UNC Asheville will host a talk on “The Metaphysics of Dolphin Minds” by noted philosopher Sara Waller at 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 25, in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith University Union, room 222. During the talk, Waller will discuss her research on the science of consciousness and cognition in dolphins. The event is free and open to the public.

Waller, professor of philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, specializes in philosophy of neurology, cognitive ethology, and the mind. With her Cetacean Cognition Project, Waller records dolphin vocalizations looking for philosophical implications. Waller holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a doctorate in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago. She began her neurological research working with autistic children and children with focal lesions at the UCSD Pediatric Neurology Laboratory and later with aphasic stroke patients in the Chatterjee Neurology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital System.

The event is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Philosophical Society and Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy Honors Society.

For more information, contact the UNC Asheville Philosophy Department at 828/251-6413.