Rick Grush's On-Line Papers

A brief history of time consciousness: Historical precursors to James and Husserl
Holly Anderseon and Rick Grush (2009), Journal of the History of Philosophy. 47(2):277-307.[ PDF 440k ]

Space, time and objects
Grush, Rick (2008). Space, time and objects. In John Bickel, ed, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience. Oxford University Press. [ PDF 2.2MB ]

Space, time and objects
Grush, Rick (2008). Temporal representation and dynamics. Invited paper for a special issue of New Ideas and Psychology on dynamics and psychology 26(2):146-157. [ PDF 161KB ]

Evans on Identification-Freedom
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2007, 37(4):605-618 [ PDF 76k ]

Skill Theory v2.0: dispositions, emulation, and spatial perception
Synthese 2007 159(3):389-416 [ PDF 292k ]

Time and experience
Grush, Rick (2007). Time and experience. In Thomas Müller (ed.), The Philosophy of Time, Frankfurt: Klosterman. [ PDF 304k ]

Berkeley and the spatiality of vision
Grush, Rick (2007). Berkeley and the spatiality of vision. Journal of the History of Philosophy 45(3):413-442. [ PDF 579k ]

How to, and how not to, bridge computational cognitive neuroscience and Husserlian phenomenology of time consciousness.
Synthese 2006 153(3):417-450 [ PDF 420K ]

Internal models and the construction of time: generalizing from state estimation to trajectory estimation to address temporal features of perception, including temporal illusions
Grush, Rick (2005). Journal of Neural Engineering 2(3):S209-S218 [ PDF 168k ]

The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception.
Grush, Rick (2004). The emulation theory of representation: motor control, imagery, and perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:377-442. [ PDF 1.5M ]

The Machinery of Mindedness
This is one of two in-progress book manuscripts, some chapters of which I am making available here in draft form for very limited distribution (to seminar participants and specific individuals for other purposes) -- the pdf files can only be opened with a password. If you would like access to one or more of these chapters, please contact me.

[ Chapter One PDF 192k ]
[ Chapter Two PDF 424k]
[ Chapter Three PDF 260k ]
[ Chapter Four PDF 104k]
[ Appendix B PDF 76k]

 

Temporal Representation (working title)
This is the second of two in-progress book manuscripts. This one concerns philosophical and theoretical cognitive neuroscientific issues in the temporality of perception. Again, these are here for limited distribution to seminar participants, etc., and require a password. If you would like access please email me.

[ Chapter One soon ]
[ Chapter Two soon]
[ Chapter Three soon ]
[ Chapter Four PDF 3.1MB]
[ Chapter Five PDF 2.2MB]

[ Chapter Six soon ]

 

Brain time and phenomenological time
Grush, Rick (to appear). Brain time and phenomenological time. To appear in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, Brooks and Akins, eds. Cambridge University Press. [ PDF 284k ]

In defense of some 'Cartesian' assumptions concerning the brain and its operation.
Grush, Rick (2003). In defence of some 'Cartesian' assumptions concerning the brain and its operation. Biology and Philosophy 18:53-93. [ PDF 228k ]

The philosophy of cognitive science.
Grush, Rick (2002) The philosophy of cognitive science. In Machamer and Silberstein, eds. Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science. Basil Blackwell. (The version here is the penultimate draft.)[ HTML ] -- [ PDF 44k ] -- [ RTF 84k ]

The semantic challenge to computational neuroscience.
Grush, Rick (2001). The semantic challenge to computational neuroscience. InTheory and Method in the Neurosciences. Peter Machamer, Peter McLaughlin and Rick Grush, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press. (The version here is the penultimate draft.) [ HTML ] -- [ PDF 48k ] -- [ RTF 56k ]

Self, world, and space: on the meaning and mechanisms of egocentric and allocentric spatial representation.
Grush, Rick (2001). Self, world and space: on the meaning and mechanisms of egocentric and allocentric spatial representation. Brain and Mind 1(1):59-92. [ PDF 100k]

Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy: Special Issue on the Philosophy of Gareth Evans

[ Table of Contents (HTML) ]
[ My Editor's Introduction (HTML) ]
[ My contribution: Skill and Spatial Content (HTML) ]

This is a special issue of EJAP, devoted to the work of Gareth Evans, for which I served as guest-editor. I contributed an introduction, consisting of a little biographical material and a brief overviw of some of Evans' main ideas. Also, I contributed an article, 'Skill and spatial content'. The issue turned out very well. Contributors include Jose Bermudez and Fiona MacPherson, Ingar Brinck, Ronald Chrisley, Adrian Cussins, Daniel Hutto, Sean Kelly, Pete Mandik, Jesse Prinz, and Mark Textor. If you are interested in Evans, definitely check it out.

Manifolds, coordinations, imagination, objectivity.
This is an ancestor of the paper 'Self, world and space', which is listed above. This version has much more philosophical material, specifically development of the Kant-Strawson-Evans line on the relation between spatial representation and objectivity, and much less neurobiological and psychological material. I am not currently planning to publish this version anywhere. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (76k) ] -- [ RTF 113k ]

Computation and the Brain.
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. The version here is the penultimate draft. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (12k) ] -- [  RTF (13k) ]

Perception, imagery, and the sensorimotor loop.
This is a draft, in English, of an article to appear, in German: Grush, Rick (1998a). Wahrnehmung, Vorstellung und die sensomotorische Schleife. In Bewußtsein und Repraesentation, Frank Esken & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann, editors. Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh, Paderborn, Germany. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (48k) ] -- [ RTF (63k) ]

Towards a Cognitive Robotics
Clark, Andy, and Rick Grush (1999). Towards a cognitive robotics. Adaptive Behavior, 7(1):5-16. This is the penultimate draft. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (64k) ] -- [  RTF (63k) ]

The Architecture of Representation.
Grush, Rick (1997) Philosophical Psychology 10(1)5-23. The version here is the penultimate draft.[ HTML ] -- [ PDF (60k) ] -- [ RTF (72k) ]

Review of Port and van Gelder's Mind as Motion.
Grush, Rick (1997). Review of Port and van Gelder's Mind as Motion. Philosophical Psychology10(2)233-242. This is the penultimate draft. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (36k) ] -- [ RTF (50k) ]

Blending in language, conceptual structure, and the cerebral cortex.
Grush, Rick, and Nili Mandelblit(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. This is the penultimate draft. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (44k) ] -- [ RTF (63k) ]

Review of Gazzaniga's The Cognitive Neurosciences.
Grush, Rick (1995). review of Gazzaniga's The Cognitive Neurosciences. Philosophy of Science 64(1):188-190. This is the penultimate draft.[ HTML ] -- [ PDF (12k) ] -- [ RTF (13k) ]

Gaps in Penrose's Toilings.
Grush, Rick, and Patricia Chuchland (1995). Gaps in Penrose's Toilings Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2(1):10 - 29. Also in Conscious Experience Thomas Metzinger, ed. (1996) Allen Press. A version in German appeared in Bewußtsein, edited by Thomas Metzinger. Reprinted in Paul Churchland and Patricia Chuchland (1998) On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.This is the penultimate draft. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (72k) ] -- [ RTF (113k) ]

Emulation and Cognition.
Grush, Rick (1995). Emulation and Cognition. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, San Diego. [ HTML ] -- [ PDF (364k) ] -- [ RTF (550k) ]