DOUGLAS LONG Professor Emeritus

Doug Long specializes in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. He also teaches an undergraduate course in bioethics.  He has published papers on a variety of topics, including persons, action, the mind-body problem, the concept of the human body, knowledge of other minds, and skepticism. He is currently working on an expressivist view of self-knowledge and on an alternative to dualism and reductive materialism.  His publications include: "The Philosophical Concept of a Human Body," Philosophical Review (1964); "Particulars and Their Qualities," The Philosophical Quarterly (1968); "Descartes' Argument for Mind-Body Dualism," Philosophical Forum (1969); "The Bodies of Persons," Journal of Philosophy (1974); "Disembodied Existence, Physicalism, and the Mind-Body Problem," Philosophical Studies (1977); "Agents, Mechanisms, and Other Minds," in Body, Mind, and Method, ed. by Gustafson and Tapscott (1979); "The Self-Defeating Character of Scepticism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1992); "One More Foiled Defense of Skepticism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1994); "Why Machines Can Neither Think Nor Feel," in Language, Mind, and Art, ed. by Jamieson (1994); "Avowals and First-Person Privilege" (with Dorit Bar-On), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2001); "Knowing Selves: Expression, Truth, and Knowledge" (with Dorit Bar-On), in Privileged Access, ed. by Gertler (forthcoming). [Complete CV]

phone: (919) 962-3312
email: dlong@email.unc.edu