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Dr Glenn Carruthers

BA(hons) Adel.

Contact Details

Office : C5C 418
Phone : + 61 (0)2 9850 6758
Fax : + 61 (0)2 9850 6059
email : glenn.carruthers@maccs.mq.edu.au
Homepage : http://sites.google.com/site/glennrjcarruthers/

Profile

I am a postgrad researcher and teacher in philosophy and cognitive science at Macquarie University. My current research is focused on self consciousness and the self (itself, with Wayne Christensen- although he would not dream of trying to talk Wayne into believing his previous models) and theories of consciousness (with Elizabeth Schier). I have a particular fondness for orang-utans.

I am also a player/coach for the Macquarie University Soccer Club

My CV is available here

Thesis Details

A cognitive model of self-consciousness

The overall goal of the project is to explain certain aspects of self consciousness by providing models of the mechanisms that elicit them, or by providing accounts of the representations they are identical too. The aspects of self consciousness I am interested in are those that represent the self qua a self, that is as the agent of action or subject of experience etc. The general approach is to attempt to explain how components of the normal sense of self are lost in pathology, and see what model of normal function 'falls out of' such explanations. In addition to studies on pathologies of self consciousness some data comes from normal subjects and from those at risk of developing particular pathologies (especially schizophrenia). The core topics of the thesis are the senses of being the agent of bodily actions, of being the agent of mental actions, and of being bounded in one's body (or embodied).

• Scholarship : MQRES
• Workload : full time
• Supervisors : Professor John Sutton & Professor Max Coltheart

Selected Publications

Periodicals

• Carruthers, G. (2008). Is the body schema sufficient for the sense of embodiment? An alternative to de Vignemont's model. Philosophical Psychology, 22(2), 123-142. doi:10.1080/09515080902802785
• Carruthers, G. (2008). Reply to Tsakiris and Fotopoulou "Is my body the sum of online and offline body representations". Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1321-1323. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.07.008
• Carruthers, G. (2008). Commentary on Synofzik, Vosgerau and Newen 2008. Consciousness and Cognition, 18(2), 515-520. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.05.006
• Carruthers, G. (2008). Types of Body Representation and the Sense of Embodiment. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1302-1316. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.02.001
• Carruthers, G. (2007). A Model of the Synchronic Self. Consciousness and Cognition, 16(3), 533-550.

Conference Presentations, Colloquia, and other presentations

• Carruthers, G. (2009, June). 'Is the body schema sufficient for the sense of ownership?' Poster session presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 13, Berlin, Germany.
• Carruthers, G. (2009, June). 'A problem for Wegner and colleagues' model of the sense of agency.' Paper presented at the School of Mind and Brain Conference, Berlin, Germany.
• Carruthers, G. (2009, June). 'Commentary on Synofzik, Vosgerau and Newen 2008.' Paper presented at the School of Mind and Brain Conference, Berlin, Germany.
• Carruthers, G. (2009, May). 'Is the body schema sufficient for the sense of embodiment? An alternative to de Vignemont's model' Paper presented at the Mind 11, Berlin, Germany.
• Carruthers, G. (2009, April). 'Is the body schema sufficient for the sense of embodiment? An alternative to de Vignemont's model.' Paper presented at the Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference, Macquarie University, Australia.
• Carruthers, G. (2009, March). 'A metacognitive model of the sense of agency over thoughts.' Paper presented at the Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference, Macquarie University, Australia.
• Carruthers, G. (2008, November). 'A metacognitive model of the sense of agency over thoughts.' Paper presented at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Sciences Postgraduate Workshop, Macquarie University, Australia.
• Carruthers, G. & Schier, E. (2008, July). 'Our Intuitions about Consciousness are Inconsistent' Paper presented at the Australasian Association for Philosophy Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
• Carruthers, G. (2008, July). 'A metacognitive model of the sense of agency over thoughts.' Paper presented at the Postgraduate Research Workshop, Adelaide University, Australia.
• Carruthers, G. (2007, July). 'Types of body representation and the sense of embodiment' Paper presented at the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, Adelaide, Australia.
• Carruthers, G. (2007, June). An inference to the sense of agency. Poster session presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 11, Las Vegas, USA.