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Faculty Member, Medical Humanities
Assistant Professor
College of Medicine
Thesis Title: The Nature and Implementation of Representation in Biological Systems
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Jesse Prinz
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About
My research lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and bioethics. I study medical ethics and heathcare public policy with a focus on topics whose normative analysis partially depends on assumptions about the mind, rationality, or personhood. In particular this includes brain death and disorders of consciousness such as the vegetative and minimally conscious states and the normative issues and public policies surrounding these conditions.
From a more theoretical perspective, I am interested in the deepest foundations of mind in the physical universe. Cognitive science has the foundational concept of representation at its core. An adequate understanding of mind and its processes and properties, including memory, concepts, reasoning, rationality, perception, attention, consciousness, etc., ultimately awaits an understanding of representation, which we do not yet have. My dissertation research focuses on both the nature and the implementation of representation in biological systems (hence its title).
Contact Information
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