Christopher Peacocke, Vice Chair

Christopher Peacocke (Vice Chair) is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He was previously the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford and held a Leverhulme Personal Research Professorship. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at Berkeley, NYU, and UCLA and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He was president of the Mind Association in 1986-87. His books include Sense and Content (Oxford, 1983), Thoughts: An Essay on Content (Blackwell, 1986), A Study of Concepts (MIT, 1992), Being Known (Oxford, 1999), The Realm of Reason (Oxford, 2003), Truly Understood (Oxford, 2008), The Mirror of the World: Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness (Oxford, 2014), and The Primacy of Metaphysics (Oxford, 2019).

Christopher Peacocke serves as a member of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Steering Committee, holding the position of Vice-Chair within the program.

Paul Linton
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience (2022-25)

Raphaël Millière
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience (2020-23)

Matthew Sachs
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience (2019-22)

Ann-Sophie Barwich
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience (2015-18)

David Barack
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience (2015-18)