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Brie Gertler, assistant professor of philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak on “Consciousness and Self-Consciousness: What Introspection Can Teach Us About the Mind,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights auditorium.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Gertler’s research interests include philosophy of mind (especially introspection and consciousness), epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical Feminism. She earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University in 1997, a master’s in philosophy from University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and a bachelor’s in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1989.
Gertler has received a College of William and Mary summer grant, two National Endowment of the Humanities grants, and the Brown University Teaching Award.
Her recent publications include “Explanatory Reduction, Conceptual Analysis, and Conceivability Arguments about the Mind,” forthcoming in Noûs; “The Mechanics of Self-Knowledge,” forthcoming in Philosophical Topics; “Can Feminists be Cartesians?” forthcoming in Dialogue; “Introspecting Phenomenal States,” forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; and “Functionalism’s Methodological Predicament,” published last year by The Southern Journal of Philosophy.