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Dr Brian Garvey

Lecturer

Degree: B.A., M.A. (University College Dublin) PhD (Trinity College Dublin)

Associated research centres and groups: Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

Research Interests

My current research is focussed in the following areas:

• Implications of biology for traditional philosophy of science, and for more recent metaphysics-based approaches to science; in particular, the nature of laws, natural kinds, and scientific realism.
• 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, J.L. Austin and Donald Davidson. One of my long-term research ambitions is to prove that all their critics are wrong.

A draft of a paper I am currently working on, "Free Will, Compatibilsm and the Human Nature Wars", can be viewed here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004129/

Publications

(2009) Review of Brian Baxter: A Darwinian Worldview. Environmental Values, 18 (1)

(2008) 'Quasi-beliefs and Crazy Beliefs: Subdoxastic States and the "Special Characteristics" of the Unconscious.' In Origins and Ends of the Psyche: Philosophical Essays on Psychoanalysis, ed. C. Kerslake and R. Brassier, Leuven University Press

(2007) The Philosophy of Biology. Acumen Press (UK)/McGill-Queen's University Press (US and Canada)

(2005) 'Nature, Nurture and Why the Pendulum Still Swings.' Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 35 (2)

(2004) Review of Jerry Fodor: Hume Variations. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12 (4)

(2004) Review of Matthew Elton: Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and our Self-Conception. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12 (1)

(2004) 'Finally, the Big Picture' (Critical Notice of Stephen Jay Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory) International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 11 (3)

(2003) 'Darwinian Functions and Freudian Motivations.' Biology and Philosophy, 18 (3)

(2001) 'Freudian Mental Preservation without Lamarck.' Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 23 (3)

(2001) 'Simon Browne and the Paradox of 'Being in Denial.'' Inquiry, 44 (1)

(1999) 'Adolf Grünbaum on Religious Delusions.' Religious Studies, 35 (1)

Potential Doctoral Proposals

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

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.

Associated Keywords: Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science, Psychoanalytic thought

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