E. J. Green William H.
Miller III Department of Philosophy
egreen77@[Link] Johns Hopkins University
[Link] 3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Employment
Johns Hopkins, William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy
Miller Associate Professor, 2023—present
Associate Research Professor, 2023
MIT, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Associate Professor with Tenure, 2023
Associate Professor without Tenure, 2021—2023
Assistant Professor, 2017—2021
Class of 1948 Career Development Chair, 2019—2022
NYU, Department of Philosophy
Bersoff Faculty Fellow, 2016—2017
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Rutgers University, May 2016
Dissertation title: Seeing the Structure of Objects
Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, May 2016
Project title: Apparent Motion of Negative Parts
B.A., Philosophy, B.A., Psychology, Rutgers University, May 2010
summa cum laude, with Highest Honors in Philosophy
Thesis title: On Shoemaker’s Model of Mental Realization
Research Areas
Specialization: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of
Perception
Competence: Philosophy of Science, Moral Psychology
Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
1. Green, E. J. (forthcoming). “Hill on Perceptual Relativity and Perceptual Error.” Mind &
Language.
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2. Green, E. J. (forthcoming). “Can We Perceive the Past?” To appear in S. Aronowitz & L.
Nadel (eds.), Space, Time, and Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Byrne, A., & Green, E. J. (2023). “Whither Naïve Realism? – I.” Philosophical
Perspectives. DOI: 10.1111/phpe.12180.
4. Green, E. J. (2023). “A Pluralist Perspective on Shape Constancy.” The British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science. DOI: 10.1086/727427.
5. Green, E. J. (2023). “The Multisensory Perception of Persistence.” In A. Mroczko-
Wąsowicz & R. Grush (eds.), Sensory Individuals: Contemporary Perspectives on
Modality-Specific and Multimodal Perceptual Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Green, E. J. (2023). “The Perception-Cognition Border: Architecture or Format?” In B. P.
McLaughlin & J. Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind. Oxford:
Blackwell.
7. Green, E. J. (2023). “Perceptual Constancy and Perceptual Representation.” Analytic
Philosophy. DOI: 10.1111/phib.12293.
8. Quilty-Dunn, J., & Green, E. J. (2023). “Perceptual Attribution and Perceptual
Reference.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 106(2), 273-298.
9. Green, E. J. (2022). “The Puzzle of Cross-Modal Shape Experience.” Noûs, 56(4), 867-
896.
10. Green, E. J. (2022). “Representing Shape in Sight and Touch.” Mind & Language, 37(4),
694-714.
11. Green, E. J., & Quilty-Dunn, J. (2021). “What is an Object File?” The British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science, 72(3), 665-699. (Selected as BJPS Editor’s Choice for volume
72, issue 3.)
12. Green, E. J. (2021). “Binding and Differentiation in Multisensory Object Perception.”
Synthese, 198, 4457-4491.
13. Green, E. J. (2020). “The Perception-Cognition Border: A Case for Architectural
Division.” The Philosophical Review, 129(3), 323-393.
14. Green, E. J., & Rabin, G. (2020). “Spatial Functionalism, Vision Science, and the Case
Against Global Skepticism.” Analytic Philosophy, 61(4), 345-378.
15. Green, E. J. (2019). “A Theory of Perceptual Objects.” Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, 99(3), 663-693.
16. Green, E. J. (2019). “On the Perception of Structure.” Noûs, 53(3), 564-592.
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17. Green, E. J. (2018). “What Do Object Files Pick Out?” Philosophy of Science, 85(2),
177-200.
18. Green, E. J., & Schellenberg, S. (2018). “Spatial Perception: The Perspectival Aspect of
Perception.” Philosophy Compass, 13, e12472.
19. Green, E. J. (2017). “Psychosemantics and the Rich/Thin Debate.” Philosophical
Perspectives, 31(1), 153-186.
20. Green, E. J. (2017). “Attentive Visual Reference.” Mind & Language, 32(1), 3-38.
21. Green, E. J. (2017). “A Layered View of Shape Perception.” The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science, 68(2), 355-387.
22. Green, E. J. (2016). “Representationalism and Perceptual Organization.” Philosophical
Topics, 44(2), 121-148.
23. McLaughlin, B. P., & Green, E. J. (2015). “Are Icons Sense Data?” Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, 22(6), 1541-1545. Commentary on Hoffman, Singh, and Prakash,
“The Interface Theory of Perception.”
