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BARBARA VON ECKARDT
risd connection: Dean of Liberal Arts and
Professor of Philosophy and Psychology; at RISD since 2002
about her work: In ongoing research and
writing projects, Barbara Von Eckardt examines psychology, linguistics
and other aspects of cognitive science through a philosophical lens.
Since completing her PhD in 1974 (with a dissertation titled Conceptions
of Sensory Experience and Mind-body Identity), she has taught philosophy
and/or psychology at the University of Washington, Yale, Wellesley,
Cornell and Colgate. Just prior to coming to RISD, she was a psychology
professor and director of the Humanities Center at the University of
Nebraska/Lincoln. Von Eckardt is a sought-after presenter at academic
conferences around the world and publishes frequently; her most recent
book — Controversies and Critiques in the Philosophy of Cognitive
Science, written with Jeffrey Poland — is currently under review for
publication. She has also won several honors for her photography, which
she began exhibiting in the late 1990s.
recent publications
Mechanistic Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience, with J. Poland, in Philosophy of Science, forthcoming
Connectionism and the Propositional Attitudes in The Mind as a Scientific Object: Between Brain and Culture, Christina Erneling and David M. Johnson, editors. Oxford University Press, 2003
Manipulating Beauty: Some Meta-Reflections, text and photographs, in Formations 3, 2002
Multidisciplinarity and Cognitive Science in Cognitive Science 25, 2001
In Defense of the Standard View, with J. Poland, in Protosociology 14, 2000
The Empirical Naivete of the Current Philosophical Conception of Folk Psychology in Mindscapes: Philosophy, Sciences, and the Mind, P.K. Machamer and M. Carrier, editors. Pittsburgh University Press/Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1997
Problems with the DSM Approach to the Classification of Psychopathology, with J. Poland and W. Spaulding, in Philosophical Psychopathology: A Book of Readings, G. Graham and L. Stephens, editors. MIT Press, 1994
What is Cognitive Science? Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1993
recent academic presentations
2004 Narrative in Photography, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting
2003 Fodor and Pylyshyn’s Challenge to Connectionism, Brown University: Department of Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium; Department of Cognitive Science and Linguistics
2002 Mechanistic Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Milwaukee, WI
2002 Keeping Our Eye on the Ball: Reflections on Recent Philosophy of Psychology, Barnard College/Columbia University Department of Philosophy colloquium
2001 The Trouble with Physical Symbol Systems, University of Utah; Washington University
2001 Wilson on Realization, with Jeffrey Poland, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, OH
education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, postdoctoral study, 1974-77
Case Western Reserve University, PhD in Philosophy, 1974
Case Western Reserve University, MA in Philosophy, 1968
University of Pennsylvania, architecture studies, 1966
University of Chicago, BA, 1965
Bennington College, 1961-63
fellowships + honors
1986-87 Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University
1985-86 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers
1980-82 National Science Foundation Research Grant, History and Philosophy of Science Program
1980-81 Yale University Morse Fellowship
1975-77 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Public Health Service Research Fellowship
1975-76 MIT Research Fellowship
1974-75 MIT fellowship for postdoctoral study
1974 Review of Metaphysics National Dissertation Essay Competition, winner
photography exhibitions + honors
2004 About Face, Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC
2002, 2000 Fred Wells National Juried Exhibition, Nebraska Wesleyan University
2001 Women in Photography International 20th Anniversary Exhibit, House of Photographic Art, San Juan Capistrano, CA
2000 Paper Media Competition, Minot [ND] State University, Juror’s Award
2000 Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography Annual, finalist
2000, 1999 Five State Photography Competition and Exhibition, Hays [KS] Arts Center; Juror’s Merit award, 1999
1999 Photographer’s Forum Best of Photography Annual, finalist
1999 Lincoln Area Agency on Aging Traveling Exhibit, Lincoln, NB
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