Harvard Philosophical Psychology Laboratory
People
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Professor of Philosophy,Principal Investigator
Joe Paxton, Experiment Designer, Graduate Student in Psychology
jpaxton@wjh.harvard.edu
I was a philosophy undergrad and am currently working in Josh Greene's lab in the Psychology Department. I am interested in moral psychology and philosophically-relevant empirical research more broadly.
Erica Boothby, Research Assistant
eboothby@fas.harvard.edu
I was a philosophy undergrad and am interested in the interdisciplinary work being done between philosophy and the empirical sciences, especially psychology and neuroscience. I am particularly interested in the role of emotions and unconscious processes guiding perception.
Céline LeBoeuf, Graduate Student in Philosophy
leboeuf@fas.harvard.edu
Adam Lesnikowski, Undergraduate in Philosophy
lesnikow@fas.harvard.edu
I am interested primarily in Logic, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Ancient Philosophy, and Phenomenology.
Caleb Liang, Visiting Scholar, Yenching Institute
yiliang@ntu.edu.tw
I am visiting from National Taiwan University. My research interests are consciousness and perception, with a special focus on object recognition.
Erik Rietveld, PostDoc in Philosophy
rietveld@fas.harvard.edu
I am interested in phenomenologically oriented philosophy of mind, later Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, cognitive neuroscience, emotion psychology, and ecological psychology. The aim of my research project is to develop a better understanding of unreflective action in everyday life. Issues I work on are situated normativity, motor intentionality and responsiveness to relevant affordances, including social affordances. An article of mine that touches upon several of these issues is ''Situated Normativity: The Normative Aspect of Embodied Cognition in Unreflective Action" (Rietveld, 2008, Mind, 117, pp. 973-1001).
Xaioli Liu, Visiting Scholar, Philosophy
lxl1003@gmail.com
I am a Professor of Philosophy at Renmin University in China. My research is in Logic and Philosophy of Science. Currently I am interested in Embodied Cognition, particularly perception, cognition, and content.
Kranti Saran, Graduate Student in Philosophy
Wendy Salkin, Graduate Student in Philosophy
salkin@fas.harvard.edu
Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Meetings
The Philosophical Psychology Lab meets every Friday from 5 to 6 in Vanserg 111.