Kathleen Akins

Kathleen Akins is Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow in Philosophy of Science^[1] and a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor. Currently her primary area of research is Neurophilosophy.^[2]

She is particularly famous for two articles:^[3] "Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States"^[4] and "What is it like to be boring and myopic",^[5] her response to Nagel's What is it like to be a bat?.

Notable publications

• Brook, Andrew, and Kathleen Akins, eds. Cognition and the brain: The philosophy and neuroscience movement. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Akins, Kathleen. "Of sensory systems and the "aboutness" of mental states." The Journal of Philosophy (1996): 337-372.
• Akins, Kathleen. "What is it Like to be Boring and Myopic?." (1993).

References and publications

1. http://naturalscience.com/ns/news/news17.html
2. http://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea/
3. http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/09/splendid-philosopher-of-the-week-kathleen-akins.html
4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2941125
5. http://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea/docs/Boring&Myopic.pdf

External links

• Kathleen Akins' homepage at Simon Fraser University (http://www.sfu.ca/~kathleea)