Robert D. Rupert is a Professor for Philosophy since 2013. He works at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 2005. Before that he was at the Texas Tech University, at the University of Washington, Seattle and at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he received his PhD in Philosophy in 1996. Robert Rupert is a Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science and a Member of the Committee on History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since 2013 he is also a Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His areas of specialisation include Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Foundation of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science with competences in Philosophy of Language, Epistemology and Logic. His research focuses on naturalistic theories of mental content, mental representation, concept acquisition, mental causation, situated cognition, group cognition, natural laws and properties. A representative book: Robert D. Rupert: Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.