Jorge Morales
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy
Jorge Morales is an assistant professor of psychology and philosophy. He is interested in the subjectivity of the mind: how we perceive the world, how the brain creates conscious experiences, and how introspection opens a window into our own minds. His research integrates tools from psychology and neuroscience to study philosophy-inspired problems in the laboratory. Morales has a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and he was a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at Johns Hopkins.
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Education
Ph.D., 2018, Philosophy, Columbia University
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Scientific Approaches to Philosophy
PHIL 3360
Explores scientific approaches to traditional philosophical questions and to what extent these classic questions can be addressed by contemporary scientific theories and methods. Surveys recent studies in psychology and neuroscience and their relation to free will, consciousness, and the self. Examines the connections between contemporary physics and philosophical questions about determinism, causality, and the nature of reality.
