BU Sociology

BIO AND RESEARCH

Jeff Coulter is Professor of Sociology and associate faculty of philosophy at Boston University. Professor Coulter's interests and publications range from ethno-methodological studies of practical action to Wittgenstein, from the analysis of human mentality (especially the mind-body problem) to the sociological re-specification of theories of perception and emotion. He has also written on the problems of applying probability theory to the analysis of human action. Dr. Coulter has served as Senior Fellow of the Humanities Foundation at BU and is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster, England. The member of numerous editorial boards, he is also the recipient of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Prize (2000) and the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University (1987).

SELECT PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Jeff Coulter & Wes Sharrock, Brain, Mind And Human Behavior In Contemporary Cognitive Science (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).

Approaches to Insanity: A Philosophical and Sociological Study (U.K.: Martin Robertson, London, 1973 (Paper & Boards): U.S.A.: John Wiley, Halsted, 1974. Reissued Worldwide By Basil Blackwell).

The Social Construction of Mind (U.K.: Macmillan, London, 1979: U.S.A.: Rowman & Littlefield, N.J., 1979. Reissued In Paperback By Macmillan In 1987).

Kokoro No Shakaiteki Koosee (Japan: Shinyo-Sha Publishing Company, Tokyo). Japanese translation of The Social Construction of Mind By Aug Nishizaka, 1998).

Rethinking Cognitive Theory (U.K.: Macmillan, London, 1983: U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, N.Y., 1983).

Mind in Action (U.K.: Polity Press, Basil Blackwell, 1989: U.S.: Humanities Press, N.J., 1989 (Paper A Boards)).

Mente, Conoscenza, Societa (Italian translation of Mind in Action By Giulio Severo Neri: Universale Paperbacks, Il Mulino, Bologna, Italy, 1991).

Ethnomethodological Sociology: Classical Studies (Edward Elgar, London, 1990). is an edited anthology of sixteen major papers with an introduction and multilingual bibliography of the field (compiled with B.J. Fehr and Jeff Stetson).

Computers, Minds and Conduct (With Wes Sharrock, John Lee & Graham Button), Polity Press, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England, 1995 (Paper and Boards).

Brazilian-Portuguese translation of Computers, Minds and Conduct: Computadores, Mentes e Conduta (Trans. Roberto Leal Ferreira: Editora Unesp Fundacoa, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1997).

SELECT PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

"Language without Mind" in H. Te Modler & J. Potter (eds.), Talk and Cognition: Discourse and Social Interaction (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

"Dissolving the 'Project Problem': with Wes Sharrock, Visual Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 2003

"Ryle's 'Le Penseur'" Revue Internationale De Philosophie, Special Issue on Ryle, ed. by Anthony Palmer, vol. 57, no. 223, 2003

"The Hinterland of the Chinese Room" (with Wes Sharrock) in John Preston and Mark Bishop (eds.), Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence (Oxford Univesity Press, Clarendon Press, 2002)

"The 'Mind as Chimera for the Sciences in the 20th Century" in Stuart Shanker and David Kilfoyle (eds.), Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments, 2nd series (Routledge, 2001), volume 3.

"Discourse and Mind" in Stuart Shanker and David Kilfoyle (eds.), Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments, 2nd series (Routledge, 2001), volume 3.

"Projection Errors and Cognitive Models" Journal of Learning Science vol. 12, no. 3, 2003

"Reflections on Reasoning: Wittgenstein and Garfinkel against Theory" (with Wes Sharrock), trans. into Frency by Louis Quere and Albert Ogien ("Reflexions sur le raisonnement") in L'Ethnomedologie, Dicouverte, Paris, 2001

"Human Practices and the Observability of the 'Macro-social'" (reprinted as revised) in T. Schatzki (ed.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (Routledge, 2001).