Languages: Fluent writing/reading/speaking in English and Hebrew. Slight (but growing) understanding of German.

Education:

  • 2000 - B.A. Chemistry (Cum Laude), Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2004 - M.A. Philosophy, PNP, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, U.S.A.
  • Currently A.B.D. Philosophy, PNP, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, U.S.A.

Publications:

  • Bermudez, J. B. and Cahen, A., "Nonconceptual Mental Content", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-nonconceptual/>.
  • Cahen, A. (2007). "Review of Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon. By Antti Revonsuo". Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 82(1).

Presentations:

  • "Davidson, Radical Interpretation, and Meaning", WIPS PNP colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Spring 2003.
  • "Unconscious Perception and Theories of Consciousness", Philosophy Day, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Fall 2004.
  • "Tropes and Mental Causation", WIPS PNP colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Spring 2005.
  • "The Implicit Self in Perception", Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium Series, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, 2006.
  • "Language, Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Time", 'Metaphysics Without Apology' – SUNY Buffalo Graduate Conference, Buffalo, NY, 2006.
  • "The Implicit Self in Perception", CUNY, Cognitive Science Symposium, New York, NY, 2006.
  • "The Trope Solution to Mental Causation, Multiple Realizability, and the Qua Problem", The Gateway Graduate Conference, UMSL, St. Louis, MO,  2006.
  • "A Nonconceptual Account of Epistemic Perceptual Awareness", Philosophy Day, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Fall 2007.
  • "Nonconceptual Perceptual Epistemic Awareness", PGSA Philosophy Conference, Waterloo University, ON, Canada, Spring 2008.
  • "Towards a Perceptual Basis of Self-Knowledge", 30th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Urbana-Champaign, IL, Spring 2008.
  • "Towards a Perceptual Basis of Self-Knowledge", Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference, MA, Spring 2008.

Commentator:

  • Commentary on Foster and Slosarz "Evolution vs. Logic: is there a conflict?" presented at Illinois Philosophical Association, Edwardsville, IL, 2005.

Posters:

  • "The Implicit Self in Perception". Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 10, St. Ann’s College, Oxford, UK, 2006.

Awards:

  • Mind-Science Foundation travel award to the ASSC10 (2006)
  • PNP Travel Award to graduate student conference at Buffalo (2006)
  • PNP Travel Award to CUNY Cognitive Science Symposium (2006)
  • President’s List of honors for scholastic achievements (1999)
  • Dean’s List of honors for scholastic achievements (1998)

Teaching Experience:

As Teaching Assistant (some more than once and in no particular order, all at WashU):
  • Problems in Philosophy
  • Introduction to Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Introduction to the Study of Mind-Brain
  • Mind Brain II
  • Introduction to Logic and Critical Analysis

As Lecturer:

  • Summer 2007: L30 120 ‘Problems in Philosophy’, University College, WashU
  • Spring 2005: U22 100 ‘Introduction to Logic and Critical Analysis’, University College, WashU
  • Fall 2004: U22 100 ‘Introduction to Logic and Critical Analysis’, University College, WashU
  • Spring 2004: U22 100 ‘Introduction to Logic and Critical Analysis’, University College, WashU
  • Summer 2003: U22 100 ‘Introduction to Logic and Critical Analysis’, University College, WashU
  • Fall 2000: ‘Introduction to Biochemistry’, Israeli College for Complementary Medicine, Haifa, Israel

Advising:

  • 2006-2008 Advisor to 'Poiesis - Washington University in St. Louis, Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy'.

 

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