AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Applied Ethics, Metaphysics
AOC: Philosophy of Science, Logic
elasaterguttmann@fas.harvard.edu
24 Bayard St., Boston, MA 02134
Education
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - PhD in Philosophy, May 2023 (estimated)
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK - MPhil in Philosophy, October 2019
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - B.A. in Philosophy & Mathematics, magna cum laude with High Honors, May 2018
Teaching
Harvard University:
As lecturer:
Embedded EthiCS Program, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Medical Ethics, Pre-College Program, Summers 2021 and 2022
Technology & Philosophy, Pre-College Program, Summer 2021
As TF:
The True and the Good, TF for Bernhard Nickel, Fall 2022
Philosophy of Mind, TF for Cherlyn Chen, Spring 2023
Linear Algebra and Real Analysis, CA for Paul Bamberg, Spring 2017
As Course Designer:
Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning for Ned Hall, Fall 2018
University of Cambridge:
Formal Methods (Set Theory, Probability, Deductive Logic, and Relations), TF for Timothy Button, Fall 2018-2019
Workshops & Service
Referee @ Philosophical Studies
Athena in Action 2022
Minorities in Philosophy 2019- (took hiatus during COVID)
The Philosophical Body, Reading Group - Founder
Session Chair, Southern Society fo Philosophy & Psychology 2020
Publications
Review of Anne Phillips’s Unconditional Equals, in the LSE Review of Books, upcoming
Review of Christian Lists’s Why Free Will Is Real, in the LSE Review of Books, April 2020
Under Review
“Individuality and The 14-Day Rule”
“The Supposed Irreversibility of Death”
“Anesthesia, Dreams, and Organoids”
Talks & Presentations
“Individuality And The 14-Day Rule”
invited, University of Cambridge, The Practical Ethics Reading Group, February 2021
Binghamton University, Graduate Philosophy Conference, November 2020
“The Supposed Irreversibility of Death”
International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics, Milan, Italy, May 2020 (moved to 2021)
74th Annual Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Utah, October 2020
“Brain Death: Well Settled, Yet Still Unresolved”
Brandeis University, 2020 Brandeis English Graduate Conference, March 2020
University of Cambridge, Philosophy Graduate Seminar, May 2019
“Language and Spatial Encoding: A Solution to the Underdetermination Method”
Consciousness Research Network Conference, Nagoya, Japan, January 2019
Awards
Merit Fellowships
John Eliot Fellowship of the Harvard Cambridge Fellowships, 2018 (~$25,000)
Cambridge Trust & Newnham College Scholarship, University of Cambridge, 2018 (declined, ~$15,000)
Timothy Joyce MPhil Studentship, University of Cambridge Department of Philosophy, 2018 (declined, ~$5,000)
Marshall Scholarship, 2018 (short-listed finalist)
Rhodes Scholarship, 2018 (endorsed candidate)
Thouron Prize for the Pembroke King’s Programme at the University of Cambridge, 2018 (~$5,000)
Prizes and Grants
Bowdoin Prize for the Best Undergraduate Essay in the Natural Sciences, Harvard University, 2018 ($10,000)
Graduate Fund, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 2019 (~$1,200)
Graduate Research Fund Grant, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 2019 (~$800)
Phi Beta Kappa Junior 24, Harvard University, 2017
Phi Beta Kappa, Marshal for Harvard’s Class of 2018
magna cum laude with High Honors in Philosophy & Mathematics, Harvard University, 2018
Graduate Courses
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Problems in Metaphysics: Modality (@ MIT) with Stalnaker
Perception with Siegel
Mind Brain and Behavior Proseminar: Memory with Siegel
First Year Colloquium: Hume and Modern Metaphysics with Simmons and Hall
Philosophy of Mind with Chen
Indian Philosophy with Patil
History of Philosophy
The Rationalists with McDonough
The Gorgias with Doyle
Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Metalogic with Goldfarb
From Frege to Gödel with Goldfarb
Decisions, Games, and Rational Choice (@ MIT) with McGee
Fundamentals of Logic with Goldfarb
Value Theory
Bioethics with Simmons and Hyun
Utility (in the Harvard Philosophy and Economics departments) with Sen, Maskin, and Mazur
First Year Colloquium: Nagel and Scanlon with Berker
Neuroscience, Computer Science, Linguistics
Neuroscience (@ the Harvard Medical School) with Holt, Assad
Neuroanatomy (@ the Harvard Medical School) with Frosch
Artificial Intelligence (@ MIT in the Computer Science department) with Winston
The Human Intelligence Enterprise (@ MIT in the Computer Science department) with Winston
The Evolution of Language (@ MIT in the Computer Science department) with Berwick
Psychosemantics (in Harvard’s Linguistics department) with Davidson