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Jesse J. Prinz is currently a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the City University of New York and an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he taught until January 2009. He works primarily in the philosophy of psychology and has produced books and articles on emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness.[1] Much of his work in these areas has been a defense of empiricism against psychological nativism. He is an advocate of experimental philosophy.

Books

• Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis (MIT: 2002)
• Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion (OUP: 2004)
• The Emotional Construction of Morals (OUP: 2007).

Forthcoming

• Beyond Human Nature (Penguin/Norton)
• The Conscious Brain (OUP)

Edited Books

• The Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• Mind and Cognition, 3rd Edition (with William Lycan). Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming)
• Section on 'Philosophy of Mind'. St. Cahn (ed.) Philosophy for the 21st Century. (OUP: 2002).

External links

• Prinz Personal Homepage.
• Discussion of experimental philosophy on YouTube.
• Video interview/discussion with Prinz and Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv