Brian L. Keeley

Biography

Education

• MA, PhD, University of California, San Diego
• MSc, University of Sussex (UK)
• BA, University of South Alabama
• CV [PDF]

Research Interests

• Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories
• Philosophy of Neuroscience
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Science

Courses Taught

• Knowledge, Mind & Existence (PHIL030 PZ)
• Minds, Brains & Programs (COGS123 JT)
• Foundations of Neuroscience (NEUR095 JT)
• Topics in Phil of Cognitive Science (PHIL185C PZ)
• Topics in Neurophilosophy (PHIL185N JT)

Selected Research and Publications

• “Conspiracy theorists are not the problem; Conspiracy liars are.” Inquiry, 2024. (DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2024.2375771)
• “Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology,” Social Epistemology, 37:4, 413-422, (DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2023.2191290), 2023.
• “Anthropomorphism, Primatomorphism, Mammalomorphism: Understanding cross-species comparisons.” Biology & Philosophy, 19, 521-540, 2004.
• “The Early History of the Quale and Its Relation to the Senses” in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, J. Symons & P. Calvo, eds., London: Routledge, 2009, 71-89. Reprinted in new edition: Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, J. Symons, P. Calvo & S. Robins, eds., London: Routledge, 2019, 71-89.
• “Speculative Fiction and the Philosophy of Perception,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2015), 39, 170-181. (Special issue on Philosophy and Science Fiction, Howard Wettstein, ed.)
• Paul Churchland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (Edited volume in the series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, with contributions from Dan Dennett, José Luis Bermúdez, Clifford Hooker, Jesse Prinz, Pete Mandik, William Krieger, Aarre Laakso, and Garrison Cottrell.)

For a full list see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rdznfHEAAAAJ

Recent Conferences and Invited Talks

• “Cognitive ontology and conspiracy thinking”. Invited symposium talk, 50th Annual Meeting of Society for Philosophy & Psychology, West Lafayette, IN, June, 2024.
• “Auto-experimentation: Essential, foolhardy or both?” 9th Quadrennial Fellows Conference 2024, Center for Philosophy of Science, Miami, June 2024.
• Interviewed by Ellie Anderson and David M. Peña-Guzmán for Overthink, episode 12, “Conspiracy Theories” 12 January 2021 (https:// podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/12-conspiracy-theories-feat-brian-keeley/ id1538249280?i=1000505084755)
• “Cyborgs and our concepts of the senses” Philosophy & Neuroscience at the Gulf IV: 4th annual meeting of the Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup, Pensacola, FL, Sept, 2021.
• “Filming the senses: Capturing unusual senses in an audiovisual medium.” Invited talk for Science and Cinema: A Bi-directional Relation at the University of A Coruña, Spain on March 8, 2018.

Selected Awards, Grants, and Honors

• 2020 Pitzer Summer Research Assistant Award (with students M. Kuang, M. Shi, E. Fossum & L. Jones)
• Grapples & Oranges Teaching Award, inaugural winner of this Pitzer writing award
• Sabbatical visitor, Neuroethology Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal, April-June, 2012.