Murphy-Philosophy Seminar: Eric Mandelbaum

Organized by the Tulane Philosophy Department, the Murphy-Philosophy Seminars are a series of talks where Center for Ethics Faculty Fellows and distinguished guest speakers present works in progress on ethics, political philosophy, political theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of law, and intellectual history. These seminars are designed primarily as a philosophy colloquia for faculty, fellows, and graduate students. Papers are distributed one week beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter. 

Eric Mandelbaum is a philosopher and cognitive scientist at City University of New York Graduate Center, in the department of philosophy and the department of psychology, Basic and Applied Social Science program; and at Baruch College in the philosophy department. Before joining CUNY, he was at Harvard as a member of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Program and the Department of Philosophy, and taught in the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science program at Yale. Mandelbaum's research interest is how the mind works. This interest manifests itself in the study of cognitive architecture. A cognitive architecture would offer a specification of a) what the different faculties of the mind are and how they operate, b) how the different faculties interact (or fail to interact), and c) a specification of the representational medium of thought.