Barwich has a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter, UK. She was Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University, and postdoctoral fellow at the KLI Institute, Austria. Taking inspiration from Douglas Adams, she knows where her towel is.
A.S. Barwich is now an assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine with joint appointment in the Cognitive Science Program. Barwich specializes in olfaction to rethink mind and brain by connecting scientific with philosophical research: What makes our perception of the world real if our individual experience of it so often differs? This question drives her work in theory and at the laboratory bench, integrating phenomenology with electroencephalography. Research and teaching interests encompass scientific methodology, the conceptual foundations of neuroscience, historical and contemporary perspectives on the senses.
Barwich authored “Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind” (Harvard UP), “The Senses: Perception and Experience (Cambridge UP, forthcoming), 23 articles, 8 book chapters, and co-edited “The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives” (Routledge). Science outreach includes TedxCambridge, podcasts (e.g., Sean Carroll’s “Mindscape”), and essays (Nautilus, Aeon).
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