Torin Alter
Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Undergraduate Advisor
- talter@ua.edu
- ten Hoor Hall 327
- Curriculum Vitae
Education
- PhD, UCLA, 1995
- MA, UCLA, 1987
- BA, Hampshire College, 1985
About
Dr. Alter specializes in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, especially consciousness and the mind-body problem.
Spring 2024 Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday 9:00am-9:50am and by appointment
Selected Publications
- The Matter of Consciousness: From the Knowledge Argument to Russellian Monism. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Physicalism, supervenience, and monism (co-written with Robert J. Howell). Forthcoming in Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03965-8.
- Russellian monism and structuralism about physics (co-written with Derk Pereboom), Erkenntnis 88, 2023: 1409-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-021-00408-7
- “Russellian monism and mental causation” (co-written with Sam Coleman). Nous 55 (2), June 2021: 409-25 10.1111/nous.12318.
- “The structure and dynamics argument.” Nous 50 (4), December 2016: 794-815 10.1111/nous.12134
- Consciousness in the Physical World: Perspectives on Russellian Monism (co-edited with Yujin Nagasawa). New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- “Social Externalism and the Knowledge Argument.” Mind 122 (2013): 481-96.
- The God Dialogues: A Philosophical Journey (co-written with Robert J. Howell). New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- A Dialogue on Consciousness (co-written with Robert J. Howell). New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.