Susanna Schellenberg

Susanna Schellenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, with a secondary appointment at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Her specialization includes epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. She is particularly recognized for her research on perceptual experience, evidence, capacities, mental content, and imagination. Schellenberg has been honored with several awards, such as a Guggenheim Award, a Humboldt Prize, and a Mellon New Directions Fellowship for her project on the Neuroscience of Perception. Her book, "The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence," published by Oxford University Press in 2018, received an honorable mention for the American Philosophical Association's 2019 Sanders Book Prize. She was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and spent her formative years in Lebanon, Pakistan, and Switzerland. She pursued higher education in mathematics, economics, philosophy, and history across various European universities and earned her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007, with her thesis focusing on conceptual content and inference. Before joining Rutgers, Schellenberg held a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and then moved to the Australian National University, where she became an assistant and later associate professor. Her move to Rutgers in 2011 was seen as a significant strengthening of the university's epistemology department.