Penn offers a rich and dynamic environment for research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Within the Department, multiple faculty are working in the areas of inductive inference and belief change (Weinstein), computational and other formal models of cognition (Bicchieri, Kimbrough, Weisberg), social factors and psychology (Yumuşak) and artificial intelligence (Bicchieri, Kimbrough, Weinstein).

The Department also has exceptionally strong connections to other researchers in cognitive science and psychology. The University as a whole offers some of the richest resources in cognitive science in the world, featuring a large number of institutes, departments, and centers with the study of the mind as their primary focus, and many of the Department’s faculty are involved with the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, the Neuroethics Program, the Visual Studies Program, and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.