Gabrielle Benette Jackson received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2011. Since then she has been the Andrew W Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute, and a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey. She currently Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. In Jackson is interested in scientifically informed approaches to the study of the mind. Her recent work includes the articles “Skillful Action in Peripersonal Space” and “Neurophilosophy and its Discontents.”
Gabrielle Jackson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University
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Apprehending Consciousness
This roundtable will examine how science approaches the problem of consciousness, and the roles of physics, psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, philosophy, and religion in understanding sentience and self-awareness.