University of Hertfordshire

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Professor of Philosophical Psychology

About

Daniel D. Hutto was born and schooled in New York but finished his undergraduate degree as a study abroad student in St Andrews, Scotland where his maternal roots lie. He returned to New York to teach fourth grade in the Bronx for a year in order to fund his MPhil in Logic and Metaphysics after which he carried on his doctoral work in York. He now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three boys. Prof. Hutto joined Hertfordshire in 1993 and served as Head of Philosophy from 1999 to 2005. He is currently the Research Leader for Philosophy.

Hutto's research is a sustained attempt to understand human nature in a way which respects natural science but which nevertheless rejects the impersonal metaphysics of contemporary naturalism.

Hutto’s recent projects have focused on consciousness, intentionality and everyday social understanding. He is author of The Presence of Mind (John Benjamins, 1999), Beyond Physicalism (John Benjamins, 2000), Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and Folk Psychological Narratives (MIT Bradford Books, 2008). He is co-editor of Folk-Psychology Re-Assessed (Springer, 2007) and editor of Narrative and Understanding Persons (CUP, 2007) and Narrative and Folk Psychology (Imprint Academic, 2009). A special yearbook issue of Consciousness and Emotion, entitled Radical Enactivism, which focuses on his philosophy of intentionality, phenomenology and narrative, was published in 2006.

He has just completed a co-authored book (with Erik Myin, Antwerp) entitled Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content for MIT Press (due to appear in 2012). He is a chief co-investigator for the Australian Research Council ‘Embodied Virtues and Expertise’ project (2010-2013) and collaborator in the Marie Curie Action ‘Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity’ initial training network (2011-2015) and the 'Agency, Normativity and Identity' project (2012-2015) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Research. He regularly speaks at conferences and expert meetings for clinical psychiatrists, educationalists, narratologists, neuroscientists and psychologists.

The following assessment, provided in support of his Readership application, is indicative of his achievements to date and his style of approach: "He writes with polish, sophistication, direction and insight. Hutto exhibits a marvelous sense of adventure: he tries to tackle difficult problems and enthusiastically defends positions because they strike him as deep and best, not because they are popular or will readily get him published. Yet he publishes with ease." George Graham, August 1999.

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