Prof. Bar Luzon

Bar Luzon joins the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy as an assistant professor. Luzon completed her B.A. in philosophy in 2017 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her Ph.D. in philosophy in 2024 at New York University. Before coming to MIT, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University. She works in the philosophy of mind and language, metaphysics, and epistemology. Her research focuses on the nature of representation and the structure of reality. In the course of pursuing these issues, she writes about mental content, metaphysical determination, the vehicles of mental representation, and the connection between truth and different epistemic notions.