We are excited to announce that Alison Springle will be joining us as one of our new associate editors! Alison is an Assistant Professor at University of Miami, and works on a wide range of topics in philosophy of mind and science. For the blog, Alison will be working on promoting new collaborations and content-types for the blog, as well as contributing to our book symposia series. We’re thrilled with how the new editorial team is shaping up, and there is more to come! See an intro from Alison below!
“Dear Readers,
It is an honor to be serving as an associate editor for The Brains Blog, which has been a most helpful resource to me and so many others. My plans for this role are to host several book symposia, to attempt some collaborative projects involving other public-facing academic media outlets, and to attempt to secure some funding to support these and potentially other Brains Blog projects.
A bit more about me: As Dan notes, I’m an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami (FL). The organizing theme of my research —which spans many topics in philosophy of mind, science, perception, action, memory, ethics of knowing and epistemology— is how we understand representation. My “radical” view is that representation is constituted by intentional activity, and different species of representation by different species of representational activities. Along with many paper projects, I’m working on two books. One develops the radical view I just described. The other, in certain respects, applies it in the form of a social-critical approach in the metaphysics of memory which I’m developing/co-authoring with Seth Goldwasser.
I’m excited to be serving this community!”
~Alison