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Sameera Singh

PhD Student

Department of History & Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

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I am a first year PhD student in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I was previously an MA student in Philosophy at Western University and I completed my BA at McMaster University with a combined honours in Philosophy and Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB). I am fascinated by the age-old questions in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience. I like approaching these questions through both a “philosophy of mind approach” – vindicating folk psychological ascriptions – and a “philosophy of science approach” – focuses on empirically-tractable views such as those proposed by cognitive science. I also believe that answers to these philosophical problems can be found by studying past thinkers and so I love reading historical figures. I enjoy the thoughts of various early modern philosophers and logical empiricists and am gaining an interest in (partly thanks to this lab) the american pragmatists.

• Singh, S. (2022 – July 19) The Content Indeterminacy Problem of a Forward-Looking Theory of Mental Content [Conference Presentation]. Society for Philosophy and Psychology – European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Joint Conference 2022. Milan, Italy. 
  
• Risko, E.F., Bianchi, L., Singh, S., Tran, S., Ashburner, M., Lu, C., Wilson, K. (2021 – July 16) Adventures in Understanding the Effective Design of Recorded Lectures [Conference Presentation]. McMaster Conference in Education and Cognition 2021. McMaster University, ON, Canada.  
• Risko, E.F., Bianchi, L., Singh, S., Tran, S., Ashburner, M. (2021 – June 17) Adventures in Understanding the Effective Design of Recorded Lectures [Conference Presentation]. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Annual Conference 2021. McGill University, QC, Canada.  
• Singh, S., Bianchi, L., Ashburner, M., Risko,E.F. (2020 – October 30) Effect of speed watching video lectures on comprehension, metacognition, and affect [Conference Presentation]. Psychology Discovery Conference, University of Waterloo 2020. Waterloo, ON, Canada.  
• Singh, S., Cochrane, B., Sun, H.J. (2019 – June 9) Failure to replicate Inhibition of Return through endogenous cues using an onset-detection task [Conference Presentation]. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science Annual Conference 2019. Waterloo, ON, Canada.  
• Brown, K., Singh, S., deBie, A. (2017 – November 1) We All Have A Role To Play: Partnering With Students To Facilitate Accessibility in The Classroom [Conference Presentation]. Research on Teaching and Learning Conference. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. ​