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Mark Fortney

Assistant Professor

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Teaching

Fall 2024
PHIL 2490
PHIL 4220/5220
CSCI 3101

Winter 2025
PHIL 2490
CSCI 3101

Office Hours


Email: mark.fortney@dal.ca
Research Topics:
  • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Technology Ethics

Education:

PhD in Philosophy (2017) University of Toronto

BA in Cognitive Science (2010) Carleton University泭

Publications:

Journal Articles:

2024. Loving attention: Buddhaghosa, Katsuki Sekida, and Iris Murdoch on meditation and moral development. Philosophy East and West 74(2): 212-232.

2022. Evans on intellectual attention and memory demonstratives.泭 Analytic Philosophy, 63: 118-130.

2021. Buddhaghosa, James, and Thompson on conscious flow.泭 Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 7(4), 569-581.

2020. Directing internal attention towards ongoing thought. Consciousness and Cognition, 85.

2020. Unity in the scientific study of intellectual attention. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 50(4): 444-459.

2020. Universal hinges and the bounds of sense. Philosophia, 48: 967-979.

2019. Conceptualizing intellectual attention. Theory & Psychology, 29(6): 775-788.

2018. The centre and periphery of conscious thought.泭 Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25(3-4):112-136.

Public Writing:

2022. Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch on Insight and Attention. Blog of the American Philosophical Association.