Rotem Herrmann
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of cognitive science, phenomenology
Old Main, 100
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My research is centered around skill. The deepest basis for this works comes from embodied understandings in philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science, but my research also extends into phenomenology, epistemology, aesthetics, and language.
Where my doctoral work focused on the kind of memory and knowledge systems at play in skill (procedural memory), my current research has been expanding on this foundation into wider domains. In particular, I have been investigating how my understanding of embodied skill can be used to refine categorization and conceptualization of various elements of skillful performance, how it might explain differences in performance between AI and human musical improvisation, how it might be used to offer an embodied account of personal or episodic memory, and what it reveals about the nature of habit and its relationship to skill.
I also have interests in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race and gender, and existentialism.