About

Joseph Tolliver is an Associate Professor and Core Faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is part of the Social Sciences division and is based in Social Sciences, Room 213. His office hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 1:45pm, and he can be reached by phone at 520-626-0590 or via email. The biography does not provide specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Atomic physics
• Physics
• Quantum mechanics
• Computational physics
• Optics

Selected publications

• Nonlinearity and ionization in Xe: experiment-based calibration of a numerical model

  Optics Letters · 2020 · 2 citations

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  • Computational physics
  • Optics

  Recently proposed universality of the nonlinear response is put to the test and used to improve a previously designed model for xenon. Utilizing accurate measurements resolving the nonlinear polarization and ionization in time and space, we calibrate the scaling parameters of the model and demonstrate agreement with several experiments spanning the intensity range relevant for applications in nonlinear optics at near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths. Applications to other species including small molecules are discussed, suggesting a self-consistent way to calibrate light-matter interaction models.

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• True versus effective Kerr nonlinear response in optical filamentation

  Optics Express · 2018-11-01 · 1 citations

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  The optical Kerr effect, and the nonlinear polarization in general, represents an important light-matter interaction governing many regimes encountered in the nonlinear optics. We reason that in the context of optical filamentation one should distinguish the third-order Kerr effect occurring at relatively low light intensities from the effective Kerr nonlinearity relevant to higher intensity. While many properties of filaments can be captured well with a third-order nonlinear polarization model with a nonlinear index chosen somewhat higher than the true nonlinear index operative at low intensities, our comparative simulations indicate that some filamentation aspects carry significant signatures from the higher-order nonlinearity.

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• Tropes and Truth

  2014-01-01 · 16 citations

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• Tales of the ineffable: crafting concepts in aesthetic experience

  Philosophical Studies · 2012-04-18 · 1 citations

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• Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2010-05-21 · 1 citations

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  Abstract This chapter discusses several theses that are part of the commonsense conception of color as articulated by Mark Johnston, including paradigms, explanation, unity, perceptual availability, and revelation. It focuses on the last doctrine, which contends that the intrinsic nature of canary yellow is fully revealed by a standard visual experience as of a canary yellow thing. Science delivers a variety of relational facts about colors. These physical, psychophysical, neuropsychological, and semantic facts are interesting and important, but are entirely beside the point of knowing what the colors are in and of themselves. What redness is in itself can only be learned in an experience as of a red thing. What is thus learned, what the quality is intrinsically, leaves nothing for a scientific theory to complete, revise, or even enhance.

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• Sensing, Perceiving, and Thinking: On the Method of Phenomenal Contrast

  The Southern Journal of Philosophy · 2007-03-01 · 2 citations

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  Abstract I apply the Method of Phenomenal Contrast to examples involving aesthetic experience and sensory illusion. While the method can provide reasons to prefer one form of content hypothesis over others, it may be of no help in answering substantive questions about the nature and structure of such content. I suggest that successful application of the method can leave us with a difficult question. Why would a sensory system have the function of representing a property that it cannot detect?

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• Sensory holism and functionalism

  Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1999-12-01 · 2 citations

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  I defend the possibility of a functional account of the intrinsic qualities of sensory experience against the claim that functional characterization can only describe such qualities to the level of isomorphism of relational structures on those qualities. A form sensory holism might be true concerning the phenomenal, and this holism would account for some antifunctionalist intuition evoked by inverted spectrum and absent qualia arguments. Sensory holism is compatible with the correctness of functionalism about the phenomenal.

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• Interior Colors

  Philosophical Topics · 1994-01-01 · 4 citations

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• Papers on color

  Philosophical Studies · 1992-12-01 · 1 citations

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• Knowledge without truth

  Philosophical Studies · 1989-05-01 · 2 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• J. K. Wahlstrand

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  3 shared

• M. Kolesík

  University of Arizona

  2 shared

• S. Zahedpour

  1 shared

• Keith Lehrer

  1 shared

• Doretta Petree

  The Ohio State University

  1 shared

• H. M. Milchberg

  1 shared

• S. J. Kerr

  Institute for Infocomm Research

  1 shared