David Miguel Gray

Degrees

B.A. (1997) Columbia University
M.A. (2002) Harvard University
Ph.D. (2008) Harvard University

Research Area

David Miguel Gray specializes in philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of race and racism. He is particularly interested in self-knowledge, cognitive phenomenology, philosophical issues in psychopathology, and issues in the metaphysics of race. Gray also has research interests in African-American philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of perception.

Current Research

In Philosophy of Psychology, Gray is currently working on developing an account of why it is that schizophrenics make delusional reports concerning alien control, auditory verbal hallucination, and thought insertion. This works involves not only creating and developing an account of abnormal schizophrenic experience, but deficits in reasoning that lead to the production of delusional reports.

In Philosophy of Mind, Gray is creating an account of cognitive phenomenology which can be used to analyze current accounts in the philosophical literature. He is also working on clarifying constitutive and causal components of perceptual models and rational accounts of self-knowledge.

In Philosophy of Race, Gray is currently working on an account of race that both skirts problems with standard social constructivist accounts of race while demonstrating that issues in the metaphysics of race and the psychology of racial identity cannot come apart.

In African-American Philosophy, Gray is working on a reinterpretation of Du Bois' account of race.

Selected Presentations

"TBA"
-Epistemology of Implicit Bias Workshop, Sheffield University - April 20-21, 2012

"HOT: Keeping up Appearances?"
-Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association
- April 4-7, 2012 -Southwestern Philosophical Society - November 18-20, 2011

"Comments on Anderson's 'Why So Serious: An Enquiry On Racist Jokes'"
-Central Division, American Philosophical Association - February 18, 2012

"Racial Norms: A Reinterpretation of Du Bois' 'The Conservation of Races'"
-Social Political Workshop, Vanderbilt University
- October 14, 2011 -Texas A&M University - January 27, 2009

"Slow-Switching and the Self-Ascription of Knowledge"
- Semantics and Philosophy in Europe, Ruhr. University of Bochum - September 30, 2011

"Towards a Three-Factor Account of Monothematic Delusions: How to Characterize Abnormal Experience in Thought Insertion and Alien Control"
-Clinical Brown Bag, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University - March 29, 2011

"Thought Insertion: From Phenomenology to Delusions"
-Bard College - October 18, 2010
-Rutgers University - Newark, December 8, 2009
-Oxford University, June 17, 2009

"Non-Phenomenal Contributions to Delusional Reports of Alien Control in Schizophrenia"
-Oberlin College, April 8, 2010
-Texas Tech University, December 4, 2009

"Do Chimpanzees Have a Theory of Mind?"
-Beloit College, February 11, 2008

"Cognitive Phenomenology"
-Western Michigan University, December 1, 2007
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 5, 2007

"Deception, Self-Deception, and Responsibility"
-Harvard University Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, May 15, 2006

"Phenomenal Warrant and the Ascription of Belief"
-City University of New York Graduate Center, February 25, 2006 "

Is the Observational Model of Introspection Crazy?"
-Harvard University Metaphysics and Epistemology Workshop, April 11, 2005

"Thought Insertion, Self-Blindness, and Immunity to Error through Misidentification"
-Mind, Brain, and Behavior Group, Harvard University, March 10, 2005

"Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence"
-Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, February 3, 2005

"Rationality and Introspection"
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 14, 2005

"Keeping it in the Family: Racial Reference and Family Resemblance Criterion"
-Harvard University, December 20, 2004

Courses

In the Fall of 2011, Gray is teaching an undergraduate course in Philosophy of Mind. In the Spring of 2012 Gray will teach undergraduate courses in Philosophy of Language and Formal Logic. Previously Gray has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Metaphysics, Philosophy of Race and Racism, African-American Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Mental Phenomena, Self-Knowledge, Formal Logic, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Perception, Epistemology, Self-Deception and Moral Responsibility, Lottery Paradoxes, and Freud and early Sartre.