The Nature of Consciousness

Mark Rowlands was born in 1962 and is a Welsh writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. He is known within academic philosophy as one of the principal architects of the view known as the extended mind. His works include Animal Rights, The Body in Mind, The Nature of Consciousness, Animals Like Us, and a personal memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf. <p. Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Manchester before changing to philosophy. He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford, and has held various academic positions in philosophy in Britain, Ireland and the United States.

His best known work is his international best-selling memoir, The Philosopher and the Wolf, about the decade he spent living and travelling with a wolf. It has been described as an autobiography of an idea about the relationship between humans and non-human animals.

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