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| Occupations | Philosopher,cognitive scientist |
| Education | |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) University of Oxford (BPhil) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic phenomenology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Main interests | Cognitive science,philosophy of mind,analytic phenomenology |
| Notable ideas | Sensorimotor profile |
| Website | www |
Alva Noë (/ˈælvəˈnoʊ.eɪ/;[1] born 1964) is an American philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. The focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems incognitive science and thephilosophy of mind, he is interested inanalytic phenomenology, thetheory of art,Ludwig Wittgenstein,enactivism, and the origins ofanalytic philosophy.
Noë received his B.A. fromColumbia University.[2] He also holds aB.Phil. from theUniversity of Oxford and aPh.D. fromHarvard University.
Noë joined theUniversity of California, Berkeley Department of Philosophy as an associate professor in 2003, where he was a member of the UC Berkeley Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, serving as a core faculty member for the Program in Cognitive Science and the Center for New Media. During 2011–2012, he was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at theGraduate Center of the City University of New York.
Before coming to University of California, Berkeley, Noë was an assistant professor of philosophy atUniversity of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a Post-doctoral Research Associate of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, a visiting scholar at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine and at the Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS/EN/EHESS) in Paris, a McDonnell-Pew Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen. Noë has been a recipient of a UC President's Fellowship in the Humanities and an ACLS/Ryskamp Fellowship, and in 2007–2008 was a research fellow at theWissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Noë is the author of the booksStrange Tools (2015),[3]Varieties of Presence (2012),[4]Out of Our Heads (2009)[5] andAction In Perception (MIT Press, 2004).[6] He is the co-editor ofVision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (MIT Press, 2002) and the author ofIs the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Imprint Academic, 2002). InAction In Perception, Noë puts forth the notion of the sensorimotor profile.Externalism about the mind and mental content is a pervasive theme in his work.
Noë is the son of the architect, sculptor and restaurateurHans Noë, the former proprietor of theFanelli Cafe.[7] His mother Judith Baldwin is a ceramicist. His brother Sasha is a sculptor and has taken over running the Fanelli Cafe.[7]
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