Naomi Eilan is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

, whose works concern

consciousness Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. However, the lack of definitions has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debates by philosophers, theologians, linguisticians, and scien ...

philosophy of mind Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

and

philosophy of psychology Philosophy of psychology is concerned with the philosophical foundations of the study of psychology. It deals with both epistemological and ontological issues and shares interests with other fields, including philosophy of mind and theoretical ps ...

. Eilan completed her doctorate at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

in 1988, with the dissertation ''Self-consciousness and experience''. She was president of the

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology The European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) is a professional organization in Europe that promotes discussion and research at the intersection of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science. It is the European counterpart of the Am ...

for 2010 to 2014.

Books

* ''Spatial Representation: Problems in Philosophy and Psychology''. Blackwell, 1993, and Oxford University Press, 1999. Edited with Rosalee McCarthy and Bill Brewer. * ''The Body and the Self''. MIT Press, 1995. Edited with José Luis Bermúdez and Anthony Marcel. * ''Agency and Self Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology''. Oxford University Press, 2003. Edited with Johannes Roessler. * ''Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds''. Oxford University Press, 2005. Edited with Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Johannes Roessler. * ''Perception, Causation, & Objectivity''. Oxford University Press, 2011. Edited with Johannes Roessler and Hemdat Lerman.Review of ''Perception, Causation, & Objectivity'': *

References

British philosophy academics Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Academics of the University of Warwick British philosophers of mind Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-philosopher-stub