Reviews and Other Writing
24. Hafri, A., Green, E. J., & Firestone, C. (forthcoming). “Compositionality in Visual
Perception.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
25. Mandelbaum, E., Dunham, Y., Feiman, R., Firestone, C., Green, E. J., Harris, D., Kibbe,
M., Kurdi, B., Mylopoulos, M., Shepherd, J., Wellwood, A., Porot, N., & Quilty-Dunn, J.
(2022). “Problems and Mysteries of the Many Languages of Thought.” Cognitive
Science, 46, e13225.
26. Green, E. J. (2015). “Review of Uriah Kriegel’s Sources of Intentionality.” Mind,
124(493), 366-370.
Published Abstracts
27. Green, E. J., Singh, Manish, & Feldman, Jacob (2015). “Apparent Motion of Negative
Parts.” Journal of Vision, 15(12), 524.
Invited Talks and Conference Presentations
“The Complexity of Appearances”
• Philosophy Department Colloquium, Rhode Island College, September 2023
• Vision Research Conference, York University, December 2023
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Commentary on Chris Hill, Perceptual Experience
• Pacific APA Meeting, April 2023
“Can We Perceive the Past?”
• Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience Seminar, University of Glasgow, January
2023
• WUSTL Mind and Perception Group, March 2023
“The Relation Between Seeing and Feeling”
• Philosophy Department Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, December 2022
Commentary on Joseph Levine, “On Cognizing Acquaintance”
• New England Workshop on Metaphysics, Rhode Island College, November 2022
“Can We Perceive the Past? If So, What Would it Look Like?”
• Space, Time, and Memory Workshop, University of Arizona, November 2022
“A Pluralist Perspective on Shape Constancy”
• Perception and Belief Workshop, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, October 2021
• Imagistic Cognition Workshop, University of Salzburg, April 2022
“Revisiting Molyneux’s Puzzle”
• Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, May 2021
Commentary on Kevin Lande, “Seeing and Visual Reference”
• Pacific APA Meeting, April 2021
“The Puzzle of Cross-Modal Shape Experience”
• Chris Hill and Adam Pautz’s perception seminar, Brown University, October 2020
• Autumn of Consciousness online talk series, November 2020
• Salzburg/Antwerp Imagistic Cognition Group, January 2021
• WUSTL Mind and Perception Group, February 2021
Commentary on Zoe Jenkin, “Perceptual Learning and Reason-Responsiveness”
• Eastern APA Meeting, January 2021
“Perceptual Attribution and Perceptual Reference”
• Institute of Philosophy lab meeting (w/ Jake Quilty-Dunn), July 2020
“What is Perceptual Constancy?”
• York University, Cognitive Science speaker series, February 2020
Commentary on Claudia Passos, “Do Newborn Babies Have Experience of Agency?”
• Ranch Metaphysics Workshop, February 2020
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“Modularity and the Perception-Cognition Border”
• Ned Block’s perception seminar, NYU, December 2019
• Will Davies’ cognitive science seminar, Oxford University, June 2021
“Binding and Differentiation in Multisensory Object Perception”
• Brandeis University, Philosophy Colloquium, September 2019
“Spatial Functionalism, Vision Science, and the Prospects for Anti-Skepticism”
• Foundations of Meaning Workshop, NYU Abu Dhabi, January 2019 (co-presented
with Gabriel Rabin, NYUAD)
• Visual Space Workshop, Ohio State University, February 2019
“The Perception-Cognition Border: An Architectural Approach”
• University of Illinois at Chicago, Integrative Neuroscience Colloquium, October 2018
• Princeton University, Cognitive Science Colloquium, November 2018
“How Does Cognition Affect Perception? The Case for Architectural Division”
• Pacific APA Meeting, March 2018
“Objects Across the Senses”
• UCSD Winter Perception Workshop, February 2018
• Oberlin College Philosophy Department Colloquium, March 2018
Commentary on Alison Springle, “Practical Perceptual Representation”
• Eastern APA Meeting, January 2018
Commentary on Jake Quilty-Dunn, “Attention and Encapsulation”
• Minds Online Conference, September 2017
Commentary on Chaz Firestone and Jesse Prinz, Top-Down Effects on Perception Debate
• Eastern APA Meeting, January 2017
“What is an Object File?”
