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Department of
Philosophy
101 Manchester Hall
344 Mansfield Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
06269-2054
Phone: (860) 486-4416
Fax: (860) 486-0387
shelly.burelle@uconn.edu
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Curtis VonGunten
office: 134 Manchester
email: firstname[dot]lastname[at]uconn[dot]edu
Interests
Philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind. In particular: concepts
structure, nativism v. concept empiricism, concepts and perception
non-conceptual mental content/representation), knowledge acquisition
enrichment v. conceptual change)); language and thought (much thought
takes place in a natural language); cognitive architecture (massive
modularity v. domain-specific reasoning); commonsense psychology; moral
psychology; animal cognition; perception; emotion; the scope of
anti-representationalism.
Casual philosophical interests: political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics
(in particular, philosophy of music and especially electronic music). I
unabashedly use developments in cognitive science to inform discussion in
these areas.
History
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Akron, 2008
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