Carolyn Dicey-Jennings, John Schwenkler and I put together the following list of women working in philosophy of mind. It is no doubt incomplete. E-mail [email protected] with addenda and corrigenda. Or put them in the comment section.
Women Working in Philosophy of Mind and Closely Cognate Fields[*]
Kate Abramson (Indiana): Early Modern Moral Psychology (sympathy, empathy, reactive attitudes)
Kathleen Akins (Simon Fraser): Philosophy of Mind, Neuroscience (esp. color perception)
Maria Alvarez (KCL): Philosophy of Action, Free Will (esp. metaphysics and explanation of action)
Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser): Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (esp. mental causation, agency, temporal experience)
Kristin Andrews (York, Canada): Cognitive Science
Louise Antony (Massachusetts-Amherst): Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Feminism, Philosophy of Language (esp. metaphysics of mind)
Malika Auvray (CNRS): Neuroscience, consciousness
Anita Avramides (Oxford): Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology (esp. self-knowledge and knowledge of other minds)
Lynne Rudder Baker (Massachusetts-Amherst): Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Theology (esp. personal identity and the metaphysics of mind)
Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (Cologne): Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology (esp. a priori knowledge)
Clare Batty (Kentucky): Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics (esp. olfactory perception)
Katalin Balog (Yale): Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics (esp. consciousness, concepts, physicalism)
Karen Bennett (Cornell): Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind (esp. material constitution, mental causation)
Berit Brogaard (Missouri-St. Louis): Philosophy of Mind, Psychology (esp. perception, consciousness)
Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir (Iceland), metaphysics, philosophy of mind (esp. sense perception)
Elisabeth Camp (Penn): Philosophy of Mind and Language, Aesthetics (esp. metaphor, fiction, imagination, semantics and pragmatics, concepts, animal cognition)
Cheryl Chen (Harvard): Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind (esp. perception, body awareness, self-reference)
Mazviita Chirimuuta (Pitt, HPS): Neuroscience, Color, Perception
Patricia Smith Churchland (UCSD): Philosophy and Neuroscience (esp. mind and brain, consciousness, the self, free will)
Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis & Clark): Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind (esp. Reid, perception)
Helen De Cruz (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Empirical philosophy of mind, cognitive science
Hanne De Jaegher (University of the Basque Country, Spain): Social Cognition, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind
Ophelia Deroy (Paris): Perception, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology (esp. perception and higher-order cognition)
Imogen Dickie (Toronto): Perception, Philosophy of Language (esp. reference and acquaintance)
Janice Dowell (Nebraska-Lincoln): Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language (esp. contextualism, metametaphysics)
Zoë Drayson (ANU): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology (esp. psychological explanation, rationality, cognitive science, consciousness)
Frances Egan (Rutgers): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science (esp. psychological explanation, perception, content)
Naomi Eilan (Warwick): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology (esp. consciousness, objectivity, self-consciousness)
Katalin Farkas (Central European University): Philosophy of Mind (esp. consciousness, perception, internalism/externalism, Descartes)
Uljana Feest (Berlin): Experimental philosophy, philosophical psychology
Carla Fehr (Iowa State): Philosophy of Biology, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy (esp. feminist epistemology, diversity, scientific explanation)
Carrie Figdor (Iowa): Neuroscience, consciousness
Dimitria Gatzia (Akron-Wayne College): Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science (esp. color, perception and cognition, social neuroscience)
Tamar Szabo Gendler (Yale): Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Aesthetics (esp. implicit and explicit attitudes, perception, imagination, thought experiments)
Brie Gertler (Virginia): Philosophy of Mind (esp. self-knowledge, consciousness, content)
Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley): Kant, Philosophy of Mind (esp. perception, normativity, concepts)
Kathrin Gluer-Pagin (Stockholm): Philosophy of Mind and Language, Epistemology, Action Theory (esp. perception, theories of meaning)
Natalie Gold (Edinburgh): moral psychology
Valerie Hardcastle (Cincinnati): Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind (esp. philosophy of neuroscience, consciousness)
Cecilie Heyes (Oxford): Cognition (esp. animal cognition, social cognition, imitation, evolutionary epistemology)
Jane Heal (Cambridge): Philosophy of Language and Mind (esp. Wittgenstein, theories of meaning, phenomenal concepts)
Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA): Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action (esp. agency and responsibility, free will)
Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck): Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language (esp. action theory, naturalism, speech acts)
Elizabeth Irvine (Tübingen): Philosophy of Neuroscience
Anne Jaap Jacobson (Houston): Neurophilosophy, Hume, Feminism (esp. neurofeminism, concepts, cognitive scence)
Robin Jeshion (USC): Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Cognitive Science (esp. singular thought, perception)
Patricia Kitcher (Columbia): Philosophy of Psychology, Kant (esp. cognition and self-consciousness)
Krista Lawlor (Stanford): Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology (esp. coreference and confusion, assurance, knowledge ascription, self-knowledge)
Hemdat Lerman (Warwick): Philosophy of Perception
Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton): Philosophy of Language and Mind, Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology (esp. language processing and understanding, generics)
Amy Kind (Claremont-McKenna): Philosophy of Mind (esp. perception, consciousness, imagination)
Janet Levin (USC): Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology (esp. perception, consciousness, intuitions, metaphysics of mind)
Heather Logue (Leeds): Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology (esp. perception, disjunctivism, introspection)
