Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1980
Biography
Radu Bogdan was Professor of Philosophy, Regular Guest Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania, Director of OPEN MIND, a cognitive science master program at the University of Bucharest, and Founder and Director of the Cognitive Studies Coordinate Major at Tulane
Academic Interests:
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Cognitive Science
Books:
- Why Me?: The Sociocultural Evolution of a Self-Reflective Mind, (Cambridge University Press), 2021
- Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining, (MIT Press), 2013
- Our Own Minds: Sociocultural Grounds for Self-Consciousness, (MIT Press/Bradford Books), 2010
- Predicative Minds: The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking,(MIT Press/Bradford Books), 2009
- Minding Minds, (MIT Press/Bradford Books), 2000
- Interpreting Minds, (MIT Press/Bradford Books), 1997
- Grounds for Cognition, (Lawrence Erlbaum), 1994
Recent Articles:
- "Memory as a Window on the Mind," in Parvu (ed.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Springer, 2015.
- "Scaffolding Early Acquisitions in Communication and Language: Intuitive Psychology as Mind Designer," in Budwig et. al. (eds.), Rethinking Language and Communication Development, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- "Self-consciousness" (with responses to commentators), Consciousness Online 2012 Conference.
- "Inside Loops: Developmental Premises of Self-ascriptions", Synthese 159, 2, 2007, 235-251.
- "Pretending as Imaginative Rehearsal for Cultural Conformity," Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, 1-2, 2005, 191-213.
- "Why Self-Ascriptions are Difficult and Develop Late," in B. Malle and S. Hodges (eds.), Other Minds, New York: Guilford Press, 2005.
- "What is Epistemic Discourse About?" in D. Kolak and J. Symons (eds.), Quantifiers, Questions, and Quantum Physics, Springer, Dordrecth, 2004, 49-60.
- "Watch Your Metastep: The First-Order Limits of Early Intentional Attributions," in Kanzian, Quitterer and Runggaldier (eds.), Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2003, 117-129.
- "Developing Mental Abilities by Representing Intentionality," Synthese 129, 2, 2001, 233-258.
"The Architectural Nonechalance of Commonsense Psychology," Mind and Language 8 (1993), 189-205.