J. Christopher Maloney

Interests

Teaching

Philosophy of Mind, Analytic Philosophy,

Research

Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Maloney, J. C. (2018). What it is Like to Perceive (for second year of credit per dept. policy). New York: Oxford University Press.

Journals/Publications

• Maloney, J. C. (2013). Context Operationalized. International Review of Pragmatics, 5(Special Issue (last issue of 2013, appeared in 2014)), 233-252.
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  The meanings speakers and auditors assign to utterances are exquisitely context sensitive, with contexts and their elements varying wildly with the linguistic occasions. This paper investigates a theory of how linguistic agents might assign meanings to utterances in a contextually sensitive manner consistent with the agents’ evident inability cognitively to identify what within their systems of mental representation is contextually relevant to the utterances of the moment. According to the proposed account, the contexts determinative of meaning function in the manner of adverbial operators on utterances serving so to fuse context and utterance as to render context transparent to agents.
• Maloney, J. C. (2014). Context Operationalized. International Review of Pragmatics, 5(2), 20.
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  This paper develops an original theory of contextually sensitive linguistic meaning. The meanings speakers and auditors assign to utterances are exquisitely context sensitive, with contexts and their elements varying wildly with the linguistic occasions. This paper investigates a theory of how linguistic agents might assign meanings to utterances in a contextually sensitive manner consistent with the agents’ evident inability cognitively to identify what within their systems of mental representation is contextually relevant to the utterances of the moment. According to the proposed account, the contexts determinative of meaning function in the manner of adverbial operators on utterances serving so to fuse context and utterance as to render context transparent to agents.
• Maloney, J., McCray, J. C., & Maloney, J. C. (1997). Improving access to knowledge-based health sciences information: early results from a statewide collaborative effort. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 85(2).
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  Access to biomedical literature has been shown to reduce the patient's length of stay and thus reduce the cost of the hospital visit. Unfortunately, access to the most current information, at the time and place of need, requires a substantial commitment of resources in the form of staff expertise, computer hardware and software, and user training. The cost of these resources may be prohibitively high for all but the largest institutions. The Arizona Health Information Network (AZHIN) brings together librarians, information systems specialists, and health care professionals from hospitals throughout the state in an effort to share resources and expertise. By reducing the cost of access, AZHIN has increased the availability of health-related information across the state. Progress in AZHIN's first two years is described.

Presentations

• Maloney, J. C. (2015, 2015 09 24). Intentionalism and Perceptual Consciousness. Invited Colloquium Lecture and Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff: Philosophy Department Northern Arizona University.
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  Invited Lecture

Others

• Maloney, J. C. (2012). No Publications in 2012.
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  ;Full Citation: I have no publications in 2012;Type of Publication: No publications in 2012;
• Maloney, J. C. (2011).
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