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Brie Gertler is an American philosopher who works primarily on problems in the philosophy of mind. A mind-body dualist, she is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Virginia. Her special interests include introspection, consciousness and mental content.
She has edited Privileged Access (2003), an anthology of papers on self-knowledge, and co-edited (with Lawrence Shapiro) "Arguing about the Mind" (2007), a reader in the philosophy of mind.
Education and employment
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Gertler has written numerous papers on her research and is a book reviewer. She received a BA with High Honors in Philosophy from Swarthmore College in June 1989 and an MA at the University of Pennsylvania three years later. In June 1997, she was granted a PhD by Brown University.
Gertler first found employment as an assistant professor at The College of William & Mary, where she worked from 1997 to 2001, before moving on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she earned tenure. She moved to her University of Virginia teaching position in 2004, was later department chair, and added the Vice-Provost title in 2021.
To the thirteenth edition of the Joel Feinberg- and Russ Shafer-Landau-edited Reason & Responsibility, Gertler contributed a paper in support of dualism. It explored the fundamentals of the mind-body problem and defended her philosophy against charges of "spookiness". Her argument is founded on the claim that, in feeling pain, we know the essence of the mental state of pain.
Awards
- University of Virginia Summer Grant (Summers 2005, 2007).
- Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin (Autumn 2004: declined).
- University of Wisconsin Summer Research Funds (Summers 2002, 2003).
- College of William and Mary Summer Grant (Summer 2000).
- NEH Stipend to attend a seminar on folk psychology, led by Robert Gordon University (Summer 1999).
- NEH Summer Grant (Summer 1998).
- Brown University President's Award for Teaching Excellence (Spring 1996).
See also
References
- Gertler, Brie. "In Defence of Mind-Body Dualism." In Reason & Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, edited by Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau, 285-297. California: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.
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Categories:
- 20th-century American philosophers
- 21st-century American philosophers
- American philosophers of mind
- Dualists
- Swarthmore College alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Brown University alumni
- College of William & Mary faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- University of Virginia faculty
- Living people