Kathleen Akins

Kathleen Akins is Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow in Philosophy of Science[1] and a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor. Currently her primary area of research is Neurophilosophy.[2]

She is particularly famous for two articles:[3] "Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States"[4] and "What is it like to be boring and myopic",[5] her response to Nagel's What is it like to be a bat?.

Notable publications

  • Brook, Andrew, and Kathleen Akins, eds. Cognition and the brain: The philosophy and neuroscience movement. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Akins, Kathleen. "Of sensory systems and the "aboutness" of mental states." The Journal of Philosophy (1996): 337-372.
  • Akins, Kathleen. "What is it Like to be Boring and Myopic?." (1993).

References and publications

  1. ↑ http://naturalscience.com/ns/news/news17.html
  2. ↑ https://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea/
  3. ↑ http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/09/splendid-philosopher-of-the-week-kathleen-akins.html
  4. ↑ Akins, Kathleen (1996). "Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States". The Journal of Philosophy. 93 (7): 337–372. JSTOR 2941125.
  5. ↑ https://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea/docs/Boring&Myopic.pdf
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