Verónica Gómez Sánchez [email protected]
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Science (esp. Cognitive Science), Metaphysics.
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language.
Education
Rutgers University Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2021 (expected) Dissertation: ‘ Metaphysical Foundations for Intentional Cognitive Science’ Committee: Frances Egan (chair), Ted Sider (chair), Paul Pietroski, Barry Loewer, Jonathan Schaffer, Susanna Schellenberg.
Rutgers University Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science, 2021 (expected) Project: Shape Categorization as Bayesian Mixture Estimation Advisor: Jacob Feldman
Universidad de Los Andes B.A., Philosophy, S umma Cum Laude, 2013 Thesis: Proper Names and Singular Thought Advisor: Alfonso A. Conde
Papers
o ‘Crystallized Regularities’ (2020) Journal of Philosophy, 117(8), 434–466. o ‘Does Matter Mind Content?’ (under review) o ‘Naturalness by Law’ (under review) o ‘What Bayesian Angels have to do with Human Cognition’ (soon to be submitted)
In Progress o ‘From Humeanism to Normative Relativism’ (To appear in P hilosophical Perspectives, Metaphysics) o ‘Intentional Laws in Computational Cognitive Science’ o ‘Nomic Locking: A New Theory of Content’
Conference Presentations
(* invited)
‘Naturalness by Law’ o January 2021 – Symposium at Eastern APA; New York. o November 2019 – Society for the Metaphysics of Science; Toronto.
‘What’s so special about intentional properties?’ o *October 2019 – Inter-American Congress in Philosophy; Bogotá.
‘Interventionism and the Causal Relevance of Semantic Properties’ o January 2020 – Symposium at Eastern APA; Philadelphia. o July 2019 – Society for Philosophy and Psychology; University of California, San Diego.
‘Explanations at the Computational Level: Bayesian Modeling as a Case Study’ o July 2018 – Society for Philosophy and Psychology; Michigan, Ann Arbor o *April 2018 – Rutgers-Bochum Conference; R utgers, New Brunswick. o *November 2018 – CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series; CUNY, New York.
‘The Crystallization Account of Special Science Laws’ o July, 2018 – Laws of Nature Summer School; Central European University, Budapest. th o June, 2018 – 11 Munich-Sydney-Tilburg/Turin Conference in Philosophy of Science (Poster); Turin.
‘The Nature of Belief and its Role in Psychological Explanation’ o *May, 2017 – Rutgers-Bochum Conference; Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum.
‘P rospects for a Pluralist Understanding of the Relation between Belief and Credence’ o *April, 2016 – Workshop: Formal Epistemology Meets Epistemology; University of Maryland, College Park. o February, 2016 – IV Colombian Conference on Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; Bogotá.
‘E pistemic Normativity and Perceptual Experience’ o April, 2016 – 3rd P hilosophy in Spanish Workshop; Harvard, Cambridge.
‘Subjective Probability, Objective Probability and Lewis’s Principal Principle’ nd o *April, 2015 – 2 Philosophy in Spanish Workshop; Harvard, Cambridge.
Comments
o January, 2019 – Comments on William D’Alessandro’s ‘Viewing as Explanations and Ontic Dependence’; Eastern APA, New York.
Teaching Experience
Primary instructor (Rutgers University)
Fall 2020 Introduction to Formal Reasoning and Decision Making Summer 2020 The concept of ‘concept’ in Cognitive Science (Rutgers Center for CogSci) Spring 2020 Minds, Machines and Persons Fall 2019 Logic, Reasoning and Persuasion Spring 2018 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Spring 2017 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2016 Introduction to Logic; taught by Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University) Summer 2012 Descartes; taught by Catalina González (Universidad de Los Andes) Spring 2011 Kant; taught by Catalina González (Universidad de Los Andes)
Mentoring
Cognitive Science Undergraduate Advisor (Fall 2017, Spring 2018)
Fellowships, Grants & Awards o Mellon Summer Grant (Rutgers University, 2019) o Diversity Travel Awards: Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2018 and 2019) o Ramón de Zubiría Award: Highest Cumulative GPA in Philosophy (Los Andes University, 2013)
Service o Climate Committee co-chair (with Andrew Rubner); Rutgers, Fall 2019-Spring 2021. o Gender and Philosophy Event Organizer (with Caroline Von Klemperer and Mia Accomando); Rutgers, Fall 2020. o Mentoring Workshop Organizer; Rutgers, Spring 2020. o Philosophy of Mind Reading Group Organizer (with Andrew Rubner); Rutgers, 2018-2020. o Philosophy of Science Reading Group Organizer (with Ezra Rubenstein); Rutgers, 2018. o Colloquium Committee Member; Rutgers, 2019-2020. o Referee, The Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting; 2020. o Referee, T he North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information; Rutgers, 2016.
Graduate Coursework
(* Audited)
General Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics o Philosophy of Science: Confirmation and Laws (Barry Loewer) o Humean Supervenience (Jonathan Schaffer and Barry Loewer) o Topics in Metaphysics: Fineness of Grain (Cian Dorr, NYU)* o Explanation (Jonathan Schaffer)* o The Nomological (Ted Sider and Jonathan Schaffer)* o Structuralism (Ted Sider)* o Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Jill North and Ted Sider)* o Foundations of Statistical Mechanics (David Albert)*
Philosophy of Cognitive Science o Computational Cognition (Jacob Feldman, Rutgers Center for CogSci) o Computational Vision (Manish Singh, Rutgers Center for CogSci) o Mathematical Tools for Cognitive Science and Neuroscience (Eero Simoncelli and Pascal Wallisch, NYU Psych/Neuro) o Propositional Attitudes (Bob Matthews) o Perceptual Evidence (Susanna Schellenberg) o Neuroethics (Matthew Liao, NYU) o Advanced Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (David Chalmers and Ned Block, NYU)* o Perception/Cognition Border (Ned Block and Eric Mandelbaum, NYU)* o Mental Representation (Frances Egan)* o Mathematical tools for Cognitive Science and Neuroscience II (Laurence Maloney, NYU Psych/Neuro)* o Computational Modeling of Visual Circuits (Jonathan Winawer, NYU Psych/Neuro)*
Linguistics and Philosophy of Language o What Kind of Relativism is Right for You? (Andy Egan) o Formal Methods in Philosophy (Thony Gillies) o Semantics I (Simon Charlow, Linguistics) o Semantics II (Maria Bittner, Linguistics) o Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Language (Ernest Lepore & Matthew Stone)*