Department of Philosophy

Visitors

For information on becoming a special student, visiting fellow, or visting scholar, please contact the Special Student/Visiting Fellow Office; contact information is located at the bottom of the page.

Tim Button

I'm a PhD student at Cambridge (where I received my undergraduate and master's degree). My main research is in philosophy of math, logic and metaphysics. I mostly like to think about different varietes of realism (internal, quasi-, anti-) about mathematical entities, and about the relationship between formal and informal mathematics. I also work on philosophy of (hyper)computation, and philosophy of time. 

Karim Gherab

Dr. Karim Gherab (Spain, 1972) is a theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science and technology. His research interests focus on Philosophy of Physics, as well as Science and Technology Studies. He has taught history of science at Universidad Autónoma in Madrid as an assistant professor. He is currently a fellow in philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, at the invitation of Professor Ned Hall.

In addition to published papers on philosophy of physics -- which focus on Eddington’s and Penrose’s ideas -- he is the author of El Templo del Saber: Hacia la Biblioteca Digital Universal, which will be published in English as The New Temple of Knowledge: Towards a Universal Digital Library (The University Press, University of Illinois, 2008). He is also coordinating a forthcoming monograph in the periodical Arbor, entitled Science and Culture on the Web.

Marie Guillot

I am a PhD student at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) in Paris, France, and a visiting fellow at Harvard in 2007-2009.

My doctoral research bears on the first person in language and in thought. I compare and assess different ways of adapting linguistic theories, accounting for the speaker-relativity and 'centeredness' of 'de se' utterances to the realm of the mental, in view of providing an explanation for the distinctive epistemic features of (a certain class of) egocentric thoughts, such as their immunity to error through misidentification, their apparent groundlessness, their transparency, or at least the privileged access that the subject has to their content when she grasps it in the normal introspective way, etc.

Interests: first person; 'de se' attitudes and reports; context-sensitivity; indexicality; semantic relativism and contextualism; introspection and self-knowledge; consciousness; IEM; phenomenal concepts/knowledge.

For more information, please see my page on the Jean Nicod's website.