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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

• Cognitive Integration: Mind and Cognition Unbounded. Palgrave Macmillan 2007.

• The Philosophy of Cognition Acumen/Queen’s University Press 2009

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

• Richard Menary, “intentionality cognitive integration and the continuity thesis” in Topoi 28: 31-43 March 2009.

• Richard Menary, “Embodied Narratives” in the Journal of Consciousness studies Vol. 15, No.6, June 2008.

• Richard Menary, “Writing as thinking” in Language Sciences 29: 621-632 September 2007.

• Richard Menary, “Attacking the bounds of cognition” in Philosophical Psychology Vol. 19, No. 3, June 2006, pp. 329–344

• Richard Menary, "Wittgenstein and Peirce on Doubt" in vol. XI of the Contributions of the ALWS, edited by Winfried Löffler & Paul Weingartner. 2003

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