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Sarah Robins’ research focuses on memory and explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience. She is particularly interested in the concept of memory trace, engrams, and the role these play in everyday scientific thinking about remembering. Robins has published in a variety of venues including Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, Wires Cognitive Science, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, Minds & Machines, and Child Development. Her interests extend to mechanistic explanation, tacit knowledge, and cognitive ontology. As a founding member of the Philosophy of Memory Organization (PHOMO), she has served on its steering committee since its inception in 2017 and co-organized the 3rd biannual meeting on Issues in the Philosophy of Memory in 2022. Robins also served as President of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, highlighting her active engagement in interdisciplinary collaboration. After earning her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, she actively participated in Rebecca Treiman’s Reading Language Lab. Additionally, Robins has been a visiting scholar at the Roman Institute and the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp, as well as the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the University of Grenoble. Before joining Purdue University in 2023, Robins spent 10 years at the University of Kansas as an assistant and associate professor in philosophy, affiliated with the Cognitive Brain Sciences Ph.D. program, and spent a year as an assistant professor at the University of Texas, El Paso. In her personal life, she enjoys reading novels, particularly mysteries, and vegetable gardening.
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