William Hirstein, Professor of Philosophy
- Office: Hammerschmidt Chapel
- Room: 002
- Phone: (630) 617-3582
- email: williamh[at]elmhurst.edu
Research: My general approach is to apply the findings emerging from today's neurosciences, especially cognitive neuropsychology, to classical philosophical problems.
Books:
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Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology and Philosophy
Table of Contents
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Cognitive Science: An Introduction to Mind and Brain
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Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation
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On the Churchlands
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On Searle
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Selected Articles:
The Perception of Persons (2009) The Modern Schoolman, 86 (2-3).
Introduction: What is Confabulation? (2009) In Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-14.
He is Not My Father, and That is Not My Arm: Accounting for Misidentifications of People and Limbs (2009) William Hirstein and V. S. Ramachandran, In Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, ed. W. Hirstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 111-140.
Confabulation (2009) In The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, eds. Patrick Wilken, Axel Cleermans and Timothy Bayne, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 174-177.
The Name and Nature of Confabulation (2009) In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, eds. Paco Calvo and John Symons, New York: Routledge Publishing, 647-658.
Confabulations about People and Their Limbs, Present or Absent (2009) In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, ed. John Bickle, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 474-512.
Aesthetics and the Experience of Beauty (2009) William Hirstein and Melinda Campbell. In The Encyclopedia of Consciousness, ed. William P. Banks. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1-7.
Memory: Errors, Constructive Processes, and Conscious Retrieval (2009) In The Encyclopedia of Consciousness, ed. William P. Banks. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 234-239.
Mindmelding: Connected Brains and the Problem of Consciousness (2008) Mens Sana Monographs 6(1): 110-130.
Situational Therapy for Wernicke's Aphasia (2006) Eric Lewin Altschuler, Alicia Multari, William Hirstein, V.S. Ramachandran. Medical Hypotheses 67(4): 713-716.
Autonomic Responses of Autistic Children to Objects and People (2001) William Hirstein, Portia Iversen, and V.S. Ramachandran. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 268: 1883-1888.
The Perception of Phantom Limbs (1998) V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein. Brain 121(9):1603-1630.
The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience (1999)V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein. The Journal of Consciousness Studies 6:15-41.
Self-Deception and Confabulation (2000) Philosophy of Science, 67(Proceedings): 418-429.
Capgras Syndrome: A Novel Probe for Understanding the Neural Representation of the Identity and Familiarity of Persons (1997) William Hirstein and V.S. Ramachandran. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 264: 437-444.
Three Laws of Qualia: Clues From Neurology About the Biological Functions of Consciousness and Qualia (1997) V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein. Journal of Consciousness Studies 4: 429-457.