Aaron Boyden grew up in Minnesota, and went to the University of Minnesota as an undergraduate, where he studied philosophy (mostly modern) and history (mostly ancient), majoring in the former and minoring in the latter. He pursued graduate studies in philosophy, first at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied logic, philosophy of language, and history of modern philosophy, and later at Brown, where he studied epistemology and philosophy of mind and recently finished his Ph.D. His dissertation argued in favor of reductionism and against realism in general, making particular use of the philosophy of mind to illustrate the advantages of the former and the perils of the latter. His current research interests include the know-how response to Frank Jackson's knowledge argument and the purpose and significance of Rudolf Carnap's "Overcoming Metaphysics Through the Logical Analysis of Language."

aaron.boyden@tufts.edu
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