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An assistant professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, Adina Roskies has pursued a career in both philosophy and neuroscience. Her research and writing has focused on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics, including neuroethics. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, she concurrently earned master’s degrees in philosophy and in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, where she received a Ph.D. in neuroscience and cognitive science in 1995. She did a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroimaging at Washington University, using positron emission tomography and the then newly developing technique of functional MRI. After serving two years as senior editor of Neuron, she went on to take a Ph.D. in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Dr. Roskies joined the Dartmouth faculty in the fall of 2004. She has been a visiting fellow in philosophy at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the McDonnell-Pew Foundation. She is a project fellow on the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project. Dr. Roskies is the author of some thirty articles published in academic journals. For one on neuroethics, which was published in Philosophical Psychology in 2003, she was awarded the William James Prize by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology.
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