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Owen J. Flanagan

Author profile

born

January 01, 1949 in The United States

gender

male

website

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/ojf

genre

Philosophy, Science

influences

Aristotle, Wilfrid Sellars, Charles Darwin, Patricia Churchland

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Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (born 1949) is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and Hindu conceptions of the self.

Flanagan earned his Ph.D from Boston University and his Bachelor of arts degree from Fordham University.

Flanagan has written extensively on consciousness. He has been realistic about the difficulty of consciousness as a scientific and philosophical problem, but optimistic about the chance of solving the problem. One of the problems in a study of consciousness is the hidden way in which conscious states are d...more

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Books by Owen J. Flanagan

Average rating: 3.55 · 115 ratings · 28 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Problem Of The Soul Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile Them 3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World 3.40 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Science of the Mind, 2nd Edition 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Consciousness Reconsidered 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Science Of The Mind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Science of the Mind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Science of the Mind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984	My rating: