Kathleen Akins


Kathleen Akins is Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow in Philosophy of Science and a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor. Currently her primary area of research is Neurophilosophy.
She is particularly famous for two articles: "Of Sensory Systems and the "Aboutness" of Mental States" and "What is it like to be boring and myopic", her response to Nagel's What is it like to be a bat?.

Notable publications