JOHN SUTTON's PAGE
I work in MACCS,
the Macquarie Centre for
Cognitive Science,
at Macquarie University,
Sydney, after some years in the
Philosophy Department.
Tel: (61 2) 9850 4132. The
easiest way
to get in touch is to email me.
I'm organizing ASCS09:
9th conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive
Science (30 Sept - 2 Oct) at Macquarie. Submit an abstract! Come
along!
My
research
is focussed on the philosophy and sciences of memory,
and covers two main areas: philosophy of psychology/ cognitive science,
and history of science.
My current projects
are i) 'From
autobiographical memory to collective memory: an interdisciplinary
study of individual and group cognition', with Amanda
Barnier;
ii) 'Applying
intelligence to the reflexes: embodied skill and kinesthetic memory,'
with psychologist Doris
McIlwain;
iii) 'Distributed cognition and the extended mind in
early modern
England', history
work with Lyn Tribble
from the Dept of English at Otago;
& iv) 'From the Neuron to the Self: human nature
and
the new cognitive neurosciences', with Amanda Barnier,
Tim Bayne, Max
Coltheart, Wayne Christensen, Stephen
Crain, Robyn Langdon,
Catriona
Mackenzie, and Peter
Menzies (Macquarie University Research Innovation
Fund Grant, 2007-2010).
This work springs
from research done in the project 'Interdisciplinarity
in the sciences of memory: cognition, culture, and
complexity'. I'm
also interested
in embodiment &
habit; dreaming; the extended mind & distributed
cognition; cognition in small groups;
connectionism; cognition & culture; early
modern philosophy; Descartes; & animal spirits.
Some recent writings (also see new categorized
publications page)
- John Sutton, 'The
Feel of the World: exograms, habits, and the confusion of types of
memory', in Andrew Kania (ed), Philosophers
on Memento
(Routledge, in press), 65-86.
- (2009) 'Dreaming',
in Paco Calvo and John Symons
(eds), Routledge
Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology (Routledge, 2009),
522-542.
- (2008) 'Material
Agency, Skills, and History: distributed cognition and the archaeology
of memory',
in Lambros
Malafouris & Carl Knappett (eds),
Material
Agency: towards a non-anthropocentric approach (Springer),
37-55.
-
(2007) 'Batting,
Habit, and Memory: the embodied mind and the nature of skill',
in special issue on cricket and philosophy: Sport in
Society 10 (5)
My
book,
Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to connectionism (1998)
has been reissued in paperback
by Cambridge
UP - see the table
of contents and sample
extract
on the CUP website, and more details here;
essays on Descartes'
Natural Philosophy
which I edited with Stephen Gaukroger and John Schuster was
published
in 2000.
For
a full list of publications and preprint versions of many papers
see my publications
page.
New. Here is a categorized
publications page with my writings categorized into overlapping
research areas.
- I'm coeditor of a new
interdisciplinary journal Memory
Studies launched 2008 by Sage, issue
2
number 1 now out!! and of a new Palgrave book series on memory.
- I'm on the editorial boards of the journals Philosophical
Psychology; Neuroethics;
Scan: journal of
media arts culture; and the Fibreculture
Journal.
I am always
interested in hearing from potential PhD or Masters
students. At present I am primary supervisor for 2 PhD
students in Cognitive Science; I am
associate
supervisor for
1 PhD student in
Anthropology, 3 PhD students in Cognitive Science, 2 PhD students in
Philosophy, 1 PhD student in
Psychology, 1 PhD student in Art, & 1 PhD student in
Linguistics, most of them working roughly on topics
relating to memory or movement. In 2008, 4 of my PhD students completed
their theses: in all, I've been
primary supervisor for
six completed PhDs & four
completed
MAs. Here's
info on all my current and past graduate students and
Honours students. Here are details
of the topics I've supervised.
This year I'm also supervising two undergrad Honours research theses,
one in Philosophy on mental representation, one in Psych on transactive
memory and organizations.
Some favourite blogs: Greg & team on Neuroanthropology; Rob
& What Sorts
of People Should There Be?; the Cognition & Culture
Institute at the IJN; Mark Rowlands;
also Kristine at Serendipities;
Kate at Mnemosynosis;
Philosophy of Brains; Philosophy of Sport;
Mixing Memory;
& Neurophilosophy.
Ghost
in the Machine, a show about minds,
bodies, machines, and
memory, was on Eastside Radio
89.7FM in Sydney, until our last show on Thursday 27 January 2005.
Instead listen to All in the
Mind
and The Philosopher's
Zone on ABC
Radio National.
And here is the mighty Macquarie
University
Cricket Club, premiers 3rd-time-running in the
Sydney
Masters (over 40s) comp with a run of 31 consecutive
wins since 19 Feb 2006.
Meanwhile check out Samir Chopra's regular
blog for Cricinfo, Different
Strokes, & Babs Oduwole's vlogs on repeatedly failing to Get a Hundred.
John Sutton
MACCS (Macquarie
Centre for
Cognitive Science), (room C5C 423)
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
Tel. (61) 2 9850
4132
Australia
Or just email me.
Site
Index
Last updated 10 June 2009.