Dr. Richard Menary

B.A. (Hons) (Ulster), MSc (Birmingham), PhD (King's London)

Location: 19:1086
Email
: rmenary@uow.edu.au
Telephone
: 02 4221 3099

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

I read for a BA in philosophy at the University of Ulster, an MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham and then a PhD in philosophy at King's College London. I have taught philosophy at the University of Kent, Birkbeck College Faculty of Continuing Education and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. I am now Senior Lecturer and Programme Convenor at the University of Wollongong.

I re-booted the Philosophy research seminar in 2007 it is now run by Dr. David Neil (see here for details).

Research Interests

    • Philosophy of Mind – especially narrative approaches to the self

    • Philosophy of Cognitive Science – especially embodied and extended cognition

    • Pragmatism - especially C.S. Peirce

    • Wittgenstein

    • Aesthetics

    • Virtue theory as it applies to both ethical and cognitive aspects of the individual.

I can supervise PhD theses in these areas (see below for list of current PhD students).

My main current research interest concerns extended mind style arguments, my own take on which I call cognitive integration. According to which the real pay-off from extended mind style arguments is not a new form of externalism in the philosophy of mind, but rather a view in which the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ aspects of cognition are integrated into a whole. I argue for this thesis in my book Cognitive Integration: Mind and Cognition Unbounded (see below).

Publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Books

Edited Books

    • Richard Menary (ed.) The Extended Mind. MIT Press forthcoming 2010.

    • Richard Menary (ed.) Radical Enactivism Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2006.

    • Richard Menary and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), Consciousness and Language special issue of the Journal of Consciousness studies Vol. 15, No.6, June 2008.

Book Chapters

    • Richard Menary, ‘Introduction: What is Radical Enactivism?’ in Richard Menary, (ed) Radical Enactivism Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2006

    • Richard Menary, ‘Cognitive Integration and the Extended Mind in Richard Menary (ed) The Extended Mind Cambridge MA: MIT Press

    • Richard Menary, “Pragmatist Approaches to the Self” in The Oxford Handbook of The Self,  Gallagher,S (Ed.) OUP forthcoming

    • Richard Menary, “Intentionality and Consciousness” in Encyclopedia of Consciousness,  Banks, W (Ed.) Elsevier 2009

    • Richard Menary, “The Extended Mind” in the SAGE Encyclopedia of the Mind forthcoming .

Journal Articles

 Selected Conference Papers

    • “Expertise and Memory” Memory Conference, Macquarie University (invited) October 2008

    • “Narrative and Embodied Approaches to the Self” Embodied Cognition Workshop, University College Cardiff (invited) July 2008

    • “Embodiment and Expertise” Embodied in the Gong Workshop, University of Wollongong May 2008

    • “On Peirce and Wittgenstein’s Pragmatic Approach to Doubt” Wittgenstein Conference, University of Sydney (invited) April 2008

    • “Embodied Engagements” Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended University of Central Florida invited Plenary October 2007

    • “The Minimal Self” Australasian Association of Philosophy July 2007

    • “Embodied Narratives” Towards a Science of Consciousness, Budapest (invited) July 2007

    • Workshop on The Embodied Mind, University of Hull (invited) July 2007

    Embodied and Situated Cognition: From Phenomenology to Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Torun, Poland (invited) Nov 2006

    Embodied Cognition Workshop, University College Cardiff (invited) July 2006

    • “Do Enactivists Need Representations?” The American Philosophical Association, Central Division meeting (invited) 26-29 April 2006

    • “Cognitive Integration” Symposium on Extended Cognition, University of Antwerp, Belgium (invited) 15 March 2006

    • “Perspicuous Representations” Making 3d Visual Research Outcomes Transparent, an invitational symposium and expert seminar, The British Academy (invited) 24 February 2006

    • “Writing as Thinking” Distributed Language, Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, (invited) Sept 2005

    • “Challenging The Generic” Future Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophy, The University of Leeds (invited) 1-2 July 2005

    • “The Art of Memory and Art as Memory” The Interactive Mind, The University of Sussex (invited) July 2005

    • “Attacking the Bounds of Cognition” Workshops on Memory and Embodied Cognition, Macquarie University, Sydney (invited) 29 Nov-3 Dec 2004

    • “Cognitive Norms and External Notations” Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica, Where Is Your Head At?  Vietri Sul Mare 2-3 Oct 2003

    • “What’s Wrong with the Extended Mind?” Mind And Society, Manchester Metropolitan University (invited) 10-12 Sept 2003

    • “Peirce and Wittgenstein on Doubt” The 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg, Austria 3-9 Aug 2003

    • “The Integration of Meaning and Action” Integrational Linguistics and Distributed Cognition, University of Durban, South Africa (invited).17-19 Mar 2003

    • "The Pragmatic Development of Sign Use and the Limits of Object Naturalism" (with D. Hutto), Natural Representations, University of Sydney, Australia 8-10 June 2002

    • “Normativity and the Extended Mind” The Extended Mind: The Very Idea, The University of Hertfordshire 29 Jun-1 July 2001

Conferences and Workshops Organised

• Neuroethics and the Self University of Wollongong 2009

• Embodied Cognition and Skills University of Wollongong 2009

• Narrative and Neural Approaches to the Self Macquarie 2009

• Embodied in the Gong Workshop Wollongong 2008

• The Extended Mind 2: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back in The Head University of Hertfordshire June/July 2006

The Extended Mind: The Very Idea, at the University of Hertfordshire in June 2001

Departmental Visits

• The University of Murcia November 2005

• University of Hertfordshire (Psychology) February 2005

• The University of Sussex, COGS February 2006

• Macquarie University August 2007

Grants Awarded

    • 2008 University Research Committee grant Embodied Expertise Project (see here for details)

    • LTSN project on Progress Files (£3000) 2004

    • LTDU grant to develop CRITThink web-based critical thinking resources (£4,000) 2002

    • British Academy Conference grant £1084 (with Michael Wheeler) 2006

    • Mind Association small conference grant £600 (with Michael Wheeler) 2006

    • Analysis trust conference grant £250 (with Michael Wheeler) 2006

Referee Work

• Cambridge University Press

• Palgrave Macmillan

• Language Sciences

• Philosophical Psychology

External Examiner

    • M(Res) thesis Macquarie University

Current PhD Students

    • Jane Lymer – Phenomenology and Emotion

    • Brys Tanner – Virtue Epistemology

    • Craig Baird – Wittgenstein and Hypnosis

Current Honours Students

    • Dylan Reynolds – Narrative, Self and Extended Mind

    • Maddy Phelan – Narrative Self and Gender

Undergraduate Courses

    • PHIL 107 Values, Self and Knowledge

    • PHIL210 Continental Philosophy

    • PHIL 262 Theory of Knowledge

    • PHIL 288 Philosophy of Mind

    • PHIL 309 Wittgenstein (from 2010)

    • PHIL 314 The Embodied Mind

    • PHIL 411 Honours Seminar

  

                 

Last reviewed: 16 September, 2009