Kristina Musholt

Nonconceptual Self-Consciousness?

Recently, there have been several attempts to provide an account of our ability for self-conscious thought in terms of nonconceptual forms of (self-)representation (most prominent among these is perhaps the account offered by Bermúdez (1998)). Proponents of nonconceptual content assume that there are ways of representing the world that are …

Setting the Stage: The Problem of Self-Consciousness

Kristina Musholt August 17, 2015 August 17, 2015 Kristina Musholt: Thinking about Oneself / Philosophy of Mind / Self-consciousness

Many thanks to John for inviting me to blog about my book, Thinking about Oneself, this week. The book is concerned with self-consciousness, understood as the ability to think about oneself. A paradigmatic expression of this ability is the ability to think “I”-thoughts (as in the thought “I am hungry”, …

Introducing Evan Thompson

Kristina Musholt July 27, 2015 July 27, 2015 Featured Scholar: Evan Thompson

It is my great pleasure to introduce Evan Thompson, who will be our featured scholar on the blog this week. Evan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Previously, he was a professor at the University …

Early Career Fellowships in the Philosophy of Primate Cognition

Kristina Musholt February 11, 2015 February 11, 2015 animal cognition / call for applications

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Göttingen, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, invites applications for Early Career Fellowships for the period from October 2015 to July 2017 in a group of philosophers working on conceptual and foundational issues concerning primate cognition. The group will be closely related to a newly established research cluster …

Introducing Brie Gertler

Kristina Musholt February 9, 2015 February 9, 2015 Featured Scholar: Brie Gertler

I am happy to be introducing Brie Gertler, who will be guest-blogging as a featured scholar here at Brains beginning this week. Brie received her PhD from Brown University in 1997 and is currently Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in the philosophy …

Introducing Anne Jaap Jacobson

Kristina Musholt December 4, 2014 December 9, 2014 Featured Scholar: Anne J Jacobson

It’s my great pleasure to introduce Anne Jaap Jacobson as our next featured scholar. Anne is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and Director of the UH Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. She is also a Visiting Academic at Somerville College, …

Introducing Susanna Siegel

Kristina Musholt November 6, 2014 November 6, 2014 Featured Scholar: Susanna Siegel

I’m excited to be introducing our next featured scholar, Susanna Siegel. Susanna is Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and works on topics in the philosophy of mind and epistemology.