta Analytica.

(2010) "Thought Insertion and Self-Knowledge", in Mind & Language.

(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) "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.

BOOK REVIEWS

(2010) (with Suzanne Bliss) "Review of 'Mental Causation' by Anthony Dardis", in Mind.

(2009) "Review of 'Describing Inner Experience?' by Eric Schwitzgebel and Russell Hurlburt", in Mind.

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

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Entry last updated: Sunday, 5 Feb 2012

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