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Jenann Ismael (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1996), Associate Professor
of Philosophy. She received a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-98 and
a fellowship at the National Humanities Center in 2003-2004. She will be
on leave 2005-2010 as a Queen Elizabeth II research fellow, Sydney
University.
Doctor Ismael's research focuses on philosophy of
physics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. She also has broadly
ranging interests in philosophy of science, the history of science,
philosophy of biology, and cognitive science. In connection with science,
she is particularly interested in issues concerning information,
probability, perspective, and symmetry. She is working on a book (title:
"Science, Simplicity, and Symmetry") that explores tools physicists deploy
in forming metaphysical hypotheses. In connection with mind, she is
interested in questions concerning the nature of time, self, and the
meaning of life. Her book, "The Situated Self", is forthcoming from Oxford
University Press. |
