José Luis Bermúdez

Wilson Hall, Rm. 204 / 935-7149

José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University of St Louis, where he holds a joint appointment as Director of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program. He is also Director of the Center for Programs in Arts and Sciences. Dr Bermúdez graduated from Cambridge University in 1988 and received his PhD in 1992. Before coming to Washington University in St Louis he was Professor and Chair of the Philosophy department at the University of Stirling, UK.

Professor Bermúdez's research interests are primarily in interdisciplinary philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. Topics of recent interest include the nature of mental content, models of psychological explanation, the role and origins of self-consciousness and the possibility of thought without language. His books include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT, 1998), Thinking Without Words (Oxford, 2003), and Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2005). Professor Bermúdez is currently writing a textbook on cognitive science for Cambridge University Press.

He was responsible for organizing an int'l workshop: Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~pnp/Research/MemLangWrkshp/index.html