Pete Mandik is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is the author of Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind and Physicalist Theories of Consciousness, the co-author of Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Mind and Brain, and the co-editor of Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader. He writes and illustrates the comic Mind Chunks, which appears monthly at DailyNous.com. His research focuses on the points of intersection between Philosophy of Mind and the cognitive sciences, especially neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence.
