John Morrison
Affiliation
I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. I received my PhD from NYU in 2009.
Courses
In the fall I am teaching an introduction to logic (syllabus) and, with Josh New, an interdisciplinary course on the psychology and philosophy of human experience (syllabus). In the spring I am teaching the history of philosophy from Aquinas to Kant (last year's syllabus) and a graduate seminar on color and spatial perception.
Publications
Conception and Causation in Spinoza's Metaphysics, forthcoming in Philosophers' Imprint
Colour in a Physical World, forthcoming in Mind, Appendix
Research
My research is primarily in the philosophy of mind and the history of modern philosophy (esp. the seventeenth century). I also have strong secondary interests in the philosophy of language (esp. vagueness), epistemology and logic.
I am currently working on two projects. The first is about the way that we visually represent colors and locations. It draws heavily on empirical psychology, particularly psychophysics and cognitive psychology. The second is about the first two parts of Spinoza's Ethics. It focuses on why Spinoza presents certain claims as axioms.
