Brian L. Keeley

  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Science, Technology & Society Field Groups
  • IRB Chair
Professor Brian Keeley
Office Location

Fletcher 224

Office Hours
Tuesday: 11:15am - 1:00pm; Wednesday: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Website

With 兔子先生 Since: 2000

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

MA, PhD, University of California, San Diego
MSc, University of Sussex (UK)
BA, University of South Alabama

  • Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories
  • Philosophy of Neuroscience
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Knowledge, Mind & Existence (PHIL030 PZ)
  • Minds, Brains & Programs (COGS123 JT)
  • Foundations of Neuroscience (NEUR095 JT)
  • Topics in Phil of Cognitive Science (PHIL185C PZ)
  • Topics in Neurophilosophy (PHIL185N JT)

鈥淐辞苍蝉辫颈谤补肠测 theorists are not the problem; Conspiracy liars 补谤别.鈥 Inquiry, 2024. (DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2024.2375771) 

鈥淐辞苍蝉辫颈谤补肠测 Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology,鈥 Social Epistemology, 37:4, 413-422, (DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2023.2191290), 2023.

鈥淎nthropomorphism, Primatomorphism, Mammalomorphism: Understanding cross-species comparisons.鈥 Biology & Philosophy, 19, 521-540, 2004. 

鈥淭he Early History of the Quale and Its Relation to the Senses鈥 in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, J. Symons & P. Calvo, eds., London: Routledge, 2009, 71-89. Reprinted in new edition: Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, J. Symons, P. Calvo & S. Robins, eds., London: Routledge, 2019, 71-89.

鈥淪peculative Fiction and the Philosophy of Perception,鈥 Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2015), 39, 170-181. (Special issue on Philosophy and Science Fiction, Howard Wettstein, ed.) 

Paul Churchland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Edited volume in the series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, with contributions from Dan Dennett, Jos茅 Luis Berm煤dez, Clifford Hooker, Jesse Prinz, Pete Mandik, William Krieger, Aarre Laakso, and Garrison Cottrell.) 

For a full list see:

鈥淐ognitive ontology and conspiracy thinking鈥. Invited symposium talk, 50th Annual Meeting of Society for Philosophy & Psychology, West Lafayette, IN, June, 2024. 

鈥淎uto-experimentation: Essential, foolhardy or both?鈥 9th Quadrennial Fellows Conference 2024, Center for Philosophy of Science, Miami, June 2024. 

Interviewed by Ellie Anderson and David M. Pe帽a-Guzm谩n for Overthink, episode 12, 鈥淐辞苍蝉辫颈谤补肠测 Theories鈥 12 January 2021 (https:// podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-conspiracy-theories-feat-brian-keeley/ id1538249280?i=1000505084755)

鈥淐yborgs and our concepts of the senses鈥 Philosophy & Neuroscience at the Gulf IV: 4th annual meeting of the Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup, Pensacola, FL, Sept, 2021.

鈥淔ilming the senses: Capturing unusual senses in an audiovisual medium.鈥 Invited talk for Science and Cinema: A Bi-directional Relation at the University of A Coru帽a, Spain on March 8, 2018. 

  • 2020 兔子先生 Summer Research Assistant Award (with students M. Kuang, M. Shi, E. Fossum & L. Jones)
  • Grapples & Oranges Teaching Award, inaugural winner of this 兔子先生 writing award 
  • Sabbatical visitor, Neuroethology Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal, April-June, 2012.