My research is in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed. While most recent work in this area has focused on conscious mental states, many of my projects explore not only the character and content of conscious experience, but also the nature of the unconscious mind. These interests are not unconnected, however: the extent of the unconscious has ramifications for our understanding of consciousness itself.
I am additionally fascinated by how insights about the mind can inform inquiry in other domains such as aesthetics and ethics. My methodology is interdisciplinary, regularly engaging experimental results from psychology, neuroscience, and other fields within cognitive science. As I favor a scientific approach, I often collaborate with researchers in philosophy and other disciplines.
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Here is a selection of works that are available online (for a list of my publications, please click the tab above):
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The Mind-Body Problem: What Are Minds? 1000-Word Philosophy, February 2024
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Episode 37: Rainbow in the Dark (with Jacob Berger), SpaceTimeMind Podcast with Pete Mandik, May 2022
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"The Apparent Particularity of Perceptual Experience," Zoom presentation (passcode: Xd0bA.6e) to the CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series, April 2022
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Review/Recommendation of Paul Coates' "Reflections on Reid and the Two-Component Model of Experience," Academia Letters, July 2021
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Episode 60: Jacob F. Berger Live! Consciousness Live! Podcast with Richard Brown, March 2021
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Commentary on Chris Frith and Nicholas Shea’s “The Case for ‘Type Zero’ Cognition,” The Brains Blog Neuroscience of Consciousness Symposium, October 2017
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Commentary on Laura Gow’s “Everything is Clear: All Perceptual Experiences Are Phenomenologically Transparent,” Minds Online Conference, September 2016
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Video Abstract for "Mental States, Conscious and Nonconscious," published in Philosophy Compass, August 2014
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Commentary on William S. Robinson’s “Challenges for a Humanoid Robot,” Onthehuman.org, June 2011
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Commentary on Benj Hellie’s “There It Is,” Third Annual Online Consciousness Conference, Spring 2011
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“Intentionalism and Representational Qualitative Character,” Poster, The 14th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Toronto, Canada, June 2010; Winner of the Student Poster Competition
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Commentary on Pete Mandik’s “Color-Consciousness Conceptualism,” with David Pereplyotchik, Second Annual Online Consciousness Conference, Spring 2010
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Here is a selection of papers discussing my work:
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Zięba (2022), "The Epistemic Import of Phenomenal Consciousness," Inquiry DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2022.2144441; a discussion of Berger (2020; Philosophical Issues) and Berger, Nanay, and Quilty-Dunn (2018).
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Phillips (2021), "Scepticism about Unconscious Perception is the Default Hypothesis," Journal of Consciousness Studies 28(3-4): 186-205; a discussion of Berger & Mylopoulos (2019).
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Beck (2020), "Naive Realism for Unconscious Perceptions," Ernkenntnis DOI: 10.1007/s10670-020-00236-1; a discussion of Berger & Nanay (2016).
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Gottlieb (2020), "On Ambitious Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness," Philosophical Psychology 33(2): 421-441; a discussion of Berger (2014; Philosophical Psychology).
