Title
Professor

Department
Dept of Philosophy


Faculty URL
https://philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/detail/16

Email
noe@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-2722


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Research Expertise and Interest
cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins

Research Description
Alva No? is a philosopher of mind whose research and teaching focus is perception and consciousness, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of?Action in Perception?(MIT, 2004);?Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness?(Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009);?Varieties of Presence?(Harvard, 2012);?Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature?(Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2015),?Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark?(Oxford, 2019) and, most recently,?Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World?(Oxford 2021).
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