Radu J. Bogdan has taught philosophy and cognitive science at Tulane University. He has also taught regularly at the University of Bucharest in Romania, where he was the director of Open Mind, a Masters Program in Cognitive Science, and for several years in Belgium (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Turkey (Bilkent University). Now relocated to Bucharest, Romania, Radu Bogdan was elected honorary member of the Romanian Academy and is a regular member of its philosophy and psychology section.
His teaching, research and publications, mostly in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, have focused on the reasons for and the resources of some unique competencies of the human mind, such as intuitive psychology or theory of mind, reflexive thinking or thinking about thoughts, consciousness, predicative thinking and communication, pretense and imagination, autobiographical thinking, self-reflection, and more. In his younger years, he also dabbled in epistemology and inductive logic.
To keep his sanity, he collects and disseminates interesting texts and jokes, often supplemented with surrealist comments.
2015-06-18 