Berit Brogaard
Berit Oskar Brogaard | |
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Brogaard in 2010 | |
| Born | 28 August 1970 (age 54) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Education | |
| Education | University at Buffalo |
| Doctoral advisor | Barry Smith |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Main interests | |
| Notable ideas | Synesthesia as a gateway to hidden areas of the brain; left-brain activation during visual memory; perceptual reports; primitive color properties; dynamic two-dimensional semantics |
Berit Oskar Brogaard (born August 28, 1970) is a Danish–American philosopher specializing in the areas of cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Her recent work concerns synesthesia, savant syndrome, blindsight and perceptual reports. She is professor of philosophy and runs a perception lab at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She was also co-editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report until 2021.