Biography
Aida Roige is a postdoctoral fellow at the Philosophy Department at the University of Valencia. Her research addresses questions about types and kinds in the cognitive sciences, a topic that intersects with ongoing interests in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and biology (especially mechanistic explanation). She was a member of the medical ethics committee at the Capital Region Medical Center.(MD, US). She holds a PhD in Philosophy fro the University of Maryland, under supervision of Peter Carruthers, and an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has been a Fulbright and «la Caixa» scholar, a member of LOGOS (University of Barcelona), and of a number of research projects in Canada and Spain.