Christopher S. Hill

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Christopher S. Hill
Born1942
Education Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Awards National Humanities Center Fellowship
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic
Institutions Brown University
Thesis On the Mysteries of Belief (1973)
Doctoral advisor Israel Scheffler, Hilary Putnam
Main interests
consciousness, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language

Christopher S. Hill (born 1942) is an American philosopher and William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is known for his expertise on consciousness and philosophy of mind. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Career

Hill previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held various fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a fellow at the National Humanities Center. Hill is a former editor of Philosophical Topics and a former associate editor of Noûs . [5]

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References

  1. Stoljar, Daniel (23 September 2010). "Review of Consciousness". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN   1538-1617 . Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  2. Levin, Janet (30 August 2012). "Review of New Perspectives on Type-Identity: The Mental and the Physical". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN   1538-1617 . Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  3. Byrne, Alex (21 December 2015). "Hill on mind". Philosophical Studies . 173 (3): 831–839. doi:10.1007/s11098-015-0613-z. hdl: 1721.1/103510 . ISSN   0031-8116.
  4. McLaughlin, Brian P. (21 December 2015). "Hill on phenomenal consciousness". Philosophical Studies . 173 (3): 851–860. doi:10.1007/s11098-015-0614-y. ISSN   0031-8116.
  5. "Hill, Christopher". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 21 October 2018.