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Jennifer Mundale, Ph.D.
University of Central Florida
Dept. of Philosophy
Cognitive Sciences Program
Orlando FL 32816-1352

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General Information		Spring 2009 Courses
	Background		PHI 2010 Introduction to Philosophy
	Publications		PHI 2108 (WebCT) Critical Thinking
	Recent Courses		PHI 4938 Senior Research Seminar
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Spring 2009 Office Hours		Contact
230 Psychology Building, M 2-4, F 1-3, By appointment, Also online chat (WebCT only)		Office: (407) 823-5076 Dept: (407) 823-5076 FAX: (407) 823-6658 jmundale@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Education:
In 1989 I earned my bachelor's degree in philosophy at Michigan State University. I continued my studies in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Washington University, in St. Louis, where, in 1997, I earned my Ph.D. in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) Program. I was the first graduate student to complete this degree program, and my dissertation was titled: How Do You Know A Brain Area When You "See" One?: A Philosophical Approach to the Problem of Mapping the Brain and its Implications for the Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.

Academic Positions:
I have been teaching at UCF since the fall of 1999. I began as an assistant professor, and in the spring of 2005, was tenured and promoted to associate professor. Prior to this, I was an assistant professor at Hartwick College (1997-1999) and an instructor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania (1996-97).

Teaching and Research Interests:
My areas of interest and specialization include cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology. In cognitive science, my primary interests concern topics at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, and in philosophy of psychology, I am especially interested in the philosophy of psychopathology and the philosophy of clinical psychology.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Articles:
	Mundale, J. (1995), "William James's Philosophy of Mind as Extracted from The Principles of Psychology." Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 11, No. 2., pp. 109-120.
	Mundale J., and Bechtel, W. (1996), "Integrating Neuroscience, Psychology, and Evolutionary Biology Through a Teleological View of Function", Minds and Machines, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 481-505.
	Bechtel, W. and Mundale, J. (1997), "Multiple Realizability Revisited" Proceedings of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society. [This is an abridged variation of Bechtel and Mundale (1999).]
	Bechtel, W. and Mundale, J. (1999), "Multiple Realizability Revisited: Linking Cognitive and Neural States". Philosophy of Science, vol. 66 (June 1999), pp. 175-207.
	Mundale, J. (2002), "Concepts of Localization: Balkanization in the Brain", Brain and Mind, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 313-330.
	Mundale, J. (2004), "That Way Madness Lies: At the Intersection of Philosophy and Clinical Psychology", Metaphilosophy, vol. 35 no. 5.
	Mundale, J. (forthcoming), "Revising Traditional Models of Action in Light of Empirical Research", Journal of Mind and Behavior.

Invited Chapters or Articles:
	Mundale, J. (1998), "Brain Mapping and Cognitive Science", chapter in A Companion to Cognitive Science, Bechtel and Graham, eds., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 129-139.
	Mundale, J. (2001), "Neuroanatomical Foundations of Cognition". In W. Bechtel, P. Mandik, J. Mundale, and R. S. Stufflebeam (eds.), Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 37-54.
	Bechtel, W, Mandik, P., and Mundale, J. (2001), "Philosophy meets the Neurosciences". In W. Bechtel, P. Mandik, J. Mundale, and R. S. Stufflebeam (eds.), Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 4-22.
	Mundale, J. (2003), "Evolutionary Psychology and the Information-Processing Model of Cognition", in F. Rauscher and S. Scher (eds.), Evolutionary Psychology: Alternative Approaches. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer, pp. 229-241.
	Mundale, J. (in press), "Doing the Impossible with Brains", to be translated into French, in Ennen, E., Poirier, P., Faucher, L. and Racine, E. (eds.), Des neurones à la philosophie: neurophilosophie et philosophie des neurosciences. [From Neurons to Philosophy: Neurophilosophy and the Philosophy of Neuroscience.]

Edited Book:
	..Bechtel, W., Mandik, P., Mundale, J., Stufflebeam R., Eds., (2001), Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.

RECENT COURSES

	Philosophy of Law Sp 2002, Sp 2004
	Ways of Knowing, Undergraduate F 2001, F 2002
	Ways of Knowing, Graduate F 2001, F2002, F 2003, F 2004
	Humans and Animals Sp 2001
	Philosophy of Mind F 2000, Sp 2002, Sp 2003, Sp2005
	Philosophy of Psychology Sp 2000, F 2001, Sp2005
	Introduction to Philosophy Sp 2000, Sp 2001, Sp 2005
	Critical Thinking Sp 2001, Sp 2004
	Theories of Knowledge F 1999, F 2002
	Philosophical Reasoning F 1999
	Introductory Logic 1998 (at prior institution)
	Philosophy of Science 1998 (at prior institution)

LINKS
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