In this interview, Felipe De Brigard, Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience, Faculty member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, talks about growing up among and learning to live with, bombs, kidnappings and conflicts in Colombia during the time of Pablo Escobar, Catholicism, Dungeons and Dragons, aspirations to become a priest, hormones, Nietzsche, theater, Descartes, attending the National University of Colombia, memory and Aristotle, applying to and being rejected from 10 grad schools, how Adrian Cussins helped him get into Tufts, Fodor, beer pong, Dennett, and working at the Danish Pastry House, contemplating going to grad school for neuroscience and getting into UNC philosophy, the differences between public and private universities, working with Prinz, Knobe, Lycan, Dorit Bar-On, and eventually Kelly Giovanello in the psychology department, the sometimes contentious relationship between philosophy and science, a comforting conversation with Patricia Churchland, the philosophy and psychology of memory, joining Dan Schacter’s Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab at Harvard, Duke, the experience machine, the Memory and Forgiveness Project, and his last meal…
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