Post:	Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Location:	Pevensey 3 5C20
Email:	stevet@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	3754 or 8195
UK:	(01273) 873754 or (01273) 678195
International:	+44 1273 873754 or +44 1273 678195

Biography

Steve Torrance (main website: www.mdx.ac.uk/www/psychology/torrance/) is interested in materialist and computational theories of consciousness, and in the place of the study of consciousness within science. He is examining the differing conceptions of science and mind that emerge from AI-based cognitive science and from contrasting approaches which are critical of computationalism. This work also involves examining the links between mind and value, and how far consciousness science necessarily interacts with ethics.  He is in particular looking at the ethical ramifications of artificial consciousness.  He is also interested in enactive or embodied approaches to mind, and has recently organized several meetings on enactive approaches to consciousness including a two-day symposium on enactive perception, which took place at Sussex University in March 2004.  He is a visiting research fellow in the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS), and a member of the School of Health and Social Sciences at Middlesex University, where he is Professor of Cognitive Science.