Lucy O’Brien

About

Professor Lucy O’Brien is a Reader in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at University College London. Educated at the universities of Sheffield and Oxford, she joined UCL in 1992, first as a Lecturer and, from 2004, as Reader in Philosophy. She was appointed Professor in 2014.

Prior to joining UCL, Lucy held a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Philosophical Studies, at King’s College, London. She was the Honorary Director of the Aristotelian Society 2008-2014 and is currently co-editor – with A.W.Moore – of the journal MIND.

Research interests

Lucy works in the philosophy of mind and action, focussing in particular on self-consciousness and self-knowledge.

She is the author of Self-Knowing Agents (OUP 2007) and co-editor, with Matthew Soteriou, of Mental Actions (OUP 2009). She is currently working on interpersonal, rather than personal, self-consciousness and the nature of the self-conscious emotions.