Frances Egan

Frances Egan is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She received a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 1988. She has published extensively on issues in the philosophy of mind and the foundations of cognitive science. She has held research fellowships at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld in Germany, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Center for Mind and Cognition at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. In 2021 she won the Jean Nicod Prize, awarded annually to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).