Murray Clarke, PhD

Murray Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University and was Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University and Western University. Twice Chair of Philosophy and Graduate Program Director, he works in contemporary epistemology and philosophy of mind and psychology. Concerning the former topic, he has written a series of papers defending Tracking Theories of Knowledge and has written on the impact of recent empirical psychology concerning various issues in epistemology. On the latter topic, he has written on the nature of rationality and our natural inferential capacities, and on the nature and origin of concepts and our cognitive architecture. He also has an interest in various issues in philosophy of science. He is a member of the FQRSC-funded Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativite (GRIN) led by Professor Aude Bandini of Universite de Montreal.

Education:
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario 
M.A., Dalhousie University
Hons. B.A., University of Western Ontario

Most significant and recent research contributions

His book, Reconstructing Reason and Representation (Bradford Books), The MIT Press, Hardcover Edition, June 2004; Paperback Edition, June 2022), received Honourable Mention for the William James Prize of the American Psychological Association (2005). The book  has been the subject of extensive interest and many reviews, including a symposium  in Philosophiques, 2007, 34/2, 353-402 . A SSHRC and FQRSC winner, he has delivered 94 papers world-wide and has 29 other publications. These publications have appeared in leading Journals such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, and Philosophy of Science, and in the monograph series, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science. Recent papers include: “Concepts, Intuitions, and Epistemic Norms,” Logos and Episteme, 2010, 1/ 2, 2010, 269-286; "Critical Notice: Jose Zalabardo's Scepticism and Reliable Belief," in Teorema, Volume XXXIII/3, 93-105, 2014; "Two Non-Counterexamples To Truth-Tracking Theories of Knowledge", (with F.Adams) Logos and Episteme, VII, 1 (2016): 67-73; "Rejoinder to Haze," Logos and Episteme, VII, 2 (2016): 227-230; "Beat The (Backward) Clock," (with F.Adams and J.A. Barker) Logos and Episteme, VII, 3 (2016): 280-292, "Methods Matter: Beating the Backward Clock," (with F.Adams and J.A.Barker) Logos and Episteme, VIII, 1 (2017): 99-112; "Knowledge as Fact-Tracking True Belief," (with F. Adams and J.A. Barker) Manuscrito, Vol.40 (2017), 4, 1-30; "Seeing Things: Defending Direct Perception," (with F. Adams and G. Fuller) in J. Smythies and R.French (eds.), Direct versus Indirect Realism, 2018, Elsevier Press: 260-278; "Late Pleistocene Dual Process Minds," in A. Killin and S. Hermanson (eds.), Explorations in Archaeology and Philosophy, Vol. 433 (2017), Ch.9: 149-169,  Synthese Library, Springer Press; "The Resurrection Shuffle: Tracking Theories and Backward Clocks," (with F. Adams) Logos and Episteme, XV, 2 (2024): 207-222.