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Alva Noë

アルヴァ・ノエ　/　あるゔぁ・のえ

Philosopher

January 1, 1964 (age 62)

philosopher
university teacher

My Take

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.

Overview

Alva Noë (; born 1964) is an American philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he is interested in analytic phenomenology, the theory of art, Ludwig Wittgenstein, enactivism, and the origins of analytic philosophy.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Alva Noë
Name (Japanese): アルヴァ・ノエ
Reading: あるゔぁ・のえ
Born: January 1, 1964 (age 62)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Dragon
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: philosopher / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Oxford

Awards & achievements

Guggenheim Fellowship

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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

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