PETER SCHULTE
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I'm a philosopher and I currently hold a lecturer position at the University of Zurich. I'm working on diverse topics in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in metaphysics and in the philosophy of language.
You can download my CV here (in German; latest update 12/2018).
Profiles on academia.edu, google scholar and philpapers

News

PAPER: Great news! My paper "The Nature of Perceptual Constancies" has been accepted by Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Online first version here. 

WORKSHOP: The workshop "What the Nose tells the Brain: Olfaction and Mental Representation" that I am co-organizing with Thomas Park has been postponed to November 13-14, 2020. [3/2020]

TALKS: I'll be giving a talk entitled "GSE Functions and Teleosemantics" at the workshop Biological Functions: From Zebra Stripes to Synapses in Bielefeld on February 1, 2020, and another talk, "Where does Representation Begin? Varitel Semantics and the Status Question" at the workshop Representation in Cognitive Science in Bochum on February 3, 2020. After that, I will head to Spain to talk about "Smelling How the World Is: The Representational Nature of Olfactory Experience" on February 14, 2020, at the University of Valencia. [1/2020]

PAPERS: This year, I have also published some papers in German: "Teleosemantik weitergedacht" (together with Fabian Hundertmark) in Information Philophie (a review article on recent work in teleosemantics), "
Willensfreiheit als philosophisches Problem" in the volume Willensfreiheit, edited by Dagmar Kiesel and Cleophea Ferrari (an article on free will), and „Von Glückspilzen und Unglücksraben: Eine Untersuchung logisch-normativer Theodizeeprobleme“, in the volume  Glaube und Rationalität: Gibt es gute Gründe für den (A)theismus?, edited by Romy Jaster and me (an article on the problem of evil). [10/2019]

TALK: I will be giving a talk entitled "Where does Mind begin? - Perceptual Representation, Perceptual Constancy and the Case for Substantive Gradualism" at the Workshop Animal Minds at the University of Zürich, on September 28, 2019. [08/2019]

IN OTHER NEWS: I'm now officially an Associate Member of the ZiF Research Group "Cognitive Behavior of Humans, Animals, and Machines: Situation Model Perspectives". Website:
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/FG/2019Behavior/index.html  [05/2019]

PAPER: My paper "Challenging Liberal Representationalism: A Reply to Artiga" has been accepted by Dialectica. [05/2019]

TALK: I will be giving a talk entitled "Borderlands of the Mind: Plants as Representational Systems?" at Ume
å University, Sweden, on May 21, 2019.

TALK: I'm giving a talk entitled "The Nature of Perceptual Constancies" in the COBHAM Colloquium at the CITEC Bielefeld on May 10, 2019. [04/2019]

TALK: I will be giving a talk entitled "Intentional Explanations: Simply Autonomous" at the UB Barcelona on January 23, 2019 (more details here). [10/2018]

PAPER: My paper "Grounding Nominalism" has been accepted by the Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Online first version here. [8/2018]

PAPER: My new paper, "Why Mental Content is Not Like Water: Reconsidering the Reductive Claims of Teleosemantics", has been accepted by Synthese. Online first version: doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1808-6 [6/2018]

TALKS: In September 2018, I will be present a paper entitled "Smelling How the World Is: Do Olfactory Experiences Represent?" at the GAP.10 in Cologne and at the ESPP in Rijeka, Croatia, and a paper entitled "No Representation without Explanation: Representational Status and the Explanation of Behavior" at the conference The Future of Teleosemantics (Website) in Bielefeld [6/2018]

PAPER: My new paper, "Naturalizing the Content of Desire", has been accepted by Philosophical Studies. Online first version:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-1010-6 [10/2017]

TALK: On October 30th, 2017, I will be giving a presentation on "Informational Teleosemantics and the Distality Problem" at Duke University (Durham, USA). [9/2017]

PAPER: A new paper, "Perceiving the World Outside", is coming out in The  Philosophical Quarterly. Online first version: https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqx052 [9/2017]
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