Felipe De Brigard got his BA in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2001. But college was just a cover for his sundry, underpaid (sometimes not paid at all) extra-curricular endeavors, such as acting, storytelling, magazine design, and clinical and cognitive research in neuropsychology. Only time revealed his passion for philosophy and psychology —- for his total lack of talent for acting was clear from the outset. Nevertheless, it was his background as storyteller, rather than his academic studies, that allowed him to teach literature and philosophy at a high school level for almost three years, ‘til 2002, where he got a place as instructor in philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology at the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Now he enjoys being a student again, reading master W. Obi van Quine, talking about films, music and the evolution of the mind, avoiding conversations regarding metaphysics —- for science is philosophy enough! —- and talking about himself in third person (but that is mainly because he hates the first-person perspective). He’s also curious about the fact that his favorite book in CogSci, his favorite movie and his favorite piece of music for piano are all named alike.
