Assistant Professor
207B Thornton Hall
646-2112
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~adinar/
Office Hours: By Appointment
Adina Roskies has pursued a career in both philosophy and the neurosciences. At the University of California, San Diego she concurrently earned an M.A. in Philosophy and an M.S. in Neuroscience, and received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in 1995. Her doctoral work was in neural development in Dr. Dennis O'Leary's laboratory at the Salk Institute, and she also worked with both Charles Stevens and Terry Sejnowski. After receiving her degree, Adina went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroimaging at Washington University with Marcus Raichle and Steven Petersen, using both positron emission tomography (PET), and the them newly developing technique of functional MRI. Following her postdoc, Dr. Roskies became Senior Editor of the neuroscience journal Neuron, a position she held from 1997-1999.
In 1999 Dr. Roskies returned to graduate school at MIT to pursue a second Ph.D. in philosophy, which she completed in 2004. Her philosophical research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics. She was a member of the McDonnell Project in Neurophilosophy, a working group aiming to integrate philosophical thought with neurobiological research. She has published many articles in the neurosciences as well as in philosophy, among which are several devoted to exploring and articulating issues in neuroethics. For one of these she was awarded the William James Prize by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Dr. Roskies came to the Dartmouth philosophy department in 2004. She was recently awarded a fellowship by the Australian Research Council, and has spent time as a visiting fellow in the philosophy department at the Australian National University.
