Torin Alter
- Office: Room 325 ten Hoor Hall
- Spring 2008 Office Hours: Fridays, 12 -- 2
- Phone: (205) 348-1908
- Fax: (205) 348-7904
- Email: talter@ua.edu
- Website: http://www.as.ua.edu/philos/talter/
Associate Professor, joined the Department in 1995 (Ph.D. from UCLA). Dr. Alter specializes in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, with a special interest in consciousness and the mind-body problem. He is co-editor (with Sven Walter) of Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism, Oxford University Press, 2007. His recent papers include "Phenomenal Knowledge Without Experience," forthcoming in The Case for Qualia, E. Wright (ed.), MIT Press; "On the conditional analysis of phenomenal concepts," forthcoming in Philosophical Studies; and "Does representationalism undermine the knowledge argument?" in the Phenomenal Concepts collection. His website is located at http://www.as.ua.edu/philos/talter.