Dr. Jennifer M. Windt

Areas of Specialization

Systematic Focus:

• analytic philosophy of mind, especially on the topics of
  • dreams, delusion, and hallucinations
  • self-consciousness
  • cognitive phenomenology

Historical Focus:

• 20th and 21st century
• Modern Philosophy

Projects and activities  

• Dissertation: Dreaming: A Conceptual Framework for Philosophy of Mind and Empirical Research (submitted in April 2012); supervisors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Dr. Tore Nielsen, Université de Montréal; under contract with MIT Press; projected publication date: spring 2014
• Group Manager of the MIND Group and organization of the biannual meetings of the MIND Group (together with Thomas Metzinger)
• Hosting a Frontiers Research Topic titled Contrasting Dreaming and Wakefulness: Frontiers in Consciousness Research