{"id":32,"date":"2010-03-08T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:08:23","slug":"brook-andrew","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/people\/brook-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Brook, Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"office-hours\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Office Hours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Email for appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Brook is Chancellor&#8217;s Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science and former&nbsp;Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6. ICS administers a four-year undergraduate degree in Cognitive Science and Canada&#8217;s only free-standing, fully integrated Masters and Ph.D. in Cognitive Science. The ICS website contains further information and links to a selection of cognitive science sites. Brook has two degrees from the University of Alberta and a D. Phil. from Oxford University. He is a former President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpcpa.ca\/\">Canadian Philosophical Association<\/a>&nbsp;and current President of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the project of interdisciplinary cognitive research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>consciousness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>psychological and psychoanalytic explanation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>environmental ethics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"recent-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"books\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"forthcoming\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forthcoming<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>A Unified Theory of Consciousness <\/em>. with Paul Raymont. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (supported by SSHRC Grants 410-2000-0293 and 410-2006-1571).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2009-2010-2011\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2009, 2010, 2011<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><i>The Place of Philosophy in Cognitive Science<\/i>. Special theme in <i>Topics in Cognitive Science <\/i>1:2, 1:3, and 3.2, pp. 135<i> <\/i>(edited)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2007\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2007<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Prehistory of Cognitive Science <\/em>. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2005\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2005<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Cognition and the Brain:\u00a0 The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement <\/em>. Ed. with Kathleen Akins and Steven Davis. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2001\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2001<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Self-Reference and Self-Awareness<\/em>. Ed. with R. C. DeVidi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Daniel Dennett <\/em>(in the series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus). Ed. with Don Ross. New York: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2000\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2000<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Knowledge and Mind<\/em>. with Robert Stainton. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press\/A Bradford Book.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Dennett: A Comprehensive Assessment<\/em>. Ed. with D. Ross and D. Thompson. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press\/A Bradford Book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"1996\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">1996<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Kant and the Mind<\/em>, 2 nd edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"chapters-and-articles\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters and Articles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Forthcoming. Tracking Persons is Tracking What? <i>Topics in Cognitive Science. <\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forthcoming. Ramlahkan, N. and &#8230; . Fairness: Not a Moral Sense and Not a Foundation of a Lot of Morality. <i>Behavioral and Brain Science.<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forthcoming. Humeny, C, D. Kelly, and &#8230; . Further Routes to Psychological Constructionism. <i>Behavioral and Brain Science. <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2014\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2014<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Davidson, Dennett, and the Origins of the Normative Model of Mind. In Andrew Bailey, ed., <i>Key Thinkers in the Philosophy of Mind.<\/i> London &amp; New York:<i> <\/i>Continuum Press, pp. 189-208<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2013\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2013<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kant\u2019s Idealism About Time. In: Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke, eds. <i>A Companion to the Philosophy of Time.\u00a0 <\/i>Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 120-134<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2011\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2011<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Representation and Reality: Kant\u2019s Two Views. In <i>Rethinking Kant,<\/i> Vol. 3. Oliver Thorndike, ed. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 219-238<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spent Fuel a Special Problem at Fukushima: A Canadian Initiative. <i>Ethics, Policy &amp; Environment <\/i>14:3, pp. 301-6<i>; <\/i>a different version will appear in <i>Turning Point, <\/i>journal of Physicians for Global Survival<i>. <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2010\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2010<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kant\u2019s Attack on Leibniz\u2019 and Locke\u2019s Amphibolies. Stephen Palmquist, ed., <i>Kant and Cultivating Personhood.<\/i> (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), pp. 14-154.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Prehistory of Cognitive Science: An Overview. In C. Pl\u00e9h, L. Gurova, and L. Ropolyi, eds. <i>New Perspectives on the History of Cognitive Science<\/i>,\u00a0 in the series C, Pl\u00e9h, ed., <i>Neurocognitive Development and Impairment. <\/i>Budapest: Akad\u00e9miai Kiad\u00f3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kant y las Ciencas Cognitivas. In: Pedro Jes\u00fas Teruel, ed. <i>Kant y las Ciencas. <\/i>Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva (revision and translation of 2007c)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2006\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2006<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/consciousness-unity\/\">Unity of Consciousness<\/a>, with Paul Raymont. <em>Stanford Electronic Encyclopaedia of Philosophy <\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unity of Consciousness: What it is and where it is found. <em>Proceedings of the 28 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. Mahwah, New Jersey: LEA. 1056-61.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kant: A Unified Theory of the Representational Base of All Consciousness. In Uriah Kriegel and Ken Williford, eds. <em>Consciousness and Self-Reference <\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 89-110.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My Blackberry and Me: Forever One or Just Friends?. In Nyiri, K. ed. <em>Mobile Understanding: The Epistemology of Ubiquitous Communication <\/em>. Vienna: Passagen Verlag. pp. 55-66.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daniel Clements Dennett. <em>Encyclopaedia of Philosophy <\/em>. 2 nd edition. London: Macmillan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thought Experiments. In A. Barber and R. Stainton, eds. <em>Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics <\/em>. Elsevier.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desire, reward, feeling. <em>Dialogue <\/em>. XLV (1). pp. 157-165.