Professor Colin Klein
Areas of expertise
- History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) 220206
- Philosophy Of Cognition 220312
- Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) 220314
Biography
I am a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University.
Before ANU, I taught at Macquarie University, and before that I spent a year as a visiting research fellow in the Centre for Consciousness at the ANU. My first job was at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I did my undergraduate degree at Franklin and Marshall College and my PhD at Princeton University.
Researcher's projects
Publications yet to be entered in Aries:
- “Ghosts in Machine Learning for Cognitive Neuroscience: Moving from Data to Theory” Thomas A Carlson et al. Forthcoming in Neuroimage
- “Interpreting the dimensions of neural feature representations revealed by dimensionality reduction” Erin Goddard et al. Forthcoming in Neuroimage.
- “Computation, Consciousness, and ‘Computation and Consciousness’” forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind
- “Mental Representation and Decoding Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience” Brendan Ritchie, David Kaplan, and Colin Klein. Accepted for The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- “Putting the ‘social’ back in social psychology” Forthcoming in Current Controversies in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- “Imperativism and Pain Intensity” (w/ Manolo Martínez) forthcoming in The Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance. ed. David Bain, Michael Brady, and Jennifer Corns. New York: Routledge.
- “What do predictive coders want?” (2018) Synthese 195(6): 2451-2557.
- “Topic Modeling Reveals Distinct Interests Within an Online Conspiracy Forum” (2018) Colin Klein, Peter Clutton, and Vince Polito. Frontiers in Psychology 9: 189.
- “Hypocrisy and Moral Authority” Jessica Isserow and Colin Klein. (2017) Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12(2): 191-222.
- “Taxonomising Delusions: Content or Aetiology?” Peter Clutton, Stephen Gadsby, and Colin Klein. (2017) Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 22(6): 508-527.
- “Pain, care, and the Body: A response to de Vignemont” (2017) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(3): 588–593
- “Imperativism” (2017) in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain, ed. Jennifer Corns. New York: Routledge: 51-59.
- “Brain regions as difference makers” (2017) Philosophical Psychology 30(1–2): 1–20.
- “What is a Cognitive Ontology, Anyway?” Annelli Janssen, Colin Klein, and Marc Slors. (2017) Philosophical Explorations 20(2) 123–128.
- “Consciousness, Intention, and Command Following in the Vegetative state” (2017) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 68(1): 27-54.
- “Wang Chong’s epistemology of testimony” Esther Klein and Colin Klein (2016) Asia Major Third Series, 29(2): 115–147.
- “Insect consciousness: Commitments, conflicts and consequences” (2016) Colin Klein and Andrew Barron. Animal Sentience 1(9.21)
- “Insects have the capacity for subjective experience” (2016) Colin Klein and Andrew Barron. Animal Sentience. 1(9.1) http://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/ vol1/iss9/1/
- “Pain signals are predominantly imperative” (2016) Manolo Mart ´inez and Colin Klein. Biology and Philosophy 31:283–298.
- “What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness” Andrew Barron and Colin Klein (2016) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(18): 4900–4908.
- “Olympia and other O-Machines” (2015) Philosophia 43(4): 925–931.
- “Variability, convergence and dimensions of consciousness” (2015) Colin Klein and Jakob Hohwy. In Behavioral Methods In Consciousness ed. Morten Overgaard, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 249–264.
- “Imperatives, Phantom Pains, and Hallucination by Presupposition” (2012) Philosophical Psychology 25(6): 917-928.
- “Cognitive Ontologies and Region- versus Network-Oriented Analyses” (2012) Philosophy of Science 79(5): 952-960.
- “Two Paradigms for Implementation” (2012) Journal of Cognitive Science 13(2): 167-179.
- “The Dual Track theory of Moral Decision-Making: A Critique of the Neuroimaging Evidence” (2011) Neuroethics 4, pp143-162.
- “Neuroimaging senza localizzazione” Sistemi Intelligenti (2011). Trans. Massimo Marraffa a. XXIII, n. 1, Aprile 2011, pp113-132.
- “Response to Tumulty on Pain and Imperatives” (2010) The Journal of Philosophy CVII(10), pp 554-557.
- “Images are not the Evidence in Neuroimaging” (2010) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 61, pp. 265-278
- “Confirmation, Refutation and The Evidence of fMRI.” (2010) Chris Mole and Colin
Klein. In Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping, ed. Martin Bunzl and Stephen José Hanson. Cambridge, MIT press: 99-112. - “Philosophical Issues in Neuroimaging.” (2010) Philosophy Compass. 5(2), pp. 186-198.
- “Reduction Without Reductionism: A Defence of Nagel on Connectability.” (2009) Philosophical Quarterly. 59(234), pp. 39-53.
- “Dispositional Implementation Solves the Superfluous Structure Problem.” (2008) Synthese. 165(1), pp. 141-153.
- “An Ideal Solution to Disputes about Multiply Realized Kinds.” (2008) Philosophical
Studies. 140(2), pp. 161-177. - “An Imperative Theory of Pain.” (2007) The Journal of Philosophy CIV(10), pp. 517–532.
- “Kicking the Kohler Habit.” (2007) Philosophical Psychology 20(5), pp. 609–619.
- “Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances.” (2003) Anthony Chemero, Colin Klein and William Cordeiro. Ecological Psychology,15(1), 19-28.
Publications
- Klein, C, Clutton, P & Dunn, A 2019, 'Pathways to conspiracy: The social and linguistic precursors of involvement in Reddit's conspiracy theory forum', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 1-23.
- Klein, C & MartÃnez, M 2019, 'Imperativism and pain intensity', in David Bain, Michael Brady and Jennifer Corns (ed.), The Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance, Routledge, New York, pp. 13-26.
- Klein, C 2015, 'What Pain Asymbolia Really Shows', Mind, vol. 124, no. 494, pp. 493-516.
- Klein, C 2015, What the Body Commands: The Imperative Theory of Pain, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, UK.
- Klein, C 2014, 'The Penumbral Theory of Masochistic Pleasure', Review of Philosophy and Psychology, vol. 5, pp. 41-55.
- Hilbert, D & Klein, C 2014, 'No Problem', in Brown, Richard (ed.), Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience, Springer Science + Business Media, New York, pp. 299-306.
- Klein, C 2014, 'The Brain At Rest: What it is Doing and Why That Matters', Philosophy of Science, vol. 81, no. 5, pp. 974-985.
- Klein, C 2013, 'Multiple realizability and the semantic view of theories', Philosophical Studies, vol. 163, no. 3, pp. 683-695.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Trust in a Social and Digital World (Primary Investigator)
- Changing your mind by changing your brain: An interventionist perspective on cognitive neuroscience. (Primary Investigator)