Adina L. Roskies is an American philosopher. She became a Professor of Philosophy at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

in January 2024; Previously she had taught at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

beginning in 2004, serving as the Helman Family Distinguished Professor from 2017 to 202

She is known for her works on

neuroethics In philosophy and neuroscience, neuroethics is the study of both the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience concerns the ethical, legal, and social impact of neuroscience, including the ways in which ne ...

neuroscience of free will The neuroscience of free will, a part of neurophilosophy, is the study of topics related to free will (including Volition (psychology), volition and the sense of agency), using neuroscience and the analysis of how findings from such studies may ...

and

epiphenomenalism Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem. It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but d ...

. Roskies was Senior Editor of the journal ''

Neuron A neuron (American English), neurone (British English), or nerve cell, is an membrane potential#Cell excitability, excitable cell (biology), cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network (biology), neural net ...

''.

Books

*''A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience'', edited with Stephen J. Morse, Oxford University Press 2013

Awards

* William James Prize, awarded by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology * Stanton Prize, awarded by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology

References

Awards

* William James Prize, awarded by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology * Stanton Prize, awarded by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology

External links

* 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics Living people American ethicists American women philosophers American neuroscientists American philosophers of mind University of California, San Diego alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Dartmouth College faculty Yale Law School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-philosopher-stub