JOHN SUTTON's PAGE
My papers, (+ new categorized papers page), my talks, & my research
Interdisciplinary Study 
of Memory and
of Dreams
ASCS09: 9th conference of the Australasian Society for
Cognitive Science (30 Sept - 2 Oct)

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Philosophy and Memory Traces
(now in paperback!)
My graduate students
Site Index 

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.

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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.


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Last updated 10 June 2009.