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Cassandra Williams

Ph.D. Candidate • Philosophy • University of Toronto

I'm a Ph.D. candidate and SSHRC Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.My primary research areas are the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. My main research project investigates the mind at its lower boundaries: I synthesize research concerning invertebrate sentience and primitive biological agency to develop a framework that unifies life, agency, and sentience. More generally, I am interested in a wide breadth of issues to do with locating the mind in the natural world, and I approach these issues with the tools of metaphysics and empirically-informed philosophy alike. I have secondary interests in the philosophy of science, including neuroscience, artificial intelligence, medicine, and biology.I completed my M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and my B.A. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, both at the University of Toronto. From 2022-2023 I was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at York University.

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