Faculty

Philippe Chuard

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

 

PhD ANU, 2006
MA Sydney, 2001
Lic. ès Lettres Geneva, 1999
Philosophy Department
Hyer Hall 210A
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750142
Dallas TX 75275-0142
214-768-2705
pchuard@smu.edu
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Current Research

Most of my work is in the philosophy of perception, focusing on: (1) the non-conceptual content of experiences and whether concepts are required for perception (they aren’t!), (2) the non-transitivity of looking the same, (3) the ontology of experience and temporal experiences in particular (whether experiences have or represent duration—they don’t). Some related interests include the nature of appearances, the difference between naïve realism and representationalism, perceptual projectivism, and questions surrounding perceptual justification. I also dabble in epistemology, having done some work on epistemic norms, kinds of defeaters, and have various interests in metaphysics.

Representative Publications

• Forthcoming. Temporal Experiences & their Parts. Philosophers' Imprint.

• 2010. Non-transitive Looks & Fallibilism, Philosophical Studies, 149(2): 161-200.

• 2009. Epistemic Norms without Voluntary Control, Noûs, 43(4): 599-632 (with Nic
  Southwood).

• 2009. Non-conceptual Content, in Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken, eds., The
  Oxford Companion to Consciousness
, Oxford University Press.

• 2007. Indiscriminable Shades & Demonstrative Concepts, The Australasian Journal of
  Philosophy
, 85(2): 277-306.

• 2007. The Riches of Experience, in Rocco Genarro, ed. The Interplay between
  Consciousness and Concepts: Special Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies
, 14(9-10):
  20-42.

• 2006. Demonstrative Concepts without Re-identification, Philosophical Studies, 130: 153-
  201.

 

Work in Progress

• Conceptualism & the structure of content

• Conceptualism & the phenomenal character of experience

• Perceptual extension & perceptual holism

• Non-transitive looks: why not?

Teaching

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology

• Advanced Topic (Philosophy of Perception)

• Introduction to Philosophy