Alumni Spotlight: Kevin Lande MA '11
Kevin Lande got his Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCLA in 2018
From 2018-19 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp.
Since 2019 he has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at York University and a member of the Centre for Vision Research and a Core Member of Vision: Science to Applications.
Kevin writes,
- In 2019, I wrote an essay for the online magazine Aeon, called “Do You Compute?” https://aeon.co/
essays/your-brain-probably-is- a-computer-whatever-that-means - This essay was recently tweeted (twice!) by hip hop icon, MC Hammer (https://twitter.com/MCHammer/
status/1297318068545187840)
- This essay was recently tweeted (twice!) by hip hop icon, MC Hammer (https://twitter.com/MCHammer/
- Earlier this year I published a paper, “Mental Structures” in the journal Nous (https://
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ full/10.1111/nous.12324). - I was awarded a McPherson Eye Research Institute Visiting Scholar Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to facilitate my collaboration with Prof. Karen Schloss (Psychology, UW-Madison) on visual reasoning
- This July I was awarded a $50,000 “Insight Development Grant" from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for my project “Forms of Mind” (http://www.kevinlande.com/
research.html)
This update was published in October 2020.