She received her Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Western Ontario in Canada in 1988. She then took up a two-year post-doc from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, during which time she spent six months as a Research Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers (New Jersey) in 1990. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and Full Professor in 2008. She also has an appointment as an Associate Member of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Research Focus: Her research is focused on issues in the philosophy of mind and psychology. She is particularly interested in the nature of psychological explanation, both scientific and commonsense, and the relation between the two. Awards and Fellowships: Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis Research Fellowship, 2012-2013. Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2011) Research Fellow, ZIF, University of Bielefeld, Germany (Spring 1990) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1989-1991) References: Egan, F. “How to Think about Mental Content,” Philosophical Studies 170 (2014), 115-135. Egan, F. “Representationalism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, E. Margolis, R. Samuels, and S. Stich, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012, 250-72. Egan, F. “Doing Cognitive Neuroscience: A Third Way,” Synthese 153 (2006), 377-91 (co-authored with Robert Matthews).