Felipe De Brigard

Felipe De Brigard, PhD is Professor in the departments of Philosophy and Psychology and Neuroscience and in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also Principal Investigator of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Laboratory (IMC Lab) within the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. He earned a bachelor's degree from the National University of Colombia, where he studied philosophy and neuropsychology. He then earned a master’s degree from Tufts University, where he studied philosophy and cognitive science, and a doctoral degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studied philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. Before arriving to Duke, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab and the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. He has published a few books, including Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology (UN Bogota), Neuroscience and Philosophy (MIT Press) and Memory and Remembering (Cambridge University Press), as well as over 130 articles in philosophy, psychology and neuroscientific venues. He has also received a number of awards, including being named Rising Star by the American Psychological Association, the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Early Career award by the Psychonomic Society. His research focuses on the nature of memory and its relations to other cognitive faculties, such as perception, imagination, attention and consciousness, and he is also interested in the foundations of neuroscience and moral psychology. He is also co-director of the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP), which have been hosted every year at Duke University since 2016. Since 2021, he has been the director of Duke's Memory and Forgiveness project, which takes place both in the US and in Colombia.