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Tim Crane is Pro-Rector for Foresight and Analysis and Professor of Philosophy at CEU. Before coming to CEU he was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse from 2009. Before that he taught at UCL for 19 years, and founded the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London as its first Director in 2005. He was educated at the Universities of Durham, York and Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 1989.
Crane is the author of many articles in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, and of the following books: The Mechanical Mind (1995, 3rd edition 2016), Elements of Mind (2001), The Objects of Thought (2013), Aspects of Psychologism (2014) and The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View (2017). He was the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the philosophy consultant editor for the TLS.
His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.
Crane has defended a conception of the mind which rejects both scientistic reductionism and the idea that philosophy of mind should be insulated from science, and he has argued that intentionality — the mind's direction on its objects, or its representational power — is the essential feature of the mind. He is currently working on the nature of the unconscious, and on the nature of belief.
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Knowledge in Crisis/ Wissen in der Krise
Crane, T. (PI), Farkas, K. (CoPI), Gheaus, A. (Researcher), Passinsky, A. (Researcher), Huoranszki, F. (Researcher), Kronfeldner, M. (Researcher), Rippon, S. (Researcher) & Mason, C. (Researcher)
Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - Cluster of Excellence
1/10/23 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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Exotica
Crane, T., 27 Feb 2024, Thought: Its Origin and Reach: Essays for Mark Sainsbury. Taylor and Francis, p. 223-238 16 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report types › Chapter › peer-review
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Is Religious Belief a Kind of Belief?
Crane, T., 1 Nov 2023, In: Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. 65, 4, p. 414-429 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Replies to Gäb, Schmidt and Scott
Crane, T., 1 Nov 2023, In: Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. 65, 4, p. 458-463 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Foreword
Crane, T., 2022, The Philosophy of Mind. O'Hear, A. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (Talking philosophy).Research output: Contribution to Book/Report types › Foreword/postscript
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Mental fact and mental fiction
Crane, T. & Farkas, K., 2022, Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations. Demeter, T., Parent, T. & Toon, A. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 303-319 17 p.Research output: Contribution to Book/Report types › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (External organization)
Crane, T. (Member)
2020 → 2021Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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The Aristotelian Society (External organization)
Crane, T. (Member)
2016 → 2017Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
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European Society for Analytic Philosophy (External organization)
Crane, T. (Member)
2015 → 2020Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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Academia Europaea (External organization)
Crane, T. (Chair)
2015 → 2017Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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Institute for Advanced Study (Organizational unit)
Crane, T. (Chair)
2011 → 2015Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Prizes
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Annual Prize of the Italian Society for Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neuroscience, for contributions to the dialogue between philosophy and the sciences of the mind
Crane, T. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize, award or honor