Mark Fortney

Assistant Professor

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Teaching

Fall 2023
PHIL 2490
PHIL 3445/5445

Winter 2024
PHIL 2130
PHIL 2610

Office Hours


Email: mark.fortney@dal.ca
Research Topics:
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Education:
 

PhD in Philosophy (2017) University of Toronto

BA in Cognitive Science (2010) Carleton University 

Publications:

 

2021. "Buddhaghosa, James, and Thompson on Conscious Flow". Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 7 (4), 569-581. 

2021. "Evans on intellectual attention and memory demonstratives". Analytic Philosophy, 63: 118-130.

2020. "Directing internal attention towards ongoing thought". Consciousness and Cognition, 85.

2020. "Unity in the Scientific Study of Intellectual Attention". Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50(4): 444-459.

2020. "Universal Hinges and the Bounds of Sense". Philosophia, 48:967-969.

2019. "Conceptualizing intellectual attention". Theory & Psychology, 29(6): 775-788.

2018. "The Centre and Periphery of Conscious Thought". Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25 3-4): 112-136.