(Current as of 07.03.2005)
Rick Grush, Ph.D.
Birthdate: February 2, 1965
Citizenship:
United States
Current Employment:
Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
Primary Appointment:
Department of Philosophy
Address:
Philosophy Department - 0119
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0119
Office phone: 858.822.4440
Office fax: 858.534.8566
email: rick@mind.ucsd.edu
website: http://mind.ucsd.edu
Fields of Specialization:
Theoretical cognitive
neuroscience
Metaphysics of mind and meaning
Philosophy of language/semantics
Cognitive linguistics
Education:
University of California,
Davis: B.A. Philosophy (1990)
University of California, San Diego: Ph.D. Philosophy and Cognitive Science
(1995)
Employment History (post-PhD only):
Associate Professor, UC San Diego, July 1, 2003 to present:
Primary Appointment: Philosophy Secondary: Interdiciplinary Cognitive Science Program
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego, July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2003:
Primary Appointment: Philosophy
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-2000:
Primary Appointment: Philosophy Secondary Appointments: Linguistics Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Intelligent Systems Program Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science
Research Fellow, Center for Semiotic Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 1997-1998.
McDonnell Post
Doctoral Fellow, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University
in St. Louis, 1995-97.
Publications:
In Preparation / Under Review:
Grush, Rick (in preparation). Temporal Representation (working title).
Andersen, Holly, and Rick Grush (in preparation). History of the Specious Present I: From Stewart to Clay.
Grush, Rick, and Holly Andersen (in preparation). History of the Specious Present II: From James to Sellars.
Grush, Rick (in preparation). The Machinery of Mindedness.
To Appear / In Press
Grush, Rick (to appear). Berkeley and the spatiality of vision. To appear in the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Grush, Rick (to appear). Internal models and the construction of time: generalizing from optimal state estimation to optimal trajectory estimation to address temporal features of perception, including temporal illusions. To appear in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
Grush, Rick (in press). Brain time and phenomenological time. In Akins, Brook and Davis eds. Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement. Cambridge University Press.
1992- 2004:
Grush, Rick (2004). The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27(3):377-396.
Grush, Rick (2004). Further explorations of the empirical and theoretical aspects of the emulation theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27(3):425-442
Grush, Rick (2003). In defense of some ‘Cartesian’ assumptions concerning the brain and its operation. Biology and Philosophy 18(1):53-93.
Grush, Rick (2002). Cognitive Science. In Machamer and Silberstein, eds. Guide to Philosophy of Science. Basil Blackwell.
Peter Machamer, Rick Grush and Peter McLaughlin, eds. (2001) Theory and method in the neurosciences Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Grush, Rick (2001) The semantic challenge to computational neuroscience. In Peter Machamer, Rick Grush and Peter McLaughlin, eds. (2001) Theory and method in the neurosciences Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Grush, Rick (2000). Self, world and space: the meaning and mechanisms of ego- and allocentric spatial representation. Brain and Mind 1(1):59-92.
Clark, Andy, and Rick Grush (1999). Towards a cognitive robotics. Adaptive Behavior, 7(1):5-16.
Churchland, Patricia, and Grush, Rick (1999). Computation and the brain. In The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, p155-158. Frank Heil and Robert Wilson, general editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Grush, Rick (guest editor, 1998b) The Philosophy of Gareth Evans: Special Issue of the Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Volume 6 (http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1998/contents.html).
Grush, Rick (1998c) Editor's Introduction. Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6(1). (http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1998/grushintro98.html)
Grush, Rick (1998d) Skill and spatial content. Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6(6). (http://ejap.louisiana.edu/EJAP/1998/grusharticle98.html)
Grush, Rick (1998a). Wahrnehmung, Vorstellung und die sensomotorische Schleife. In Bewußtsein und Repraesentation, Frank Esken & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann, editors. Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh, Paderborn, Germany.
Grush, Rick, and Mandelblit, Nili (1998). Blending in language, conceptual structure, and the cerebral cortex. In The Roman Jakobson Centennial Symposium: International Journal of Linguistics Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Volume 29:221-237. Per Aage Brandt, Frans Gregersen, Frederik Stjernfelt and Martin Skov, eds. C.A. Reitzel: Copenhagen.
Grush, Rick (1997a)
The architecture of representation. Philosophical Psychology 10(1):5-25.
_____Reprinted in Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader. Bechtel,
W., Mandik, P., Mundale, J., and Stufflebeam, R. (Eds.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Grush, Rick (1997b) Yet another design for a brain? Book review of Robert Port and Timothy van Gelder (eds., 1995) Mind as Motion: Explorations in the dynamics of cognition. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.Philosophical Psychology 10(2)233-242
Grush, Rick (1997c) Review of M. Gazzaniga, ed. (1995)The Cognitive Neurosciences MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Philosophy of Science 64(1):188-190
Grush, Rick (1995). Emulation and Cognition. PhD. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego. UMI.
