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- Faculty, University of Toronto
- PhD, Stanford University, 1976.
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About me
I am currently a (senior) Canada Research Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. My most active interests are in philosophy of mind, especially perception, and philosophy of biology. I wrote a book called Seeing, Doing, and Knowing (OUP, 2005) in which I dealt with a wide range of contemporary philosophical issues in perception, treating these in an empirically sensitive way. In philosophy of biology, I have written about teleology, natural selection, and species. Before these rather contemporary concerns occupied me completely, I wrote about ancient philosophy.
My works
- M. Matthen & D. Stokes (forthcoming). Perception and Its Modalities.
- Mohan Matthen (forthcoming). How To Be Sure: Sensory Exploration and Empirical Certainty. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
- Mohan Matthen (forthcoming). Millikan's Historical Kinds. In Justine Kingsbury, Dan Ryder & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Ruth Millikan and her Critics.
- Mohan Matthen (forthcoming). Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception.
- Mohan Matthen (forthcoming). Visual Demonstration. In Athanasios Raftopoulos (ed.), Perception, Realism, and The Problem of Reference. Cambridge University Press.
- D. Stokes, S. Biggs & M. Matthen (forthcoming). Perception and Its Modalities. Oxford University Press.
- Mohan Matthen (2011). Art, Sexual Selection, Group Selection (Critical Notice of Denis Dutton, The Art Instinct). Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (2):337-356.
- Mohan Matthen (2011). Review of Daniel W. McShea and Robert N. Brandon, Biology's First Law. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1).
- Jonathan D. Cohen & Mohan Matthen (2010). Color Ontology and Color Science. Mit Press.
- Jonathan Cohen & Mohan Matthen (2010). Introduction. In Jonathan D. Cohen & Mohan Matthen (eds.), Color Ontology and Color Science. Mit Press.
- Mohan Matthen (2010). On the Diversity of Auditory Objects. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (1):63-89.
- Mohan Matthen (2010). How Things Look (And What Things Look That Way). In Bence Nanay (ed.), Perceiving the World. Oxford University Press.
- Mohan Matthen (2010). Is Memory Preservation? Philosophical Studies 148 (1):3-14.
- Mohan Matthen (2010). Color Experience: A Semantic Theory. In Jonathan Cohen & Mohan Matthen (eds.), Color Ontology and Color Science. MIT Press.
- Mohan Matthen (2010). Two Visual Systems and the Feeling of Presence. In Nivedita Gangopadhyay, Michael Madary & Finn Spicer (eds.), Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems. Oxford University Press.
- Mohan Matthen (2010). What is Drift? A Response to Millstein, Skipper, and Dietrich. Philosophy and Theory in Biology 2.
- Mohan Matthen (2009). Chicken, Eggs, and Speciation. Noûs 43 (1):94-115.
- Mohan Matthen (2009). Drift and “Statistically Abstractive Explanation”. Philosophy of Science 76 (4):464-487.
- Mohan Matthen (2009). Truly Blue: An Adverbial Aspect of Perceptual Representation. Analysis 69 (1):48-54.
- Mohan Matthen (2009). Why Does Earth Move to the Center? An Examination of Some Explanatory Strategies in Aristotle's Cosmology. In Alan C. Bowen & Christian Wildberg (eds.), New Perspectives on Aristotle's De Caelo. Brill.
- Mohan Matthen & André Ariew (2009). Selection and Causation. Philosophy of Science 76 (2):201-224.
- Mohan Matthen & André Ariew (2009). Selection and Causation. Philosophy of Science 76 (2):201-224.
- Vincent Bergeron & Mohan Matthen (2008). Assembling the Emotions. In Luc Faucher & Christine Tappolet (eds.), The Modularity of Emotions. University of Calgary Press.
- Mohan Matthen (2008). Review of Tyler Burge,, Foundations of Mind: Philosophical Essays, Volume 2. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3).
- Mohan Matthen (2008). Reply to Egan and Clark. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2):415–421.
- Mohan Matthen (2008). Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Précis. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2):392–399.
- Mohan Matthen (2007). Defining Vision: What Homology Thinking Contributes. Biology and Philosophy 22 (5).
- Mohan Matthen & Christopher Stephens (2007). Philosophy of Biology. Elsevier.
- Mohan Matthen (2006). Review: Action in Perception. [REVIEW] Mind 115 (460):1160-1166.
- Mohan P. Matthen (2006). On Visual Experience of Objects: Comments on John Campbell's Reference and Consciousness. Philosophical Studies 127 (2):195-220.
- Mohan P. Matthen (2006). Teleosemantics and the Consumer. In Graham F. Macdonald & David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics. Oxford University Press.
- Marc Ereshefsky & Mohan Matthen (2005). Taxonomy, Polymorphism, and History: An Introduction to Population Structure Theory. Philosophy of Science 72 (1):1-21.
