Simon Brown

Lyre bird, New South Wales, Australia

You can hear my audio recording here.

I am a Research Officer (i.e. Postdoctoral Fellow) in the Foundations of Animal Sentience Project within the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

I completed my PhD in Philosophy at Columbia University in May 2020. I then became a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Foundations of Mind at Johns Hopkins University, where I did research, partly in collaboration with the Perception and Mind Lab, and taught for the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy. Before Columbia, I did both my BA (in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) and my masters (BPhil in Philosophy) at the University of Oxford.

I work primarily on Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind. I am especially interested in understanding animal minds and their ethical significance. My work also incorporates philosophy of biology, philosophy of neuroscience, general philosophy of science, and epistemology, and environmental ethics.

In my spare time, I play cello and double bass.

I have also been involved in outreach projects such as Philosophy in Prison and Rethink, co-facilitating philosophical discussions for currently and recently incarcerated people in New York City and in the UK.

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