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• Biography/ Background

  Jon studied theoretical physics and then philosophy at Flinders 杏吧直播. After completing his PhD at Adelaide (thesis, ) he took up an ARC Postdoc, before joining the teaching staff here. His primary research interests are in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the philosophy of science. He was a member of the McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences.

  Between 2008-2011 Jon headed an ARC Discovery project exploring the biological foundations of cognition. See the website for more information:

  Jon teaches Mind and World, Introduction to Logic, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Argument and Critical Thinking.

• Research Interests

  • Neural Network Models of Cognition
  • Consciousness & Mental Representation
  • Biological Foundations of Cognition
  • Mechanistic Explanation
  • Reduction and Emergence
  • Theories of Perception

• Publications

  Edited Collection

  1. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2002) Language and Thought: Philosophical Perspectives. Special issue of Language and Communication 22: 209-390

  Journal Articles

  1. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2015) Intentionality lite or analog content? Philosophia  43(3): 723-30.  0.1007/s11406-015-9623-5
  2. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2009) The Role of Representation in Computation. Cognitive Processing 10(1): 53-62
     
  3. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2006) How do Connectionist Networks Compute? Cognitive Processing 7(1): 30-41
  4. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2004) Vehicle, Process, and Hybrid Theories of Consciousness. Authors' response to continuing commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 303-5
  5. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2002) Radical Connectionism: Thinking With (Not In) Language. In G. O'Brien & J. Opie (eds.) "Language and Thought: Philosophical Perspectives", a special issue of Language and Communication 22: 313-29
  6. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2001) Connectionist Vehicles, Structural Resemblance, and the Phenomenal Mind. In J. Veldeman (ed.) Naturalism and the Phenomenal Mind, a special issue of Communication and Cognition 34: 13-38
  7. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2000) Disunity defended: A reply to Bayne. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78: 255-63
  8. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1999) A Connectionist Theory of Phenomenal Experience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 127-48
  9. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1999) Putting Content into a Vehicle Theory of Consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 175-96
  10. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1999) A Defense of Cartesian Materialism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59: 939-63
  11. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1998) The Disunity of Consciousness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76: 378-395
  12. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1997) Cognitive Science and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Dilemma, and How to Avoid It. Philosophical Psychology 10: 269-86

  Book Chapters

  1. Opie, J & O'Brien, G (2015) The Structure of Phenomenal Consciousness. In S. Miller (ed.) The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness, John Benjamins.
  2. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2015) A Schizophrenic Defence of a Vehicle Theory of Consciousness. In R. Gennaro (ed.) Disturbed Consciousness: New Essays in Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness, MIT Press.
  3. O’Brien, G & Opie, J (2011) Representation in Analog Computation. In Newen, A., Bartels, A. & Jung, E. (eds.) Knowledge and Representation, CSLI Publications.
  4. Opie, J (2010) Consciousness. In G. Oppy & N. N. Trakakis (eds.) A Companion to Philosophy in 杏吧直播 & New Zealand, Monash 杏吧直播 Press.
  5. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2009) Vehicles of consciousness. In T. Bayne, A. Cleeremans & P. Wilken (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, Oxford 杏吧直播 Press
  6. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2004) Notes toward a structuralist theory of mental representation. In H. Clapin, P. Staines & P. Slezak (eds.) Representation in Mind: New Approaches to Mental Representation, Elsevier
  7. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2003) The multiplicity of consciousness and the emergence of the self. In A. S. David & T. Kircher (eds.) The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry, CUP

  Conference Paper

  1. Opie, J (2010) Levels and Explanations. In W. Christensen, E. Schier & J. Sutton (eds.) ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.

  Commentaries

  1. Opie, J (2004) . Psyche 10(1) May 2004
  2. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2002) Internalizing Communication. Commentary on Carruthers' "The cognitive functions of language". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25(6): 694-5
  3. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2002) The Computational Baby, the Classical Bathwater, and the Middle Way. Commentary on Perruchet and Vinter's "The self-organizing consciousness". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25(3): 348-9
  4. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2001) Sins of Omission and Commission. Commentary on O'Regan and Noe's "A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24: 997-8
  5. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (2001) Functional resemblance and the internalization of rules. Commentary on Kubovy & Epstein's "Internalization: A metaphor we can live without". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24: 695-6
  6. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1999) What's really doing the work here: Knowledge representation or the HOT theory? Commentary on Dienes and Perner's "A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22(5): 778-9
  7. O'Brien, G & Opie, J (1999) Finding a place for experience in the physical-relational structure of the brain. Commentary on Stephen Palmer's "Color, Consciousness, and the Isomorphism Constraint". Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22(6): 966-7
  8. Opie, J (1999) Gestalt theories of cognitive representation and processing. Psycoloquy 10(021)
  9. Opie, J (1998) Connectionist modelling strategies. Psycoloquy 9(30)

  Book Reviews

  1. Opie, J (2006) The next step, or a misstep? Review of "Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step" by Michael Wheeler. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10(4): 144-5
  2. Opie, J (2000) Consciousness in the loops. Review of Rodney Cotterill's "Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers". Metascience 9(2): 277-82
  3. Opie, J (1998) Review of David Braddon-Mitchell's & Frank Jackson's "Philosophy of Mind and Cognition". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76: 642-4

• Files

  • Consciousness_Opie_(revised).pdf [141.7K] (application/pdf)
  • The_Structure_of_Phenomenal_Consciousness_(Final).pdf [296.0K] (application/pdf)
  • OBrien_&_Opie_2009.pdf [296.8K] (application/pdf)
  • Notes_toward_a_Structuralist_Theory_of_Mental_Representation.pdf [182.2K] (application/pdf)
  • Radical_Connectionism-Thinking_with_Language.doc [122.0K] (application/msword)
  • The_Disunity_of_Consciousness.doc [111.5K] (application/msword)
  • Disunity_Defended.doc [61.0K] (application/msword)
  • A_connectionist_theory_of_phenomenal_experience.pdf [329.6K] (application/pdf)
  • Putting_content_into_a_vehicle_theory_of_consciousness.pdf [232.9K] (application/pdf)
  • The_Multiplicity_of_Consciousness.doc [73.5K] (application/msword)
  • Review_of_Wheeler_-_TICS.pdf [59.3K] (application/pdf)
  • Vehicles_of_Consciousness_Online.pdf [452.6K] (application/pdf)
  • Opie_2010_Levels_and_Explanations.pdf [172.6K] (application/pdf)
  • Representation_in_Analog_Computation.pdf [356.2K] (application/pdf)
  • OBrien_&_Opie_2005.pdf [431.3K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 29 Mar 2022

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