Speaker: José Luis Bermùdez (Texas A&M)
José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy and Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. A specialist in philosophy at the intersection with cognitive and behavioral sciences, he has held several senior administrative roles at Texas A&M, including Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Associate Provost for Strategic Planning, Acting Dean of the College of Dentistry, and Interim Dean of the new College of Arts and Sciences (2022–2023). Born in Bogotá and educated in London and at King’s College, Cambridge, he previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, where he directed both the Center for Programs in Arts and Sciences and the Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology Program.
He is the author of eight monographs and six edited volumes, including The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (1998), Thinking without Words (2003), Decision Theory and Rationality (2009), Understanding “I” (2017), The Bodily Self (2018), and The Power of Frames (2020), as well as the widely used textbook Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (3rd ed. 2019, 4th in preparation). His work has been extensively supported by major funding bodies (ACLS, NEH, British Academy, NSF, AHRC, CNRS, and others), and he has served on numerous review panels and advisory committees in the US and Europe. He is founding editor of Routledge’s New Problems in Philosophy series, has held visiting posts in multiple countries, and is currently co-editing The Self in Premodern Thought and writing a guidebook on Aristotle’s De Anima for Oxford.
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Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
The meeting will be held in English.
Participation is strongly recommended for students of the Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences and for students of the Doctoral School “The Human Mind and its Explanations: Language, Brain, and Reasoning”.
Where: Online
When: 26/05/2026 – 17:00 CET
Attendance: Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is needed by email [angelica.kaufmann@unimi.it]