Associate Professor

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Bio: Eric Mandelbaum is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Mandelbaum conducts research on foundational issues in cognitive science, mostly pertaining to reasoning, cognitive architecture, and the structure of thought. Current projects include the rationality of automatic and unconscious reasoning, the role of processing fluency in judgments of truth, and profundity, and the role of retractions and negations in information processing. I also have long standing projects in attitude research, including models of belief acquisition, storage, and change, and the evidential responsiveness of implicit attitudes. In perception, I’m working on the interface of vision and cognition, as well as touch and thought, with a focus on the mid- to high-level concepts that these perceptual faculties output. In language my recent research interests have focused on the iconicity of language. Before coming to CUNY I’ve taught at Oxford, Yale, and Harvard, and have won awards from the Cognitive Science Society, the ACLS, the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation.