Sarah Sawyer | |
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Education | St Andrews University (BA), Kings College London (PhD) |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic |
Institutions | University of Sussex, Royal Institute of Philosophy |
Main interests | philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics |
Sarah Sawyer FRSA is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex where she is Deputy Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, She is known for her work on conceptual engineering. [1] [2] [3] Sawyer is the Vice-Chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy [4] and an associate editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy . [5]
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