(c) Hannu Hyrske
Research Interests: Post-Kantian European philosophy (esp. Phenomenology and Existentialism), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Literature
Sean Kelly earned an Sc.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an M.S. in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from Brown University in 1989. After several years as a graduate student in Logic and Methodology of Science, he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. Kelly taught in Philosophy and the Humanities at Stanford (AY 1998-1999) and in Philosophy and Neuroscience at Princeton (1999-2006) before joining the Harvard Faculty in the Fall of 2006. His work focuses on various aspects of the philosophical, phenomenological, and cognitive neuroscientific nature of human experience. This gives him a broad forum: some topics he has written on include, for example, the experience of time, the possibility of demonstrating that monkeys have blindsighted experience, and the understanding of the sacred in Homer. He is the co-author, with Hubert Dreyfus, of the New York Times bestselling book All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (2011), and he is currently working on a book for Harvard University Press entitled The Proper Dignity of Human Being. He holds a Harvard College Professorship, the University's highest recognition for excellence in undergraduate teaching, and he serves as the Faculty Dean of Dunster House, one of the College's 12 residential Houses. Professor Kelly has taught courses on a wide array of topics. These include: Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Perception, Imagination and Memory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Literature.
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