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Maura Tumulty

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Maura Tumulty

Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Department of Philosophy

Department/Office Information

Philosophy
111 Hascall Hall
  • M 10:00am - 12:00pm (111 Hascall Hall)
  • R 10:30am - 11:30am (111 Hascall Hall)

I’m interested in questions at the intersection of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and moral psychology.  My recent book, , argues that one can sometimes be alienated from a perception (as one can sometimes be alienated from a desire).  This has implications for how we think about self-control, bias, cognitive penetration, and representationalist perceptual theories.  In my current teaching, I’m thinking about the nature of unconscious cognition.  And in my current writing, I’m thinking about how a perception could be epistemically problematic without being inaccurate.

  • BA, Williams College
  • MSc, University of Edinburgh
  • PhD, University of Pittsburgh
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Perception
  • Feminist Epistemology
  • Feminist Philosophy of Language
  • PHIL 341  | Philosophy of Mind
  • PHIL 360  | Feminist Philosophy
  • PHIL 418  | Unconscious Cognition
  • PHIL 101  | Introduction to Philosophical Problems
  • CORE 152 | Challenges of Modernity

Book

Alien Experience.  Available from .

Articles, essays, and comments

  • Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 95 (3) September 2014: 261-92.
  • Neuroethics 5 (1) April 2012: 29-37.
  • Mind and Language 26 (5) November 2011: 596-628.
  • The Journal of Philosophical Research 36 (February 2011): 43-76.
  • Acta Analytica 25 (1) March 2010: 35-46.
  • Comments and Criticism section of The Journal of Philosophy  106 (3) March 2009: 161-6.
  • Canadian Journal of Philosophy 38 (4)  December 2008: 601-30.
  • Davidson’s Fear of the Subjective.  The Southern Journal of Philosophy 44 (3) September 2006: 509-32.

Book chapters

  • .  In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion, Ema Sullivan-Bissett.  London: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • .  In Philosophy of Language: The Key Thinkers, 2nd ed.  Barry Lee, ed.  London: Continuum, 2019.
  • .  In Out From the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy.  Sharon L. Crasnow and Anita M. Superson, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 217-44.
  • .  In Personal Identity and Fractured Selves: The Self, Personal Identity, and the Brain.  Hilary Bok, Debra J.H. Mathews, and Peter Rabins, eds.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, 15-37.