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Jenelle is an ABD graduate student at the University of Connecticut. Her current research project is on the unity of consciousness in the philosophy of mind. Her target is a conceptual puzzle posed by the apparent inconceivability (paired with biological plausibility) of "partial unity" accounts of split-brain cases. Her big-picture interests in consciousness as "what-it's-likeness" have led her down a multidisciplinary path. In future projects, she would like to apply research from cognitive science and philosophy of mind to work on active empathy and the ethics of care.

/ philosophy of mind
/Ethics
​/ epistemology
/ Cognitive science 
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  • I wrote a post for the APA blog called "Soma and I" on personal identity in fission cases (inspired by the game SOMA).
  • "Should You Download Someone Else's Memories?" by Jenelle Salisbury and Susan Schneider on Slate (response to Mark Oshiro's No Me Dejas)
  • New "AI, Mind, and Society" group starting up at UConn
  • Salisbury, J. & Schneider, S. (2019) "Concepts, Symbols, Computation: An Integrative Approach" in M. Sprevak, M. Colombo (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. Routledge.
  • In May 2018 I received approval of my dissertation prospectus and completed the coursework phase of my graduate career, achieving ABD status
  • On Friday October 13, 2017, I presented a talk entitled First-Person Authority and Immunity to Error in the Craniopagus Case at JHU's graduate conference on "The Self"
  • In Fall 2017, I edited a special issue of Journal of Consciousness that is now available. including Susan Schneider's "Does the Mathematical Nature of Physics Undermine Physicalism?" along with critiques by Mark Balaguer, Carlos Montemayor, Barbera Montero, Phillip Goff, Gene Witmer and Gerald Vision, as well as Schneider's response.
  • Starting in Summer 2017, I will be serving as President of UCONN's Philosophy Graduate Student Association (PGSA).
  • The new edition of the Blackwell Companion to Consciousness has been released. I wrote an appendix and helped with editing this text, as part of my Research Assistantship with Susan Schneider in the Summer of 2016.
  • In May of 2017 I completed the requirements for the MA in Philosophy from UCONN.
  • In Spring 2017, I was awarded a summer writing fellowship from the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.