Fall 2026

Tuesday and Thursday 12:30pm-1:30pm and by appointment

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

Irving Alter Memorial Website

• Physicalism and fundamental mentality. Forthcoming in Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04697-7
• The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism. Oxford University Press, 2023.
• The structure and dynamics argument against materialism. Noûs 50 (4), December 2016: 794–815. 10.1111/nous.12134