John Collier, Professor
Philosophy and Ethics

John Collier
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Personal Details


Name: Professor John Collier
Qualifications:
S.B. (MIT), M.A. (UCLA), Ph.D. (Western Ontario)
Phone:
+27 31 260 3248
Fax:
+27 31 260 3031
Room:
327 MTB (293 on the new system)
Email:
collierj@ukzn.ac.za


Research interests

  • Theory Change, Reference and Meaning
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolutionary Ethics and Epistemology
  • Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
  • Foundations of Information Theory
  • Metaphysics and Epistemology of Complex Systems
  • Causal processes, Dynamical Systems theory

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Teaching resources

Political Philosophy (Philosophy 201, 2008)
Cognitive Science (Philosophy 212, 2009)
Evolutionary Ethics (Philosophy 303, 2010)
Peirce and Rorty, Pragmatism (Philosophy 308, 2009)
Chomsky (Political Philosophy PostGrad 2006)
Interactivism (Cog Sci Postgrad 2006)
Political Philosophy and Ethics (semester 1, 2007)
Identity (Metaphysics Postgrad sem 2, 2008)




 

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