Benjamin D. Young

Benjamin D. Young is an associate professor in philosophy and a member of the graduate faculty in interdisciplinary neuroscience and the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Nevada, Reno. Previously he held a Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Ben-Gurion University, as well as Visiting Assistant Professorship and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Cognitive Science at Hebrew University. He conducts research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and philosophy with a particular emphasis on olfaction. Most recently he has published articles on non-conceptual content, qualitative consciousness in the absence of awareness and the perceptible objects of smell in journals such as Mind & Language, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophical Studies. Ben is also the co-principal investigator on two collaborative experimental projects: the BioPhilosophy of Smell with Dennis Mathew and Conversations with the Human Unconscious with Ran Hassin. His most recent projects include the co-edited textbook with Carolyn Dicey Jennings Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience and a co-edited collection with Andreas Keller Theoretical Perspectives on Smell. Ben is currently finishing a book on smell tentatively titled Stinking Philosophy that is under contract with MIT Press and beginning to work on a book about the unconscious mind.