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John Bickle
Ph.D., 1989, University of California, Irvine
Curriculum vitaeemail: bicklejw@email.uc.edu
Department of Philosophy
University of Cincinnati
P. O. Box 210374
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374
on leave 2006-2007
Bickle will spend the year in residence at Alcino Silva’s new lab at the National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, MD. Bickle plans to pursue experimental research on the molecular mechanisms of social recognition memory and "remote" memory, and with Silva will co-author a book on intimology, the scientific study of science itself, using case studies drawn primarily from the hot new area of ‘molecular and cellular cognition’ in neuroscienceAreas of Specialization
Bickle works in philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of science, and cellular mechanisms of cognition and consciousness. He is noted for his "new wave reductionism" presented in his 1998 MIT Press book, Psychoneural Reduction: The New Wave. His second book, Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account, published in June 2003 by Kluwer Academic Publishers, brings recent research from "molecular and cellular cognition" to the attention of cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind and science. He is also co-author of the 5th edition of Understanding Scientific Reasoning (with Ronald N. Giere and Robert Mauldin). Bickle also edits an annual special issue of the journal Synthese on philosophy and neuroscience.
Bickle is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Professor in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. He is the founding editor of the Studies in Brain and Mind Book Series, from Springer Publishers.
John Bickle is the U.S. Director of Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science, an annual Fall semester study abroad program for undergraduates. For more information, click on the BSCS logo.
Books
Selected Articles
"There’s a New Kid in Town: Compuational Cognitive Science, Meet Molecular and Cellular Cognition." Forthcoming 2006 in D. Dedrick and L. Trick (eds) Cognition, Computation, and Pylyshyn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
"Reduction(ism)." Forthcoming 2006 in J. Prinz (ed.), Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Who Says You Can’t Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness?" Forthcoming 2006 in M. Schouten and H. de Jong (eds.), Rethinking Reduction: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Mind and Brain. Blackwell Publishing.
"Molecular Neuroscience to My Rescue (Again): A Reply to de Jong and Schouten." Philosophical Psychology 18/4 (2005): 487-493.
"Ruthless Reductionism in Recent Neuroscience."IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 36 (2006), 134-140.
"Reducing Mind to Molecular Pathways: Explicating the Reductionism Implicit in Current Mainstream Neuroscience." Forthcoming 2006 in Synthese.
"Neuroscience." In Donald M. Borchert (Editor-in-Chief), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition. Macmillan Reference USA (2005).
"Philosophy of Neuroscience" (updated January 2006, co-authors Peter Mandik and Anthony Landreth). In E, Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"Multiple Realizability" (updated July 2006). In E. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
