Alva Noë
Alva Noë is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture. He is writer and a philosopher who works on the nature of mind and human experience.
Noë 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. Noë 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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There's no doubt that addiction is a disease — and that it has a brain component, says blogger Alva Noë. But can we understand addiction in neural terms alone?
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This is a question about consciousness as much as it is about sleep, says philosopher Alva Noë. Are there experiences that don't present themselves to us precisely as experiences "of the world" do?
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It isn't necessarily indifference to the truth to be indifferent to some of the outlandish stuff people say: Maybe it's "post-truth," the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year, says Alva Noë.
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A study released Monday takes a novel approach to fear reduction — one that reduces phobias without the fearful person even knowing it's happening, says commentator Alva Noë.
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We may be addicted to sugar as a culture, writes Alva Noë, but not in the way some of us are addicted to drugs like cocaine or heroin: The problem is a collective one.
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Blogger Alva Noë 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.
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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 Noë.
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What is the connection trees have to each other? Alva Noë discusses a new book about trees, what they know, what they need and how they act.
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Alva Noë takes a look at the ways neuroscience is beginning to shed light on how we are able, as we are, to discern flavor.
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Theo Jansen's strandbeests command our attention in the way that only life can or, rather, an imagined fantasy of whole races of creatures come into being and now gone extinct, says Alva Noë.