Biography
Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. A Rhodes Scholar educated at Oxford and the University of Chicago, his research spans the philosophy of mind and language as well as political philosophy and moral psychology. He served as Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia from 2004 to 2011 and is the author of Belief and Meaning (1992) and Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006).
Sample Works
- Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content (1992) Book
- Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006) Book
- Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment (2014) Book
Roundtable Appearances
April 27, 2019 · ▶ Video
Living in the Anthropocene
The roundtable explores conceptual questions about characterizing our planet's current era, examining distinctions between "human subjects and the non-human realm, between nature...
Akeel Bilgrami, Amitav Ghosh, Dale Jamieson, John Kress, Donald Moss, Nermeen Shaikh
April 25, 2015 · ▶ Video
The Changing Nature of Free Will
The roundtable explored how advances in genetics and neuroscience are reshaping our understanding of free will and voluntary choice. Key questions included implications for...
Akeel Bilgrami, Luis Cabral, Brigitte Kahl, Kenneth T. Kishida, Simon Kochen