• Rutgers-Barnard-Columbia Mind Workshop, July 2016
“The Visual Experience of Structure”
• CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series, October 2015
• Bochum-Rutgers Workshop in Philosophy, October 2016
“Objects, Object Files, and Object Principles”
• Rutgers “What is Cognitive Science?” talk, September 2015
“Shape Representation and Object Perception”
• Beijing Normal University, June 2013
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“On Visual Referring”
• Seoul National University, May 2013
Commentary on Francesca Rocchi’s “Global motion perception in human vision: How does
the visual system combine (‘pool’) local motion signals into a global percept?”
• Rutgers-Siena Conference, Rutgers University, May 2013
Refereed Talks and Conference Presentations
“Shape Constancy and the Format of Perception”
• Talk presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting,
University of Milan, July 2022
“The Case for Multisensory Binding Awareness”
• Talk presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting,
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, July 2018
“Structure Constancy”
• 2015 Minds Online Conference (hosted by the Philosophy of Brains blog,
[Link]), September 2015
“Objects, Object Files, and Object Principles”
• Talk presented at the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual
meeting, University of Tartu, July 2015
“Apparent Motion of Negative Parts”
• Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, St. Petersburg,
Florida, May 2015
“Metric Perception and Shape Perception: A Distinction”
• Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting,
University of British Columbia, June 2014
• Rutgers-Lund Philosophy Conference, Rutgers University, April 2014
“On Sensory Individuals: Making Room for Surfaces”
• The Senses: CUNY Graduate Philosophy Conference, CUNY, April 2014
“A Problem for Kriegel’s Self-Representational Theory of Consciousness”
• New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association Meeting, Montclair State University,
November 2011
Awards and Fellowships
2015: Rutgers University Award for Research Accomplishments by a Graduate Student
(awarded to six graduate students enrolled at Rutgers Graduate School-New Brunswick)
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2010-2011: Bevier Fellowship (awarded, university-wide, to one Rutgers University
undergraduate entering graduate school at Rutgers)
Sanford Doolittle Prize in Philosophy, Rutgers University, May 2010
Teaching
Graduate
24.500: Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Perception (co-taught w/ Alex Byrne), Spring 2022
(MIT)
24.500: Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Intentionality and Consciousness, Fall 2019 (MIT)
24.500: Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Perception and Concepts (co-taught w/ Alex Byrne),
Spring 2019 (MIT)
24.500: Topics in Philosophy of Mind: High-level Perceptual Capacities, Spring 2018 (MIT)
Undergraduate
24.212: Philosophy of Perception, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022 (MIT)
24.09: Minds and Machines, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022 (MIT)
24.215: Topics in the Philosophy of Science, Fall 2018 (MIT)
24.120: Moral Psychology, Spring 2018, Fall 2019 (MIT)
24.08J: Philosophical Issues in Brain Science, Fall 2017 (MIT)
PHIL-UA 3-001: Ethics and Society, Spring 2017 (NYU)
PHIL-UA 93: Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science, Fall 2016 (NYU)
Phil 103: Introduction to Philosophy, Summer 2015 (Rutgers)
Phil 201: Introduction to Logic, Spring 2014 (Rutgers)
Phil 105: Current Moral and Social Issues, Fall 2013 (Rutgers)
Graduate Student Advising
Jessica Heine, PhD 2024 (expected), committee member
Jocelyn Wang, PhD 2024 (expected), primary advisor
Tyler Brooke-Wilson, PhD 2023, primary advisor
Azenet Lopez, PhD 2020, external committee member
Service
MIT Burchard Scholars Program, 2022-2023
MIT SHASS Educational Advisory Committee (SHEAC), 2021-2023
MIT Philosophy Work-in-Progress (WIP) organizer, 2018-2022
Referee, CogSci annual conference, 2021
Referee, Minds Online Conference, 2017
Referee, Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting: 2017, 2019, 2020
Assistant Philpapers category editor: The Perceptual Relation, 2013-2022
Rutgers graduate student faculty representative, 2013-2014
Referee, Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2013
Book referee: MIT Press, Oxford University Press (x2)
Book proposal referee: Routledge
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Book chapter referee: Oxford University Press
Journal referee (many on multiple occasions): Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Avant, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,
Cognition, Cognitive Science, Consciousness and Cognition, Current Directions in
Psychological Science, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Journal of the American Philosophical
Association, Mind, Mind & Language, Noûs, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers’
Imprint, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review,
Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy Compass,
Philosophy of Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological
Review, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Synthese
