Mark Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree at Manchester University in engineering before changing to philosophy. He took his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and has held various academic positions in philosophy in universities in Britain, Ireland and the US.
His best-known work is the book The Philosopher and the Wolf about a decade of his life he spent living and travelling with a wolf. As The Guardian described it in its review, “it is perhaps best described as the autobiography of an idea, or rather a set of related ideas, about the relationship between human and non-human animals.”
Books in order of publication:
Supervenience and Materialism, Ashgate, 1995.
Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence, Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 1998.
The Body in Mind: Understanding Cognitive Processes, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
The Environmental Crisis: Understanding the Value of Nature, Macmillan/St Martin’s Press, 2000.
The Nature of Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Animals Like Us, Verso, 2002.
Externalism: Putting Mind and World Back Together Again, Acumen/McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
The Philosopher at the End of the Universe, Ebury/Random House, 2003 retitled Sci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger, 2nd edition
Everything I Know I Learned From TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato, Ebury/Random House, 2005
Body Language: Representing in Action, MIT Press, 2006.
Fame, Acumen 2008.
The Philosopher and the Wolf, Granta, 2008.
The New Science of the Mind, MIT Press, 2010.
Can Animals be Moral? Oxford University Press, 2012
Running with the Pack, Granta, 2013
The Word of Dog, Liveright Publishing Corp.
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