Kathleen Akins

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Canadian philosopher

Places

Canada

Philosopher Educator

Work field

Academia Philosophy

Gender

Female

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Biography

Kathleen Akins is Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow in Philosophy of Science and a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor. Currently her primary area of research is Neurophilosophy.
She is particularly famous for two articles: "Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States" and "What is it like to be boring and myopic", her response to Nagel's What is it like to be a bat?.

Notable publications

Brook, Andrew, and Kathleen Akins, eds. Cognition and the brain: The philosophy and neuroscience movement. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Akins, Kathleen. "Of sensory systems and the "aboutness" of mental states." The Journal of Philosophy (1996): 337-372.
Akins, Kathleen. "What is it Like to be Boring and Myopic?." (1993).