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The representational base of consciousness, with P. Raymont. <em>PSYCHE, the electronic journal of consciousness studies <\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2005\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2005<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Making Consciousness Safe for Neuroscience. In Akins, K. and A. Brook, eds. <em>Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement <\/em>. Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2004\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2004<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kant, Cognitive Science, and Contemporary NeoKantianism. <em>Journal of Consciousness Studies <\/em>. 11, no. 10-11. pp. 1-25.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new theory of the representational base of consciousness, with P. Raymont. <em>Proceedings of the 26 th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: LEA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kant-mind\/\">Kant&#8217;s View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self<\/a>. <em>Stanford Electronic Encyclopaedia of Philosophy <\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2003\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2003<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Freud and Kant. In M. Cheung and Colin Feltman, eds. <em>Psychoanalytic knowledge <\/em>. Palgrave Publishers Ltd. (Macmillan).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Moral Framework of Confidentiality and the Electronic Panoticon, with Michael Yeo. In C. Koggel, A. Furlong and C. Levin, eds. <em>Confidentiality and Psychotherapy <\/em>. Redopi Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kant and Cognitive Science. <em>Teleskop, the electronic journal <\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning is always explicit, with E. Torlakovic. <em>Proceedings of the 25 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: LEA. 732-738.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kant. In D. Chalmers et al. eds. <em>Encyclopaedia of the Cognitive Sciences <\/em>. London: Macmillan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2002\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2002<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduction (with Don Ross) and The Appearance of Things. In Brook, A. and D. Ross, eds. <em>Daniel Dennett <\/em>. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consciousness: A two-by-two matrix. <em>Advances in Cognitive Science <\/em>. IV(2). pp. 22-36. Shorter version of <em>Atomist and System Approaches to Consciousness <\/em>, 2002.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The role of consciousness in second language acquisition, with E. Torlakovic. <em>Proceedings of the 24 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: LEA. pp. 872-877.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atomist and System Approaches to Consciousness, with L. Jerzykiewicz. <em>Proceedings of the 24 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: LEA. pp. 142-147.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review of Anita Avramides. <em>Other Minds. Times Literary Supplement No. 5179, July 2002 <\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2001\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2001<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kant. Self-Reference and Self-Awareness and Introduction. In Andrew Brook and Richard DeVidi, eds. <em>Self-Reference and Self-Awareness <\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"2000\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2000<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Judgments and Drafts Eight Years Later. In D. Ross. D. Thompson and A. Brook, eds. <em>Dennett: A Comprehensive Assessment <\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press\/A Bradford Book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"1999\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">1999<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Does Philosophy Have Distinctive Methods to Offer Cognitive Science?. <em>Proceedings of the 21 st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: LEA. 102-108.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kant. In F. Keil and R. Wilson, eds. <em>MIT Encyclopaedia of the Cognitive Sciences <\/em>. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"1998\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">1998<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neuroscience versus Psychology in Freud. <em>Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (1998) <\/em>. 843. pp. 66-79.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical Notice of L. Falkenstein, <em>Kant&#8217;s Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic<\/em>. <em>Canadian Journal of Philosophy <\/em>. 29.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unified Consciousness and the Self (Invited peer commentary on G. Strawson, The Self). <em>Journal of Consciousness Studies <\/em>. 5. pp. 583-91.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"1997\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">1997<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Waste Management: Examples from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. In A. W. Cragg and C. M. Koggel, eds. <em>Contemporary Moral Issues <\/em>. 4 th edition. Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson. 518-34. Also in A. W. Cragg and Alex Wellington, eds. <em>Canadian Issues in Applied Environmental Ethics <\/em>. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1007, pp. 117-32.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reconciling the Two Images. In Sean O&#8217;Nuallain et al., eds. <em>Two Sciences of Mind <\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 299-309.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approaches to Abstraction: A commentary. <em>International Journal of Educational Research <\/em>. 27 (1). pp. 77-88.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unity of Consciousness and Other Mental Unities. <em>Proceedings of the 19 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: Ablex Press. 875.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"1996\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">1996<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jackendoff and Consciousness. <em>Pragmatics and Cognition <\/em>. 4. 81-92.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fodor&#8217;s New Theory of Content and Computation, with R. S. Stainton. <em>Proceedings of the 18 th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society <\/em>. New York: Ablex Press. pp. 86-92. Also in <em>Mind and Language <\/em>12 (3 &amp; 4) (1997):459-74..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"appointments\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Appointments<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chancellor&#8217;s Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991 &#8211; 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director, Institute of Cognitive Science, 2003 &#8211;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, 1979 &#8211; 80<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clinical Member, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Scholar (Queen&#8217;s) and Visiting Tutor (Balliol), University of Oxford, 1995<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wexler Visiting Professor, Bryn Mawr College, 1998 &#8211; 9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visiting Professor, Dalhousie University, 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4518,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Andrew","cu_people_last_name":"Brook","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[24],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-32","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professor-emeritus"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Distinguished Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (Alberta), M.A. (Alberta), D. 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