Alva Noë

Alva Noë is the rare philosopher I would actually want to argue with over coffee. An American educated at Oxford and now a professor at UC Berkeley, he works on perception and consciousness, pushing the enactivist idea that the mind is not trapped inside the skull but enacted through the whole body's engagement with the world. I admire how widely he ranges, from cognitive science to Wittgenstein to the theory of art, and that a Guggenheim Fellow chooses to wrestle with something as everyday as what it means to see. He brings hard questions back down to lived experience, and that gift earns my respect.

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Name (English)

Alva Noë

Name (Japanese)

アルヴァ・ノエ

Reading

あるゔぁ・のえ

Born

1964

Occupation

philosopher / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Dragon

University

University of Oxford

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alva%20No%C3%AB
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258358

Tags

• philosopher
• university teacher

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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