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Associate Professor of Philosophy

Laura Sizer

Students meeting in the Jerome Liebling Center
Hampshire College Professor Laura Sizer
Laura Sizer
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Cognitive Science
Mail Code CS
Professor Laura Sizer
Adele Simmons Hall 217
413.559.5619
On Leave of Absence Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Laura Sizer, associate professor of philosophy, received a B.A. in philosophy from Boston University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000.

She specializes in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology/cognitive science. Her research currently focuses on affect (emotions and moods), but she is also interested in questions about consciousness, representation, music, and personal identity. She has published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology, and Mind and Language. In addition to her primary research and teaching interests, Professor Sizer teaches topics in applied ethics; the philosophy of language; philosophy of biology; and the relationship between science and religion.

Professor Sizer is on the steering committee for the Culture, Brain, and Development Program at Hampshire College.