Alva No毛
is a contributor to the NPR blog . He is writer and a philosopher who works on the nature of mind and human experience.
No毛 received his PhD from Harvard in 1995 and is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. He previously was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been philosopher-in-residence with The Forsythe Company and has recently begun a performative-lecture collaboration with Deborah Hay. No毛 is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.
He is the author of Action in Perception (MIT Press, 2004); Out of Our Heads (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009); and most recently, Varieties of Presence(Harvard University Press, 2012). He is now at work on a book about art and human nature.
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Blogger Alva No毛 talks with a dog trainer who says the need to give shelters, handlers and adopters the resources required to keep dogs and people supported and safe is critical in the process. -
It's hard to disprove a falsehood when it seems to fit so seamlessly with other true, if poorly understood, propositions 鈥� and that's what's going on here, it would seem, says Alva No毛. -
The newer, Internet-social-media-sense memes are in the same vein as those some scholars defined years ago, says Alva Noe. -
There's no doubt that addiction is a disease 鈥� and that it has a brain component, says blogger Alva No毛. But can we understand addiction in neural terms alone? -
The American Academy of Pediatrics has released new guidelines for young kids' screen time. What's key is that it should include parents 鈥� and be free of distracting bells and whistles, says Alva No毛. -
Blogger Alva No毛 looks at new research showing apes understand what we think: They are able to differentiate how someone thinks something to be from how it actually is. -
As one of the world's leading developmental psychologists, Alison Gopnik is in a position to state with authority that no one knows what's best when it comes to raising kids, says blogger Alva No毛. -
It's hard to bring science to the public. The subtleties of research are often lost in translation when they surface in the news. Commentator Alva No毛 wonders why. -
In a recent essay, David Graeber develops a playful panpsychism according to which play is the organizing principle of reality. Alva No毛 suggests, more darkly, that it is work that organizes us all. -
Sometimes a fake cigarette is real. Commentator Alva No毛 on why the debate over banning electronic cigarettes turns more on the use of symbols than it does on the facts.