Cynthia MacDonald (Canterbury): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Metaphysics (esp. self-knowledge, mental causation)
Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow): Philosophy of Mind (esp. consciousness, perception, introspection, imagination, metaphysics of mind)
Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford): Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics (esp. communication, testimony, inference)
Heidi Maibom (Carleton): Moral psychology
Jennifer Matey (Florida International): Philosophy of Mind, Psychology and Cognitive Science (esp. consciousness, perception)
Victoria McGeer (Princeton): Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Cognitive Science (esp. folk psychology, moral psychology, self-knowledge, autism)
Jane McIntyre (Cleveland State): Early Modern personal identity, moral psychology
Angela Mendelovici (Western Ontario): Philosophy of Mind (esp. representation, consciousness, perception)
Michele Merritt (Central Florida): Philosophy of Mind, Gender Studies (esp. embodied cognition, gender and subjectivity, consciousness, dance)
Ruth Millikan (Connecticut): Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language (esp. concepts, reduction, intentionality, evolution)
Friederike Moltmann (CNRS, Paris): Ontology, Philosophy of Mind
Michelle Montague (Oxford): Intentionality
Barbara Montero (CUNY): Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Feminism (esp. body awareness, movement, consciousness, physicalism)
Jennifer Nagel (Toronto): Epistemology, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind (esp. metacognition, intuitions, knowledge ascriptions)
Karen Neander (Duke): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science (esp. representation, function, content)
Anne Newstead (Sydney): Epistemology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Mathematics, Mind and Action (esp. mathematical knowledge, education, practical knowledge)
Martine Nida-Ruemelin (Freiburg): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Action (esp. consciousness, color, free will and agency, emotion, thought and language)
Lucy O’Brien (UCL): Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind (esp. self-reference, self-knowledge, self-constitution)
Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean-Nicod): Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Action Theory (esp. intentionality, action and intention, agency and theory of mind)
Laurie Paul (North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind (esp. phenomenology, perception, metaphysics of mind, causation, material constitution)
Sarah Paul (Wisconsin-Madison): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action (esp. knowledge of action and intention, practical reasoning)
Hanna Pickard (Oxford): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Moral Psychology, Epistemology (esp. responsibility, personality disorder, agency, self-knowledge)
Joëlle Proust (Institut Jean-Nicod): Philosophy of Mind (esp. intentionality, animal cognition, self-awareness, agency, personal identity, autism and schizophrenia)
Diana Raffman (Toronto): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Vagueness (esp. concepts, theories of vagueness, philosophy of music)
Elizabeth Radcliffe (William and Mary) Early modern moral psychology
Louise Richardson (York, England): Perception
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth): Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind (esp. mind and brain, free will, neuroimaging, neuroethics)
Deboleena Roy (Emory): Neuoscience
Elizabeth Schechter (Washington Univ. St. Louis): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology (esp. split-brain phenomena, consciousness, the self, agency, folk psychology)
Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers): Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language (esp. perceptual content, perception and justification, unity of perceptual consciousness)
Elizabeth Schier (Macquarie CCS/Berlin School of Mind and Brain): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science (esp. metaphysics of mind, mental representation and consciousness)
Susan Schneider (Penn): Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Cognitive Science (esp. philosophy of cognitive science, computational theory of mind, mind/body problem)
Sonia Sedivy (Toronto): Philosophy of Mind, Perception, Epistemology, Philosophy of Art (esp. disjunctivism, mental content)
Manidipa Sen (Jawaharlal Nehru University): self-knowledge, consciousness
Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser) Early Modern perception, sensation, personal identity
Maureen Sie (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action, Meta-Ethics, and Moral Psychology
Susanna Siegel (Harvard): Philosophy of Mind, Perception, Epistemology (esp. contents of perception, theories of perception, demonstratives, epistemology of perception)
Alison Simmons (Harvard): Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind (esp. perception, consciousness, intentionality)
Shannon Spaulding (WashU, PNP): Embodied Cognition
Maja Spener (Oxford): Consciousness
Mog Stapleton (Edinburgh): Cognitive Science
Helen Steward (Leeds): Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind (esp. metaphysics of mind, free will)
Elizabeth Stillwaggon Swan (Oregon State): Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind (esp. philosophy of cognitive science, artificial life, biosemiotics)
Jackie Sullivan (Alabama): neurobiology, consciousness
Julia Tanney (Kent): Philosophy of Mind, Ryle, Wittgenstein (esp. reason explanation, normativity, rule-following, self-knowledge)
Christine Tappolet (Montréal): Ethics, Moral Psychology (esp. meta-ethics, emotions, moral epistemology, agency)
Gabriele Taylor (Oxford): Moral psychology, philosophy of mind
Jacqueline Taylor (U. of San Francisco): Early modern moral psychology
Deb Tollefsen (Memphis): Cognitive Science
Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology (esp. bodily awareness, self-consciousness, social cognition, psychopathology)
Anik Waldow (Sydney): Early modern perception, personal identity, moral psychology
Jessica Wilson (Toronto): Metaphysics of Consciousness
Elizabeth Wilson (Emory Women's Studies): Philosophical Psychology
Julie Yoo (CSU-Northridge): Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind (esp. physicalism, mental causation, intentionality, folk psychology)
[*] Draft of 6. January, 2012. Compiled by Berit Brogaard, Carolyn Dicey-Jennings, and John Schwenkler. E-mail [email protected] with addenda and corrigenda.
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