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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

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Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:55am-9:45am and by appointment.

• “Physicalism without fundamentality.” Forthcoming (and available in Early View) in Erkenntnis 10.1007/s10670-020-00285-6.
• “Russellian monism and mental causation” (co-written with Sam Coleman). Nous 55 (2), June 2021: 409-25 10.1111/nous.12318.
• “The structure and dynamics argument.”  Nous 50 (4), December 2016: 794-815 10.1111/nous.12134
• 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 (co-written with Robert J. Howell). New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• A Dialogue on Consciousness (co-written with Robert J. Howell). New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.