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Department of Philosophy

Mitch Parsell

BA Tas., PhD Tas.
Mitch was awarded his PhD from the University of Tasmania. He is an active member of the World Institute for Nonviolence and Reconciliation and has two cats (Newton and Swoosh).

Mitch's main areas of research are the philosophy of mind (cognitive science, philosophical psychology, etc.) and the ethics of information (with a particular interest in the Internet).

He is presently working on an online database of Philosophy and Psychopathology, and is Coordinator of the department's Open Universities Australia offerings.

Teaching

Semester 1, 2007

PHIL262 Body and Mind >> unit website

Past Courses
PHIL137 Critical Thinking
PHIL242 Biology, Mind and Culture
PHIL256 Knowledge and Reality
PHIL363 Cognitive Science

Selected publications

Forthcoming. With J. Duke-Yonge. Virtual Communities of Enquiry. E-Learning.
>> pre-print (pdf)

2006. With C. Townley. Cyber Disobedience: Gandhian Cyberpunks. SCAN 3(3): Special Edition on Technological In(ter)ventions.
>> proceed to article

2006. The Cognitive Costs of Extending an Evolutionary Mind into the Environment. Cognitive Processing 7(1): 3-10.
>> pre-print (pdf) | published version via Springer | PubMed

2005. Content-Sensitive Inference, Modularity and the Assumption of Formal Processing. Philosophical Psychology 18(1): 45-58.
>> pre-print (pdf) | published version via ingentaconnect

2005. With C. Townley. The Cost of a Common Good: Putting a Price on Spam. Philosophy and the Contemporary World 12(2): 68-75.
>> pre-print (pdf)

2004. With C. Townley. Technology and Academic Virtue: Student Plagiarism Through the Looking Glass. Ethics and Information Technology 6(4): 271-277.
>> pre-print (pdf) | published version via Springer

2000. With P. Dowe. Jung's Concept of 'Coincidence.' Facta Philosophica 2: 203-211.

>> More of Mitch's papers can be downloaded from the preprints page

Current research

Mitch is currently working on the foundations of cognitive science (especially connectionist and dynamical approaches to cognition), ethical issue relating to information and communications technology, the creation of online communities of enquiry, and the relationship between formal systems and rationality.

Contact details

Location: Building W6A Room 722
Phone: (61 2) 9850 8826
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: mparsell@scmp.mq.edu.au
Office hours: Wednesday and Thursday 2:00-3:00 or by (email) appointment

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