Douglas Wadle, MA, MFA, Ph.D.
Adjunct Lecturer
USC Dornsife
Email: wadle.philosophy@gmail.com
Douglas C. Wadle is currently visiting faculty in the Philosophy Department at the University of Kansas, and adjunct faculty in Philosophy at USC. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Wadle specializes in the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and the philosophy of perception. He thinks that it is a mistake for research on perception to be cast in terms of discrete sensory modalities like vision and audition. He has proposed an alternative, more holistic framework for understanding perceptual processing and representation and applies it to a number of topics in the philosophy of perception – particularly those related to spatial perception. Dr. Wadle also trained in music composition (MFA, CalArts) and ethnomusicology (MA, UCLA). He was active as a composer for over a decade before turning to philosophy. He is currently working on a series of papers on the implications of composer John Cage’s work for various long-standing questions in the philosophy of music. He has recently begun a project that combines his expertise in spatial perception and alternate tuning systems to explore spatial metaphors used to describe harmony.
