{"id":486,"date":"2013-08-23T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:16:09","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director<\/h4>\n

Victor Kumar<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Victor Kumar specializes in moral psychology and philosophy of cognitive science. He is an associate professor in the BU Philosophy Department and director of the Mind and Morality Lab. He held the Peter Paul professorship at BU and was recently a fellow-in-residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. His book <\/span>A Better Ape<\/i>\u00a0was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: vckumar@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Directors Emeriti<\/h4>\n

Rachell Powell
<\/a>Director (2023-2025)<\/em><\/p>\n

Alisa Bokulich<\/a>
\nDirector (2010 – 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n

Alfred Tauber\u00a0<\/a>
\nDirector (1993 – 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert S. Cohen<\/a>
\nDirector (1960 – 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n

Local Advisory Committee<\/h4>\n

Gregg Jaeger<\/a><\/p>\n

Victor Kumar<\/a><\/p>\n

Juliet Floyd<\/a><\/p>\n

International Advisory Board<\/h4>\n

Edward Jones-Imhotep<\/a>,
\nDirector, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology<\/em>
\nUniversity of Toronto (Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n

Alan Love<\/a>,
\nDirector, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science<\/em>
\nUniversity of Minnesota (U.S.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Bryan Roberts<\/a>,
\nDirector,\u00a0Centre for Philosophy of Natural & Social Science<\/em>
\nThe London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)<\/em><\/p>\n

Artist-in-Residence<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ka\u0107a Bradonji\u0107<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Visiting Researchers<\/h4>\n
Visting Faculty:<\/h5>\n

Lee McIntyre<\/a><\/p>\n

Nancy Nersessian<\/a><\/p>\n

Affiliate Members<\/h4>\n

Our Affiliate Members consists of over 40 scholars in the greater Boston area who work across a broad range of topics in the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine. Our affiliates include faculty members at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Boston College, Northeastern University, and more. Please visit our Affiliates page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Victor Kumar Victor Kumar specializes in moral psychology and philosophy of cognitive science. He is an associate professor in the BU Philosophy Department and director of the Mind and Morality Lab. He held the Peter Paul professorship at BU and was recently a fellow-in-residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5806,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}