Heidi Maibom
Associate Professor
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (London), CandPhil (MA Equivalent) (Copenhagen) |
| Email: | heidi_maibom@carleton.ca |
| Website: | Browse |
Office Hours
On leave for 2015-16 academic year.
Biography
One focus of Heidi Maibom’s research is folk psychology–our understanding of one another in terms of what we think, feel, want, and so on. A key question is whether this understanding is more like theorizing about others, or rather just imagining being in their shoes. Professor Maibom’s position is that we do both, but it is only when we imagine being others that we can be motivated by what they feel. Her other focus is on moral psychology, specifically, what makes us moral animals: is it a certain level of intelligence or rationality, or perhaps an ability to feel empathy or sympathy? By looking at immorality in ordinary people and psychopaths, she attempts to clarify what goes wrong when we fail to do what is good or right. She also has interests in ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of science.
Research Interests
- Philosophy of mind
- philosophy of psychology and cognitive science
- psychopathology
- moral psychology