Rate My Professor Tamar Gendler

Gendler’s research specializes in philosophy of psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and moral psychology, addressing philosophical methodology, thought experiments, imagination, belief, perceptual experience, and implicit attitudes through integration of analytic philosophy and empirical psychology. Key publications include her books Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Thought Experiment: On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases (Routledge, 2000); co-edited volumes such as the Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (2016), Perceptual Experience (2006), and Oxford Studies in Epistemology (volumes 1-8, 2005-2023). Influential articles feature “Alief and Belief” (Journal of Philosophy, 2008), named one of the ten best philosophy papers of the year, and “Alief in Action (and Reaction)” (Mind & Language, 2008). She has earned fellowships from the NSF, ACLS/Ryskamp, Collegium Budapest, NEH, and Mellon; the 2013 Yale College Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Teaching Prize; and serves on advisory boards for the National Academies, NSF, NEH, Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian. Gendler offers public lectures and Open Yale Courses on philosophy and human nature.