Tamar Gendler to Speak at Women at Yale Conference

At the end of March, Yale will be hosting a celebration of Women at Yale. It looks like a very interesting program.

Our own Tamar Gendler will be one of the speakers, giving a talk on March 26 at 9:45.

Here is what Tamar has been up to:

Tamar Gendler '87- Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Chair of Cognitive Science, Yale University

Tamar Gendler graduated from Yale in 1987 with degrees in Humanities and Mathematics-and-Philosophy. After spending several years in Washington, DC doing education policy work for the RAND Corporation, she went on to Harvard, where she earned her PhD in Philosophy in 1996. Throughout her career teaching Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Syracuse, Cornell and Yale Universities, she has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Collegium Budapest. She is spending the 2009-10 academic year as a full-time student at Yale, under the auspices of the Mellon Foundation’s highly competitive New Directions program.