My work focuses on the philosophy of mind, and my specialty are philosophical issues about attention. Currently, the main focus of my work is connecting questions of how attention works with questions of what deserves our attention, and what good and bad forms of attention are. My research engages central philosophical topics about the nature of the mind, perception, consciousness, freedom and action, individual and society, rationality and ethics. My approach involves philosophical reflection in close dialogue with other disciplines including biology, neuroscience, psychology, economics and other social sciences, and literary studies.
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My work focuses on the philosophy of mind, and my specialty are philosophical issues about attention. Currently, the main focus of my work is connecting questions of how attention works with questions of what deserves our attention, and what good and bad forms of attention are. My research engages central philosophical topics about the nature of the mind, perception, consciousness, freedom and action, individual and society, rationality and ethics. My approach involves philosophical reflection in close dialogue with other disciplines including biology, neuroscience, psychology, economics and other social sciences, and literary studies.
I received my PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, after studying biology at Humboldt University Berlin, and philosophy at New York University. I have been a postdoc at Harvard's Mind-Brain-Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, was a core group member Oslo's Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, and head of the Oslo Center for Philosophy and the Sciences.