Grush, R. and Churchland,
P.S. (1995). Gaps in Penrose's toilings. Journal of Consciousness Studies
2(1):10 - 29.
_____Reprinted in Conscious Experience. Ed. by T. Metzinger. Berlin:
Schoningh-Verlag.
_____Reprinted in Paul Churchland and Patricia Chuchland (1998) On the Contrary:
Critical Essays, 1987-1997. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Grush, Rick (1994a) "Consequences of consequentialism" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17(1):18-19. Commentary on Baron, Jonathan (1994) "Nonconsequentialist decisions" Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Grush, Rick (1994b) "Motor models as steps to higher cognition" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17(2):209-210 Commentary on Jeannerod, Marc (1994), "The representing brain: neural correlates of motor intention and imagery" Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Grush, Rick (1994c) "Beyond connectionist vs. classical AI: towards a control theoretic approach to development and cognitive science" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17(4):720 Book review of Karmiloff-Smith, Annette, Beyond Modularity
Grush, Rick (1993) "Van Brakel's position is perfectly coherent" Psycholoquy 4(24) Commentary on Fetzer (1993) "Van Brakel's position appears to be incoherent" Psycholoquy 4(14)
Ramachandran, Rogers-Ramachandran and Grush (1993) "Perceptual correlates of somatosensory plasticity in man" Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Poster Presentation
Glymour, Bruce, Rick Grush, et al. (1992) "The cartesian theater stance" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15(2):209-210. Commentary on Dennett and Kinsbourne (1992) "Time and the observer: the where and when of consciousness in the brain" Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Scholarly Presentations and Invited Talks:
Space, time and objects. Neurophilosophy: The State of the Art; McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences Public Conference. June, 2005, California Institute of Technology
The temporality of perception. The Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture. April 2004, University of Pittsburgh.
Brain time and phenomenological time. UC Irvine, May 2003; University of Pittsburgh, October 2003.
The Architecture of temporal representation. Carleton/McDonnell Conference on Philosophy and Neuroscience, Carleton University, October 2002.
Meaning, Truth and Objectivity. University of Pittsburgh, April 2002; Washington University in St Louis, April 2002.
Linguistic structure and cognitive processing. ELSA Bioethics Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 2000.
What everyone should know about language. ELSA Bioethics Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June, 2000.
The architecture of representation (new and improved). First meeting of the McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, Tofino, BC June 2000.
The nature and theoretical importance of neural representation. Cogsci99: 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, BC August 1999.
On the relation between computation and neuroscience. Philosophical Problems in the Neurosciences: Fifth Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science. Konstanz, Germany, May 1999.
The representation of rhythm., University of Urbino, Italy, July 1998.
Action and imagination. Danish Psychiatric Society, Rigets Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1998.
Evans on spatial content. Contents and Concepts Symposium, University of Copenhagen, May 1998.
Spatial content, spatial vehicles, and the Molyneux problem. University of Lund, Sweden, Cognitive Science Department, May 1998.
Syntax and attention. Center for Semiotic Research Winter Symposium, Rolighed, Denmark, January 1998.
Mental imagery and internal emulation. The Center for Semiotic Research, Aarhus, Denmark, January 1997.
Budgeting attention: the interface of language, cognition, and convention. The University of Copenhagen and the Center for Semiotic Research, October 1996.
The architecture of representation. University of California, Berkeley, Summer Research Seminar Speaker Series, July 1996.
The structure of opacity. University of Missouri, Department of Philosophy, St. Louis, February 1996.
Making room for representation in the causal order. Washington University in St. Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, November 1994.
Professional Service:
Editorial Board, Brain and Mind (1999-present).
Editorial Board, Online Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind (1997-present).
I also (far too frequently!) referee books and articles for Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology, Mind and Language, Brain and Mind, Consciousness and Cognition, The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer, and others.
Current Projects:
First and foremost, I am preparing a book manuscript, The Machinery of Mindedness. The book will attack two issues simultaneously. The first (a philosophical topic) is: What are the minimal sufficient requirements for something to be a mind? I argue that these requirements can be discerned by looking at the requirements for anything to entertain genuine content, or to put it another way, to have thought. These abilities, in turn, will be shown to involve a number of capacities such as spatial representation, self representation, and certain minimal conceptual skills, all articulated in a roughly Kantian manner. The second (a neurocognitive topic) is: How are these abilities realized in the brain?
A series of articles on temporal representation and experience is underway. One is forthcoming, and three more are in the works. Temporal experience will also be the topic of my Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture in April, 2004. I then plan to turn to issues of indexical thought, in particular here and now; and the nature and cognitive infrastructure of subjectivity, objectivity, and intersubjectivity.
Longer term (after The Machinery of Mindedness is out), I will be turning a major stream of my research to language, both its neural and cognitive underpinnings, social dimensions, and semantic and syntactic structure.