Brie Gertler
American philosopher (1967-)
Brie Gertler (born 1967) is an American philosopher who works primarily on problems in the philosophy of mind. A mind-body dualist, she is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and, as of March 2025, interim executive vice-president and provost at the University of Virginia. Her special interests include introspection, consciousness and mental content.
She has edited Privileged Access (2003), an anthology of papers on self-knowledge, and co-edited (with Lawrence Shapiro) "Arguing about the Mind" (2007), a reader in the philosophy of mind.
Education and employment
Gertler has written numerous papers on her research and is a book reviewer. She received a B.A. with high honors in philosophy from Swarthmore College in June 1989 and an M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania three years later. In June 1997, she was granted a Ph.D. by Brown University.
Gertler first found employment as an assistant professor at The College of William & Mary, where she worked from 1997 to 2001, before moving on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she earned tenure. She moved to her University of Virginia teaching position in 2004, was later department chair, and added the Vice-Provost title in 2021.
To the thirteenth edition of the Joel Feinberg- and Russ Shafer-Landau-edited Reason & Responsibility, Gertler contributed a paper in support of dualism.
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