Dr. Robert Howell is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SMU.  He earned his Ph.D. at Brown University and his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Iowa. His work concerns the nature of subjectivity, the self and the mind. As a result, he winds up working in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Most recently, he has been developing a view called "Subjective Physicalism", which maintains that while everything is physical, some physical states cannot be fully grasped unless they are occupied. Dr. Howell teaches PHIL 1305: Introduction to Philosophy for TAG.