Education
University of Oxford. Harvard University.
philosopher university professor
University of Oxford. Harvard University.
The focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. During 2011-2012, he was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Before coming to Berkeley, Noë was an assistant professor of philosophy at University of California Santa Cruz.
He has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California Irvine and at the Institut Jean-Nicod (National Center for Scientific Research/EN/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ) in Paris, a McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen.
Noë has been a recipient of a University of California President"s Fellowship in the Humanities and an American Council of Learned Societies/Ryskamp Fellowship, and in 2007/2008 was a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Noë is the author of the books Varieties of Presence (2012), Out of Our Heads (2009) and Action In Perception (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004).
He is the co-editor of Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002) and the editor of Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Imprint Academic, 2002). In Action In Perception, Noë puts forth the notion of the sensorimotor profile.
Externalism about the mind and mental content is a pervasive theme in his work.
His book Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature was released on September 22, 2015.
In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he is interested in phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy.
Noë joined the University of California Berkeley Department of Philosophy as an associate professor in 2003, where he was a member of the University of California Berkeley Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, serving as a core faculty member for the Program in Cognitive Science and the Center for New Media.