Directors

José Luis Bermúdez's many publications include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT, 1998) and Thinking without Words (Oxford 2003), both cited over 1,000 times, and, more recently, Understanding “I”: Language and Thought (Oxford, 2017) and Frame it Again (Cambridge 2020). He is currently preparing the fifth edition of his widely used textbook Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of the Mind (Cambridge). Throughout his career Dr. Bermúdez has maintained a strong interest in the history of philosophy, particularly classical. His most recent works in this area are Aristotle’s De Anima: A Guidebook (2025, Oxford) and (co-edited with Catherine Conybeare of Bryn Mawr College) The Premodern Self (2026 from the classics division of Cambridge University Press). He is proficient in the classical languages.

Victor Caston's work bridges historical scholarship and philosophical analysis, offering insights into how ancient theories can inform modern debates in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His publications on Aristotle have focused on the mind-body problem, emergentism, and mental causation; intentionality and mental representation; consciousness and perception; concepts; and the unity of psychology. He has also published on later Aristotelians, such as Theophrastus, Dicaearchus, and Alexander of Aphrodisias, including a translation and commentary of the latter’s On the Soul (2012). In addition to his current research on Aristotle on direct realism, he is working on a book, The Stoics on Content and Mental Representation, and is planning a new project, The Veil of Perception. He is a former editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

Brandon Wadlington is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is currently writing a dissertation on Aristotle’s account of deliberation and choice which articulates and defends a broadly instrumentalist conception of both.