About










Karen Yan 嚴如玉

Director / Associate Professor

Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (was National Yang Ming University before 2021/02/01)
Taipei, Taiwan

About My Research

I employ conceptual analysis, cognitive ethnography, and quantitative tools to analyze neuroscientific and clinical practices in order to address philosophical questions.

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience in Practice (esp. Causal Understanding, Technique-enabled Reasoning, Operationalization of Cognition, and Modeling )

Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity

Computational Philosophy of Biomedical Sciences

Philosophy of Medicine (esp. Person-Centered Care and Spiritual Well-Being in Clinical Practice)

Areas of Competence

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, and Bioethics

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2013.