- Mohan Matthen (2005). Is Color Perception Really Categorical? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4):504-505.
- Mohan Matthen (2005). Review of Philip Kitcher, In Mendel's Mirror. [REVIEW] Journal of Philosophy 102 (4).
- Mohan Matthen (2005). Visual Concepts. Philosophical Topics 33 (1):207-233.
- Mohan P. Matthen (2005). Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception. Oxford University Press.
- Mohan Matthen & Andre Ariew (2005). How to Understand Casual Relations in Natural Selection: Reply to Rosenberg and Bouchard. Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3).
- Mohan Matthen & André Ariew (2005). How to Understand Casual Relations in Natural Selection: Reply to Rosenberg and Bouchard. Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3).
- Mohan P. Matthen (2004). Features, Places, and Things: Reflections on Austen Clark's Theory of Sentience. Philosophical Psychology 17 (4):497-518.
- Mohan Matthen (2003). Color Nominalism, Pluralistic Realism, and Color Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1):39-40.
- Mohan Matthen (2003). Is Sex Really Necessary? And Other Questions for Lewens. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54 (2):297-308.
- Mohan Matthen (2003). Review of Benjamin Morison, On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (2).
- Mohan Matthen (2002). Origins Are Not Essences in Evolutionary Systematics. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (2):167 - 181.
- Mohan P. Matthen (2002). Human Rationality and the Unique Origin Constraint. In André Ariew (ed.), Functions. Oxford University Press.
- Mohan Matthen & André Ariew (2002). Two Ways of Thinking About Fitness and Natural Selection. Journal of Philosophy 99 (2):55-83.
- Mohan Matthen (2001). How (and Why) Darwinian Selection Restricts Environmental Feedback. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (3):545-545.
- Mohan Matthen (2001). Holistic Presuppositions of Aristotle's Cosmology. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 20:171-199.
- Mohan P. Matthen (2001). Our Knowledge of Colour. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (Supplement).
- Mohan P. Matthen (2001). What Colors? Whose Colors? Consciousness and Cognition 10 (1):117-124.
- Mohan Matthen (2000). What is a Hand? What is a Mind? Revue Internationale de Philosophie (214):653-672.
- M. Matthen (1999). Evolution, Wisconsin Style: Selection and the Explanation of Individual Traits. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1):143-150.
- Mohan P. Matthen (1999). The Disunity of Color. Philosophical Review 108 (1):47-84.
- Mohan Matthen (1998). Biological Universals and the Nature of Fear. Journal of Philosophy 95 (3):105-132.
- Mohan P. Matthen (1997). Teleology and the Product Analogy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1):21 – 37.
- Mohan Matthen & R. J. Hankinson (1993). Aristotle's Universe: Its Form and Matter. Synthese 96 (3):417 - 435.
- Mohan Matthen (1991). Naturalism and Teleology. Journal of Philosophy 88 (11):656-657.
- Mohan Matthen (1991). What Sort of Science Is Evolutionary Biology? Dialogue 30 (1-2):129-.
- Mohan Matthen (1989). The Four Causes in Aristotle's Embryology. Apeiron 22 (4):159 - 179.
- Mohan P. Matthen (1989). Intensionality and Perception: A Reply to Rosenberg. Journal of Philosophy 86 (December):727-733.
- Mohan Matthen (1988). Empiricism and Ontology in Ancient Medicine. Apeiron 21 (2):99 - 121.
- Mohan P. Matthen (1988). Biological Functions and Perceptual Content. Journal of Philosophy 85 (January):5-27.
- Mohan Matthen (1987). Aristotle Today.
- Mohan Matthen (1986). A Note on Parmenides' Denial of Past and Future. Dialogue 25 (03):553-.
- Mohan Matthen (1985). Perception, Relativism, and Truth: Reflections on Plato's Theaetetus 152–160. Dialogue 24 (01):33-.
- Mohan Matthen (1984). Forms and Participants in Plato's Phaedo. Noûs 18 (2):281-297.
- Mohan Matthen (1984). Ostension, Names and Natural Kind Terms. Dialogue 23 (01):44-58.
- Mohan Matthen (1984). On the Difference Between Non-Connoting Terms and Rigid Designators: A Reply to Bradley. Dialogue 23 (01):79-83.
- Mohan Matthen (1984). Relationality in Plato's Metaphysics: Reply to McPherran. Phronesis 29 (3):304-312.
- Mohan Matthen & Edwin Levy (1984). Teleology, Error, and the Human Immune System. Journal of Philosophy 81 (7):351-372.
- Mohan Matthen (1983). Greek Ontology and the 'Is' of Truth. Phronesis 28 (2):113 - 135.
- Mohan Matthen (1982). Plato's Treatment of Relational Statements in the Phaedo. Phronesis 27 (1):90-100.
- Mohan Matthen (1978). The Categories and Aristotle's Ontology. Dialogue 17 (02):228-243.
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