Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of "Action in Perception" (The MIT Press, 2004), "Out of Our Heads" (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009), and most recently "Varieties of Presence" (Harvard University Press, 2012).
Noë received his PhD from Harvard in 1995 and is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. He previously was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has been philosopher-in-residence with The Forsythe Company and has recently begun a performative lecture collaboration with Deborah Hay. Noë is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and is a weekly contributor to National Public Radio's science blog "13.7: Cosmos and Culture".
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