Robert D.Rupert

  • On Sabbatical Spring 2025
  • Professor
  • Chair
Address

MUEN D110

Office Hours

Office hours: 9:30-10:30 and by appointment via Zoom

overview

Robert Rupert (Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1996) works in the philosophy of mind, the philosophical foundations of cognitive science, and in related areas of philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. His research focuses particularly on mental representation, concept acquisition, mental causation, cognitive architecture, situated cognition, group cognition, natural laws, and properties. Rob has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers as well as an NEH summer research stipend. He has won a CU Provost's Faculty Achievement Award and a Kayden Book award, is a fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU-麻豆影院, and is a member of CU-麻豆影院's Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science. He has held visiting research positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Australian National University, and the Ruhr-Universit盲t, Bochum. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the听.

For more information, see Professor Rupert's CV.

selected papers

  • 鈥淪elf-knowledge in a Human Mind Flattened from Above,鈥 forthcoming in a volume edited by C. Wright, G. Melis, and G. Merlo, Oxford University Press
  • 鈥淐ognitive Systems, Predictive Processing, and the Self,鈥 themed issue of听Review of Philosophy and Psychology听13 (2022): 947鈥972
  • 鈥淓pistemic Value in the Subpersonal Vale,鈥 co-authored with J. Adam Carter,听Synthese听198: 9243鈥9272, (2021)
  • 鈥淭he Self in the Age of Cognitive Science: Decoupling the Self from the Personal Level,鈥澨Philosophic Exchange听47 (2018), 1鈥36:听
  • 鈥淩epresentation and Mental Representation,鈥澨Philosophical Explorations听21, 2 (2018), 204鈥225, special issue on enactivism, representationalism, and predictive processing
  • 鈥淎cting Up: What Difference Does an Action-Oriented Approach Make to the Study of Cognitive Development?鈥 co-authored with Giovanni Pezzulo, Gottfried Vosgerau, Uta Frith, Antonia Hamilton, Cecilia Heyes, Atsushi Iriki, Henrik J枚rntell, Peter K枚nig, Saskia Nagel, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, and Antonella Tramacere. In A. Engel, K. Friston, and D. Kragic (eds.)听The Pragmatic Turn: Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science听(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 53鈥81
  • 鈥淭riple Review of J. Stewart, O. Gapenne, and E. A. Di Paolo (eds.),听Enaction: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science; Anthony Chemero,听Radical Embodied Cognitive Science; and Mark Rowlands,听The New Science of the Mind,鈥澨Mind听125 (Jan., 2016), 497: 209鈥228
  • 鈥溾,听American Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2 (April, 2016): 169鈥192
  • 鈥溾, Mind 125 (Jan., 2016), 497: 209鈥228
  • 鈥溾,听狈辞没蝉 48, 3 (2014): 558鈥564
  • 鈥溾 In S. Chant, F. Hindriks, and G. Preyer (eds.), From Individual to Collective Intentionality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 97鈥111
  • 鈥溾, Philosophical Studies 152 (2011): 427鈥436
  • "鈥, Philosophical Topics 39, 1 (2011): 99鈥120
  • "," in P. Robbins and M. Aydede (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 96-116.
  • 鈥,鈥 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77, 3 (November 2008): 579-612.
  • 鈥,鈥 狈辞没蝉 42 (2008): 349-80.
  • 鈥,鈥 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (2007): 1-11.
  • 鈥,鈥 狈辞没蝉 40 (2006): 256-83.
  • 鈥,鈥 Journal of Philosophy 101 (2004): 389-428.
  • 鈥,鈥 Journal of Philosophy 98 (2001): 499-530.
  • 鈥,鈥 Mind & Language 14 (1999): 321-55
  • 鈥,鈥 Synthese 117 (1998-99): 95-131.

books

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind by Robert D. Rupert

Ten Lectures on Cognition, Mental Representation, and the Self by Robert D. Rupert