Brunch Meeting with FAS Dean Sean D. Kelly

Sean D. Kelly is currently Dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard, where he also serves as the Teresa G. and Ferdinanc F Martignetti Professor of Philosophy. Dean Kelly earned an Sc.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an M.S. in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from Brown University in 1989. After several years as a graduate student in Logic and Methodology of Science, he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. Kelly taught in Philosophy and the Humanities at Stanford (AY 1998-1999) and in Philosophy and Neuroscience at Princeton (1999-2006) before joining the Harvard Faculty in the Fall of 2006. His work focuses on various aspects of the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive neuroscientific nature of human experience. This gives him a broad forum: some topics he has written on include, for example, the experience of time, the possibility of demonstrating that monkeys have…