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Tom Cochrane


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  • Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Flinders University
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I have been teaching at Flinders University in Adelaide since 2018. Prior to this I held lectureships and postdoctoral positions at University of York, University of Sheffield, Queen's University Belfast, and University of Geneva. I am the lead editor of The Emotional Power of Music (Oxford University Press 2013) and the author of The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states (Cambridge University Press 2018), The Aesthetic Value of the World (Oxford University Press 2021), Identity in Science Fiction: Brain transplants and other misadventures (Bloomsbury 2025) and the forthcoming Happiness for Mortals: Vulnerability and the good life (Cambridge University Press 2027). My main areas of expertise are the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and well-being.

Experience
  • –present Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Flinders University
  • 2017–2018 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of York, UK
  • 2012–2017 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
  • 2010–2012 International research fellow, Queens University Belfast
  • 2007–2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Geneva University
Education
  • 2007 University of Nottingham, PhD Philosophy
  • 2001 Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, MA Music
  • 1999 University College London, BA Hons Philosophy
Publications
  • 2027 Happiness for Mortals: Vulnerability and the good life, Cambridge University Press
  • 2025 Identity in Science Fiction: Brain transplants and other misadventures, Bloomsbury
  • 2025 Control at the heart of life: a philosophical review of perceptual control theory, Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences
  • 2025 Fear of Death and the Will to Live, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
  • 2023 Imagination, Endogenous Attention, and Mental Agency., Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
  • 2023 Consciousness, attention, and the motivation-affect system, Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • 2021 A case of shared consciousness, Synthese
  • 2021 The Aesthetic Value of the World, Oxford University Press
  • 2018 The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states, Cambridge University Press
Professional Memberships
  • International Association for Perceptual Control Theory
  • The Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Research Areas
  • Philosophy And Religious Studies (22)

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