CURRICULUM VITAE

 

G. Lynn Stephens

 

1.            Education

 

Ph. D. (Philosophy) University of Massachusetts, 1978

M. A.  (Philosophy) University of Massachusetts, 1977

B. A .  (Philosophy) Harvard University, 1973

 

2.            Teaching Experience                

 

Professor of Philosophy

University of Alabama at Birmingham, since 1986.

 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1979-1986.

 

Visiting Assistant Professor of  Philosophy

University of  Notre Dame, 1977-1979.

 

 

3.         Publications

Books:

         When Self Consciousness Breaks,  MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.  Co-authored with George Graham.

 

Philosophical  Psychopathology,  MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994.  Co-edited with George Graham.

 

Seven Dilemmas in World Religions, Paragon House, New York, 1994.  Co-authored with Gregory Pence.

 

 

Papers:

 

         “Mind, Brain, and Meaning”, Inquiry, Vol.44, No.2, June 2001,

pp. 227-237.

 

         “Psychopathology, Freedom, and the Experience of Externality”, with George Graham, Philosophical Topics, vol. 24, no. 2, Fall 1998: pp 159-182.

 

         "Descartes and the Problem of Our Knowledge of the External World", chapter in Philosophy Then and Now, edited by N. S. Arnold, T. M. Benditt, and G. Graham:  Blackwell, 1998, PP 237-260.

 

         “Mind and Mine”, with George Graham, in Philosophical Psychopathology, 1994.

 

         “Self-Consciousness, Mental Agency, and the Clinical Psychopathology of Thought-Insertion”, with George Graham, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology,  Vol.1, 1994.

 

         “Voices and Selves”, with George Graham, in Philosophical, Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification, J. Sadder, M. Schwartz, and O. Wiggins, editors.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

 

         “Unconsciousness Sensations”, Topoi, Vol 7, No. 1, 1988.

 

         “Kantian Noumena and Peircian Noumena”, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Kant Congress, 1985, ed. G. Funke and T. Seebohm, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc., 1988.

 

         “Minding Your P’s and Q’s: Pain and Sensible Qualities”, Nous, Vol XXI, No. 3, 1987, with George Graham.

 

         “Are Qualia a Pain in the Neck for Functionalists?” with George Graham, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol XXII, No. 1, 1985.

 

         “The Myths of Mental Illness:  A Philosopher Examines Theories of Human Behavior”, Family Medicine:  Journal of the Society of Teachers of  Family Medicine, Vol. XVII, No. 5, 1985.

 

         “Noumena Qualia:  C. S. Peirce on Our Epistemic Access to Feelings”,  Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. XXI, No. 1, 1985.

        

         “Pain and Strong Cognitivism”, with George Graham, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Rochester, New York, 1983.

 

         “Cognition and Emotion in Peirce’s Theory of Mental Activity”, Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1981.

 

         “Peirce on Psychological Self-Knowledge”, Translations of the C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1980.

 

         “Medical Ethics”, with G. Gayle Stephens, M.D., in Family Practice, second edition, W. B. Saunders, New York, 1978.

 

         “Transparency and Modality” with Herbert Heidelberger, Philosophy Phenomenological Research, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4, 1978.

 

Comments:

 

         “Thought Insertion and Subjectivity”, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and

Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2000, pp 203-206.

 

         “Defining Delusion”, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 25.

 

         Commentary on “Free Will In Light of Neuropsychiatry”, Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 3:2 (1996)  pp 97-98.

 

         “Ultimate Differences:  Commentary on J. A. Gray’s “The Contents of Consciousness”, with George Graham, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18:4 (1995) pp 698-699.

 

         Commentary on “Kant, Thought,  Insertion, and Mental Unity”, with George Graham, Philosophy, Psychiatry, amd Psychology, Vol. 1.2, 1994.

 

 

Reviews:

 

         Review of Ian Hacking’s Rewriting the Soul:  Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory, in Philosophy of Science, vol. 64,  no.1, March 1997, pp 185-187.

 

         Review of Owen Flanagan’s Consciousness Reconsidered, and Robert Kirk’s Raw Feeling”, in The Philosophical Quarterly, (1996)  pp 417-421.

 

         Review of Stephen Braude’s First Person Plural: 

             Multiple Personality and Philosophy of Mind, with George Graham, Ethics 105  (1995) pp 655-657.

 

         “Where Are Colors?”  review of C. L. Hardin’s Color for Philosophers and D. R. Hilbert’s Color and Color Perception, Philosophy and Behavior, 19.2, 1991.

 

         Review of Richards McDonough’s The Argument of the Tractatus, Nous, Vol XXIV, No. 3, 1990.

 

         “Does Inner Sense Make Sense”, review of D. M. Armstrong’s and N. Malcolm’s Consciousness and Causality, in Behaviorism, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1987.

 

         Review of John Smith’s Reason and Purpose, Nous, Vol. XXI No. 4, 1987.

 

         Review of Robert Almeder’s The Philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Nous, Vol. XVII, No. 4, November, 1983.