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Associate Professor Markos Valaris

Associate Professor Markos Valaris

Associate Professor

PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2008; BSc National Technical University of Athens 2001

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

I am originally from Athens, Greece. Before studying Philosophy, I earned a bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. I got my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, in 2008. 
Phone
52760
E-mail
m.valaris@unsw.edu.au
Location
339 Morven Brown
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Valaris M, 2022, 'Control and Knowledge in Action: Developing Some Themes from McDowell', in Boyle M; Mylonaki E (ed.), Reason in Nature, Harvard University Press, pp. 153 - 170,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Valaris M, 2022, 'Reasoning and Mental Action', in Mental Action and the Conscious Mind, pp. 142 - 163,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Hetherington S; Valaris M, 2019, 'Introduction: Theorizing about Theorizing about Knowledge', in Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 1 - 7
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Valaris M, 2019, 'Self-Knowledge', in Valaris ; Hetherington (ed.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, pp. 155 - 174,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Melissa MM; Valaris M, 2012, 'Kant and Kantian Epistemology', in Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology: The Key Thinkers, edn. 1st, Continuum, London, pp. 131 - 152
  • Edited Books | 2019
    Hetherington S; Valaris M, (ed.), 2019, Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic, London
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Valaris M, 2023, 'Normality, safety and knowledge', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 106, pp. 394 - 401,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Valaris M, 2022, 'The Shape of Agency: Control, Action, Skill, Knowledge', AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Valaris M, 2021, 'Knowledge Out of Control', PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Valaris M, 2020, 'Knowing what you are doing: Action-demonstratives in unreflective action', Ratio, 33, pp. 97 - 105,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Valaris M, 2020, 'Reasoning, defeasibility, and the taking condition', Philosophers Imprint, 20, pp. 1 - 16
    Journal articles | 2019
    Valaris M, 2019, 'Reasoning and Deducing', Mind, 128, pp. 861 - 885,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Valaris M, 2018, 'Reasoning and Deducing', Mind,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Valaris M, 2018, 'Thinking by doing: Rylean regress and the metaphysics of action', Synthese, 197, pp. 3395 - 3412,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Merritt MM; Valaris M, 2017, 'Attention and Synthesis in Kant's Conception of Experience', The Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 571 - 592,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Valaris M, 2017, 'Induction, Normality and Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects', Ratio, 30, pp. 137 - 148,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Valaris M, 2017, 'What reasoning might be', Synthese, 194, pp. 2007 - 2024,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Valaris M, 2016, 'Supposition and Blindness', Mind, 125, pp. 895 - 901,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Valaris MC, 2016, 'What The Tortoise Has To Say About Diachronic Rationality', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 98, pp. 293 - 307,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Valaris MC; Michael MM, 2015, 'Time Travel for Endurantists', American Philosophical Quarterly, 52, pp. 357 - 365,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Valaris M, 2014, 'Reasoning and Regress', Mind, 123, pp. 101 - 127,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Valaris MC, 2014, 'Self-Knowledge and the Phenomenological Transparency of Belief', Philosophers' Imprint, 14, pp. 1 - 17,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Valaris MC, 2014, 'The Instrumental Structure of Actions', The Philosophical Quarterly,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Valaris M, 2013, '3 Spontaneity and Cognitive Agency', KANT YEARBOOK, 5, pp. 107 - 125,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Valaris M, 2011, 'Instrumental Rationality', European Journal of Philosophy, earlyview, pp. 1 - 20,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Valaris M, 2011, 'Transparency as Inference: A Reply to Alex Byrne', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 111, pp. 319 - 324,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Valaris M, 2009, 'Two-Dimensionalism and the Epistemology of Recognition', Philosophical Studies, 142, pp. 427 - 445,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Valaris M, 2008, 'Inner Sense, Self-Affection and Temporal Consciousness in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason', Philosophers' imprint, 8, pp. 1 - 18,
  • Other | 2015
    Valaris M, 2015, Attention, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ,
    Other | 2014
    Valaris M, 2014, The Mind's Construction, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ,

My work revolves around several key themes in the philosophy of mind, and its intersection with epistemology.

Humans and other animals stand out from the rest of nature because they have a subjective perspective on the world (e.g., they perceive, desire, and believe things about the world), and the capacity to ²¹³¦³ÙÌýon the basis of their perceptions, beliefs, and desires. My work focuses on trying to understand these unique capacities. It overlaps the traditional philosophical areas of philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, and epistemology. I also have a strong interest in the history of philosophical work in these areas, especially in Immanuel Kant and in early figures in Analytic philosophy, such as Gotlob Frege, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

I am an Associate Editor of the .

My Research Supervision

I am currently supervising PhD projects in moral psychology, philosophical theories of self-knowledge, and the philosophy of perception. I am currently supervising Honours projects on the connectionism/classicism debate in cognitive science, and on robot ethics. 

My Teaching

I regularly teach the following courses:

ARTS1361: Knowledge and Reality (With Dr Michaelis Michael)

ARTS2361: Philosophy of Mind

ARTS3370: Topics in the Philosophy of Mind and Cogntion

I have also taught courses on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

I have supervised research students (Honours or HDR) working on a variety of topics in Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology.