Andrew Brook

Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science
3A40 Paterson Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
Phone 613 520-3597 Fax 613 520-3962

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Publications (Last 15 years)

In Progress

• Ethical Principles in U.S. Environmental Legislation.

Books (links to Table of Contents and some additional material)

Forthcoming

• A unified theory of consciousness. (with Paul Raymont). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (supported by SSHRC Grants 410-2000-0293 and 410-2006-1571).

2007

• The prehistory of cognitive science. Ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

2005

• Cognition and the brain: The philosophy and neuroscience movement. Ed. (with Kathleen Akins and Steven Davis). New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001

• Self-Reference and Self-Awareness. Ed. (with R. C. DeVidi). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Daniel Dennett (in the series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus). Ed. (with Don Ross). New York: Cambridge University Press.

2000

• Knowledge and mind. (with Robert Stainton). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/A Bradford Book.
• Dennett: A comprehensive assessment. Ed. (with D. Ross and D. Thompson). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/A Bradford Book.

1996

• Kant and the mind, 2^nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chapters and Articles (links to full text)

Forthcoming

• Representations and Reality: Kant's Two Views. In Thorndike, Oliver, ed. forthcoming, ed. Rethinking Kant, Vol. 3.. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2010

• Kant’s Attack on Leibniz’ and Locke’s Amphibolies. Shortened version in Stephen Palmquist, ed. Kant and Cultivating Personhood. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), pp. 140-54.
• The Prehistory of Cognitive Science: An Overview. In C. Pléh, L. Gurova, and L. Ropolyi, eds. New Perspectives on the History of Cognitive Science, in the series C, Pléh, ed., Neurocognitive Development and Impairment. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó (Invited).

2009

• Pylyshyn and Cognitive Architecture. In Don Dedrick and Lana Trick, eds. Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 259-80. (Invited).
• Philosophy in and philosophy of cognitive science. Topics in Cognitive Science 1:2, pp. 216-30 (part of a special theme on this topic, A Brook, ed.).

2008

• Phenomenology: Contribution to Cognitive Science.. Abstracta Special Issue II, pp. 54-70. (Invited)
• (With Pete Mandik) Update on the Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement. Analyse & Kritik 26, p. 382–397. (Invited)

2007

• Introduction. In The Prehistory of Cognitive Science Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-14.
• Kant and Cognitive Science. In The Prehistory of Cognitive Science Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 117-36.

2006

• Unity of consciousness (with Paul Raymont). Stanford Electronic Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
• Unity of consciousness: What it is and where it is found. Proceedings of the 28^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, New Jersey: LEA. 1056-61.
• Kant: A unified theory of the representational base of all consciousness. In Uriah Kriegel and Ken Williford, eds. Consciousness and Self-Reference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 89-110.
• My Blackberry and me: Forever one or just friends?. In Nyiri, K. ed. Mobile understanding: The epistemology of ubiquitous communication. Vienna: Passagen Verlag. pp. 55-66.
• Daniel Clements Dennett. Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. 2^nd edition. London: Macmillan.
• Thought experiments. In A. Barber and R. Stainton, eds. Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier.
• Desire, reward, feeling. Dialogue. XLV (1). pp. 157-165.
• The representational base of consciousness (with P. Raymont). PSYCHE, the electronic journal of consciousness studies.

2005

• Making consciousness safe for neuroscience. In Akins, K. and A. Brook, eds. Cognition and the Brain: the Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement. Cambridge University Press.
• Introduction (with Pete Mandik). In Akins, K. and A. Brook, eds. Cognition and the Brain: the Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement. Cambridge University Press.

2004

• Kant, cognitive science, and contemporary neoKantianism. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 11, no. 10-11. pp. 1-25.
• A new theory of the representational base of consciousness (with P. Raymont). Proceedings of the 26^th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: LEA.
• Kant's view of the mind and consciousness of self. Stanford Electronic Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

2003

• Freud and Kant. In M. Cheung and Colin Feltman, eds. Psychoanalytic knowledge. Palgrave Publishers Ltd. (Macmillan).
• The moral framework of confidentiality and the electronic panopticon (with Michael Yeo). In C. Koggel, A. Furlong and C. Levin, eds. Confidentiality and Psychotherapy. Redopi Press.
• Kant and cognitive science. Teleskop, the electronic journal.
• Learning is always explicit (with E. Torlakovic). Proceedings of the 25^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: LEA. 732-738.
• Kant. In D. Chalmers et al. eds. Encyclopaedia of the Cognitive Sciences. London: Macmillan.

2002

• Introduction (with Don Ross) and The appearance of things. In Brook, A. and D. Ross, eds. Daniel Dennett. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Consciousness: A two-by-two matrix. Advances in Cognitive Science. IV(2). pp. 22-36. 'Consciousness: A two by two matrix' and 'Atomist and system approaches ....' (2002) are very similar. The CSS version is more recent..
• The role of consciousness in second language acquisition (with E. Torlakovic). Proceedings of the 24^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: LEA. pp. 872-877.
• Atomist and system approaches to consciousness (with L. Jerzykiewicz). Proceedings of the 24^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: LEA. pp. 142-147.
• Review of Anita Avramides. Other Minds. Times Literary Supplement No. 5179, July 2002.

2001

• Kant. Self-Reference and Self-Awareness and Introduction. In Andrew Brook and Richard DeVidi, eds. Self-Reference and Self-Awareness. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2000

• Judgments and drafts eight years later. In D. Ross. D. Thompson and A. Brook, eds. Dennett: A comprehensive assessment. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/A Bradford Book.

1999

• Does philosophy have distinctive methods to offer cognitive science?. Proceedings of the 21^st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: LEA. 102-108.
• Kant. In F. Keil and R. Wilson, eds. MIT Encyclopaedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

1998

• Neuroscience versus psychology in Freud. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (1998). 843. pp. 66-79.
• Critical notice of L. Falkenstein, Kant's intuitionism: A commentary on the transcendental aesthetic. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 29.
• Unified consciousness and the self (Invited peer commentary on G. Strawson, The self). Journal of Consciousness Studies. 5. pp. 583-91.

1997

• Waste management: Examples from the nuclear fuel cycle. In A. W. Cragg and C. M. Koggel, eds. Contemporary Moral Issues. 4^th edition. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson. 518-34. Also in A. W. Cragg and Alex Wellington, eds. Canadian Issues in Applied Environmental Ethics. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1007, pp. 117-32.
• Reconciling the two images. In Sean O'Nuallain et al., eds. Two sciences of mind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 299-309.
• Approaches to abstraction: A commentary. International Journal of Educational Research. 27 (1). pp. 77-88.
• Unity of consciousness and other mental unities. Proceedings of the 19^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: Ablex Press. 875.

1996

• Jackendoff and consciousness. Pragmatics and cognition. 4. 81-92.
• Fodor's new theory of content and computation (with R. S. Stainton). Proceedings of the 18^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: Ablex Press. pp. 86-92. Also in Mind and language 12 (3 & 4) (1997):459-74.