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Overview

William G. Lycan is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within the broader fields of Arts and Humanities and Neuroscience. Lycan's work is positioned particularly within Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience, with additional contributions in Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and the History and Philosophy of Science.

The primary topics covered in Lycan's research include Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics; Free Will and Agency; Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment; Philosophy and Theoretical Science; Philosophy and History of Science; Humor Studies and Applications; and Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art.

Lycan has published recent papers on various philosophical and cognitive subjects. These include:

  • How Far is there a Fact of the Matter? (As Regards Split Brains, Mind, Agency, and Personhood), 2022, Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • HUMOR AND MORALITY, 2020, American Philosophical Quarterly
  • Replies to Bergmann and Conee, 2022, Metaphilosophy
  • Précis of On evidence in philosophy, 2022, Metaphilosophy
  • Giving Dualism its Due, 2021, UNC Libraries

The frequent venues where Lycan publishes include UNC Libraries, Metaphilosophy, Noûs, Journal of Consciousness Studies, and American Philosophical Quarterly.

Collaborations have been part of Lycan's scholarly work. Frequent co-authors include Hector-Neri Castan, Ernest Sosa, Earl Conee, Manuel García-Carpintero, and H. R. G. Greaves.

Best Publications

  • Consciousness and Experience

    William G. Lycan

  • Form, Function, and Feel

    William G. Lycan

  • Judgement and justification

    William G. Lycan

  • The Case for Phenomenal Externalism

    William G. Lycan

  • Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

    William G. Lycan

  • Knowing Who

    Stephen E. Boër;William Lycan

  • Logical form in natural language

    William G. Lycan

  • Judgment and Justification.

    Lynne Rudder Baker;William G. Lycan

  • A simple argument for a higher-order representation theory of consciousness

    William G. Lycan

  • “Is” and “ought” in cognitive science

    William G. Lycan

  • Consciousness as Internal Monitoring, I: The Third Philosophical Perspectives Lecture

    William G. Lycan

  • Giving Dualism its Due

    William G. Lycan

  • The Myth of Semantic Presupposition

    Steven E. Boer;William G. Lycan

  • Modality and meaning

    William G. Lycan

  • Moore against the new skeptics

    William G. Lycan

  • Consciousness as Internal Monitoring, I

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  • Epistemic value

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  • What is the "subjectivity" of the mental?

    William G. Lycan

  • Even and even if

    William G. Lycan

  • Explanation and Epistemology

    William G. Lycan

  • The Trouble with Possible Worlds

    William G. Lycan

  • The Paradox of Naming

    W. Lycan

  • MORAL FACTS AND MORAL KNOWLEDGE

    William G. Lycan

  • Logical Form in Natural Language.

    James E. Tomberlin;William G. Lycan

  • Logical Form in Natural Language.

    Gilbert Harman;William G. Lycan

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman Princeton University
Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga University of Notre Dame

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