Jeffrey Yoshimi
Jeffrey Yoshimi is an Assistant Professor and founding faculty member in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced.
Yoshimi's research is interdisciplinary, integrating methods from philosophy, cognitive science, and computational neuroscience in an effort to understand the relationship between mental activity and neural processing in the brain. He specializes in the German philosopher Edmund Husserl, who originated the school of “phenomenology” at the turn of the 19 th century. His primary research goal is to integrate Husserlian phenomenology with contemporary cognitive science. He has published in the areas of phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and logic.
Yoshimi is also involved in a number of projects which involve the use of information technology and visualization techniques to facilitate research and education in his areas of specialization. He has authored two software packages, Simbrain (a simulation framework for studying neural networks), and HiSee (a high-dimensional visualizer); is designer of an open-content web-site for Husserl scholars, Husserl.net ; and was senior writer and editor on the Can Computers Think? project (a series of 7 wall charts).
Yoshimi received his BA in philosophy with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Irvine, and from 2002-2004 was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at San Diego.