Board of Advisors

Amy Kind

Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies

Amy Kind joined the CMC faculty in 1997 and began her directorship of the Gould Center in 2018. Currently the Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, she has previously served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy (2009 - 2012) and Associate Dean of the Faculty (2005 - 2008). At CMC, she teaches classes in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and logic. Her research interests lie broadly in the philosophy of mind, though most of her published work has concerned issues relating either to the imagination or to phenomenal consciousness.  She has edited four books: Epistemic Uses of Imagination (co-edited with Christopher Badura), Knowledge Through Imagination (co-edited with Peter Kung), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination, and Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. She has also written two introductory textbooks, Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (Routledge) and Persons and Personal Identity (Polity Press).