Max Deutsch

B.A. (Calif., Santa Barbara), M.A. (Calif., Berkeley), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
Email : medeutschkucc.hku.hk
Telephone : (852) 28592796
Fax : (852) 25598452

Max Deutsch came to Hong Kong in 2001. He began his graduate studies in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing his M.A., he moved to New Jersey to begin a dissertation on the mind-body problem at Rutgers University. He completed his Ph.D. in May 2001.

Max's current research is focused on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. Topics in the philosophy of mind that interest him include the mind-body problem, the nature of consciousness, representational theories of phenomenal character, and the internalism/externalism debate. Topics in the philosophy of language that interest him include the semantics of names, the semantics of attitude reports, the semantics/pragmatics distinction, and theories of indexicals and demonstratives.

Max reads novels and listens to music in his spare time.