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Brian Garvey supervises 4 postgraduate research students. Some of the students have produced research profiles, these are listed below:

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Dr Brian Garvey

Lecturer

Brian Garvey

County South

Lancaster University

Bailrigg

Lancaster LA1 4YL

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1524 594669

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Brian's office hours are Monday 11-1.

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Affiliations: Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

Research overview

My research interests cover areas relating to philosophy of mind and to the theory of evolution, and the interface between the two. I have published papers on the incorrigibility of conscious states, on psychoanalysis understood in the light of analytic philosophy of mind, and on the theoretical underpinnings and implications of Evolutionary Psychology. The last-named is a major focus of my current research, and I see myself as a friendly rather than hostile critic of the project of Evolutionary Psychology. I also have a special interest in the work of the philosophers of mind Gilbert Ryle and Daniel Dennett. I am currently editing a volume on the philosophy of J.L. Austin for Palgrave-Macmillan.

PhD supervision

Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, Ryle, Austin, Dennett

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Career details

Brian Garvey did a B.A. in philosophy and politics, and an M.A. in philosophy, both at University College Dublin; and a PhD in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Following that he held a Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Research Fellowship from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. Then he lectured at Trinity College Dublin, until joining the department at Lancaster in 2005.

Research Interests

My current research is focussed in the following areas:

  • Evolutionary Psychology, its strengths and weaknesses, and its implications.
  • The concept of innateness.
  • Philosophical issues relating to psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; in particular, the nature of interpretation, and connections between psychoanalysis, cognitive science, and Evolutionary Psychology.
  • I am especially interested in the work of Gilbert Ryle and J.L. Austin. One of my long-term research ambitions is to prove that all their critics are wrong.
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