Mark Rowlands
Born	1962 (age 62–63) Newport, Wales
Education	BA (philosophy) University of Manchester DPhil (philosophy) University of Oxford
Known for	The Philosopher and the Wolf (2008),Running with the Pack (2013),Everything I learned from TV
Scientific career
Fields	Philosophy of mind,Moral philosophy
Institutions	University of Miami
Thesis	Anomalism, supervenience, and explanation in cognitive psychology (1989)

Mark Rowlands (born 1962) is a Welsh writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Miami, and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status ofnon-human animals, and cultural criticism. He is known within academic philosophy for his work on the animal mind and is one of the principal architects of the view known as vehicleexternalism, or theextended mind, the view that thoughts, memories, desires and beliefs can be stored outside the brain and the skull. His works includeAnimal Rights (1998),The Body in Mind (1999),The Nature of Consciousness (2001),Animals Like Us (2002), and a personal memoir,The Philosopher and the Wolf (2008).^[1]

Rowlands was born inNewport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree in engineering at theUniversity of Manchester before changing to philosophy. He took his doctorate in philosophy from theUniversity of Oxford,^[2] and has held various academic positions in philosophy in Britain, Ireland and the United States.^[3]

His best known work is his international best-selling memoir,The Philosopher and the Wolf, about the decade he spent living and travelling with a wolf. As Jonathan Derbyshire wrote in hisGuardian review, "it is perhaps best described as the autobiography of an idea, or rather a set of related ideas, about the relationship between human and non-human animals."^[4]Julian Baggini wrote in theFinancial Times that it was "a remarkable portrait of the bond that can exist between a human being and a beast."^[5]Mark Vernon writing inThe Times Literary Supplement added that it "could become a philosophical cult classic."^[6]

• Supervenience and Materialism, Ashgate, 1995.
• Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence, Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1998.ISBN 978-0-333-71131-6
• The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes, Cambridge University Press, 1999.ISBN 978-0-521-04979-5
• The Environmental Crisis: Understanding the Value of Nature, Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 2000.
• The Nature of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 2001.ISBN 978-0-521-03947-5
• Animals Like Us, Verso, 2002.ISBN 978-1-85984-386-4
• Externalism: Putting Mind and World Back Together Again, Acumen/McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.ISBN 978-1-902683-78-2
• The Philosopher at the End of the Universe, Ebury/Random House, 2003ISBN 978-0-09-190388-6; retitledSci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger, 2nd editionISBN 978-0-312-32236-6
• Everything I Know I Learned From TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato, Ebury/Random House, 2005ISBN 978-0-09-189835-9
• Body Language: Representing in Action, MIT Press, 2006.
• Fame, Acumen 2008.ISBN 978-1-84465-157-3
• The Philosopher and the Wolf, Granta, 2008.ISBN 978-1-84708-059-2
• The New Science of the Mind, MIT Press, 2010.ISBN 978-0-262-01455-7
• Can Animals be Moral? Oxford University Press, 2012ISBN 978-0-19-984200-1
• Running with the Pack, Granta, 2013ISBN 978-1847082022
• The Word of Dog, Liveright Publishing Corp.ISBN 9781324095682

• List of animal rights advocates

• "Mark Rowlands interview: The company of wolves",The Scotsman, 20 November 2008.
• Fiske-Harrison, Alexander. 'On philosophers and wolves',Prospect, 22 January 2009
• Hafner, Michael. "The Philosopher, the Wolf, the Dog and the Fleas",The Mashazine, 10 November 2009.
• Gray, John. 'The Nature Of The Beast', Literary Review, 12 December 2008

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