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. MACCS is turning into CCD, the ARC Centre of Excellence in
Cognition and its Disorders.
Tel: (61 2) 9850 4132. The
easiest way
to get in touch is to email me.
This website is now *12 years old*. Sorry about all the green
:)
I'm not the LSE economist John
Sutton; nor the philosopher Jonathan Sutton of Auburn
University; nor even the South Sydney Rabbitohs playmaker John
Sutton.
I'm also a member of CAVE
(Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) and CEPET (new Centre for Elite
Performance, Expertise, and Training).
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 and our team;
ii) 'Applying
intelligence to the reflexes: embodied skill and kinesthetic memory,'
with psychologist Doris
McIlwain, neuroanthropologist
Greg Downey
and our team;
iii) 'Distributed cognition and the extended
mind in
early modern
England', history
work with Lyn Tribble
from English at Otago, and in the Conversion
project with Paul
Yachnin
(McGill)
& iv) 'Point of View in Personal Memory: a
philosophical study of perspective in remembering and imagining'
From 2007 to 2010 I was also working in the project '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.
Samplers: The
Extended Mind on The Philosopher's
Zone, ABC
Radio National with Richard Menary and myself, interviewed by Alan
Saunders - direct link to the podcast
mp3
(also see categorized
publications page)
- (2011) Celia
B. Harris,
Paul G. Keil, John
Sutton, Amanda J. Barnier, & Doris
J.F. McIlwain, 'We
Remember, We Forget: collaborative remembering in older couples'.
Discourse
Processes 48 (4), 267-303.
- (2011) John Sutton, Doris McIlwain, Wayne
Christensen,
& Andrew Geeves, 'Applying
Intelligence to the Reflexes: embodied skills and habits between
Dreyfus and Descartes',
JBSP:
Journal
of the British Society for
Phenomenology 42 (1), 2011, 78-103.
- (2010) John Sutton, Celia B. Harris, Paul G. Keil,
&
Amanda J. Barnier, 'The
Psychology of Memory, Extended Cognition, and Socially Distributed
Remembering',
Phenomenology
and the Cognitive Sciences 9 (4), 521-560. DOI:
10.1007/s11097-010-9182-y
- (2009) 'The
Feel of the World: exograms, habits, and the confusion of types of
memory', in Andrew Kania (ed), Memento:
philosophers on film (Routledge, May 2009), 65-86
- (2009) 'Dreaming',
in Paco Calvo and John Symons
(eds), Routledge
Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology (Routledge, 2009),
522-542.
-
(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.
- I'm coeditor of Memory
Studies launched 2008 by Sage (now 4 issues/ year!), issue 4
number 2 now out!!, and a book series Palgrave
Memory Studies. I'm on the editorial board of Palgrave's
New Directions in
Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and 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 5 PhD
students and 2 MPhil students in Cognitive Science, and 1 PhD in Art;
I
am
associate
supervisor for 4 PhD students in Cognitive Science, and for PhD
students
in Philosophy (2), Anthropology, Psychology
(2),
English, Linguistics, & Ancient History, most working roughly
on topics
relating to memory or movement, and joint supervisor
of one
Masters research project in Organizational Psychology. I've been
primary supervisor for 8
completed PhDs &
4
completed
MAs.
Here's
info on all my current and past graduate students and details
of the topics I've supervised. I also supervise Honours theses in
both Philosophy and Psychology.
Some favourite blogs: Greg & team on Neuroanthropology
(now on PLoS blogs, and better than ever!!); Rob
& What Sorts
of People Should There Be?; Art
Politics Philosophy Science at New Apps Blog;
Ken at the Bounds of Cognition;
the Cognition &
Culture
Institute at the IJN;
Mark Rowlands; Lucas
Bietti's Collective Memory
Project; Eric at The
Splintered Mind;
also 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, just missing our 4th straight
premiership
in the
Sydney
Masters (over 40s) comp, after our run of 37 wins
ended :(
Meanwhile check out Samir Chopra's regular
blog for Cricinfo, Different
Strokes, & Babs Oduwole's vlogs on repeatedly failing to Get a Hundred.
MEMORY
DAY 2010 and the
Macquarie MMM-CCC
Coogee workshop on Memory-Media-Movement/
Cognition-Culture-Collaboration
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 31 January 2012.