Lucy O'Brien

Lucy O'Brien (born 1964) is a contemporary British philosopher and the Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy at University College London. Her primary areas of research are the philosophy of mind and action, with a particular emphasis on the concepts of self-consciousness and self-knowledge. O'Brien is the author of "Self-Knowing Agents" (2007) and co-editor of "Mental Actions" (2009). She served as a co-editor of the philosophical journal "Mind" from September 2015, being the first woman to hold this position in the journal's history. In 2020, she was elected chair of trustees for The Royal Institute of Philosophy. Her contributions to the field were further recognized with a Humboldt Research Award in 2022 and her election as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.