Dr. Tamar Gendler

Biography

Tamar Gendler is the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, with a dual appointment in the Department of Psychology. Her professional philosophical writings primarily focus on issues in philosophical psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics. Gendler has delivered numerous public lectures on the topic of human flourishing. Her current work explores the cluster of issues surrounding the relations between explicit and implicit attitudes. Gendler is particularly interested in integrating insights from traditional philosophical inquiries about the parts of the soul with contemporary research in social, cognitive, and clinical psychology. Her research emphasizes general questions related to philosophical methodology and delves into specific issues that arise in thinking about the relationship between imagination and belief. Her philosophical work addresses topics in metaphysics and epistemology, including conceivability and possibility, perceptual experience, and personal identity, while utilizing tools from traditional analytic philosophy and recent empirical research in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology.

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