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Dr. Alter specializes in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, especially consciousness and the mind-body problem.

Irving Alter Memorial Website

Spring 2020 Office Hours:

Mondays: 1:30pm-2:20pm

Wednesdays: 8:15am-9:05am or by appointment

• “The structure and dynamics argument.”  Nous 50, 2016:794-815.
• Consciousness in the Physical World: Perspectives on Russellian Monism (co-edited with Yujin Nagasawa). New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• “Social Externalism and the Knowledge Argument.” Mind 122  (2013): 481-96.
• The God Dialogues: A Philosophical Journey (with Robert J. Howell). New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• A Dialogue on Consciousness (with Robert J. Howell). New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• “On the Conditional Analysis of Phenomenal Concepts.” Philosophical Studies 134 (2007): 235-53.