Our research interests are unified by their subject: minds that are somehow different.

What is a mind at the margins?

Minds at the margins are minds that neurodiverse, cognitively disabled, or even artificial.

  • Intellectual, learning, or developmental disability

  • Psychiatric disability, mental disorders, or mental illness

  • Brain organoids or other artificial intelligences

We like to say these minds are “at the margins” because the world wasn’t designed with them in mind: our social structures, institutions, and environment were built for the majority. (Some call this being “neurotypical.” We prefer non-disabled or non-marginalized.)

Our approach is grounded in philosophical ethics, critical disability theory, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind; our methods are conceptually-driven, analytical, and sometimes qualitative; and our motivating questions are normative ones.

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