Bruno Cortesi

I am a Ph.D. candidate in ‘Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind’ at the University School of Advanced Studies IUSS of Pavia, in Italy. I am pretty much convinced that Descartes got it right on the mind (although I am aware that my position is not one that is very fashionable nowadays). My doctoral dissertation will deal with the thesis of Experiential Revelation in the philosophy of mind. As I understand it, Revelation claims that to have an experience - viz., to be acquainted with it - is to know its nature. I am also interest in the consequences Revelation might have upon a materialist framework broadly understood about the mind and about reality in general. More generally, my interests lie in the phenomenological approach and the first-person perspective, the analytic philosophy of mind, the metaphysics and epistemology of mind and consciousness.