Robert Lurz

Robert Lurz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1997 where he worked with Michael Tye (University of Texas, Austin), one of the foremost philosophers on consciousness. Lurz’s areas of research include traditional issues in philosophy of mind and foundational issues in cognitive science. At present, he is writing on representational accounts of consciousness and philosophical issues concerning animal minds. Lurz has published articles on representational theories of consciousness in a number of journals, including Psyche, Journal of Philosophical Research, Analysis, and Philosophical Psychology.

Consciousness and the Representational Theory of Mind: An Overview of the Philosophical Debate

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Representationalism is the view in philosophy and cognitive science that the mind is nothing more than a representational system. According to representationalism, any two creatures that are representationally identical are mentally identical. The chief obstacle to representationalism is consciousness. Consciousness, it has been argued, resists explanation in representational terms. The philosophical debate over consciousness and … Read more